Supercars operator Chris Pither has go the archetypal large casualty of the Bathurst 1000, crashing astatine Forrest's Elbow precocious successful signifier two.
The league was red-flagged and declared aft Pither, Brad Jones Racing's co-driver, slammed his Holden Commodore ZB into the extracurricular partition arsenic helium prepared to statesman the travel backmost down Mount Panorama.
Pither had been driving astatine astir 180km/h connected the attack to the corner, earlier crashing and apt doing superior harm to the front-right suspension of the No.96 car.
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"It's really deed precise hard. Like nasty hard," commentator Greg Rust said connected the Fox Sports broadcast.
"That looks similar it's a nasty deed connected the beforehand of that car."
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Pither's mishap followed an incidental involving teammate Macauley Jones during signifier one, successful which the car was abruptly engulfed by fume portion exiting The Cutting.
The suspected origin was power-steering problems.
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The car returned to the league but endured much play erstwhile Pither crashed, forcing the squad into an overnight rebuild.
The Supercars volition instrumentality to the way for signifier 3 astatine 10:40am (AEDT) connected Friday.
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