Supercars star Scott Pye was lucky to walk away from a frightening crash in race 11 of the Perth SuperNight on Sunday.
Pye’s Holden Commodore ZB was written off early after Jack Le Brocq made contact, forcing the Nulon Racing entry off the track and into the concrete pit wall at a shocking 175km/h.
The safety car was immediately deployed before the race was red-flagged on lap three to repair damage to the wall.
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“You just can’t do that stuff,” five-time championship winner Mark Skaife said in commentary for Fox Sports.
“It’s fine when you’re driving beside to make contact like that, but that is a seriously damaged motor car at a high-speed area of 200km/h and at any point, that accident doesn’t happen if you don’t make contact.”
Able to get out of his heavily damaged car and walk back to pit lane without assistance, Pye later confirmed he was unharmed in the crash.
“I’m fine, just disappointed,” he said.
Speaking afterwards, Le Brocq said it was “unfortunate”, but put the collision down to a racing incident.
“It’s no good to see anyone’s car damaged. But at the same time, we’re all out there racing, it was just an unfortunate incident,” he said.
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But Skaife did not agree with Le Brocq’s take.
“You don’t make contact without some help. Scott was going to the right, but right at the end of it you’ve still got a duty of care to come off the throttle,” he said.
Cam Waters was leading at the time of the stoppage, having bolted past Will Davison at the start.
However, Davison later benefited from a dramatic Shane van Gisbergen-Mark Winterbottom run-in to take top spot.
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