Two huge crashes have overshadowed qualifying for the support categories ahead of this weekend’s Bathurst 1000.
Triple Eight Super2 driver Angelo Mouzouris crashed heavily on the run down to Forrest’s Elbow, in an accident extremely similar to that which left Chaz Mostert with serious injuries in 2015.
The 20-year-old clipped the wall on the left-hand side on the bends between The Dipper and the Elbow, losing control and making heavy contact with the left-hand wall just prior to the Elbow.
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The crash launched the Commodore into the air, but fortunately Mouzouris escaped serious injury.
It came shortly after Super3 driver Nash Morris lost control at the entrance to the Chase, the fastest point on the circuit.
Morris was actually fortunate not to write off his car, despite hitting the wall with both the front and rear of the Ford.
“He’s lucky to get away with that one, it could have been a lot worse,” said Brad Jones in commentary.
“He’s okay,” team manager, and father, Paul Morris said.
“[The car] doesn’t look too bad, actually; just sort of wiped the nose and wiped the rear a bit.
“I think he was probably a bit wide on the entry, got out a bit wide and maybe a little bit of dirt on the tyres, and around it went.”
The accidents come less than 24 hours after Declan Fraser had a monster shunt at the top of the mountain after he lost a wheel nut.
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