THE fallout of the controversial penalty issued to Cam Waters during the recent Sunday Sandown race has continued, with calls for an overhaul of Supercars’ driving standards rulebook.

Waters was pinged five seconds for a moment where Will Brown ran off the road at Turn 2, adjudged to have been caused by light front-to-rear contact from the Monster Mustang.

Brown himself admitted post-race he wasn’t sure if there had been contact at all; meanwhile a fired-up Waters, who was essentially needing nothing short of victory to progress to the Adelaide Grand Final, went on to clash with Matt Payne.

“If that incident is a five-second penalty, then frankly we’re all doomed,” Waters’ former co-driver James Moffat said on The Undercut.

“It’s not (driving standards advisor) Craig Baird’s fault, he’s just the issuing umpire if you like, it’s the rulebook that is wrong and needs a huge tweak.

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“I think we all like to see good, hard, close racing and if there’s a bit of rubbing here or there, well I’m comfortable with that and I think if you surveyed most of the drivers, they’d be comfortable with it, but I think if you surveyed most of the fans more importantly, they’d be comfortable with it.

“The cars have become so even through this Gen3 package that passing has become even more difficult, so the reality is leaning on each other is just part and parcel of racing.”

Co-host Aaron Noonan described the contact as inconsequential.

“This one didn’t pass the pub test for me,” he said.

“And I want to keep underlining that this is not against Craig Baird, he’s just applying what he’s given, but I think there needs to be an ‘if’.

“If the car that goes off the road was going off the road anyway and there was contact, play on. If the car was going off the road because of the contact, then we’ve got something to look at and talk about.”

In any case, Moffat defended the ever-vigorous nature of Waters’ racing brand.

“For me, Cam Waters was always going to go down fighting and that’s why I love watching somebody like Cam, because if I’m a member of Tickford Racing sitting in the garage, I know that Cam Waters driving that Monster Mustang is giving absolutely 100 percent,” he said.

“Sometimes he goes over 100 percent, but he’s having a crack, he’s going down swinging.

“He was doing everything he could in his power to try to make it through to Adelaide, so he has to be commended for that.”