{"id":124546,"date":"2025-09-07T02:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124546\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:35:11","slug":"international-driver-disqualified-for-wtac-pit-lane-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124546\/","title":{"rendered":"International driver disqualified for WTAC pit lane burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYuuki Kamakura performs a burnout in the pit lane at Sydney Motorsport Park.<\/p>\n

Yuuki Kamakura of Japan was competing in the GCG Turbochargers Open Class on Saturday at Sydney Motorsport Park in his Mazda RX-7 after posting a 1:31.34s at the circuit.<\/p>\n

Upon returning to the pit lane, Kamakura performed a power skid before tipping his car into a burnout.<\/p>\n

The driver completed several rotations in front of his team while media and officials watched on.<\/p>\n

Kamakura continued the celebrations in the team\u2019s garage, enjoying a shoey of Great Northern.<\/p>\n

Despite the disqualification, the team took to social media to celebrate their feat.<\/p>\n

A video of the antics has already amassed 1.6 million views.<\/p>\n

World Time Attack Challenge is expected to release a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat everyone doesn\u2019t see \u2013 how much that lap meant to Yuuki and his team,\u201d read a post on the Hardtuned Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cA little more context to the video last night, Yuuki\u2019s first time in Australia he had set a goal to get 1.31 all weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team worked tirelessly all weekend to get the car dialled in, and the raw emotion and happiness at the end of it is unexplainable.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmiles and tears of joy all round. What a weekend for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Darren Bishop was the class winner in his Mitsubishi Evolution 7 credited with the fastest time, a 1:26.8190s.<\/p>\n

The event was won overall by Bathurst 1000-winning co-driver Todd Hazelwood in the Tanuki Racing Nissan Silvia S13 with a 1:18.1690s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yuuki Kamakura performs a burnout in the pit lane at Sydney Motorsport Park. Yuuki Kamakura of Japan was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,12357,85,87328],"class_list":{"0":"post-124546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-slot1","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-wtac"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}