Tickford Racing\u2019s Thomas Randle<\/a> had already by that point flagged radio reliance as a point of vulnerability<\/a>, and updated dashboard configurations trialled on Sunday to aid the flow of information to drivers proved hit-and-miss.<\/p>\n All told, the Safety Car never was required during the 102-lap race, something which Supercars chief motorsport officer Tim Edwards admits would have been ideal merely from a standpoint of gaining insights for Bathurst.<\/p>\n \u201cIt would have been nice, yes,\u201d Edwards told V8 Sleuth at the close of play on Sunday.<\/p>\n \u201cWe tested it three times over the weekend and we refined it based on feedback from all of them.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously we could only do a quick test this morning because we made a change to the lights, the Christmas tree for the drivers, to give them advanced warning that they were approaching a slow zone.<\/p>\n \u201cSo they sort of got a bit of a practice with that this morning, albeit very brief because we just did it on their out lap.\u201d<\/p>\n Five-time Bathurst 1000 winner Garth Tander<\/a>, who placed third in The Bend 500 alongside Matt Payne<\/a>, was philosophical about the lack of opportunity to get a look at the procedure in anger.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Safety Car likelihood here at The Bend is incredibly low,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m glad that they did the test this morning in the warm-up because there was quite a few glitches that needed work, so at least they\u2019ve got that information going forward.<\/p>\n \u201cThey always said this weekend was going to be a trial for this new system.<\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately we didn\u2019t get to use it live but that\u2019s the nature of racing\u2026it hasn\u2019t happened for a long time (that a \u2018500\u2019 has gone Safety Car-free).<\/p>\n \u201cBut I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a shame there wasn\u2019t a Safety Car, other than for the sponsors who sponsor the Safety Car.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUPERCARS will head into the Repco Bathurst 1000 without a full-blown competitive run of its new Safety Car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-145624","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145624","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=145624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756681331_142_2025-repco-bathurst-1000-program_1024x1024.jpg\"\/)
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