{"id":204676,"date":"2025-10-11T05:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204676\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T05:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:02:11","slug":"supercars-news-stunt-driver-crashes-during-bathurst-drift-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204676\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Stunt driver crashes during Bathurst drift session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Matt-Mingay.jpg\" alt=\"Stunt driver crashes during Bathurst drift session\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Mingay. Image: Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Experienced stunt man Matt Mingay was seen limping his Hot Wheels sponsored Chevrolet Camaro back to pit lane with damage to its left front during the session.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran entertainer later confirmed via social media that he had indeed found the fence during his run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ran out of talent coming down Mt Panorama. Tagged the wall and lost my guard,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManaged to limp it home ok though. My age old saying, \u2018if you don\u2019t crash, you\u2019re not going hard enough\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mingay\u2019s Hot Wheels stunt team has been joined by the Boost Mobile Pro Drift Team as part of the entertainment package at this year\u2019s Bathurst 1000.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Mingay. Image: Facebook Experienced stunt man Matt Mingay was seen limping his Hot Wheels sponsored Chevrolet Camaro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,7499,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-204676","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-slot4","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204676","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=204676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}