{"id":208796,"date":"2025-10-12T22:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T22:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208796\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T22:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T22:28:33","slug":"fan-gives-mostert-beer-after-25-mustang-succumbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208796\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan gives Mostert beer after #25 Mustang succumbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FANS have given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-330-Chaz-Mostert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chaz Mostert<\/a> the chance to drown his sorrows after the #25 Walkinshaw Andretti United Mustang succumbed to an engine issue.<\/p>\n<p>Mostert had put the Mobil 1 Optus Ford third on the grid, and the car had been solid inside the top five through the opening chunk of the race.<\/p>\n<p>However, the car started to sound more and more ill as the race progressed, to the point where it was clear the problem was sinister.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, Mostert was forced to park at the Chase on Lap 58 just as the field was heading to a Safety Car restart.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is there anything more Bathurst than cracking a tinnie with the fans after some heartache?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RepcoSC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#RepcoSC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Supercars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Supercars<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bathurst1000?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Bathurst1000<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bUgvADbgQu\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bUgvADbgQu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Supercars (@supercars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/supercars\/status\/1977210424127827982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 12, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>That Safety Car had been prompted by Tony D\u2019Alberto crashing the #17 Shell V-Power Mustang at Forrest\u2019s Elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Mostert is the second Bathurst 1000-winning driver to retire with an engine failure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/engine-problem-cruels-percat-finals-dream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">following the #10 Bendix Camaro of Nick Percat\/Tim Slade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/2025-repco-bathurst-1000-official-program?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756681331_142_2025-repco-bathurst-1000-program_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FANS have given Chaz Mostert the chance to drown his sorrows after the #25 Walkinshaw Andretti United Mustang&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208797,"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-208796","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\/208796","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=208796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}