{"id":239067,"date":"2025-10-25T03:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239067\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T03:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:48:10","slug":"gold-coast-500-crash-leads-to-photographers-being-taken-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239067\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Coast 500 crash leads to photographers being taken to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Four photographers had to be rushed to hospital after suffering injuries when Brodie Kostecki crashed his car into a wall during the Supercars&#8217; Gold Coast round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Dick Johnson Racing ace lost control of his Ford Mustang for the second time this weekend during qualifying on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Kostecki cannoned into a tyre wall on the Surfers Paradise street circuit at the exit of the first chicane with just seconds remaining in the session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Two photographers sustained ankle injuries, one suffered an elbow injury, and a fourth received a head injury,&#8221; a Supercars spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;All four are alert, talking, very stable, and will be transported to hospital for further assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;All are in a stable condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Changes have been made to where photographers position themselves for the rest of the round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The photographers will no longer be permitted to stand or take photos from turn one until after turn three.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iview.abc.net.au\/show\/end-game-with-tony-armstrong\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream End Game with Tony Armstrong on ABC iview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Tony Armstrong will tackle Australia&#8217;s overdue reckoning with racism in sport, with the help of some of its biggest sports stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Motorsport Australia has implemented changes to photographer access in that area for the remainder of the event,&#8221; a Supercars spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Supercars extends its thanks to the volunteers, officials and medical crews for their swift and professional response.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Kostecki, the 2023 Supercars champion and last year&#8217;s Bathurst 1000 winner, has been ruled out of taking part in Saturday&#8217;s race in a gigantic blow to his hopes in the inaugural finals series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">His Mustang has been taken off-site for repairs so he can try to race in the 250km race on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/iview.abc.net.au\/show\/end-game-with-tony-armstrong\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"End Game banner\" width=\"2048\" height=\"256\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f699287f8e5041c0ab8b446474ab8c9f\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/image\/105900810\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four photographers had to be rushed to hospital after suffering injuries when Brodie Kostecki crashed his car into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5844,64,63,2497,1154,139867,3899,142952,588,85,40367],"class_list":{"0":"post-239067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-abc-sport","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-brodie-kostecki","12":"tag-crash","13":"tag-gold-coast-500","14":"tag-injury","15":"tag-photographers","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-supercars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239067","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=239067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}