{"id":248613,"date":"2025-10-29T12:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248613\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:11:14","slug":"supercars-news-brodie-kosteckis-kind-act-following-gold-coast-500-crash-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248613\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Brodie Kostecki\u2019s kind act following Gold Coast 500 crash injuries"},"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\/Kostecki-crash-image.jpg\" alt=\"Kostecki\u2019s kind act following Gold Coast crash injuries\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe last image of the impending incident. Image: James Baxter<\/p>\n<p>The quartet had been standing behind the Turn 2 barrier that Kostecki\u2019s car <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-2025-gold-coast-500-crash-photographers-injuries-brodie-kostecki-djr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slammed into head-on at approximately 130km\/h after a damaged splitter failed and went under the front wheels.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All four were taken to hospital and treated for injuries, with the collective toll a broken ankle, a broken toe, a punctured elbow and a head wound that required staples.<\/p>\n<p>They were each released from hospital on the Saturday and two of the four returned to the track during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Kostecki was cleared of injury at the trackside medical centre before joining the repair effort at DJR\u2019s Stapylton headquarters.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BIG BIG BIG HIT FOR KOSTECKI \ud83e\udd2f<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:\/\/t.co\/piSfsMTvgo\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/piSfsMTvgo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Supercars (@supercars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/supercars\/status\/1981902578712719582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got picked up by [Supercars medical delegate] Dr Carl in the medical car and got taken back to where the medical is in GC, just at pit lane entry,\u201d Kostecki recalled on Lucky Dogs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was like, \u2018right oh, get out, I\u2019ve got to pick up four other people\u2019. Then obviously I got told that some people were hurt behind the wall and what state they were in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteve Peach from Motorsport Ministries kept me up to date with how they were going, and [DJR MD] Ryan Story got the phone numbers for me, for the people who were injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was able to speak to them and wish them a speedy recovery. All of them were in good spirits and some of them made it back to the track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stayed in contact with some of them and I\u2019ve been sent some shots of the car coming at them, when it\u2019s coming to the fence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were dedicated to the shot, I\u2019ll give you that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photos were taken by James Baxter, who escaped the scene with a puncture wound to his elbow \u2013 believed to have been caused by debris from the fence.<\/p>\n<p>Photographers were banned from standing in the area behind Turn 2 for the remainder of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-2025-gold-coast-500-brodie-kostecki-dick-johnson-racing-repair-rebuild\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DJR was able to rebuild Kostecki\u2019s Mustang for him to contest the Sunday race<\/a>, but an 11th place finish was not enough to prevent being <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-2025-gold-coast-500-finals-series-standings-semi-final-sandown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eliminated from the Finals Series.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team copped criticism for sending Kostecki back out onto the track in the Saturday qualifying session with a damaged front bumper, before the fateful crash.<\/p>\n<p>Kostecki said the team took lessons from the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1009241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-Gold-Coast-500-Z81_5427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photographer James Baxter being taken from the scene. Image: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think two mistakes were made,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a mistake made on my behalf. I should know better. For one, I\u2019m the one that damaged it in the first place, and the second one is we probably should have not sent it out. But it\u2019s hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it first went out, it was stuck together pretty well. And obviously, just on my warm-up lap, bouncing over the chicane or whatever, it\u2019s just finally dislodged or splintered and came apart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s always things you can do better in hindsight, and hindsight is such an easy thing. It\u2019s like when you crash, you don\u2019t know you\u2019re going to crash until you\u2019ve actually crashed, right?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, there\u2019s definitely some things that we\u2019ll learn from and probably do better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe changed a few things for the next day because we noticed that our splitters were popping out a lot more than other cars. We got on top of that for Sunday, which was much better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1009255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kostecki-crash-image-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Brodie Kostecki\u2019s Mustang hurtles towards the barrier. Image: James Baxter<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last image of the impending incident. 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