{"id":309916,"date":"2025-11-26T12:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309916\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:33:12","slug":"waters-penalty-sparks-calls-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309916\/","title":{"rendered":"Waters penalty sparks calls for change"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE fallout of the controversial penalty issued to Cam Waters<\/a> during the recent Sunday Sandown race has continued, with calls for an overhaul of Supercars\u2019 driving standards rulebook.<\/p>\n

Waters was pinged five seconds for a moment where Will Brown<\/a> ran off the road at Turn 2, adjudged to have been caused by light front-to-rear contact from the Monster Mustang.<\/p>\n

Brown himself admitted post-race he wasn\u2019t sure if there had been contact at all<\/a>; meanwhile a fired-up Waters, who was essentially needing nothing short of victory to progress to the Adelaide Grand Final, went on to clash with Matt Payne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that incident is a five-second penalty, then frankly we\u2019re all doomed,\u201d Waters\u2019 former co-driver James Moffat<\/a> said on The Undercut.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not (driving standards advisor) Craig Baird\u2019s fault, he\u2019s just the issuing umpire if you like, it\u2019s the rulebook that is wrong and needs a huge tweak.<\/p>\n

The Undercut \u2013 Grand Final Time!<\/p>\n

Unpacking the Sandown 500 and looking forward to an epic Adelaide Grand Final!<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we all like to see good, hard, close racing and if there\u2019s a bit of rubbing here or there, well I\u2019m comfortable with that and I think if you surveyed most of the drivers, they\u2019d be comfortable with it, but I think if you surveyed most of the fans more importantly, they\u2019d be comfortable with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cars have become so even through this Gen3 package that passing has become even more difficult, so the reality is leaning on each other is just part and parcel of racing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Co-host Aaron Noonan described the contact as inconsequential.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis one didn\u2019t pass the pub test for me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I want to keep underlining that this is not against Craig Baird, he\u2019s just applying what he\u2019s given, but I think there needs to be an \u2018if\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the car that goes off the road was going off the road anyway and there was contact, play on. If the car was going off the road because of the contact, then we\u2019ve got something to look at and talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n

In any case, Moffat defended the ever-vigorous nature of Waters\u2019 racing brand.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, Cam Waters was always going to go down fighting and that\u2019s why I love watching somebody like Cam, because if I\u2019m a member of Tickford Racing sitting in the garage, I know that Cam Waters driving that Monster Mustang is giving absolutely 100 percent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes he goes over 100 percent, but he\u2019s having a crack, he\u2019s going down swinging.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was doing everything he could in his power to try to make it through to Adelaide, so he has to be commended for that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE fallout of the controversial penalty issued to Cam Waters during the recent Sunday Sandown race has continued,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309917,"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-309916","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\/309916","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=309916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}