{"id":490706,"date":"2026-02-19T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490706\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:41:19","slug":"kangaroos-cause-supercars-sydney-test-red-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490706\/","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroos cause Supercars Sydney test red flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUPERCARS\u2019 Sydney night test has been brought to a brief halt by rogue kangaroos.<\/p>\n<p>Just four days on from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/mies-details-gruesome-aftermath-of-250km-h-kangaroo-strike\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Mies\u2019 horrific collision with a kangaroo<\/a> in the early stages of the Bathurst 12 Hour, four roos made their way into the Sydney Motorsport Park arena.<\/p>\n<p>Footage has emerged of the quartet hopping along in the vicinity of Turn 4 as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-58-Cam-Waters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam Waters<\/a>\u2019 Monster Mustang cautiously approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Amusingly, Mies has already responded to a Tickford Racing post on the matter: \u201cAnd I thought I made it clear to them to not show up at a race track anymore\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/official-2026-repco-supercars-championship-season-guide?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/season-guide-2026_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The session was halted for approximately 10 minutes; green flag running resumed moments before 8:30pm AEDT.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the second red flag interruption to the Thursday night test, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/sydney-turn-8-surface-withstands-first-test\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a scheduled inspection of the Turn 8 track surface<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Waters sits atop the timesheets heading into the final hour, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1293-Thomas-Randle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Randle<\/a> completing a Tickford 1-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUPERCARS\u2019 Sydney night test has been brought to a brief halt by rogue kangaroos. Just four days on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-490706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490706","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=490706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}