{"id":55859,"date":"2025-08-09T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55859\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:29:10","slug":"tickford-teen-keeps-ipswich-win-after-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55859\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickford teen keeps Ipswich win after investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TICKFORD Autosport teenager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2773-Rylan-Gray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rylan Gray<\/a> has been confirmed as the winner of the Saturday Super2 race at Ipswich following a post-race investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/victory-in-doubt-as-heavy-crash-blights-super2-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had a margin of 2.9164 seconds over pole-sitter Brad Vaughan upon taking the chequered flag<\/a>, but did so under a cloud of doubt.<\/p>\n<p>That related to a possible infringement at the end of the Safety Car intervention which accounted for a large portion of the race.<\/p>\n<p>V8 Sleuth understands Gray has now been cleared of any wrongdoing and thus will retain what is the second race win of his Super2 career.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RGP-2025-CenturyBatteries-Ipswich-S440-_25A4635-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-230291\"  \/>Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n<p>Vaughan therefore has to settle for second, having been in line to become BJR\u2019s first Super2 victor since Andrew Jones in Race 2 of the 2011 Queensland Raceway round.<\/p>\n<p>Gray\u2019s title advantage now stands at 144 points over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2680-Nash-Morris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nash Morris<\/a> entering Sunday\u2019s action, where another 150 points will be up for grabs across the course of a 40-minute race.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no more than 22 cars on the grid, with Image Racing\u2019s #118 Commodore withdrawn and driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2803-Jarrod-Hughes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrod Hughes<\/a> sore following heavy contact from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2752-Mason-Kelly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was subsequently taken to Ipswich Hospital for X-rays on his left upper arm. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TICKFORD Autosport teenager Rylan Gray has been confirmed as the winner of the Saturday Super2 race at Ipswich&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55860,"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-55859","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\/55859","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=55859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}