{"id":584001,"date":"2026-04-04T01:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584001\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T01:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:26:11","slug":"national-news-hyundai-excel-race-marred-by-multi-car-first-lap-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584001\/","title":{"rendered":"National news: Hyundai Excel race marred by multi-car first lap crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-04-083946.png\" alt=\"Hyundai Excel race marred by multi-car first lap crash\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAleeanz Voltz and Ayce Buckley crashed heavily at Turn 2 on the opening lap of Race 1. Image: SBS On Demand<\/p>\n<p>Aleeanz Voltz and Ayce Buckley were running towards the front of the field on the opening lap of Race 1 when the pair ended up heavily into the wall at Griffins Bend.<\/p>\n<p>As the field scattered behind to avoid, Tyler Howard found himself spun heavily into the outside wall and pointing the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p>Other drivers involved include Jake Burton, Aydin Karadagli, Jack Carpenter, and Shayne Nowickyj.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tyce Hodge went nowhere off pole position at the race start, swamped back to position five while Zane Rhodes ran away at the front.<\/p>\n<p>The red flag was thrown for a lengthy period, and due to the condensed nature of the Saturday schedule, the race was declared and not restarted.<\/p>\n<p>CERA returns for one more race this afternoon at 2:45pm AEDT, so teams will be hard at work to repair big damage in that short turnaround.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aleeanz Voltz and Ayce Buckley crashed heavily at Turn 2 on the opening lap of Race 1. Image:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,273114,285958,806,805,803,804,7499,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-584001","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-bathurst-6-hour","11":"tag-circuit-excel-racing-association","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-slot4","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584001","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=584001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}