{"id":593173,"date":"2026-04-08T10:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593173\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:04:16","slug":"15-lap-penalty-applied-after-2026-bathurst-6-hour-race-to-vw-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593173\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Lap Penalty Applied After 2026 Bathurst 6 Hour Race to VW team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IN a race littered with stewards\u2019 decisions, one crew in the Bathurst 6 Hour has received a staggering 15-lap post-race penalty, with the Volkswagen Golf Type R of Cem Yucel and Iain Salteri demoted due to a driving time breach.<\/p>\n<p>Salteri was adjudged to have exceeded the permitted three-hour continuous driving time, a core rule of the event that had to be balanced against a maximum total time of 3.5 hours per driver during the race.<\/p>\n<p>The Stewards\u2019 Decision on the matter alleged that Salteri\u2019s stint lasted some 3hr10min46.3080sec, with 5 laps deleted from a car\u2019s total for each 5-minute time block exceedance, or part thereof. <\/p>\n<p>The crew were on track for a class A1 podium until suffering a flat tyre halfway into the event, while later, the car crawled to a halt with 5 minutes remaining in the race, ultimately crossing the line in 14th outright.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty flushed the team down to the order, provisionally classifying it 44th out of 47 finishers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-3?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\/03\/v8sleuth-mag-issue3_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mazda RX8 of David Murphy, Stiaan Kriel and Steven King, meanwhile, received a one-lap penalty when King was noted to have completed a stint timed at 3hr04min23.0231sec, with that exceedance falling into a lower penalty bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Driving time at Bathurst has been in the spotlight over the years, most famously impacting the 1997 AMP Bathurst 1000, where the provisional race-winning BMW of Paul Morris and Craig Baird were scrubbed from the results after Baird exceeded three hours of continuous driving.<\/p>\n<p>All told, penalties were added to the race finishing times of 24 of the 69 entries, with the non-driving time-related issues receiving penalties ranging from 5 seconds to 60 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most telling was a 15-second penalty issued to the defending race-winning car of Dean Campbell and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1703-Cameron-Hill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Hill provisionally crossed the finishing line first after passing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1293-Thomas-Randle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Randle<\/a> late, the penalty relegated the BMW to fifth on the result sheet.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IN a race littered with stewards\u2019 decisions, one crew in the Bathurst 6 Hour has received a staggering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593174,"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-593173","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\/593173","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=593173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}