{"id":615314,"date":"2026-04-18T15:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615314\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:43:20","slug":"christchurch-pit-lane-under-microscope-following-james-gold-and-macauley-jones-near-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615314\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch pit lane under microscope following James Gold and Macauley Jones near miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUAPUNA Raceway\u2019s tight pit lane has come into focus following a near miss between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1192-James-Golding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Golding<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1184-Macauley-Jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macauley Jones<\/a> during the second race for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Golding lost control of his Blanchard Racing Team Mustang over the hump leading into the tight left-hand bend leading into the pit lane.<\/p>\n<p>After clouting the tyre barrier, the #7 machine blocked the narrow entry lane.<\/p>\n<p>With no flag point covering the area, Jones was the next on the scene and completed a neat manoeuvre to avoid the stricken machine, which was attempting a multi-point turn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt pretty spectacular once I got past him, but in the moment, I had arms and legs going everywhere; it was pretty chaotic,\u201d said Jones on the telecast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw some dust as I came around, and I couldn\u2019t see the car there because of the wall when you come over the hump, and I was in the air, landing, sort of going \u2018This isn\u2019t going to be good!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sort of surprised myself getting away with that one.\u201d<\/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>Golding rebounded to place 15th in the race, while Jones finished 18th.<\/p>\n<p>The area was already under the microscope pre-event, with cars accelerating back to around 130km\/h before slowing to 40km\/h via a temporary tyre chicane.<\/p>\n<p>It was noted that a car in the supporting GT clouted this barrier early on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/ruapuna-pitlane-to-spark-supercars-safety-car-change\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The dimensions of the pit lane have necessitated a rewrite of the event rules, forbidding double-stacking.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Race 12 of the season is scheduled for 2:10pm AEST\/ 4:10pm NZST today.<\/p>\n<p>The Nissan Primera that took on the Aussie Super Touring Championship and Bathurst 1000<\/p>\n<p>Filmed in 2018, a quick up close look at the history of NME 28, the Nissan Primera Super Tourer that came to Australia in 1997 and stayed for the following seasons to race in the BOC Gases Aussie Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RUAPUNA Raceway\u2019s tight pit lane has come into focus following a near miss between James Golding and Macauley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615315,"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-615314","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\/615314","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=615314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}