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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChaz Mostert squeezed Brodie Kostecki onto the grass during the Christhchurch Super440 finale.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChaz Mostert squeezed Brodie Kostecki onto the grass during the Christhchurch Super440 finale.<\/p>\n
Kostecki was elbowed off the road on the penultimate lap by Mostert between Turns 2 and 3, which sent the Dick Johnson Racing Mustang into the infield.<\/p>\n
The #17 Ford spun wildly back across the circuit at Turn 3, miraculously avoiding contact with the pack amid a cloud of dust.<\/p>\n
Mostert had been incensed by Kostecki\u2019s successful overtake at Turn 2 and instigated three bouts of side-to-side contact, the last of which proved disastrous.<\/p>\n
Kostecki was extremely measured in his comments to the TV broadcast post-race, but has now spoken out via his Lucky Dogs Podcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know why it\u2019s become a thing now where you can just drive people clear off [the road] or whatever else,\u201d said Kostecki.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were sort of side-by-side and then he kept hip-checking me.<\/p>\n \u201cLike, he was actually throwing his car at me to try, basically make me lose a little bit of momentum or have to lift or whatever.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then I was still there and ended up getting hip-checked off the road.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s when I was going through the grass and I thought I was going to be half-straight for the time, and then it started coming around.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018oh, it\u2019s not going to be good. The nightmares I\u2019ve been having about this joint are about to come true\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Kostecki had flagged on an earlier episode that the earth-filled tyre barriers around the circuit could mean a major accident resulting in \u201ctaking a trip to the cemetery\u201d.<\/p>\n Podcast co-host Will Brown was directly behind the Mostert\/Kostecki battle and dived off track to avoid contact with the spinning Kostecki.<\/p>\n Brodie needed to make that pass and it\u2019s resulted in DRAMA between him and Brodie Kostecki!! #RepcoSC<\/a> #Sueprcars<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/fKX05OeXaG<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Supercars (@supercars) April 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Brown said he was \u201cquite angry\u201d in the aftermath and questioned whether the 30-second penalty dished out to Mostert was enough.<\/p>\n Cam Hill was given a drive-through penalty for elbowing Zach Bates off track at Queensland Raceway last year, which also led to calls for harsher punishment.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a difference between hard racing and, like, malicious manoeuvres,\u201d continued Kostecki.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought it was probably pretty malicious, to be honest. And I only say it because this is the second time it\u2019s happened in two weeks.<\/p>\n \u201cIt happened to Broc [Feeney] down the straight [at Taupo].\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/speedcafe.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3-1.webp\")
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