{"id":688737,"date":"2026-05-23T04:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688737\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T04:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:11:21","slug":"supercars-news-kostecki-gets-two-place-grid-penalty-for-tasmania-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688737\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Kostecki gets two-place grid penalty for Tasmania opener"},"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\/05\/Supercars-SymmonsPlains-Friday-149.jpg\" alt=\"Kostecki gets two-place grid penalty for Tasmania opener\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrodie Kostecki&#8217;s #17 Dick Johnson Racing Ford Mustang during the Tasmania Super440.<\/p>\n<p>Triple Eight Race Engineering driver Jackson Walls was baulked by Kostecki during qualifying for Race 1 at Symmons Plains.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty drops Kostecki to fifth and elevates Andre Heimgartner (Brad Jones Racing) and David Reynolds (Team 18) to third and fourth respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Kostecki will start alongside sixth-place qualifier Cameron Hill (Brad Jones Racing). Walls will start from 11th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was probably warranted,\u201d remarked Garth Tander on Fox Sports\u2019 coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could actually hear from the audio Jackson Walls having to get out of the throttle, which delays your run down to Turn 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIronically, we saw Brodie Kostecki getting frustrated with Cooper Murray in practice yesterday at that exact point where Brodie felt he was getting held up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo spots, not the end of the world, probably warranted. It won\u2019t faze Brodie Kostecki whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Race 1 of the Tasmania Super440 at Symmons Plains is scheduled for 1:00pm AEST.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-2026-tasmania-super440-symmons-plains-live-updates-practice-qualifying-race-results-session-reports-weather\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mobil 1 Live Updates: Supercars Tasmania Super440<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/250635\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/a\/250635\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Kostecki&#8217;s #17 Dick Johnson Racing Ford Mustang during the Tasmania Super440. Triple Eight Race Engineering driver Jackson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-688737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688737","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=688737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}