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<\/a><\/p>\nAccording to Motorsport Australia stewards, Hillyer \u201cbrushed\u201d a team member who was standing in the pit lane as he entered his pit bay and caused them to fall.<\/p>\n
The Matt Chahda Motorsport team member admitted he was standing in the wrong spot while Hillyer claimed the unfortunate victim was unsighted.<\/p>\n
Motorsport Australia said there were a range of mitigating circumstances, including the aforementioned admission of fault and a \u201cminor, unfortunate\u201d misjudgement of the position of the car to the team member in the pit lane.<\/p>\n
The fact the team member was uninjured was also taken into consideration when deciding to only reprimand Hillyer.<\/p>\n
Stewards warned the driver to take more care in the future and to stop when there is a chance a person could be hit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team member had headsets on with his back to Car 2 and was unaware of Car 2\u2019s approach,\u201d the stewards report read.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe front right tyre of Car 2 clipped the heel of his shoe and he lost balance and fell.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team member frankly acknowledged that he ought not to have been standing where he was.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe did not realise that he was so far to the left of Car 18 that he was standing in Car 2\u2019s pit bay.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said that he was uninjured and attributed full responsibility for the incident to himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe driver of Car 2 explained that due to the position of other cars ahead of his pit bay, he did not see the team member until he had already turned in.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he did see the team member he believed that there was space for him to pull into his pit bay without hitting the team member.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe braked and had slowed to 10kph (confirmed by in car telemetry), and at the point his tyre clipped the heel of the team member he thought he was clear.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis vision of the team member at the point of contact was also obstructed by the A pillar of his car.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe stewards determined that the driver of Car 2 made an error of judgment which had the potential to cause injury to the team member. Therefore, the breach was established.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hillyer didn\u2019t get off entirely scott-free, however, with a separate incident also noted by Motorsport Australia.<\/p>\n
BJR was sanctioned $3000 (of which $1500 is suspended until December 31) for not using an incompressible component while a team member put their head under the car.<\/p>\n
Hillyer was also disqualified from the second Super2 Series practice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Team Representative admitted there wasn\u2019t a solid incompressible component under the car, which is their normal practice,\u201d stewards wrote in their report.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a stand in place supporting the rear hub however, this wasn\u2019t considered to comply with the requirements of D11.8.3 in supporting the car.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Jones Racing driver Matt Hillyer in the #2 Holden ZB Commodore. According to Motorsport Australia stewards, Hillyer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,7499,85],"class_list":["post-748210","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-slot4","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748210","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=748210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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