{"id":750001,"date":"2026-06-21T02:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750001\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T02:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:54:21","slug":"supercars-news-erebus-motorsport-receives-four-darwin-triple-crown-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750001\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Erebus Motorsport receives four Darwin Triple Crown penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCooper Murray’s Erebus Motorsport Chevrolet Camaro at the Darwin Triple Crown.<\/p>\n

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The team had a lacklustre Race 2 at Hidden Valley with Cooper Murray taking the chequered flag 18th and Jobe Stewart 23rd, ahead only of retiree Ryan Wood.<\/p>\n

Those results have become 22nd and 23rd following the addition of 32 seconds to Murray\u2019s race time and 27 seconds to Stewart\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Both entries had 27 seconds added as a result of breaching a rule that bans teams from having their tyres in direct sunlight prior to the race.<\/p>\n

That is banned to prevent teams from \u2018baking\u2019 tyres to increase their pressure before bleeding them down ahead of taking to the track.<\/p>\n

Stewards were shown a photograph taken by the category technical manager approximately 30 minutes before the race showing wheels and tyres in direct sunlight.<\/p>\n

An Erebus representative explained to stewards that tyres for both cars were in their usual position in the team\u2019s garage.<\/p>\n

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Pit boom camera footage showed they were initially in full shade but, as time passed, they came to be in the path of direct sunlight.<\/p>\n

While stewards accepted the placement was \u201cnot deliberately intended to capture direct sunlight\u201d, the rule was broken and the recommended penalty imposed.<\/p>\n

The incident is recorded as two separate branches, one for each car.<\/p>\n

Erebus was also docked 30 teams\u2019 championship points and $1500 after Stewart departed his pit box during the race with a wheel gun still attached.<\/p>\n

Pit rules require each car to be \u201ccompletely free of all hoses, tools, team members and any other equipment at any time whilst the car is moving\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the rap sheet is an additional five-second penalty awarded to Murray for failing to leave racing room in a battle with Rylan Gray.<\/p>\n

The Dick Johnson Racing Mustang was elbowed off the track at the exit of Turn 1 on the opening lap of the 200km contest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stewards determined that the driver of Car 99 breached the Driving Code of Conduct in crowding Car 38 off the edge of the track,\u201d read the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough Car 38 lost multiple positions, given that the incident occurred at Turn 1 on Lap 1 the Stewards imposed a lesser penalty of five seconds than they would had the incident occurred in different circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Murray’s Erebus Motorsport Chevrolet Camaro at the Darwin Triple Crown. The team had a lacklustre Race 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,359672,44544,85],"class_list":["post-750001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-darwin-triple-crown","tag-erebus-motorsport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750001","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=750001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}