{"id":795173,"date":"2026-07-12T08:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795173\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T08:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:54:18","slug":"brodie-kostecki-unpacks-post-race-celebration-burnout-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795173\/","title":{"rendered":"Brodie Kostecki unpacks post-race celebration burnout crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE one blot on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1301-Brodie-Kostecki\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Kostecki<\/a>\u2019s dominant afternoon at the NTI Townsville 500 was a crash midway through his celebratory burnout.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the clash with the wall on the Turn 7 runoff road, Kostecki continued with his skid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-subscription?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/v8sleuth-subscription-05.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The effort was a repeat of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-4-Will-Davison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Davison<\/a>\u2019s celebration fail from the corresponding event in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The moment brought a smile to his face, with his engineer George Commins back in the pits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, I had some guys down from Summernats and from the Castlemaine Rod Shop\u2026 so I didn\u2019t want to disappoint them, but I\u2019ll have to work on that a little bit!\u201d Kostecki noted post-race on the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought you guys couldn\u2019t see it through the smoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, then I need to do a better job getting a bit more smoke, but I\u2019m super stoked for everyone at the Shell V-Power Racing Team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe #17 Ford Mustang was absolutely on fire; it\u2019s had this potential the whole weekend, we just haven\u2019t executed, but I\u2019m so pleased with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, Kostecki unpacked the moment further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, mine\u2019s a bit different (to Davison\u2019s) \u2013 mine was a tip in!\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw obviously a lot of people there, so I was stoked to, obviously, get the win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t even ask this time around; I just did one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, you know, I really felt like the whole team really needed to see one and obviously all the people that have come here to come watch as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s hard for us to do burnouts these days with how many engines we get.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019d say give us more engines, just for some more burnouts!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut \u2013 How hot is too hot?<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut is back for another week, downloading a hot weekend in the Top End for Supercars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE one blot on Brodie Kostecki\u2019s dominant afternoon at the NTI Townsville 500 was a crash midway through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-795173","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\/795173","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=795173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}