{"id":840608,"date":"2026-08-02T22:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840608\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:03:14","slug":"supercars-perth-david-reynolds-endured-2018-bathurst-1000-like-cramp-in-race-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840608\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars Perth: David Reynolds endured 2018 Bathurst 1000-like cramp in Race 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-5-David-Reynolds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DAVID Reynolds<\/a> had to overcome a nasty bout of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu in the Sunday feature race at the Perth Super440.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reynolds mustered a solid run to ninth, despite dealing with some debilitating cramping along the way that harked back to the issue that infamously cost him a likely victory in the 2018 Bathurst 1000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t quite have the ultimate pace in the race, but I had some good battles and fought my way home to ninth,\u201d began the Team 18 driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith about six laps to go, I suffered a pretty bad cramp \u2013 almost like Bathurst in 2018 \u2013 and thought it might be game over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/2026-repco-bathurst-1000-official-program?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\/2026-bathurst-1000-program.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was using my hand to push my leg down instead of my foot, but thankfully it came good a couple of laps later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI didn\u2019t tell anyone until after the race because I was focused on the battle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHopefully we can find some more speed in the Snowy River Racing Camaro before the next round and have some fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reynolds continues to hold 15th in the championship, leaving his finals hopes hinging on a massive enduro campaign with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-15-James-Courtney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Courtney<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAVID Reynolds had to overcome a nasty bout of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu in the Sunday feature race at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-840608","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\/840608","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=840608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}