{"id":889090,"date":"2026-09-12T07:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889090\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T07:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:20:21","slug":"trans-am-bend-500-todd-hazelwood-injury-update-james-moffat-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889090\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Am Bend 500: Todd Hazelwood injury update, James Moffat criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD Hazelwood<\/a> has waved away any injury concerns following a bitter clash with James Moffat<\/a> in the Trans Am Cup Series at The Bend.<\/p>\n

The duo traded blows on-track in the dying stages of Race 2 this afternoon as Hazelwood tried to seize the lead from Moffat.<\/p>\n

That boiled over at the second-last corner of the contest, with repeated contact.<\/p>\n

Moffat ended up hanging on to take the chequered flag ahead of Nathan Herne \u2013 who he\u2019ll team up with for the Repco Bathurst 1000 in a Garry Rogers<\/a> Motorsport wildcard. Lachlan Evennett was third, with Hazelwood limping home in fourth.<\/p>\n

Post-race, Hazelwood was spotted clutching at his shoulder and was quickly ushered by Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing driver Brodie Kostecki<\/a> and team manager Tom Moore back to the Supercars paddock to be treated by the Shell squad\u2019s team performance coach Paul Haines.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m okay,\u201d Hazelwood later assured via the AirTouch 500 at The Bend broadcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a bit of a ding-dong battle there towards the end of that Trans Am race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe #1 Four\u2019N Twenty Mustang we gave a big tune-up overnight and were fighting for the lead there and just it was pretty average driving by Moffat, I just was absolutely drilled off the track, three rounds in a row by him, so pretty disappointing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut anyway, bigger and better things to focus on now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Natsoft results for Trans Am Race 2 were still listed as provisional at the time of publication.<\/p>\n

Kostecki\/Hazelwood are the defending winners of Supercars\u2019 Bend 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TODD Hazelwood has waved away any injury concerns following a bitter clash with James Moffat in the Trans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-889090","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\/889090","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=889090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}