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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJensen Shearer’s GT4 car impacts the wall heavily in Race 1 at Sandown. Image: Fox Sports<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJensen Shearer’s GT4 car impacts the wall heavily in Race 1 at Sandown. Image: Fox Sports<\/p>\n
Shearer had been battling with Cody Burcher int he #118 Ford Mustang for the back end of the outright top five in the early stages of Saturday\u2019s Race 1.<\/p>\n
The pair came together at the end of Sandown\u2019s fast back straight, with wheel-to-wheel contact sending Shearer off the road at high speed and into the Armco barrier before sliding into the run-off at Turn 6 and heavily into the tyre wall.<\/p>\n
Shearer was due to start third for Race 2 on Sunday, however the damage to the car was significant, and Shearer himself was battered in the impact.<\/p>\n
Appearing on the Sunday broadcast, Shearer said he was \u201cshaken up\u201d from the incident, with the heavy impact taking its toll.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was knocked out in the car for about five seconds,\u201d Shearer said.<\/p>\n
\u201c[I have] a concussion, and was having nightmares last night, but I\u2019m feeling ok, the body\u2019s ok and everything\u2019s intact so I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll recover.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shearer was frustrated with the way Burcher raced him given the cars compete in two separate classes, with Burcher in Silver-Am partnering Dean Campbell, and Shearer in the outright Silver Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cI gave him [Burcher] a bit of a gap into Turn 4 and he went past me on the straight,\u201d Shearer added.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing into the braking zone I just saw him moving across on me and pushed me into the grass, and I was max power on the brakes and there was just nowhere for me to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuper devastating to be racing like that against someone not even in our class, it\u2019s really disappointing driving. Not much you can do, we signed up for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shearer took to social media overnight to express further disappointment with the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cMulti-class racing only works if everyone respects the cars around them. A drive-through penalty for that doesn\u2019t come close to matching the damage done,\u201d Shearer\u2019s post read.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the damage is real. Losing the car is a huge hit for us and it makes 2027 a lot harder. We\u2019ll work it out, but it definitely hurts.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo the 80 people who came out to Sandown to watch me race, I\u2019m genuinely so grateful. Seeing that many of you in one place meant more than I can put into words, and I\u2019m so sorry you didn\u2019t get the finish you came for.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a good season, with podiums, a maiden pole, and a lot to be proud of. This isn\u2019t how I wanted it to end, but it\u2019s not the end.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jensen Shearer’s GT4 car impacts the wall heavily in Race 1 at Sandown. Image: Fox Sports Shearer had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,516029,150567,806,805,803,804,6490,254712,85],"class_list":["post-948387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jensen-shearer","tag-monochrome-gt4-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-slot3","tag-speedseries","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948387","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=948387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}