{"id":100685,"date":"2025-10-25T16:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/100685\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:35:11","slug":"supercars-news-erebus-rookie-cooper-murray-explains-gold-coast-500-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/100685\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Erebus rookie Cooper Murray explains Gold Coast 500 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cooper-Murray.jpg\" alt=\"Erebus rookie Cooper Murray explains Gold Coast 500 crash\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCooper Murray crashes out of the Gold Coast opener. Image: Fox Sports<\/p>\n<p>Murray clouted the wall at the exit of the beach chicane on lap 18 of 85, shortly after the race\u2019s first Safety Car period.<\/p>\n<p>The SCT Motorsport Camaro of Jaxon Evans also took damage in the incident, collecting a wheel that had flown off the Erebus entry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a bit of a weird one to be honest,\u201d said Murray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came out of the beach chicane and felt like something in the right-rear let go. Apparently, the tyre came off the bead or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a bit of a passenger from there on and collected both sides of the fence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, there\u2019s a lot of damage to the car. The boys have got to dig in tonight, I feel sorry for them, but you\u2019ve got to do what you\u2019ve got to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tGold Coast 500 Greenroom Afterparty at Cali Beach &#8211; Sunday 26th October. VIP Booths available &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calibeach.com.au\/event\/sunday-sesh-21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DRAMA ON THE BEACH CHICANE \ud83d\ude31<\/p>\n<p>We have the second bp pulse Safety Car of the weekend!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RepcoSC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#RepcoSC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Supercars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Supercars<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ypwB5FXanm\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ypwB5FXanm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Supercars (@supercars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/supercars\/status\/1981960651690951066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evans pitted for repairs and later rejoined the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a tough break for the guys once again, we can\u2019t seem to catch a break,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anything really went wrong for Cooper in front but once he tagged the wall, I couldn\u2019t avoid anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was obviously the wheel and then him going left. I picked right but obviously caught that wheel that was not on his car anymore, so it plucked my right-front out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/4h2VD3d\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"gcafter\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gcafter.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Murray crashes out of the Gold Coast opener. 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