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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarshals work to clean up an oil spill at Sandown Raceway,<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarshals work to clean up an oil spill at Sandown Raceway,<\/p>\n
One competitor\u2019s car expired in an earlier Touring Car Masters race that left marshals to mop up the slippery fluid from the back straight all the way back to the pits.<\/p>\n
Bags of coconut husk-based oil-eater were poured across the circuit, leaving a big brown mess behind.<\/p>\n
The subsequent V8 SuperUtes race was cancelled amid fears the track\u2019s condition was too poor to race on.<\/p>\n
The clean up continued before the Supercars race, which was delayed by 20 minutes. When the 81-lapper eventually began, debris from the clean up was sent skyward.<\/p>\n
Race winner Feeney said he was nearly caught out by the condition of the circuit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI nearly speared off at Turn 6 on the first lap,\u201d said Feeney in the post-race press conference.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Driving Standards Advisor Craig] Bairdo came down to us on the grid and wanted to speak to us and get our thoughts.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, I got pretty loose on the out-lap crossing over it at the last corner and they floated the idea of maybe a Safety Car start, which, yeah, it\u2019s not great for TV, but maybe it\u2019s good to try and spread it out.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we all got through it fine so it\u2019s good in that sense, but it\u2019s not ideal to start one of your biggest races of the year with the track covered in oil.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to try and find a better solution to fixing it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, that\u2019s a one-off, the amount of oil that went down. What they\u2019re spreading over the track just wasn\u2019t doing it, and it\u2019s a mixture of water as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was tricky out there. As I said, nearly speared off on the first lap, but we all survived, so that\u2019s the main thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen at Perth this year, the clean-up didn\u2019t suffice. We need to try and get a little bit better solution if we can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anton De Pasquale, who finished second to Feeney in the top Team 18 Chevrolet Camaro, said the solution to dry the oil wasn\u2019t ideal but not the end of the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was pretty sketchy for probably two or three laps until obviously everyone ran through it, and then it cleared up,\u201d said De Pasquale.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you can see it coming off Broc\u2019s car pretty aggressively when he rolled down into it for the first time.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo where I was, it was a lot easier than where he was, because I could see what was going to happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you do? I guess. It\u2019s really difficult, but it did clear up pretty quick, so that\u2019s good. It\u2019s really hard when, obviously you have categories before and stuff, things are going to happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I don\u2019t think you can change the world based off one of these incidents. Maybe just chuck a few more cars out there earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n
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