{"id":330860,"date":"2026-03-15T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/330860\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:39:20","slug":"national-news-rx8-driver-unhurt-in-spectacular-roll-at-the-bend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/330860\/","title":{"rendered":"National news: RX8 driver unhurt in spectacular roll at The Bend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-15-101241.png\" alt=\"RX8 driver unhurt in spectacular roll at The Bend\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJames Dixon was unhurt after a spectacular rollover in Race 3 of Formula RX8 at The Bend. Image: Hi-Tec Oils Super Series<\/p>\n<p>During the opening laps, Dominic Caminiti suffered a mechanical failure on the run to Turn 1, leaving a trail of fluid on the circuit.<\/p>\n<p>In just his second race meeting, Dixon was circulating alone at the rear of the field and appeared to spin on the fluid in the braking zone.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon\u2019s machine snapped sideways violently and spun towards the inside of the circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The #33 RX8 tripped over the apex kerb at Turn 1 and rolled onto its roof as Caminiti watched on from his stricken machine.<\/p>\n<p>The car slid spectacularly on its roof across the racetrack and came to rest in the gravel trap on its wheels.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon signalled straight away that he was ok and climbed from the car unhurt.<\/p>\n<p>A brief safety car period neutralised the field so the fluid could be cleaned up, setting up a two lap dash to the finish.<\/p>\n<p>Stiaan Kriel took a third victory from four races ahead of series rookie Cadel Ambrose.<\/p>\n<p>Formula RX8 returns for a final race at 2:00pm local time (ACDT).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/285241\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/285241.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Dixon was unhurt after a spectacular rollover in Race 3 of Formula RX8 at The Bend. Image:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[152673,177670,152674,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-330860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aasa","tag-formula-rx8","tag-hi-tec-oils-super-series","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}