{"id":353152,"date":"2026-03-29T04:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/353152\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T04:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:03:14","slug":"gt4-podium-fight-marred-by-massive-mustang-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/353152\/","title":{"rendered":"GT4 podium fight marred by massive Mustang crash"},"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\/gt4-phillip-island-crash.jpg\" alt=\"GT4 podium fight marred by massive Mustang crash\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMason Harvey crashed during Race 2 of Monochrome GT4 Australia at Phillip Island.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey had been trying to work his way past the Toyota Supra of Frougas for several laps before the pair came to blows just over 10 minutes into Race 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Mustang tagged the back of the Supra exiting Turn 5, an area of the track known as Siberia, and the pair ran side-by-side to the fast sweeper at Hay Shed.<\/p>\n<p>Frougas tagged the right rear of the Mustang, which sent it spinning off the road at high speed and heavily into the tyre wall.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey exited the heavily damaged Mustang under his own power, while Frougas continued to circulate in second position behind race leader Aaron Cameron before the Safety Car was called out.<\/p>\n<p>Frougas was handed a drive-through penalty for his involvement in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said over the radio he\u2019s okay but I\u2019m pretty sure he got out pretty quickly,\u201d said Harvey\u2019s co-driver Cameron McLeod.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was doing a great job up there. Very gutted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did such a good job to get from seventh to third, and I knew we had the front [tyre] pressures a bit lower, so I knew the car would come to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t too stressed about him getting caught up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe car was just getting there and he\u2019s just got turned. Not ideal. Nothing we can do about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team at Multispares will do their best job to get it out for the next round. It was a brand new car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mustang of Harvey and Cameron McLeod was at the centre of a controversial penalty call in Saturday\u2019s Race 1.<\/p>\n<p>A pre-race weight addition was not able to be completed safely by the team as the car\u2019s weight box was reported to be full.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey crossed the line first, but a 10 second penalty saw the pair relegated to second position.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/294243\" 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\/2026\/03\/294243.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason Harvey crashed during Race 2 of Monochrome GT4 Australia at Phillip Island. Harvey had been trying to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[70641,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-353152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-monochrome-gt4-australia","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353152","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=353152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}