{"id":354699,"date":"2026-03-30T05:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354699\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:21:15","slug":"motorsport-news-officials-explain-rule-that-caught-out-11-gt4-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354699\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorsport news: Officials explain rule that caught out 11 GT4 competitors"},"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\/SRO-R1-JM1_6836-1.jpg\" alt=\"Officials explain rule that caught out 11 GT4 competitors\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Hayman and Jett Murray kept the win in Race 2 of GT4 Australia despite a 20-second post-race penalty. Image: Jack Martin<\/p>\n<p>An unfortunately timed Safety Car period at the mid-point of the race forced officials to adjust the timing of the mandatory pit stop [MPS] window.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the timed nature of pit stops in GT4 Australia, mandatory stops cannot be served under yellow flag conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Following the yellow flag period, several cars followed the Safety Car directly into pit lane as the race leader took the green for the restart.<\/p>\n<p>Under Article 20.1.2 of the Monochrome GT4 Australia Sporting Regulations, competitors are required to have crossed the control line under green flag conditions before serving the mandatory pit stop.<\/p>\n<p>The stewards report issued following the race stated:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach of the cars entered Pit Lane to commence Mandatory Pit Stop before crossing the control line after the display of the green flag at the end of a Safety Car deployment when the MPS pit window had been delayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Safety Car deployment caused the delay in the opening of the Mandatory Pit Stop window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the green flag was displayed at the end of the Safety Car deployment, several cars entered Pit Lane to complete their MPS without having first crossed the control line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe circumstances were unusual and each team manager had believed that it was not improper to commence the Pit Stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/motorsport-news-2026-gt-world-challenge-australia-phillip-island-race-2-penalty-broc-feeney-brad-schumacher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feeney and Schumacher stripped of Phillip Island podium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of the cars that finished provisionally in the top 10, only car #35 of Blake Tracey\/George Miedecke and car #46 of Jensen Shearer had completed their MPS legally.<\/p>\n<p>Race winners Tom Hayman\/Jett Murray kept the outright victory despite the additional 20 seconds, with Tracey falling just 0.49s short of stealing the win.<\/p>\n<p>Silver-Am Cup provisional winners Aaron Seton\/Jason Gomersal were relegated from third outright to 10th, handing the class victory to Cameron Crick\/Dean Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>Am Cup winner Ryan Sorensen was penalised 40 seconds for a separate breach, with Glenn Walker being awarded the win post-race.<\/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":"Tom Hayman and Jett Murray kept the win in Race 2 of GT4 Australia despite a 20-second post-race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[70641,111,139,69,9335,181583,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-354699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-monochrome-gt4-australia","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-slot2","13":"tag-speedseries","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354699","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=354699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}