{"id":363066,"date":"2026-04-04T06:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363066\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:29:09","slug":"hyundai-excel-race-marred-by-multi-car-first-lap-crash-at-bathurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363066\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai Excel race marred by multi-car first lap crash at Bathurst"},"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\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-04-083946.png\" alt=\"Hyundai Excel race marred by multi-car first lap crash\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAleeanz Voltz and Ayce Buckley crashed heavily at Turn 2 on the opening lap of Race 1. Image: SBS On Demand<\/p>\n<p>Aleeanz Voltz and Ayce Buckley were running towards the front of the field on the opening lap of Race 1 when the pair ended up heavily into the wall at Griffins Bend.<\/p>\n<p>As the field scattered behind to avoid, Tyler Howard found himself spun heavily into the outside wall and pointing the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p>Other drivers involved include Jake Burton, Aydin Karadagli, Jack Carpenter, and Shayne Nowickyj.<\/p>\n<p>Tyce Hodge went nowhere off pole position at the race start, swamped back to position five while Zane Rhodes ran away at the front.<\/p>\n<p>The red flag was thrown for a lengthy period, and due to the condensed nature of the Saturday schedule, the race was declared and not restarted.<\/p>\n<p>CERA returns for one more race this afternoon at 2:45pm AEDT, so teams will be hard at work to repair big damage in that short turnaround.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/bathurst-6-hour-news-2026-mount-panorama-preview-how-to-watch-tv-times-schedule-entry-list-free-to-air-sbs-foxtel-kayo-details\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Bathurst 6 Hour \u2013 Start time, how to watch, TV times &amp; more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aleeanz Voltz and Ayce Buckley crashed heavily at Turn 2 on the opening lap of Race 1. Image:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[188822,190949,111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-363066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bathurst-6-hour","9":"tag-circuit-excel-racing-association","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363066","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=363066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}