{"id":363385,"date":"2026-04-04T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363385\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:55:12","slug":"national-news-oil-slick-causes-chaos-at-top-of-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363385\/","title":{"rendered":"National news: Oil slick causes chaos at top of the mountain"},"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-2026-04-04-161704.png\" alt=\"Oil slick causes chaos at top of the mountain\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe #5 Falcon of Chris Kneafsey sliding off the road on his own oil, setting off a chain reaction behind. Image: SBS On Demand<\/p>\n<p>The #5 AU Falcon of Chris Kneafsey dropped a large amount of fluid on the entry to McPhillamy Park at the top of the mountain in the early laps.<\/p>\n<p>Kneafsey slid off the road at a high rate of speed and hit the wall heavily, skating across the gravel trap.<\/p>\n<p>Several other cars were involved, all sliding off the road in the oil, including Rick Gill, Aaron King, and Bradley Boley.<\/p>\n<p>Boley\u2019s Commodore was left with significant damage on the left front.<\/p>\n<p>The race underwent a lengthy safety car period before the red flag was shown, and cars were stopped at the top of the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Super2 star Brad Vaughan led the way prior to the safety car.<\/p>\n<p>The race was declared with just over eight minutes remaining on the clock.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1026448 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-04-161857-e1775284064502.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1026\" height=\"685\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The helicopter shot shows the other cars involved littering the gravel trap. Image: SBS On Demand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The #5 Falcon of Chris Kneafsey sliding off the road on his own oil, setting off a chain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[188822,111,139,69,191142,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-363385","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-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-saloon-car-nationals","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363385","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=363385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}