{"id":43561,"date":"2025-09-26T01:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/43561\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T01:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:22:13","slug":"supercars-news-bathurst-1000-winner-todd-hazelwood-uninjured-in-rollover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/43561\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Bathurst 1000 winner Todd Hazelwood uninjured in rollover"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTodd Hazelwood at QR earlier this year. Image: Richard Gresham \/ Speedcafe<\/p>\n

The star was at the Ipswich venue on Wednesday helping local racers the Trappett brothers prepare for this weekend\u2019s gloriously titled \u2018World Excel Championship\u2019 at the venue.<\/p>\n

Hazelwood lost control of the pint-sized Hyundai at the high-speed Turn 1, resulting in the car digging into the gravel trap and rolling onto its side.<\/p>\n

He was assessed by medical staff at the circuit and cleared of any injury, although admits to more than a bit of embarrassment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hit the bump at Turn 1, got a little bit crossed up, dropped a wheel in the dirt and over she went,\u201d Hazelwood recounted to Speedcafe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was probably the most bizarre incident I\u2019ve ever had in a race car.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very awkward, slow roll which looked quite spectacular but fortunately there was not too much damage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so slow it didn\u2019t even puncture the front windscreen, which I\u2019m told is rare in an Excel. They\u2019re easy to roll, hard not to puncture the front windscreen!<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking back, I was far from impressed with myself. It was a bit of a red-faced moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hazelwood said the car has already been repaired ahead of the weekend, with a new door and associated glass fitted, and a bit of panel beating required to the rear quarter.<\/p>\n

The hidden rule change that failed to halt Hazelwood<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gold Coast-based Hazelwood, who turned 30 today, is a regular driver coach as part of The Complete Race Driver business run by engineer Wes McDougall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been doing it for a long time and it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve been bitten,\u201d Hazelwood said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s safe to say I won\u2019t be sending a bill for my Wednesday of coaching at the racetrack!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hazelwood was on double duties during the day and rebounded from the incident by jumping into Tanuki Racing\u2019s Nissan Silvia S13 Time Attack weapon.<\/p>\n

Having won World Time Attack at Sydney Motorsport Park in the car last month, <\/a>Hazelwood shook off the rollover and was straight down to business.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did two laps in the Tanuki rocket and managed to unofficially break the lap record at Queensland Raceway on my first flying lap,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good to brush off the moment in the Excel, jump in something seriously fast and forget about what had just happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hazelwood reports he clocked a 1:02.294s in the machine \u2013 some 30 seconds faster than a competitive time in an Excel.<\/p>\n

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Todd Hazelwood at speed aboard the Time Attack Silvia. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

The team and driver are focused on a bold target at the 3.1km, six-turn Ipswich venue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a new project that Tanuki Racing are working on called Project 60. We want to do a sub-60 second lap at Queensland Raceway,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty confident the car will do it, we just need to work on a few more things. Once we get the cooling sorted, I think we should be able to achieve it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hazelwood\u2019s wild Wednesday at QR followed victory in the AirTouch 500 at The Bend earlier this month<\/a> as co-driver to Brodie Kostecki at Dick Johnson Racing.<\/p>\n

The pair will head to the Bathurst 1000 looking to achieve back-to-back wins with different teams, having triumphed at Mount Panorama last year with Erebus Motorsport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd Hazelwood at QR earlier this year. Image: Richard Gresham \/ Speedcafe The star was at the Ipswich…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[215,111,139,69,216,213,38735],"class_list":["post-43561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bathurst-1000","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot3","tag-sports","tag-todd-hazelwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43561","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=43561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}