{"id":44503,"date":"2025-09-26T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/44503\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:52:09","slug":"supercars-news-heimgartners-costly-clutch-issue-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/44503\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Heimgartner&#8217;s costly clutch issue explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Supercars-TheBend-729.jpg\" alt=\"Heimgartner\u2019s costly clutch issue explained\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndre Heimgartner&#8217;s finals hopes took a beating at The Bend. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n<p>Heimgartner and co-driver Declan Fraser finished the 500-kilometre race dead last after dealing with both a clutch issue and steering damage from early contact.<\/p>\n<p>The result was particularly costly in the context of Heimgartner\u2019s finals hopes, the Kiwi slipping from eighth in the standings pre-Bend to 11th.<\/p>\n<p>He will head to the Bathurst 1000 sitting 18 points behind the 10th place cut-off to stay in title contention.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest of its technical videos, BJR owner Brad Jones explained what went wrong with the clutch at The Bend while also confirming that a new one will be fitted for the Great Race.<\/p>\n<p>Watch below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andre Heimgartner&#8217;s finals hopes took a beating at The Bend. Image: InSyde Media Heimgartner and co-driver Declan Fraser&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[39415,39416,111,139,69,1058,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-44503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andre-heimgartner","9":"tag-bjr","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-slot1","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44503","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=44503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}