{"id":520825,"date":"2026-07-11T11:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/520825\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T11:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:13:16","slug":"supercars-news-djr-crew-member-undergoes-surgery-after-pit-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/520825\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: DJR crew member undergoes surgery after pit incident"},"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\tDJR is a crew member down after a Friday injury. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n

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Blanshard sustained a finger injury from a rattle gun during a stop in the opening 100-kilometre race of the Townsville 500.<\/p>\n

He was hospitalised and underwent surgery today.<\/p>\n

That update was delivered by lead DJR driver Brodie Kostecki after his third-place finish in Saturday\u2019s race, where his progress was significantly hampered by a slow first stop.<\/p>\n

Kostecki referenced how the slow stop cost him a shot at victory, before turning his attention to the injured Blanshard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you lose 10 seconds in the pits, with the way the category is today, it\u2019s pretty hard to make that up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll reset and go again tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe had a ring-in today for the stops after Charlie had a little injury yesterday. He\u2019s been watching from hospital and has just come out of surgery now, so great to see he\u2019s doing well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe [the cause was] the wheel gun socket, while he was putting the wheel on, unfortunately caught his finger. He\u2019s done a bit of damage to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speedcafe has clarified with DJR that the replacement staff member was not responsible for Kostecki\u2019s slow stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DJR is a crew member down after a Friday injury. Image: InSyde Media Blanshard sustained a finger injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15967,16901,111,139,69,216,213],"class_list":["post-520825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brodie-kostecki","tag-dick-johnson-racing","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot3","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520825","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=520825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}