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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n
Murray, on his first weekend with the team since switching from Erebus Motorsport, pitted out of seventh place with five laps remaining for a third fuel stop.<\/p>\n
That came five laps after Erebus Motorsport pitted Jarrod Hughes for the same reason, the combination of which lifted fellow Chevrolet driver Anton De Pasquale<\/a> above the Finals cut-line.<\/p>\n Supercars later confirmed both Camaros did need more fuel<\/a>, while GM motorsport boss Simon McNamara dismissed any suggestion the pit stops were orchestrated to help De Pasquale.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBelieve you me, it had nothing to do with that,\u201d Dane told Speedcafe.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can come up with conspiracy theories all you like; the fact is that we absolutely and utterly fucked up and I\u2019m furious about it, as I\u2019m sure they are next door (at Erebus) as well.<\/p>\n \u201cWe did not put enough fuel in the car and unfortunately it was by such a margin that there was no way you were going to fuel-save to the end.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we had both put enough fuel in and we\u2019d finished somewhere in the 10 and Anton finished further back, well so be it.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s what it is. We\u2019re not going to back off just to get him through to the next stage, I can promise you.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, we\u2019re not going to deliberately get in his way, but we\u2019re certainly not going to be doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n Incredibly, the fuel saga came just one event after De Pasquale ran out of fuel while leading on the last lap of the Bathurst 1000.<\/p>\n While Team 18 blamed its software for its Bathurst blunder, Dane was a little more blunt in his explanation.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a total and utter fuck-up. It won\u2019t happen again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut a total, utter fuck-up trying to be digital when you should be analogue.\u201d<\/p>\n The two Camaro pit stops appeared strategically timed as they occurred directly after Chaz Mostert<\/a> dropped back to allow teammate Ryan Wood<\/a> through to third, bumping De Pasquale out of the finals.<\/p>\n Dane said his team had hung on hoping for a Safety Car.<\/p>\n \u201cWe looked at it: \u2018can we save the fuel\u2019 and worked out it was a complete waste of time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had hoped there was a Safety Car bigger than Ben-Hur and it didn\u2019t happen, so we had to pit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Richard Gresham Murray, on his first weekend with the team since switching from Erebus Motorsport, pitted out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[121228,111,139,69,15643,62399,9335,213],"class_list":["post-641379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-anton-de-pasquale","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-premiair-racing","tag-roland-dane","tag-slot2","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641379","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=641379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}