Frosty’s brakes sent to the UK

The remains of Mark Winterbottom’s exploded Bathurst brakes are the subject of an engineering investigation in the UK as AP Racing investigates the cause of the failure.

The supplier of the category’s control brakes has issued preliminary advice to teams as a result of its investigations and expects to have full answers within the next few weeks.

“As soon as we know exactly what happened the teams will know,” Nicholas Bates, General Manager of Competition Friction, the Australian distributor of AP Racing products told supercars.com.

“If something needs to be changed it will be changed in conjunction with the teams and Supercars. That’s the way we work.”

Winterbottom’s Prodrive Racing Australia/The Bottle-O Falcon was buried in The Chase sandtrap late in the race after a front disc rotor exploded, ending his chances of a podium in the Supercheap Bathurst 1000.

so AP are doing everything they can to analyse that.

“We are relying on AP and Supercars to get to the bottom of the issue.”

Winterbottom had complained of a braking issue at The Chase in practice and qualifying for the 1000, but Edwards explained that was locking rears.

“That’s a chassis characteristic,” he said. “That’s not a brake issue.”