Mostert at a loss over shock Practice 1 crash
Chaz Mostert a high-profile victim of Practice 1 in Bathurst
#25 Mustang found the wall at Griffins Bend
Two-time winner running second behind teammate Ryan Wood at time of accident
Chaz Mostert couldn't offer an explanation for the heavy crash that ended his Practice 1 early at the Repco Bathurst 1000.
The two-time Bathurst winner became the first victim of the weekend when he locked the front wheels of the #25 Optus Mobil 1 Mustang on an out lap, and piled into the tyre wall at Griffins Bend.
Mostert, who was running second behind WAU teammate Ryan Wood at the time of the accident, immediately jumped on the radio to offer a brief insight into what had occurred.
"I'm all good. I just locked the front, and it wouldn't clear," a despondent Mostert reported back to his team via radio.
Upon returning to the pits, Mostert went into further detail on the broadcast, suggesting that he hadn't done anything outside of the ordinary in the braking zone.
"I just went slightly later than what I did the run before, but for whatever reason the brake just wouldn't release.
"I had a small lock, but I don't know, it felt like it skated. Obviously in that situation you keep going down the gears, you keep trying to wash off as much speed as possible, but even on the pump of the brake, it just wouldn't release.
"I don't know if I just found one random crack of water in a line or something like that, it just took no speed off.
"The wall did it's job, I feel entirely fine. I haven't really had a decent crash in a Gen3 car yet, and I've seen some rough ones, so I was bracing for it.
"But the car did it's job, and the wall up there did it's job, so hopefully we'll get the car back and assess it, and unfortunately it's a lot of work we don't necessarily need for this part of the weekend.
"However before then, it was reasonably speedy, so we'll take that.
There was heavy damage to the front left corner of the #25 Mustang after it was dragged out from underneath the tyre wall, however Mostert is hopeful the tyre wall absorbed most of the energy.
"I'm hoping we were pretty lucky at the end there, the two rows of tyres might've pushed the car around a bit before it found the concrete wall, it definitely still found the concrete wall.
"I more take the inertia through myself, I didn't feel too much of the shunt at all, so hopefully that's a pretty good thing from the engine bay back."
The WAU crew will be racing the clock to get the #25 back out for co-driver Fabian Coulthard ahead of the co-driver exclusive Practice 2 at 4:50pm local time.
