Erebus racing the clock after scary restart accident

Erebus Motorsport are racing to repair Jack Le Brocq's Tyrepower Camaro in time for Race 18 of the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship after a frightening crash in the opening race of the betr Darwin Triple Crown.

The race was quickly brought under the control of the bp pulse Safety Car following a heavy Turn 1 crash for Jaxon Evans, which has seen the SCT Logistics Camaro ruled out of this afternoon's race.

Le Brocq was running 11th at the Safety Car restart on Lap 6 with Broc Feeney slowly leading the field back to green, with the field in tow.

However, ahead of Le Brocq, Ryan Wood had suffered overheating issues under the Safety Car, and as the field accelerated, the #2 Walkinshaw Andretti United Mustang laboured.

That stacked the field up behind, with Cameron Hill spearing into the back of his former Matt Stone Racing teammate Le Brocq, who was turned into the inside wall on driver's left.

Le Brocq's left front wheel was torn off, and bounced over the wall, fortunately missing officials, whilst Wood also came to a halt at the entry to Turn 1.

The failure was later diagnosed as a bearing failure in the pulley system, which spat the belt off the pulley and led to the loss of oil pressure, with the team undertaking an engine change before this afternoon's race.

Le Brocq is scheduled to start in seventh for the second race today, whilst Wood is scheduled to start 11th.

It's Wood's second retirement on the bounce, which has seen the Kiwi tumble out of the top 10 in points as he attempts to qualify for the Finals.

"I don't know, it's just one of those things," said Wood.

"By the sounds of it the water pump has fallen off and then taken the oil.. I don't know, I don't even know engines.

"All I know is it wouldn't go on the Safety Car restart, and it is what it is."

Whilst Wood acknowledged that his engine failure was a trigger for the incident that unfolded behind him, the 21-year-old Kiwi said that the slow pace of leader Feeney also contributed.

"Obviously it wouldn't have helped, but we changed the Safety Car restart to go out of the last corner, and we still didn't go out of the last corner, so it was still a nightmare for everyone.

"There's a car there that's got a tyre missing out the front of it. That's not good for them guys to see.

"If we keep doing the same shit on the restarts, the same result is going to happen."

Feeney defended his actions at the restart, saying he would've caught the bp pulse Safety Car had he picked up speed at the final corner.

"It was a shame at the start. Doing the speeds we were doing the Safety Car couldn't pull away so I couldn't go to the straight and unfortunately crashes happen then," said Feeney.

Race 18 of the Repco Supercars Championship will begin at 3:10pm ACST/3:40pm AEST.