Wood fuming, Golding apologetic over dramatic clash

Ryan Wood and James Golding have shaken hands despite clear tension over their Perth tangle, which saw both drivers rubbed out of podium contention.

Disputing fifth in the closing laps, Golding took Wood off the road at Turn 4, taking the latter out of contention on the spot. Golding continued and ran off again at Turn 6, but finished the race.

However, stewards didn't let Golding off the hook, hitting the PremiAir Racing driver with a drive-through penalty.

Speaking afterwards, Wood was seething over the incident, suggesting Golding should have been penalised over an earlier incident with Will Brown.

"I was racing someone that shouldn't have been in that position with the way he raced everyone else before that and he finished me off," the Walkinshaw Andretti United driver said.

"So for someone that's pretty experienced, it was pretty piss poor to be honest. I expect better than that.

"I know I'm no princess out on the racetrack. I race hard, but I'm pretty sure I race pretty fair most of the time. So didn't feel like that was the case then.

"Honestly just gutted for our whole team because they produced us with a race car to put ourselves in a position to win all three races this weekend."

Wood and Golding discussed the incident afterwards, with Golding sharing his side of the story.

"From my point of view, obviously, Woody got up inside coming outta Turn 1 and went side by side through the next corner," the PremiAir driver said.

"Gave each other room and then we were still side by side into Turn 4, obviously got on the marbles... by that point, once you're on the outside, you can't really disappear.

"We're both racing and hard. Unfortunately, when we bumped, it broke my steering, which pulled me hard right into him and it ended his race. So, sorry to those guys. But yeah. We're all racing hard out there.

"Unfortunately these things happen, but overall, really stoked with the day. Car was really fast."

On the discussion with Wood, Golding added: "Yeah, we chatted about it basically. Same thing. Just racing, shit happens sometimes."