Luckless Cameron at a loss over mystery puncture
Aaron Cameron at a loss over mystery puncture in Race 7
Cameron has five straight top 10 results in qualifying, for no top 10 race results
BRT driver says: "I didn't even feel that I ran over any debris or anything"
Five races.
Five top 10 qualifying results.
Zero top 10 race results.
If Aaron Cameron didn't have bad luck, he would have no luck at all.
He has tried everything and anything to reverse his run of shocking luck, throwing caution to the wind, red mist, even pure survival mode.
Yet through it all, even if he didn't find trouble himself trouble would find him. That streak continued on Sunday with a bizarre puncture.
After running third, he ceded position to eventual race winner Brodie Kostecki, but then slowly fell back through the field as he was pushed off line, and out of the train. Without warning, he would dive into the pits.
Speaking to Supercars.com post-race, Cameron was at a complete loss to explain the puncture, the latest hammer blow in a character-building season.
"Nah, no contact at all, or not that I can remember," Cameron said.
"The rest of the weekend I've had a lot of contact, but that one was extremely minimal.
"There was nothing that led up to that, I didn't even feel that I ran over any debris or anything.
"Just a random, crazy awesomeness of so much fun. I can't wait to go to New Zealand."
However, despite fluid that had leaked out of Feeney's Red Bull Ampol Ford still being evident off-line, Cameron stated that officials had done an adequate job clearing the accident site, and that debris was also not a factor.
Regardless, through so much speed and promise, Cameron is 19th in the championship.
"There wasn't that much really, they swept it all off pretty good I thought," Cameron said.
"Usually if you hit anything you feel it through the steering wheel, but I never felt anything through the steering wheel, and I still did another two, three laps after that, where the debris should've been pretty much cleared, and I hadn't gone off line or anything.
"It was in the sidewall, so it wasn't like it was the main tread contact patch, it was in the sidewall, which is just odd.
"I'm sure some people will have some theories out there about what I've done or all that, but I don't, and I don't really care anymore."
The 2026 Repco Supercars Championship resumes across the Tasman, with the ITM NZ Doubleheader kicking off in Taupō on April 10-12. Tickets are on sale now.
