Lochie Dalton lost Super2 Series lead at Sandown
Dalton wiped out on opening lap of Saturday's race
BRT driver only 15 points off new leader Campbell Logan
There's no such thing as a sure thing in sport, especially in the DUNLOP Super2 Series.
Lochie Dalton found that out the hard way in Sandown, seeing what was a comfortable points lead completely wiped out in just one split-second moment.
Dalton was nudged into the wall by Nash Morris at Turn 4 on the opening lap of Saturday's opening race, before being collected by Aaron Love, and registering his first ever DNF in the Super2 Series. The incident set off a chain reaction of off-track comments, culminating in an unsuccessful BRT protest.
Though Dalton kept a diminished points lead into the second race on Sunday, residual damage made for an afternoon of damage limitation, finishing fifth.
Now third in points, though only 15 points off the lead, Dalton hasn't dropped his head, knowing that his #43 Blanchard Racing Team Ford has been the fastest car all season.
"Yeah, just a little bit of a rough bump," said the 2025 series runner-up on Supercars' Equip Super Cool Down Lap podcast.
"I can't complain too much though, because I think probably the last two years of Super2 I've had a pretty clean slate, it's just when I didn't need it to come undone, it's come undone.
"That's alright, we had that buffer, unfortunately we've just dropped back a little bit, but we're well in the fight for Adelaide.
"I think Cam Waters said something like 'tilt tray or win', so something like that."
Dalton revealed in a social media recap the extent of the lingering after effects of his Saturday accident, despite the team working well into the night to repair the battered Ford.
"A few things not quite right, hangover effect from the crash yesterday. Just in the race we had an issue with some fuelling dramas which was not great, and then our [steering] rack was playing up a fair bit," Dalton explained.
"But, we still finished fifth, still very much in the fight for the title. It's super tight... we're gonna go down swinging in Adelaide, right in the fight. I know we can do it."
Dalton's Super2 campaign has been an impressive footnote on what has been a breakout 2026 for BRT, who have also achieved a maiden pole position and three podiums in the Repco Supercars Championship.
The team struck a late deal with Dalton to get on to the Super2 grid for 2026, and the former protege of Marcos Ambrose has shone with four wins. Adding a maiden Super2 title, which would be the first major Supercars silverware won by BRT, would be the icing on the cake for Dalton.
"Yeah they're right behind me ever since day one when I walked through the doors," Dalton added on the Cool Down Lap.
"They just want to win as much as I do, if not more, and they deserve it. They're a small team, just a family-run team, so I'd do absolutely anything to win this championship for them.
"That would mean the world to them and for the work they've put in this year, I'd just love to gift it to them."
