Triple Eight duo Shane van Gisbergen and Broc Feeney have been stripped of first and second position from the opening leg of Newcastle 500 on 11 March, with Tickford’s Cam Waters declared the eventual winner of the race.
The Pink Bull Camaros have been discovered to have positioned a dry ice radiator for a helmet fan on the motive force’s facet of the automobile and never the passenger facet, in direct breach of Supercars’ technical laws.
After stewards scrubbed each automobiles from the race, Triple Eight lodged an attraction in opposition to the ruling and a gathering was held at Motorsport Austrai’s workplace in Melbourne on Wednesday.
A three-person panel consisting of Walter Sofronoff KC, Steve Chopping and Ross Jackson upheld the decision, that means each reigning champion van Gisbergen and Feeney have been formally disqualified from the race.
On Friday night Motorsport Australia launched the complete findings of its listening to through which it explains the rationale for upholding the disqualification.
As a part of its attraction, Triple Eight argued that it had acquired verbal approval of the positioning of the system by Supercars Head of Motorsport Adrian Burgess. Nevertheless, in an announcement supplied to Motorsport Australia, Burgess “emphatically denied” giving T8 permission to deviate from the principles.
Motorsport Australia additionally rejected Triple Eight’s declare that Burgess has the ability to offer a casual waiver of the principles, stating that “even when the HoM had ‘instructed’ [Triple Eight boss Mark] Dutton in the way in which through which he submits he was instructed, it might make no distinction”.
Lastly, the governing physique concluded that Triple Eight had no grounds in opposition to its further attraction that the penalty handed to it was too extreme.