The Newcastle 500 should have gone down as a great success for Supercars. The Aussie category last weekend pulled off something that just weeks ago seemed impossible. Its teams delivered 25 reliable, beautiful, and actually quite fast Gen3 cars for the first round of the new season. The racing was good. The weather was great. People flocked through the gates…
But instead, off-track controversy took over with two major storylines. The first was the two Triple Eight Chevrolet Camaros being disqualified after a historic 1-2 in the first race. The cars were found to be carrying a dry ice radiator on the driver’s side of the cockpit to cool air to a helmet fan. The system itself was perfectly legal. But all cooling systems must be mounted to the passenger side of the car.
