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Originally Posted by Mike Bell
Talking of punctures, I did have a kip and missed the 8 Bentley spinning at the top of the mountain, which resulted in a SC and the car retiring? Or was the retirement unrelated to the puncture. Shame for that car after starting from the back of the grid due to pre-race dramas.
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Mike, not sure if you got to see the spin in which Oliver Jarvis managed to do a 540 coming down from the Dipper towards Forest Elbow without hitting anything. Shown in this video, link below.
https://www.supercars.com/videos/bat...rs-safety-car/
The reason for its retirement was more that being at such a narrow part of the track with a destroyed left hand tyre he was unable to do a spin turn to get back facing the right way, thus needing a flat bed to rescue him.... by the time that was over and he had been returned to the pits he was some 6 laps down.... possibly with some drive train damage from the spin.