'When Shane drives up to the back of people, and passes them because they roll out the white flag, you don't want that. That's crap.' There are calls for drivers to be able to defend harder in Supercars. RepcoSC
, spending the last few laps swapping paint.
Immediately following the race Erebus boss Barry Ryan criticised race control for its attempts to temper Kostecki's defence."There was only three laps to go. You can technically block with three laps to go, and that's all he did. If it was 10 laps to go, Brodie would have been smart enough to consolidate second. But he's racing for the win.
Both drivers were perplexed with the situation, van Gisbergen explaining that he felt Kostecki had done nothing wrong. "Like he got a bad sportsmanship flag and I’m not allowed to bump him out of the way, so it’s a fine line. I loved it but it’s obviously always a grey area in our rules.“You want to be able to defend your position. He was doing nothing wrong with his defending. He was propping me up a bit but yeah, there should be some leeway for me to do it in the opposite way, I feel."
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