'Crazy, we just can’t believe the way we’ve been treated by Supercars...' Jamie Whincup has slammed Supercars for its role in Triple Eight's Newcastle disqualification. RepcoSC
Shane van Gisbergen and Broc Feeney scored a historic one-twoHowever the team was thrown out of the race this morning after being found guilty of a tech breachThe issue was a dry ice helmet fan system that was fitted to the driver's side of the cockpit rather than the passenger side, as per the rules.The stewards summary outlines that T8 team manager Mark Dutton met with Supercars Head of Motorsport Adrian Burgess on Thursday to discuss driver cooling.
"We presented our cars, we got approval from the Head of Motorsport, we brought him into our garage and showed him what we were doing."There’s all this confusion over whether we added something extra to the car, no we didn’t, it’s only the location of where the driving cooling was. "We read the rules, we showed the Head of Motorsport exactly what we were doing and competed that way.Triple Eight has been at war with Supercars over driver cooling all weekend, having been told to remove heat shielding from its cars on Thursday night.
"[The heat shielding] was a half-step a day before competition and we’ve been talking about this for weeks, months. However the system, known as Chill Out, doesn't include and integrated helmet fan, leading to T8 coming up with a seperate dry ice system to feed cold air to the drivers.
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