FLYING KIWI AT BATHURST

Peter Vodanovich’s wreck after a spectacular rollover at the Chase – Photo: InSyde Media

THE SECOND race at the third round of the Toyota Racing Series was marred by a huge, if not spectacular crash by Australian-born New Zealander Peter Vodanovich.

By GARRY O’BRIEN

The 18-year-old Kiwi overshot the braking marker after the kink at the Chase, clipped another car (Declan Fraser) and rolled over on multiple occasions, from which he escaped unharmed.

“I went for a move that wasn’t there,” he admitted. “And I am sorry to whoever it was I hit.

“During the rollovers I just put my hands up. Everyone did a great job in making sure I was okay.”

Vodanovich’s car flipped onto its roof after clipping the other car and once it hit the gravel trap, somersaulted numerous times before coming to rest upside down.

Dylan Thomas was in front of Vodanovich as they took the right hander into the Chase. “He was racing side-by-side with Jaden Ransley and appeared to brake too late.

“I thought he (Vodanovich) was coming way too fast. I moved over as I thought he might hit me but then he clipped Declan. There wasn’t much in it really, just enough and at the right angle to send him over.

“These cars have ABS but if you really have to stomp on the brakes, the pedal goes hard,” Thomas said.

Before joining the Australian Toyota Racing Series this year, Vodanovich competed in the NZ E30 Series and the Ssang Yong Utes before finishing fourth in last season’s NZ Toyota 86 Series.

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