Cars arrive, cars tech in, drivers qualify. Pre-race festivities go on, cars line up, cars race, somebody wins, cars get packed up and move on to the next stop in the series. That pattern goes for pretty much every form of racing on the planet, and V8 Supercar racing is no different. There is plenty of time between the first item and the last item, however, where all manner of things can happen. Generally, most people focus on the racing, the crashes, and what news is coming down for the current event, but sometimes there’s just some random thing in the background or off to one side that is one note off, so to speak. It’s the kind of thing that leaves spectators muttering things like “What the hell?” to themselves or maybe having just a little bit of a chuckle. Other times, it leaves bystanders wondering just what kind of circus they’ve actually paid for a ticket to.

From floating foam crossing the track to a driver interview that takes place as the driver undergoes a massage, sometimes it’s the really random items that catch everybody’s attention. Nobody expects the pace car’s lightbar to pack it in and fly off, and nobody expects a wheel that ditched the Falcon that it was on to neatly stack itself onto the tire barrier better than any corner worker could’ve done it themselves. It’s the little moments like this that flavor an otherwise standard race, isn’t it?