We showed you a spectacular Stadium Super Trucks crash from Surfers Paradise last weekend, but the V8 Utes Series was not content to be upstaged by Robby Gordon’s big trucks. In the weekend’s third and final support race for the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, an accident in the narrow north end of the Surfers Paradise circuit blocked the entire track and ended the race early. The action starts around 7:30 in the video when Peter Burnitt’s Ute punts Cam Wilson in the right-rear, PIT maneuvering him into the tire wall to the outside of the corner. Burnitt gets instant karma as Wilson bounces off the tires and immediately clobbers him. From there, the remaining dozen or so cars pile into the mess that everyone, thankfully, walked away from.
With the Supercars race scheduled to follow the 11-lap Utes sprint, the series opted to end the race instead of trying to restart after the lengthy cleanup. The time required to pick it apartWith V8 Utes facing replacement next year from the SuperUtes series, this might have been the V8 Utes’ last visit to the coastal circuit and if so, that’s a truly unfortunate end to it. We’re going to miss the door-banging Utes when they go and while not every race ends in a debacle like this—Few do, really—the spectacle tends to be great.
