Van Gisbergen 'confused' by Bathurst penalty

Jones' car was fired straight into the concrete wall, where it unsurprisingly sustained heavy damage.Stewards hit the championship leader with a three-place grid penalty. It will be applied after the shootout on Saturday afternoon, meaning if he sets the quickest time in the shootout he will start fourth.

"I'm confused because he went really wide at turn one and lost almost a second to his lap before," van Gisbergen told Wide World of Sports."And then at the top, it looked like he was letting me go, so I committed down the hill.The rear of Macauley Jones' Commodore suffered massive damage in the collision with Shane van Gisbergen.

Van Gisbergen said it was "a shame" to have ended the day with a crash and that he felt sorry for the BJR mechanics, but said Jones would have seen him coming. He said data showed Jones upshifted on the way down the hill instead of downshifted, which stewards had put down to Jones "feeling flustered"."But what led to it ... his lap was ruined at turn one.

"He's seen a car catching him ... he doesn't have to pull out of my way because, like, he was still on a lap."But I thought in the moment he stuffed up turn one and then he was pulling over to let me go.Team owner Brad Jones, Macauley's father, said he didn't know what van Gisbergen was thinking to make the move in the first place."He was never going to do a faster lap passing a car around the outside.

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