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Tander explains upsetting Sandown smash

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The worn become running fourth within the early phases of the Supercars patience curtain raiser when his Grove Mustang become tipped into a high-tempo inch at Dandenong Aspect motorway.

The mumble proved to be a left-rear wheel that worked free from the car, which tagged the armco barrier before coming to a leisure within the flip 9 sand entice.

In accordance to Tander there become runt warning of the failure, and not using a signals of a scarcity of tyre stress on the gallop.

In fact, he belief a free sensation become simply a trade in wind direction.

“It turned all over the deplorable procedure on the cease of the hill,” Tander suggested Fox Sports.

“I felt on the lap before that something become either bending, or something become occurring within the left-rear. I become about to seek files from [race engineer] Al [McVean] up the motivate straight, because we had been expecting a wind direction trade, and I believed it become pulling the car around a runt.

“At no level did I dangle the wheel become free. I didn’t net any alarms on the gallop that the tyre become going down. The runt bit of surveying I did on the cease [after the crash], the wheel obviously came off the car but the tyre become flat. I invent no longer know what took negate first.”

When requested by pit reporter Riana Crehan if the smash become horrifying, Tander added: “You kind of know [at Dandenong Road] that this could well well likely simply be neat. Nevertheless it wasn’t too dreadful. I got a form of tempo out of it and it become spinning on the tarmac. It hit the armco on the out of doors, it be done an most attention-grabbing bit of hurt to the car.

“It’s a shame, we had a very lawful car.”

Tander become sharing the Grove entry with lead driver David Reynolds.

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