OzRacingWrap

Having battled against his injured ribs to make the grid at the Sydney Telstra 500, Jason Bright left the circuit not for the first time bemused by the race stewards.

The wet-dry race was a strategic nightmare, but Team BOC made all the right calls to put Brighty in P5 behind a lap-49 safety car. His pace was enough to keep him there until Jonathan Webb, who had been struggling to hang onto Bright until then, T-boned the Team BOC Commodore into Turn 11. Bright dropped to P13 but recovered to ninth by the end of 74 laps.

Bright says the stewards’ decision not to investigate the Webb incident has left him with ‘no faith’ in the V8 Supercar judicial system.

“I don’t know what Webby was thinking. He never had the pace to hang onto us at any stage in the race but, for some reason, still thought he could stick it down the inside. The speed at which he hit me says he wouldn’t have made the corner if he hadn’t used me as a brake.

“I can’t believe the officials didn’t have more of a look at it, which leaves me with no faith in our judicial system once again. I’ve copped two drive-through penalties during races this year but they didn’t even look into this incident after the race; they just wiped it.

“My gut feeling is that Webby came from a long way back, because he was so far behind me all through the race. Turn 11’s just not a corner where you can come from a long way back because it’s got such a short braking area, so how can that be just a racing incident and not require further investigation?

“Before that Todd Kelly turned me around as well, so to have lost that many spots and still end up in the top ten shows how good the car was. We had a very quick car at the end. We really should have been on the podium, which is a big turnaround from the start of this weekend.”