Seton penalised for Mouzouris Super2 hit

Aaron Seton has been penalised 25 series points after taking out Angelo Mouzouris in Race 2 of Round 2 of the Dunlop Super2 Series in Townsville.

The Matt Stone Racing driver locked up at Turn 2 on Lap 2 and careered into Mouzouris from two cars back, sending the latter’s Triple Eight VF Commodore spinning.

Seton was out on the spot while the driver on the receiving end proceeded no further than back to pit lane with terminal rear suspension damage.

“Following a review of the Broadcast footage, the Stewards in consultation with the DRD and DSA determined Car 30, Aaron Seaton [sic] in breach of Schedule B2 – Article 2.1.1 Careless Driving,” read the stewards report.

“Car 30 made contact with Car 6 at Turn 2 on Lap 2 resulting in Car 6 retiring from Race 2.

“The Stewards imposed a penalty of Loss of 25 Driver Championship Points on Car 30.”

Seton thus drops one spot to 13th in the series, swapping positions with Eggleston Motorsport’s Jack Sipp.

“It was obviously surprising, or quite a fright, actually,” said Mouzouris after he got back to the lane.

“We were halfway through the corner into Turn 2, made up a couple of positions in the first couple of laps, which was awesome, but nothing I could have done.

“Unfortunately, the car wasn’t able to finish, just from the damage that was sustained, but yeah, move on.”

Glenn Seton, Aaron’s father and an engineer in MSR’s Super2 and Super3 programmes, observed, “It looks like he’s just gone down there too deep and tried to defend a little bit to the guy behind because naturally that’s what you do on your first lap, you try and protect your spot.

“He’s just got up over the middle of the road which has got a bit of a hump and got on the brake and locked the front inside brake because it’s on the other side of the road.

“Once you lock a front, you’re a passenger, because you’re carrying so much momentum. With the brakes locked, you just can’t do anything.

“He’ll be pretty hard on himself. He was pretty hard on himself with yesterday [when] he lost a few spots, but he’ll be very hard on himself today, which is really sad.”

Image Racing’s Jordan Boys was also pinged by officials, for the contact he made with Tyler Everingham in passing the #27 Nissan Altima on Lap 10.

The five-second time penalty relegates Car #49 from fourth at the chequered flag to fifth, behind Tickford Racing’s Zak Best, while Everingham remains sixth.

The latter had received a touch from Boys at Turn 2, leading to a change for fifth position at the other end of Charters Towers Road.

“Following a request for an investigation from MW Motorsport alleging Car 49 made contact with Car 27 on Lap 10 at Turn 2 resulting in loss of a position by Car 27,” stewards advised.

“Following a review of the Broadcast footage the Stewards determined a breach of Schedule B2 – Article 2.1.1 Careless Driving Careless Driving.

“The Stewards imposed a Post-Race Time penalty of 5 seconds on Car 49.”

Best remains second in the series points at a reduced, 42-point deficit to Triple Eight Race Engineering’s Broc Feeney, who dominated Round 2, while Boys continues to hold eighth.

Zane Morse was also a victim of the Seton-Mouzouris incident, shunting Josh Fife’s Altima when the MW Motorsport driver checked up behind Car #30 and ultimately retiring his VF Commodore.

Round 3 of the Super2 Series supports the WD-40 Townsville SuperSprint next weekend (July 17-18).

Results: Race 2 Updated

Pos	Num	Team/Sponsor	Driver	Car	Cls	Laps	Race time
1	888	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Broc Feeney	Holden Commodore VF	S2	16	23:35.4233
2	88	Eggleston Motorsport	Tim Blanchard	Holden Commodore VF	S2	16	23:40.4673
3	31	Jayco / MWM	Jayden Ojeda	Nissan Altima	S2	16	23:42.1360
4	78	Best Leisure Industries	Zak Best	Ford Falcon FG/X	S2	16	23:48.5757
5	49	Joss Group / Image Racing	Jordan Boys	Holden Commodore VF	S2	16	23:48.6435
6	27	Blue Ribbon Legal / MWM	Tyler Everingham	Nissan Altima	S2	16	23:51.4365
7	777	Red Hot Couriers / MWM	Declan Fraser	Nissan Altima	S2	16	23:52.7741
8	54	Eggleston Motorsport	Matthew McLean	Holden Commodore VF	S2	16	23:54.1624
9	69	Dial Before You Dig	Jon McCorkindale	Holden Commodore VF	S2	16	23:54.9160
10	38	Eggleston Motorsport	Jack Sipp	Holden Commodore VF	S2	16	23:56.0367
11	18	Adventure Kings	Matthew Chahda	Ford Falcon FG/X	S2	16	23:57.4243
12	28	Natural Gas and Water / MWM	Josh Fife	Nissan Altima	S2	16	23:57.8261
13	67	Flash Bush Motorsport	Nash Morris	Ford Falcon FG	CH	16	23:59.8017
14	5	Anderson Motorsport	Michael Anderson	Ford Falcon FG	SC3	16	24:03.7118
15	61	Image Racing	Reef McCarthy	Ford Falcon FG	CH	16	24:05.4535
16	75	Linc Scaffolding	Brendan Strong	Holden Commodore VE	SC3	16	24:05.8336
17	77	Mr HDT Race Cars	Blake Fardell	Holden Commodore VE	CH	16	24:06.1933
18	35	Unit Racing	Jason Gomersall	Ford Falcon FG	SC3	16	24:18.0240
19	24	North West Recycling	David Murphy	Ford Falcon FG	SC3	16	24:20.3600
20	2	Page Bros Jayco	Steven Page	Holden Commodore VE2	SC3	16	24:22.6112
21	96	Collins Racing	Gary Collins	Holden Commodore VE2	SC3	16	24:40.7251
NC	39	Vectra Group	Chris Smerdon	Ford Falcon FG	SC3	6	10:26.4579
NC	11	Brema Group Racing	Zane Morse	Holden Commodore VF	S2	3	26:11.6995
NC	6	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Angelo Mouzouris	Holden Commodore VF	S2	1	1:26.3628
NC	30	Matt Stone Racing	Aaron Seton	Holden Commodore VF	S2	1	1:27.1029

Series points: Super2 Updated

Pos	Driver	Pts
1	Broc Feeney	540
2	Zak Best	498
3	Jayden Ojeda	474
4	Matthew Chahda	408
5	Matthew McLean	393
6	Declan Fraser	360
7	Tyler Everingham	354
8	Jordan Boys	336
9	Angelo Mouzouris	288
10	Jack Sipp	282
11	Tim Blanchard	267
12	Zane Morse	210
13	Aaron Seton	200
14	Jaylyn Robotham	198
15	Josh Fife	159
16	Jon McCorkindale	153
17	Bradley Neill	135