{"id":284368,"date":"2023-04-09T05:33:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T05:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=284368"},"modified":"2023-04-09T13:59:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T13:59:39","slug":"heartbreaking-end-for-completely-cooked-ambrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=284368","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreaking end for 'completely cooked' Ambrose"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fairytale return to racing has come to a premature end at the Bathurst 6 Hour<\/a> for Marcos Ambrose<\/a>, whose car cried no more.<\/p>\n

The two-time Supercars<\/a> champion and his team had tried to achieve a lofty goal, entering the only automatic car in the endurance race.<\/p>\n

However, just over two hours into the race, Ambrose pulled the bright yellow Ford Mustang into the pit lane where it would finish the race.<\/p>\n

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Joined by George Miedecke and Trans Am regular Tim Brook, the trio had been class contenders.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

"We're completely cooked," Ambrose told Stan Sport's Chris Stubbs.<\/p>\n

"We're done. Gearbox is gone. We were trying to run this 10-speed auto and everything was going great.<\/p>\n

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"We had a lot of speed going across the top of The Mountain. Everything, strategy was good.<\/p>\n

"The old man was double stinting, it was all working out and bang, it started slipping, the clutch plates inside the gearbox and it was done.<\/p>\n

"It was immediate, straight off turn one. It was slipping in every gear."<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeedSeriesAU\/status\/1644914330482376705<\/a><\/p>\n

This year's Bathurst 6 Hour marked the first time since 2015 that Ambrose had competed at Mount Panorama.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His last outing in Supercars was at the Gold Coast 600 and before that the Bathurst 1000 with Scott Pye and the then-known DJR Team Penske.<\/p>\n

It was a brutal end to Ambrose's return, having led the class at the time of their downfall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"We're running A2 class, we were leading our class and then we were leading outright," said Ambrose.<\/p>\n

\"Marcos<\/p>\n

"I started looking at these BMWs and they are rockets down the straightaway. It's got to be 20 lengths down Conrod. It was just incredible.<\/p>\n

"We were hustling really hard across the top. We had a lot of speed there, the balance was beautiful.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"The Mustang was handling great across the top. The gearbox was great, until it wasn't."<\/p>\n

The opening half of the six-hour race was littered with incidents, the first of those just 12 laps into the race.<\/p>\n

The No.16 Mercedes-AMG C63 of Tony Levitt and Mark Griffith slapped the wall at the Metal Grate before coming to a halt at John Hinxman Vista.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeedSeriesAU\/status\/1644896922359173120<\/a><\/p>\n

Safety car interventions were a consistent thing in the first three hours.<\/p>\n

A clash between the Class A1 No.9 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X and the Class B1 No.96 BMW 135i ended with the latter stopped in the Hell Corner gravel trap.<\/p>\n

While that was happening, the only Holden GTS in Class X spun on its own out of the Dipper, narrowly avoiding being hit by the trailing pack.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeedSeriesAU\/status\/1644896927883075585<\/a><\/p>\n

The third safety car intervention came when the No.86 Toyota 86 understeered into the concrete wall at Forest's Elbow, damaging the steering.<\/p>\n

Then the No.66 Subaru WRX STi went into the tyre wall at Griffins Bend, ending their day early.<\/p>\n

As the halfway mark approached, the No.77 Volkswagen Scirocco buried itself in the sand trap at McPhillamy Park.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeedSeriesAU\/status\/1644924330009317376<\/a><\/p>\n

Clutch dramas for the No.28 BMW 335i saw that car stop at Murray's Corner.<\/p>\n

The No.27 BMW M4 of Grant Sherrin and Iain Sherrin led at halfway but were overtaken just after the three-hour mark by another BMW M4, the No.23 driven by Beric Lynton, Tim Leahey, and Will Davison.<\/p>\n

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