The trailing pack of cars were forced to take evasive action as Smith got out of his car, searching for his fire extinguisher.<\/p>\n
Stan Sport is the only place to watch all the 2023 SpeedSeries.<\/strong><\/em> All the action streaming ad free, live and on demand<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n The scenes became more frantic as smoke began to billow out of the bonnet of the car.<\/p>\n The severity of the fire wasn't lost on Stan Sport commentator Cameron van den Dungen.\ufeff<\/p>\n "We need to get our marshalls out to that pretty quickly," he urged.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Aussies tear through India in historic collapse<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> 'Outrageous': Olympic champ ruins 26-year-old world record<\/strong><\/a>\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n READ MORE: \ufeff<\/strong>Wayne shuts down reporter after record loss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n ULTIMATE GUIDE:<\/strong> Grandson of a gun continues Bathurst-winning legacy<\/strong><\/a>\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n "Race control will be seeing this one on their screens right now.<\/p>\n "Many of our drivers in National Sports Sedans, they own these cars as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n "They're not professional drivers, they're drivers that own their own vehicles.<\/p>\n "This is becoming quite expensive."<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeedSeriesAU\/status\/1667368070808240129<\/a><\/p>\n TCR Australia Series driver and commentator Josh Buchan added, "He's trying to do it himself with his extinguisher, he needs to do a runner."<\/p>\n Fire began licking under the engine bay as the smoke grew.<\/p>\n Marshalls soon arrived with fire extinguishers, lifting the bonnet to suffocate the fire which was eventually put out before engulfing the car.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeedSeriesAU\/status\/1667373209556221954<\/a><\/p>\n The race was brought under control by the safety car and remained under yellow until taking the checquered flag.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tony Ricciardello won the interrupted race ahead of pole position winner Jordan Caruso while Josh Haynes claimed third.<\/p>\n The National Sports Sedan Series forms part of the SpeedSeries program at Winton Motor Raceway on June 9-11.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanSportAU\/status\/1667079086072528898<\/a><\/p>\n Coverage is live and ad-free across Saturday and Sunday on Stan Sport<\/a> with 9Gem hosting free-to-air coverage from 2pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n