$13000 FINES FOR MCLAUGHLIN AFTER QR WIN

THE INTERNET broke last night!  Soon after Shell V-Power Racing Teams Scott McLaughlin won Race 20 of the 2019 Supercars Championship at Queensland Raceway the news broke that he was fined $13000.  And as this happened our page and many others went into meltdown.

So why the fines?  The big chunk, $10000 was for the fact that he held up a poster that read FORD NEWS-Mustang Win Title.  

McLaughlin was handed the poster by his team just prior to the podium, breaching the long-standing ban on such promotional material.

“Following a post-race DRD investigation and admission of a breach of Rule E6.8.2 (non-permitted item on the podium) by Car 17, Scott McLaughlin, the Stewards imposed the penalty of a fine of $10,000 on Scott McLaughlin,” it stated about the poster he held up.

The balance of the fine was for the last burnout on the front straight when the crews were heading to the podium for the presentation which was deemed outside of the allowed points on the circuit.

“Following a post-race DRD investigation and admission of a breach of the End of Race Procedures for Race 20 (burnouts past the nominated points) by Car 17, Scott McLaughlin, the Stewards imposed the penalty of a fine of $3000 on Scott McLaughlin,” read the stewards summary regarding the burnout. 

Our main image in this report shows McLaughlin’s burnout outside of the deemed area’s and whilst team personnel are close by. (Photo: Velocity Mag – John Morris)

McLaughlin responded to the fines overnight on Twitter:

Do you guys take @ARMORALLAusNZ pole cheque’s as terms of payment? ? https://t.co/7gRoaTgFE8

— Scott McLaughlin (@smclaughlin93) July 28, 2019

Here is the Supercars Video of the burnouts after the race.

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