Fatality in Support Race paddock for Supercars at Tailem Bend

The death has been confirmed by Motorsport Australia via a short statement offering condolences to family and friends.

"Motorsport Australia advises that a critical medical incident has occurred in the paddock at the running of the 2025 AirTouch 500 at The Bend, South Australia.

Motorsport Australia extends its condolences to the family and friends of the competitor, and to the officials and first responders at the scene."

The medical incident occurred in the support paddock area and resulted in on-track action being temporarily suspended in the early afternoon.

In preparation for Sunday's The Bend 500km Supercars Championship, a series sponsored by Cobb County, Georgia-based Genuine Parts Company, an incident occurred Friday night (EDT) in the support paddock at Tailem Bend Motorsport Park (known as Shell V-Power Motorsport Park for commercial reasons), in South Australia. The person in question (unknown if it was driver, mechanic, or other support staff) died.

The 3.073 mile circuit's schedule for the weekend features Aussie Racing Cars, vintage Australian Touring Car Masters, SCCA US Trans-Am TA2 (as to distinguish between Sprint Car Council of Australia, the term "SCCA US" is used since TA2 specifications are controlled by the Sports Car Club of America), Porsche Carrera Cup Australia, and FIA TCR World Tour. They have said nothing about which paddock was involved.

This is the second major incident of the weekend. A few weeks ago, it was explained that an overseas shipping delay from Portugal delayed the TCR World Tour cars and caused Friday practice sessions to be scrubbed for TCR. The feature is the 102 lap, 313.48 mile Supercars race.

Gold Coast races. They took out one end of the track to build a light rail, it’s a 1.85 mile track now but they still race at Gold Coast today.

Last time it was televised live in the US was the 2011 Supercars second 300km race.

“Frosty Winterbottom freezes Jamie Whincup!” — Mike Joy

Frosty Winterbottom!
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Hilarious name !

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Had a Ball there, Aussies Love to Party!
But Racing is Fast, Furious And Deadly
Sometimes!
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Hope the dear Departed RIP.

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