Hazelwood is ready for rain chaos
SUPERCARS rookie Todd Hazelwood might well be the driver best prepared for looming chaos at the Gold Coast 600 this weekend, given the challenges thrown his way thus far in the Enduro Cup.
Predicted rain is likely to spark carnage on the concretelined Surfers Paradise track that offers zero room for error. Nothing should scare Hazelwood now though.
Sharing a Holden with perennial battler Tim Blanchard, the 22-year-old’s Sandown 500 debut last month quickly came to a spectacular end when Jonathon Webb speared him into a tyre barrier.
“It was a very sickening incident, a 40G impact with the wall backwards and leaving the track at 260-odd km/h,” Hazelwood said.
“So pretty horrific hope I never have through that again.”
He emerged unscathed from the wreckage and was able to jump in his second-tier Dunlop Series car an hour later. Hazelwood impressed at the Bathurst 1000 this month, and I to go often outpacing Blanchard. The pair managed to bring their new chassis home in 12th despite their windscreen wipers failing, leaving them “driving blind”.
“To be honest with you, it was pretty dangerous,” Hazelwood said.
“I couldn’t pass anyone. If there was someone in front I just had to back off.”