5/10/2023 0 Comments Supercars racing room"That's when I started thinking about it. "When you're living in Melbourne, you couldn't help see that the AFL players were all leaving on the weekend," says WAU team principal Bruce Stewart. Walkinshaw Andretti United, knowing something like this was possible, was a little more prepared. Kelly Racing didn't have engines or gearboxes in their cars, for example. The five teams were thrust into action from a range of levels of preparedness. We were in the board room at 12:30pm and we only had half the team at work that day" Todd Kelly "We didn't know where we were going and how long we were going for. However the fine print swiftly revealed that those in the Greater Melbourne area only had until 11:59pm Monday to get into New South Wales. When the official announcement was made mid-Morning on the Monday, the date for the closure was 11:59pm on the Tuesday - a day and a half away. The Australian Football League, already working out of interstate hubs, preempted the closure and got its Melbourne teams out of town by the Sunday. There had been rumblings of a closure over the weekend of July 4-5. What followed was the most unprecedented move of all the first border closure between Victoria and NSW in 101 years. Then the Winton round was canned altogether, replaced by a return to Sydney Motorsport Park in New South Wales. Its started with crowds being shut out of Winton (located two hours north of Melbourne). It's also home to five Supercars teams - Tickford Racing, Erebus Motorsport, Kelly Racing, Walkinshaw Andretti United and Team 18.Īs cases skyrocketed in Melbourne, things became incredibly complicated for Supercars. smack bang in the middle of Melbourne, Australia's second biggest city and the capital of Victoria. Then, thanks to a hotel quarantine breach, the virus returned. Australia had seemingly beaten off the worst of COVID-19, there was a new schedule in place and even talk of crowds being back for Winton. Rewind a few weeks and all was well in Supercars world.
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