Some might just call it luck
What you're going to see next is probably the most spectacular overtake you've seen this year. Its awesomeness is granted not by the specific of this competition Series – which 1) is Australian, therefore "Crocodile Dundee" cool and 2) involves hooning V8s in the manliest possible way.
Scott McLaughlin not only avoided skidding his Volvo S60 into a wall but somehow, in the process, he managed to regain grip long enough to overtake the car he was after. It wasn't the tidiest overtake ever, given the fact Mark Winterbottom had to slam the brakes of his Ford Falcon in order to continue the race in all his car's corporal integrity.
Maybe the most impressive thing is how both the drivers dealt with this situation after the race: like manly men. No cursing, no whining, no threats.
"It…probably looked worse because I felt he moved under brakes on me. I sort of had to adjust my line of sight, […] and then that sort of locked up one wheel, locked up the other and then I eventually gathered it all up and then managed to make a pretty clean pass," McLaughlin said in one post-race interview.
And Winterbottom? He sort of took it on himself, this one: "I was sixth-tenths a lap slower, so you get what you deserve, really. It was alright. If I had’ve turned in I would’ve collected him but he’s having a crack – If I’m quick enough I want to race them the same way."
Just how many more reasons you need to start watching the Supercars Series?