CAMS investigating comments from Jamie Whincup and Cameron Waters

The Confederation of Australian Motorsport has seeked clarification from Triple Eight’s Jamie Whincup and Tickford Racing’s Cameron Waters after the pair lashed out at Supercars Championship officials post-Race 24 of the championship.

A safety car was deployed early in the race and picked up Whincup as the leader with Waters in third, behind his Tickford team-mate Lee Holdsworth. Whincup did not believe he was in the lead, illegally driving past the safety car which led race officials to later cycle Holdsworth, Waters and those behind through until Whincup was then picked up as the leader.

While Whincup took the race lead, he was handed a drive-through penalty for the infringement as Waters dropped from third to the bottom half of the order, finishing in 14th, two spots ahead of Whincup.

The pair have been asked to explain their comments to CAMS if they wish to avoid a sanction as CAMS’ National Competition Rules “prohibit comments that are deemed to be against the best interests of the sport and set a bad precedent to others, including young drivers”.

Whincup commented after the race that the officials were not on the same level as the drivers and teams, questioning their professionalism.

“The problem is you’ve got all the drivers, you’ve got everyone here, this is our life, you know? And we’re pushing bloody hard,” he said on the Fox Sports broadcast.

“And you’ve got people making decisions that are just cruising back, just having a few glasses of red each night, and rocking up to the track and the brain’s not with it.

“They’re not operating at the same level as the teams are operating at.”

Waters’ claimed in a post-race media release from Tickford Racing that points should not have been issued for the race given he and team-mate Holdsworth were affected so poorly by the order being shuffled under safety car.

“I had a really good race car, was just trucking around, we would have been on for a podium, but obviously race control managed to screw that one up royally,” he said on Sunday.

“It’s an embarrassment that a championship can do that and classify it as full points, so as far as I’m concerned I want an explanation from the powers that be, and I think that race should be zero points.”

Though Whincup issued a statement expressing regret over his comments, Waters has not yet spoken out about his situation so far.