ESPN.com · Mar 17, 2019
Stanaway smacked by Supercars stewards
Craig Lowndes has backed the stewards' tough approach on Richie Stanaway's reckless Supercars weekend at the Australian Grand Prix.
Stanaway was disqualified from the series' fifth race and was served a $10,000 fine for his hunting and shunting of Leigh Holdsworth on Saturday.
The penalty removes Stanaway's points from his 17th place finish but lands a heavier reputational hit on the 27-year-old.
Boost Mobile team boss Garry Rogers held the line on his bad boy Kiwi but Lowndes took a dim view of Stanaway's high-speed overtaking efforts.
"That could have quite easily sent Leigh into a concrete wall and destroyed a Mustang," Lowndes said on Fox Sports.