The Run Home: Frosty reacts to penalty, wild conditions, Toyota shock

Let's talk to the penalties before we talk about who stepped up.

Frosty, there were nine separate driving penalties on the day.

Two for Scott Pye, two for Matt Payne.

Some repeat offenders there.

You copped one.

There was a lot going on.

Lee Holdsworth copped one.

Nick Perkatt was on the opposite end of a few incidents.

I think he was hit three times.

And the last one finished him off.

It was Zach Best down at turn three.

Zach got a drive-through penalty.

I think the outcome kind of determined that scale of penalty, but...

I think the point that you make there was the conditions kind of influenced how that contact and how the incidents played out.

Do you suggest that perhaps the penalties were a bit too harsh because of the conditions?

Well, I've watched a fair bit of racing this year, and I think there's been some people do the same things and get away with it.

So it's a tough role, isn't it, in that position when you're trying to make decisions.

But I thought 15 seconds for some of those penalties was pretty harsh, to be fair, because at points you couldn't even see out the front windscreen.

So let alone trying to pull it up, they were really tough conditions.

I've been in the sport, what, 23, 24 years.

I don't remember driving down the straight at any racetrack and not actually being able to see.

And one time, Percat actually rejoined the track from pit lane, and I didn't know he was there until I passed him at 240 kilometres an hour.

So, you know, if I hit him, it's a penalty.

I couldn't actually physically see him.

So those conditions were tough.