Whincup: Pye has to forget about crash

Jamie Whincup has offered some sage advice for fellow Triple Eight co-driver Scott Pye, saying he has to forget about Thursday’s practice crash in Bathurst.

Pye crashed Will Brown's championship-leading #87 Red Bull Ampol Chevrolet late in co-driver practice on Thursday afternoon.

The 34-year-old apologised to his team after the crash, admitting his ego had taken a hit after the dramatic incident at The Cutting.

The crash tore the right rear wheel out of the car, with the right side sustaining significant damage.

Triple Eight team boss Whincup, who topped the session, said there was no panic over the incident, but implored Pye to “have some ice cream tonight and move on."

“We’ll have a debrief tonight. We’ll tell him to keep his chin up,” said Whincup, who is racing with Broc Feeney.

“We can fix cars. That’s what we do. There’s no stress at all. Hopefully, it doesn’t hurt his confidence, which I’m sure it won’t.

“You’ve just got to have a really bad memory… if you’re too intelligent, that doesn’t work for you. You’ve just got to forget about it.

Whincup was fastest in a session delayed by a clean-up for an oil spill down Conrod Straight, with a marshal then deployed to retrieve a rogue brown snake.

All told, the Practice 2 start was delayed by 25 minutes, Whincup saying: “I didn’t think we were going to get out.

“Thank god for that marshall slash snake wrangler. If we were waiting for someone from town we wouldn’t have got out.“I’ll go shout him a six-pack later on.”

Supercars will be back on track for Practice 3 on Friday morning at 10:05am AEDT. Tickets for the Repco Bathurst 1000 are on sale now.