Two V8 Supercars drivers who had been stated to have gotten right into a heated conflict that turned bodily on the sport’s end-of-season black-tie gala dinner have each denied something inappropriate occurred.
The Supercars neighborhood got here collectively final Monday evening to rejoice their season with the annual Gala Awards and dinner at Adelaide Oval.
V8 Supercars star Scott Pye (pictured) maintains he did not get right into a bodily altercation with fellow star Jake Kostecki on the sport’s end-of-season dinner final week
It was claimed Kostecki (pictured) and Pye allegedly began buying and selling insults earlier than changing into concerned in a bodily change late within the night
It was claimed that drivers Jake Kostecki and Scott Pye allegedly began buying and selling insults earlier than changing into concerned in a bodily change late within the night.
‘It regarded like they’d had a couple of to drink,’ one particular person instructed Information Corp.
The publication spoke to Pye about it afterwards and he denied that it occurred, saying: ‘Nothing occurred. There was no altercation.’
Every day Mail Australia reached out to Kostecki for remark and he additionally denied any combat happened.
‘No, sorry, I simply learn the title of the story on-line and it says with Scott Pye however that is all faux rumours,’ stated Kostecki.
Scott Pye is pictured racing throughout the Adelaide 500 simply earlier than the gala dinner happened
‘I do not know the place it got here from, I have been mates with Scott and nothing occurred.’
Pye notched his first V8 Supercars victory in 2018 at Albert Park and completed seventh within the championship that yr. He is presently with Staff 18.
Kostecki is with Tickford Racing and has simply 18 begins to his title within the V8 Supercars competitors, coming twenty first within the drivers championship in 2022.
Earlier within the night on the black-tie dinner, veteran driver Lee Holdsworth received the Barry Sheene Medal for ‘finest and fairest’ in his ultimate yr of full-time racing.
‘That is fairly particular. I actually did not anticipate this,’ he stated.
Jake Kostecki is pictured competing at Mount Panorama in 2021
‘I’m tremendous proud. This is likely one of the finest accolades you possibly can ever get and Barry was an absolute idol to me.
‘The top of my profession couldn’t have ended on a greater observe. I’ve loved each minute of it and there are too many individuals to thank over my journey within the sport.’
