- Terrifying incident occurred in well-known racing event
Grant Denyer has set the record straight on his health after being involved in a serious crash at Bathurst’s famous Mount Panorama track on Sunday.
The Channel Ten star was competing in the Bathurst 6 Hour event when his Camaro collided with the Volkswagen Scirocco of Richard Barram at the start of the climb up the mountain.
Denyer was attempting to pass Barram on the Griffins Bend corner while that area of the track was under a double waved yellow flag because a Mazda was stranded on the circuit.
Barram appeared to veer into Denyer as he tried to avoid the stationary Mazda, with the contact sending him straight into the crippled car.
The impact destroyed the front of Barram’s car, while Denyer’s front left tyre was ripped away as both vehicles came to rest on the right of the circuit.
Denyer was taken to Bathurst Hospital as a result of the impact, and he’s since taken to social media to quash any worries about his health.
Grant Denyer (pictured) has provided a positive update to his fans on social media after a terrifying incident in the Bathurst 6 Hour race
Denyer (pictured) has a long-standing involvement in the top tiers of Aussie motorsport
The TV star’s crash (pictured) concerned thousands of fans across the country
‘Just wanted to let you know I’m A OK … I was only in hospital for an hour, and that was only for compulsory checks, as part of the regulations,’ he said on Instagram.
‘It (the incident) was very minor, it (the damage) was just a small scrape. Someone just tagged my car, trying to avoid another parked car, and they just spat us both into the wall.’
Matt Kiss, the driver of the Mazda, also avoided serious injury.
Denyer has a long history in Aussie motorsport.
In 2023 he revealed how close he came to making a living racing for one of Australia’s top V8 Supercars teams.
The talented driver – who has raced in three Bathurst 1000s, won the V8 Utes Summer Series title in 2004 and came first in the 2016 CAMS Endurance Championship – was on a knife’s edge when Dick Johnson Racing offered him a drive in 2009.
At the time the former Sunrise and Family Feud star was starring in the second-tier V8 series for Johnson’s team when the motorsport legend gave him the chance to step up to the big time.
‘I had to make the toughest call of my life, which was, I think, about my long-term future and think about my future family – and I gave the sport away and put all my eggs in the television basket, which is emotionally a very difficult decision,’ he told Wide World of Sports.
