The 21-year-old Kiwi scored a maiden career win in the opening encounter and was romping towards making it a double.

He started Race 2 from pole – also a career-first – and dropped back to third with a poor start, before overtaking Matt Payne and then Cam Waters to resume the front-running.

Not long after overtaking Waters the #2 Walkinshaw Andretti United Mustang speared off the road and through the sand trap at Kolb Corner.

Wood limped the car back to the pits with what emerged as a left-rear suspension failure, rather than driver error.

“Something broke. I’m not too sure [what], I just can’t believe it to be honest,” Wood said before rejoining the track to salvage points.

“Our race car was unbelievable, that’s all I care about, we should have won that race.

“I hate to be cocky, but the thing was a jet. So pretty gutted but at the end of the day we can hold our heads high and there’s still plenty of positives out of today.”

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Cooper Murray’s Erebus Motorsport Camaro appeared to later have a similar suspension failure to Wood’s Mustang, while Jaxon Evans also found trouble in the form of a loose right-rear wheel.

Broc Feeney won Race 15, leading Triple Eight Race Engineering stable-mate Will Brown and Wood’s Walkinshaw Andretti United teammate Chaz Mostert.