Nibiru
10 years after Brocky died....This is a special weekend....I'm excited....Lap times are being broken......2min 04sec could be possible this year.
Racing line's on the left, cars rejoin that way after the chase all the time. If someone isn't slowing down in front it's not an issue.
He entered the track way too fast and slid across into Tander mid track, hence he was fined heavily post race (Or points can't remember exactly but he got punished) for the incident, knowing there's other cars in the vicinity he has to slow down and re enter at a safe speed starting to the right of the track.
Obviously he didn't want to lose a place so carried his speed back onto the track, as we all probably would when you're a few laps away from potentially winning the biggest race of the year
Edit, just to confirm it was a points penalty.
I'm not saying he wasn't at fault at all, I'm just saying if you look at the incident from the heli view, focusing on each driver one at a time, the driver most at fault was Whincup. Tander literally nearly ran into him halfway around the right hander after the chase, because he suddenly backed off in the hope of redressing immediately (before Tander could get past). Yeah, McLaughlin entered too fast, and was actually left of centre when contact was made, but if Whincup hadn't slowed both those cars would have been past before McLaughlin got back on the black stuff. And to make it worse Whincup's engineer tried to say he didn't know Tander was there - like he hadn't looked in his mirror in the last, oh, 10 minutes.
And that's what I meant above by "Tander had no reason to slow". Of course he had to slow when Whincup did, and he did, and he probably pushed his luck a little in trying to move right when he did, though that wasn't helped by McLaughlin coming on too fast. But whatever went on between Whincup and McLaughlin, and whether Whincup was going to need to redress or not, shouldn't have any bearing on Tander's race. Once McLaughlin went off Tander had that place, and if Whincup had to redress then Tander should have had another place too. So while he did push his luck, he had every right to expect to stay up to speed.