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A curious echidna caused chaos at the Bathurst 1000 by wandering on to the track and shutting down the race.
The spiky native animal was close to being squashed by a car hurtling around a track at 300km/h in a situation Supercars legend Mark Skaife said was 'just madness'.
The famous race on Mount Panorama on Sunday was yellow flagged and a safety car deployed after the echidna picked a very bad, and almost fatal, time to cross.
An echinda picked a very bad time to cross the road at the Bathurst 1000 at Mt Panorama
Luckily, the critter was spotted in time and its waddling did not end up with it becoming road kill, but not before several cars came came very close to it.
The crowd and drivers breathed a sigh of relief when the echidna made it to the other side and was picked up by a safety marshall.
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