David Besnard has finally been awarded a race victory, a week after he was relegated to 18th place in a controversial end tꦅo the Tasܫmania Triple Challenge at Symmons Plains.

Stewards inquiring into the 12th round of the V8 Supercar Championship Series conceded they had succumbed to 'considerable pressure from numerous sources in pit lane' when adjudicating on last weekend's final r💛ace in Tasmania.

WPS R🦩acing team owner Craig Gore, writing in his Gory's Corner column on the WPS Racing website, said it was obvious officials had🍨 made mistakes during the race and today's decision was 'too little too late'.

"We knew the race was ours last Sunday," he said. "What we also knew last Sunday was that considerable outside influences and pressures were applied to the stewards to overr🍸ide their own approved and accurate timing devices.

"A question remains: who applied the pres♊sure and why would the stewards succumb to it?"

Gore said the news that stewards b꧋owed to pressure from outside parties had itself brought ♋the sport into disrepute.

"I can assure you the race win just isn't enough for us ... for now," he said. "I want to know from what quar♐ter and from whom the pressure was applie♎d and why.

"More importantly, I want to kn𒆙ow who 🍌during a race ... there were numerous parties ... got access to race officials to force such a huge change. They also bring the sport into disrepute and I want answers.

"This one is not being swept under the carpet, beꦉlieve me. Whatever it takes, whatever the cost, whatever is required, weဣ will pursue it."

Gore also꧃ 🦂offered praise to Besnard, who had delivered the team its first race win in its debut season.

Besnard had a strong weekend, finishing ei🅺ghth in the first race after starting from 25th on t🍨he grid. He was then inside the top ten in the second race until he was forced off the track after being hit from behind by Jason Bright.

Besnard 💃then started the third and final race in the back half of the field, leaving his team to gamble on a pit strategy to threaten the leaders. The strategy worked to perfection, with Besnard pitting under a Safety Car period and emerging as the race leader.

It was in the wake of this that sꦆtewards later relegated Besnard, along with Bright and Mark Skaife, to the back end of the fඣield on the belief there was a mix up with the automatic timing.

Besnard ultimately cr💦ossed the line in what officials called 18th position.

The result was immediately appealed and Besnard has n𒀰ow been officially recognised as the race winner.

"This further highlights my previous call that Race Director Tim Schenken should resign as it has now been confir♛med officials succumbed to outside influences," Gore said. "This is not acceptable in this sport and, to be quite frank, I'm astounded that CAMS would admit this (decisions were made under influence of outside pressure) in a press release."