V8 Supercars Champion Jamie Whincup Poses with Snake for Ad, Gets Bitten

Jamie Whincup, the six-time winner of the V8 Supercars series, posed for a picture with a python at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, only for the python to bite him. The nonvenomous snake left teeth marks in the racer, and it was described as "pretty painful" by Whincup afterwards. Whincup added that the one metre-long serpent, a black-headed python, wouldn't release its bite until it was doused with water: We pushed the friendship a little bit. We decided to have the snake round the championship trophy and we moved around a few times and it wanted to get out of there. I somewhat knew it could happen to be honest. It was getting a bit rowdy and then it had a go. I thought it would have released a little bit earlier when it realised I wasn't a r...

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