RVSC24 R10 Repco Bathurst 1000

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[Henry]

Originally Posted by Kingair

I was amazed at the car reliability, considering the pace all day, the damage done during qualifying and the repair work required.

Especially given the conjecture about Ford crankshafts and stuff like that.

It was noticeable that the cars that experienced Race Week dramas - Davison's, Reynolds', the MDR duo, and on Sunday, Payne's little mistake - suffered for it on raceday, just like Bill Tuckey used to warn us in the old days.

The reliability of the cars would suggest that they've got the specification largely right.

[Kingair]

Macca Jones was top finisher amongst BJR drivers.

Brad Jones must look forward to Bathurst each year, just like getting your wisdom teeth removed via your bottom.

[chavez]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

The engineer and partner… so the wobble stick may come out to find and prosecute these people…

The police are calling bulldust on the engineers and partners story.

https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSCentra...40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

[Mixer]

Did someone overdo it and fall down the stairs and wish not to admit it? Police denial is sort of not normal.

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[bludvl_x19]

Ch 7 News, Central West edition has an interesting story as their lead tonight.

[Mixer]

Originally Posted by bludvl_x19

Ch 7 News, Central West edition has an interesting story as their lead tonight.

Yeah who knew I could be so wrong, wow.

If a police report was taken, that young man will have some questions to answer

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[v8supes]

HAHAHA What on earth?

https://speedcafe.com/key-cctv-foota...thurst-attack/

[Sandgroper]

Originally Posted by v8supes

HAHAHA What on earth?

https://speedcafe.com/key-cctv-foota...thurst-attack/

Major egg on their face, maybe he wanted the reward for dobbing himself in for stupidity. So many words

[Tourer]

I wonder if the engineer is going to take some time out for mental health reasons, or if maybe Barry Ryan is at fault - asking for a friend.

[TWRv12]

So stupid and tragic.

[GTRMagic]

I wish the media commentary and focus when discussing this race wasnt about how “boring” they perceived it to be.

It was a masterclass… a genuine honest to goodness display of a sledgehammer… in the good looking car, in maligned team, in complex driver, in unfancied codriver.

Effectively a private team, albeit a well resourced and probably well funded one, the mob at Dandenong managed to beat the Banyo boys & girls at their own game.

And dragged the Chiko roll back into every day language… and stomachs..

It creates a wonder if the ‘boring’ tag sits because of the machinations earlier in the year rather than any particular fault in the execution of what has turned out to be a quality weekend for Erebus.

Would it be nice to have more cars as strong as the top couple? Of course. Especially if they were blue and red from ‘26.

There is plenty to see in the detail of performances within the event that are either hidden or unheralded. Get excited for that too.

Best track on the planet. And our series gets to headline it and make history.
Effluentcanning it serves no worthwhile purpose..

[Henry]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

I wish the media commentary and focus when discussing this race wasnt about how “boring” they perceived it to be.

It was a masterclass… a genuine honest to goodness display of a sledgehammer… in the good looking car, in maligned team, in complex driver, in unfancied codriver.

Effectively a private team, albeit a well resourced and probably well funded one, the mob at Dandenong managed to beat the Banyo boys & girls at their own game.

And dragged the Chiko roll back into every day language… and stomachs..

It creates a wonder if the ‘boring’ tag sits because of the machinations earlier in the year rather than any particular fault in the execution of what has turned out to be a quality weekend for Erebus.

Would it be nice to have more cars as strong as the top couple? Of course. Especially if they were blue and red from ‘26.

There is plenty to see in the detail of performances within the event that are either hidden or unheralded. Get excited for that too.

Best track on the planet. And our series gets to headline it and make history.
Effluentcanning it serves no worthwhile purpose..

Agreed.

It was brilliant. Kostecki was inexorable. He just systematically walked away from the rest of them throughout the bulk of the day. I had my fears that Hazelwood might have been a vulnerability, but when he stabilised the gap back to Whincup around the 2.5-3 second mark throughout his stint, all of a sudden car 1 looked all but unassailable. That they didn't need to sharpen the car up until the very last stint showed just what a handle they had on their car on the day.

The bulk of the drivers in the field operated at a high level throughout the day. Aside from the wildcard's propensity to get in the way and deal awkwardly with it, the visible clangers were dropped by drivers with experience and skill enough to have done better. Sadder still (from my point of view anyway ), they were in the top-tier Mustangs more often than not.

I think the "boring" tag on socials came mainly from people who like their motor racing to be unnecessarily expensive, or who don't like the idea of excellence being directly rewarded by its own efforts.

[Jack65]

Is being described as a boring race, because it was. Must have been the most processional race we have seen since 1991. Although there have been a few others, 1996, 1997 and 2023 spring to mind, that ended up with the leader running unchallenged for long periods.

The leading three basically ran by themselves from very early on and never challenged one another. Even when the field was bunched by the safety car, the top five ran to the flag with no passing. The #25 was at one stage closing in on #6, but that petered out.

There was very little jeopardy. Tyre degradation wasn't an issue, fuel economy wasn't for most, am only aware of #87 having to fuel save at the end and then #26 ran out. With the only car not finish due to driver error, reliability wasn't an issue either. AFAIK, only DJR fumbled the rotor change with #11. On track incidents were few and far between, apart from a few spins at the first and last corners, only contract between #17 and #26 and #25 and #118 caught the stewards attention.

While there was a feel good story around Kostecki's return to form, it wasn't the triumph of David over Goliath that Erebus' 2017 victory was.

Given that online polls have known to have been manipulated, although I some how doubt Russia are too concerned by this one, take it with a pinch of salt, but an online poll by Speedcafe is showing only 25% of 8,000 respondents considered it a good race.

[GTRMagic]

I thought the ‘86 race was a pearler… and in reality it had one bloke (Oil Can Harry) driving away from the field in his VK rocket ship.

Blew off the factory Holdens, Tricky Dick and every other racer.
Mr Grice (and the longsuffering Mr Small) smacked them all.

Lots of other stuff going on in the race.. (some truly awful ) but it was a sign of coming and success for a bloke who had pace, form & zero luck.

Bathurst ‘91 was another sledgehammer. Technical excellence, local development and tuning, a metric shed load of dollars and yen, and the ultimate 2 fingered salute to absolutely everybody.

What this year’s event seems to show is the disparity in the tuning of essentially the same platform between the Chev runners, and myriad other issues that seemed to hold back the Ford teams.

The hope has to be that the 2025 Kostecki/Commins/DJR experience shall combine to remove ‘team’ from the reasons for the blue campaign to look so insignificant

[Sandgroper]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

I wish the media commentary and focus when discussing this race wasnt about how “boring” they perceived it to be.

It was a masterclass… a genuine honest to goodness display of a sledgehammer… in the good looking car, in maligned team, in complex driver, in unfancied codriver.

Effectively a private team, albeit a well resourced and probably well funded one, the mob at Dandenong managed to beat the Banyo boys & girls at their own game.

And dragged the Chiko roll back into every day language… and stomachs..

It creates a wonder if the ‘boring’ tag sits because of the machinations earlier in the year rather than any particular fault in the execution of what has turned out to be a quality weekend for Erebus.

Would it be nice to have more cars as strong as the top couple? Of course. Especially if they were blue and red from ‘26.

There is plenty to see in the detail of performances within the event that are either hidden or unheralded. Get excited for that too.

Best track on the planet. And our series gets to headline it and make history.
Effluentcanning it serves no worthwhile purpose..

100% SPOT ON

It was a pure masterclass this weekend with Ebus thinking why is this man running off to DJR as he is in his prime.

Had we had multiple safety cars we would have these same people complaining about a boring race due to the interruptions. Yes Safety cars
bunch the field and add to the excitement but WOW you have to Applaud the winners, well raced, (The whole Top 3)

[Kingair]

Top race, the little Aussie battlers in the Chiko Roll Camaro beat the big names.

The only shame is that Brodie should have been in the car all year.

The G.O.A.T can still drive very well.

[GTRMagic]

WOW!!