Pukekohe Round

Kingair · 7 Sep 2022, 00:44 (Ref:4125169)

Bro we are back at Pukekohe for the supercars round.

Bit sad to see the demise of this little bullring in the land of the long white cloud.

SVG by a country mile, is my prediction.

Tourer · 7 Sep 2022, 06:12 (Ref:4125182)

I generally enjoy the Poke-a-Kiwi round - track just seems to suit the cars.

The swapping around of vowels is a bit of fun too - like "Grig" Murphy & "Ruck" Kelly back in the day, Craig Baird's "bug cresh" on the main straight and bunch of other instances. Puke is kinda old-school in a similar way to Sandown and that is no bad thing from a viewing point of view.

Hard to go past SVG but you never know...........

Gaz170 · 11 Sep 2022, 01:20 (Ref:4125602)

Well that was an expensive first lap. Concerned we haven't seen Will Brown yet.

mite5255 · 11 Sep 2022, 01:32 (Ref:4125605)

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Originally Posted by Gaz170

Well that was an expensive first lap. Concerned we haven't seen Will Brown yet.

Apparently he's ok,just winded

banksie · 11 Sep 2022, 02:12 (Ref:4125607)

Sounded like car 9 is destroyed. Do Erebus have another spare chassis for Bathurst? Could this impact the Murphy/Stanaway entry?

Kingair · 11 Sep 2022, 06:50 (Ref:4125616)

What time does the Frosty Winterbottom verse Biffo Ryan start in the Fred Brophy tent?

Average Punter · 11 Sep 2022, 07:57 (Ref:4125620)

Three examples of SVG magic today

1 Deliberately slowing down on the entrance to the hairpin in R28 to allow Will to sail past and completely miss his braking marker AND subsequently crash into Waters and go to 4th.

2 Not putting Cam in the weeds when they came together on the fast sweeper in R29. Shane was on the anchors with his right wheels on the grass so as not to totally punt Cam into the fence. No doubt Cam's speedway skills helped too.

And then 3 the classic fade to the leftside to straighten up the exit from the hairpin and test Cam's sack size by leaving him on the outside to allow the pass.

Not a Red Bull fan but I do admire Shane's racecraft.

tux · 11 Sep 2022, 12:11 (Ref:4125657)

Hes a level above.

Cant believe that Supercars wont be coming back. Look how many people were there, look how good the racing was.

Sandgroper · 11 Sep 2022, 13:21 (Ref:4125665)

WHat a great final race today.

the Brown car looks totally r00ted

Alan52 · 11 Sep 2022, 20:45 (Ref:4125739)

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Originally Posted by tux

Hes a level above.

Cant believe that Supercars wont be coming back. Look how many people were there, look how good the racing was.

They’ll be back in NZ next year.Pukekohe is being closed down as a motor racing venue if you didn’t know.

E.B · 12 Sep 2022, 00:40 (Ref:4125769)

What a great event to sign off from Pukekohe with.
Really, Frosty? I sympathise with Erebus there. Totally unnecessary behaviour. Shame about the likely effect on the Erebus Kiwi Bathurst wildcard which must now be a pipe dream given the #9 priorities..
Some great racing, a great crowd and atmosphere. .

Mixer · 12 Sep 2022, 11:53 (Ref:4125818)

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Originally Posted by E.B

Really, Frosty? I sympathise with Erebus there. Totally unnecessary behaviour.

Why does Will Brown get a pass for driving around the outside and climbing a wheel?

Tourer · 13 Sep 2022, 01:15 (Ref:4125912)

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Originally Posted by Mixer

Why does Will Brown get a pass for driving around the outside and climbing a wheel?

Because drivers are required to leave "racing room" and Frosty didn't - whether deliberate or misjudgement (Frosty says the latter - no reason to doubt him) and also, the driver in front is not permitted to cut across the car overlapping and force them off.

In this case, Frosty didn't leave racing room and carted the car next to him off - only saw it all once but I actually recall that Frosty was coming up on Will Brown, not vice versa & then drifted wide, carting Mr Brown off.

That's why Mr Brown is getting a pass.

johnh875 · 13 Sep 2022, 04:01 (Ref:4125920)

Interesting the highlights on Ch7 didn't show the Brown/Frosty crash at all, just a shot of the displaced concrete wall with Brown's car behind it (I think?) and a brief reference to it in commentary later on - I wonder why?

Kingair · 13 Sep 2022, 09:30 (Ref:4125937)

A great weekend of racing, a bit of work for some teams in the lead up to Bathurst.

A sad moment when Jason’s mum and dad, made the presentation to SVG.

banksie · 13 Sep 2022, 10:10 (Ref:4125943)

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Originally Posted by johnh875

Interesting the highlights on Ch7 didn't show the Brown/Frosty crash at all, just a shot of the displaced concrete wall with Brown's car behind it (I think?) and a brief reference to it in commentary later on - I wonder why?

Watching the race live, it was a long time into the race till the in-car vision from Brown's car was shown, with no other angles provided.

The last race was brilliant. Will be hard to top as the race of the year.

mite5255 · 13 Sep 2022, 10:37 (Ref:4125951)

Whether you're a GM or Ford fan, that was a ripper race

Kingair · 14 Sep 2022, 02:39 (Ref:4126026)

Mr Waters put his sprintcar skills to good use.

Pity about the DJR pit issue with Will.

A cracker of a race.

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