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17 Jun 2008, 06:58 (Ref:2230575) | #1 | ||
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Will V8 Development Series cars race in the endurance events?
I don;t know whether they are or not. Plz ratify this fact, if it is a fact.
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Not this year, the plan seems to be to include them next year
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What a great idea. Imagine Bathurst with 55 cars.
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Could the pit garage facility handle 55 cars?
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maybe not 55 but Im sure we could bump the field to 35 possible 40, now that would be great.
Their would have to be some sort of criteria for the Fujitsu cars to get in , the top 10 in the championship perhaps and if they pass it gets passed to the next guy. But where do they draw the line as to yea or nay ?? Excellent idea though and one that would be a good reward for the Fujitsu guys |
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There's 36 two-car garages, therefore allowing 72 cars to fit in the pits (the pits were designed with the old 24hr in mind)
Of course as far as i know the CAMS track density is still at 55. |
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I don't see any reason why they can't allow the top five fujitsu cars to race at Bathurst.
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I only asked because IMO, 28 cars starting a race 1000kms long on the longest track in the country definitely isn't enough. I'm only 17 and I can still remember, especially the '99 FAI 1000 where there were about 55 cars in the field for that year's race, including privateers. The number of cars entering ever since that year or something has gone down every year and I found that kind of saddening. I say bring back the days of the big Bathurst grid because i believe that would be better to watch and the privateer teams.
If it were up to me, with the V8 Development cars, I would have them running on chassis 1-2 years old and that's it. You don't, or I wouldn't want the Development cars being heaps slower that the regular V8 cars. That's just what I think. Also with the issue of a possible driver shortage, I'm sure that some of the Carrera Cup drivers and possibly a couple of Australian GT drivers would relish the opportunity to driver in the Bathurst 1000. |
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How things have changed hey? Here we are discussing if a larger grid of the same category can run. Sad really. |
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Why only the Top 5?
Especially considering that most of the top 5 in the development series will be picked up by a main series team. Some of the cars outside the Fujitsu top 5 would probably produce a stronger pairing If they want to continue keeping the battlers away, at the very least open it up to any car that did the full fujitsu series. For the size of the track anything under 40 cars is a joke. And for those who will say that it will lead to more safety cars...we get more safety cars with 30 entries nowadays than we did when the field was around 45. |
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Would there be a safety issue with the lower bracket of Fujitsu cars amongst the big guns and the differential in speed.
Also the amount of inexperienced drivers amongst a massive field, and at a track like Bathurst. |
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Dealing with slower traffic is sadly missing from today's touring car races. I have always thought adding the Carrera Cup cars to the field would be a good idea. |
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Check out the qualifying times at Sandown for the two classes. Pole for the Fujis would have been on the tenth row in the main game. or thereabouts. I'd say regardless of the car they'd have to qualify within the 107% ? Open the event up for all V8SCs I say. But I guess the main game drivers will cry about once a year drivers getting in the way and costing them series points. But stuff 'em! They manage to do a good enough job with lost points and panel damage on their own, so it's time to put away the Kleenex. One must also remember that if we have 55 cars on the grid we need at least 110 drivers. Now that would be a sore point for the main game guys if the Development Fujis chose to race in their own cars. |
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Seems to me to be a good way to increase the amount of passing.... even if a significant amount of it is due to Fujitsu cars getting lapped. Class racing works well in other series. I can't see any genuine downside to this plan.
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Falcadore, you do raise a valid point. Why spend your cash entering your top 5 Fujicar when you can park it and get a co-drive for the weekend.
I doubt you would have too much trouble finding 110 willing drivers to race in the Blah Blah 1000. Finding 110 with enough funding might be an issue. One must see past the V8 spin doctoring and see that these cars are not the hardest cars to drive. Sure it might be hard getting the last few tenths from the machines to get you up the front end, but most of the guys at the really sharp and pointy end have both the talent and funding behind them. Go back a few years and no Team Owner would trust anyone under 30 to drive a touring car. Now we give these cars to teenagers. Granted, they have sharp reflexes and think they're invincible but I think you'd find the driving talent pool would be big enough to put 55 cars on the grid. Qualifying rules and the concrete walls should act as natural attrition to weed out the "Planet Morks" before Sunday morning....... |
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From the 2007 Bathurst timing...
Quickest Fujitsu Series Practice/Qualifying lap: 2:09.0264 T.D'Alberto Q1 Here Quickest Main Series Practice/Qualifying lap: 2:07.0093 G.Tander P3 Here Difference = 2.0171 seconds = 1.588% slower Quickest Fujitsu Series Race lap: 2:11.1454 M.Caruso R2 Here Quickest Main Series Race lap: 2:08.4651 J.Whincup Here Difference = 2.6803 seconds = 2.086% slower Or if you take the slowest main game fastest race lap: 2:11.1473 F.Coulthard or the next nearest 2:11.0347 M.Noske.... ... the development series cars appear in the ballpark (or the quickest one does anyway)... with those pilots... who each have main game endurance duties.... |
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And with a 6 kay circuit it should take a few laps before the leaders start lapping.
But we could use the Safety Car to sort that out. |
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Would someone really pay to drive a car that is likely to be lapped at least 5 times during the event?
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Only one per year?
Surely there's more than one car per year that finishes 5 laps down. |
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