[V8SC08R10] SuperCheap Auto Bathurst 1000!!!! (merged)

[Crash Test]

I don't think it was been brought up elsewhere, but personally a very special touch was at the podium presentation.

As has been the case for a while now, the crowd start belting out "LOWNDSIE, LOWNDSIE, LOWNDSIE", but that soon died down and started up with an even louder "WHINCUP, WHINCUP, WHINCUP".... top stuff!

[275 GTB-4]

Originally Posted by Crash Test

I don't think it was been brought up elsewhere, but personally a very special touch was at the podium presentation.

As has been the case for a while now, the crowd start belting out "LOWNDSIE, LOWNDSIE, LOWNDSIE", but that soon died down and started up with an even louder "WHINCUP, WHINCUP, WHINCUP".... top stuff!

Must be the champagne...nothing worse than hicups that wont quite

[Average Punter]

Lucky Giovanardi didn't win then. That would have tested the masses!

They could have always called in the clown who introduced Fabrizio for a lesson....

[Driver TBA]

How did Besnard's lap times compare to Courtney's?

Fast enough to be considered for the #4 seat next year?

[v8man]

Originally Posted by Teretonga

So we throw the Fujitsu cars in with the main game and what do you get.....8 safety cars before lap 75 and 15-16 between lap 75 and lap 161.....

Then you'll howl about the 'farce' it was....

Yeah, thats right, keep it at 27 cars and half the race as boring as bats **** and not give drivers a chance to learn the track, lets go back and see who started off driving in the baby car, first driver I think of is the driver with the most Bathurst wins currently driving in the series, Yes, M.Skaife's firstr drive was in a Nissan Pulsar turbo that they entered for the sole purpose of giving Skaife endurance practice around Bathurst, did not do him much good though did it.
Drivers do drive different in a 1000k race than they do in a 14 lap sprint, the increase in safety cars would not be noticed

[Belly13]

Originally Posted by v8man

Yeah, thats right, keep it at 27 cars and half the race as boring as bats **** and not give drivers a chance to learn the track, lets go back and see who started off driving in the baby car, first driver I think of is the driver with the most Bathurst wins currently driving in the series, Yes, M.Skaife's firstr drive was in a Nissan Pulsar turbo that they entered for the sole purpose of giving Skaife endurance practice around Bathurst, did not do him much good though did it.
Drivers do drive different in a 1000k race than they do in a 14 lap sprint, the increase in safety cars would not be noticed

I'm with you there V8man. I don't think it matters how many cars are in the race. 20, 30, 40 - you're still going to get safety cars. 8 this year in a 27 car field. To put this into perspective, there were 10 in 1999 with a field more than twice this size (55 cars). The drivers these days are definately more experienced in the cars they are going to compete in compared to the 'once-a-drivers' we has 10-15 years ago. The mind-set would definately be different when you compare driving in a 14-lap sprint against driving in a 161-lap race.

[bluesport]

Maybe the answer is to not have all the Fujitsu cars, but rather a select number of Fujitsu cars.

[Belly13]

Originally Posted by bluesport

Maybe the answer is to not have all the Fujitsu cars, but rather a select number of Fujitsu cars.

That's a good idea. Invite the top 10 cars/teams to the race.

[TSR]

Originally Posted by Belly13

I'm with you there V8man. I don't think it matters how many cars are in the race. 20, 30, 40 - you're still going to get safety cars. 8 this year in a 27 car field. To put this into perspective, there were 10 in 1999 with a field more than twice this size (55 cars). The drivers these days are definately more experienced in the cars they are going to compete in compared to the 'once-a-drivers' we has 10-15 years ago. The mind-set would definately be different when you compare driving in a 14-lap sprint against driving in a 161-lap race.

Nearly everone here agrees, but the problem is the Black Wiggle, he wont's to cut the feild.
And as I have being saying he could give a flying what the fans think and want.

[Crash Test]

But if Bathurst is a round of the Fujitsu Series, you will have issues with it being a championship round for them and the cost of converting the cars to enduro spec...

Why not open it up to additional entries from the level 1 ranks?

[birtek]

The other problem with more cars is drivers are required.

Currently many of the top dev series drivers are driving for main game teams. Assume we have the current best 10 drivers from the dev series driving in the current field - they will drive their own cars, which will mean we get the 11-20 top best drivers in the current series cars. So the dev series teams will need drivers too so we end up with all the dev series guys in the main race.

These are young drivers do we need them in the main series they would be more susceptible to mistakes and we could end up with more safety cars.

Of course old drivers crash (shout out to ya Skaifey) and make mistakes (shout out to ya Garf) so maybe it wouldn't be too bad.

[GTRMagic]

Paul Radisich injury toll... WOW!!

Major damage for the Rat..

[bluesport]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Paul Radisich injury toll... WOW!!

Major damage for the Rat..

Get well Paul......all the best to ya mate.

[Kingair]

Some of the gun full time drivers weren't that flash nor that impressive in my humble opinion.

One wonders where the Seton/Baird combination would have finished if Baird hadn't buried into the wall.

Seton, Besnard, Barg's, Maxi Wilson, Brad Jones or put in pretty good drives for weekend warriors.

Why didn't John Bowe get a gig?

[A9X05]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Paul Radisich injury toll... WOW!!

Major damage for the Rat..

What a list! Terrible indeed I wouldnt be surprised if he gave it away altogether 2 big ones in 3 years MMMMMmmmm! Get well soon Paul!

[bestfit]

As a side story to the big race...

My niece's husband (whatever relation that is to me) arrived at Bathurst early Friday morning and took up his normal spot for the weekend. A couple of hours later he got a phone call telling him his wife had gone into labour (10 weeks premature) and had been taken to hospital. Obviously he packed up and raced home immediately and arrived just in time to see his new son being born.

I spoke to him tonight and asked him about his new pride and joy. He said that "He's a top little bloke even if he did stuff up Bathurst!"

Congratulations to Melanie, David and new baby ...... SETON.

Mother and son are both doing well.

[Average Punter]

Well that's blown it for your relative. He won't be able to go to at least the next 5 Bathursts "as it will be Seton's birthday party on that weekend and you can't go........"

[Muznik]

Originally Posted by Average Punter

Well that's blown it for your relative. He won't be able to go to at least the next 5 Bathursts "as it will be Seton's birthday party on that weekend and you can't go........"

Nahh.. the way crack down has gone it would be a great spot to have the kiddies birthday party !

Setons 1st birthday, playground McPhillamy Park !

(BTW, Great name for Ford fan !)

[Crash Test]

How's this- I lob into JB Hi-Fi on Friday, and what is on the shelf? The 2008 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 highlights tape! Two hours long, at about the same old standard for recent V8 highlights tapes...

What a blow out- within 5 days of the race, the DVD is on the shelves- kudos to those involved!

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Crash Test

How's this- I lob into JB Hi-Fi on Friday, and what is on the shelf? The 2008 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 highlights tape! Two hours long, at about the same old standard for recent V8 highlights tapes...

What a blow out- within 5 days of the race, the DVD is on the shelves- kudos to those involved!

Buy and ship it to me please.

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Just Do It!

There was a story doing the rounds near Bass Strait about another team with black cars also being short of engines.

Does anyone know this to be true and whether more engines will be available to mount a Bathurst charge?

Their sponsors product is good on the rocks, which are quite different to the rocks thrown at the team should they not be able to start the Great Race due to engine shortage.

An odd discussion recently... suggested that the team of black jack still has a problem with engine supply...

The way the story went, the squad allegedly in question, had only a single spare engine at Phillip Island.. which was the same one for Bathurst...

.. that this was recognised when the lead car had engine issues at each event.. and where normal practice at WP/SBR/888 would have been to simply throw in a new one... it wasnt possible.. as the spare was not the same.

Running on the smell of an old Castrol oily rag?

Or taking bets to see if they are showing up next year?

[Pro Racer]

or maybe there might be another powerplant in there from another team that may be using the same chassis?????