Nissan Know How! Till VESA get involved (merged x2)

[Matt]

Originally Posted by rich07

Can you imagine when it comes out of pitlane at Bathurst 09 for the first safety period? The air will be full of tinnies, some of those fans who remember 92 will try and get their own back!! Better yet still, paint it in Winfield livery.......... that'll bring back some happy memories for some people and not so happy memories for others

Seriously though I think its a good move by Nissan, at least it's better then a big boxy 4WD, it fits in with the racers in a way.

Quick job, you have no idea how much this pained me to make.


EDIT: Autocensor does links too? Damn, lol.

[PVDA]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

an X-Trail or Dualis as Medical Car..... according to AA

I hope not.

You want something capable of completing it's single chase lap before the leaders catch it on thier 2nd racing lap

[Rachel Richards]

Originally Posted by PVDA

I hope not.

You want something capable of completing it's single chase lap before the leaders catch it on thier 2nd racing lap

Wouldn't that bring new meaning to "Come Alive, Come and Drive.....Nissan"


Dr Re would have eyes like dinner plates, especially if his buddy spinner Lynch was at the wheel.

[fomoco]

Originally Posted by Pro Racer

and when it does win the race Jim can call the booing fans (booing the fact the entertainment veicle won & not the fact a Nissan won) a pack of ********s again,

I think you would do the same when you found out you mate, from many years died at the track, Danny Hume , heart attack if I recall, AS you walked to the podium, Jim's spray was directed more towards the fans who didn't know. Jim has always been a gentle man, don't put this one as a blot on his copy book.

He has, and will be superior to 98 % of the drivers out there in appreciation of fans and volunteeers.

I enitialy thought the same , until I found out the truth, you win Bathurst by the rules, but loose a great friend at the same time.

lay off Jim and his comment.

[SSbaby]

The first time ever in the history of motorsport, the safety car will be quicker than the actual race cars.

[fomoco]

Originally Posted by SSbaby

The first time ever in the history of motorsport, the safety car will be quicker than the actual race cars.

any car cn be quicker than the V8's unless Tony says so.

[Sultan]

Picture this - Bathurst 2009, safety car our due to heavy rain, safety car deplyed & the mighty V8 Supercars can't keep up with it!

[alfacors]

Or safety car ends up in the wall with a wheel missing?

[chavez]

The best time I can find for a V8 Supercar around the Nurburgring is 9 minutes 43.415 seconds.

The GTR lapped at 7 minutes and 38 seconds.

[chavez]

Originally Posted by chavez

The best time I can find for a V8 Supercar around the Nurburgring is 9 minutes 43.415 seconds.

The GTR lapped at 7 minutes and 38 seconds.

Please ignore the above post. The Commodore's time is for the combined old and new circuit.

[pplater]

The best time I can find for a V8 Supercar around the Nurburgring is 9 minutes 43.415 seconds.
The GTR lapped at 7 minutes and 38 seconds.

You can't use that as a comparison. That ``V8'' is Mal Rose's ancient VX commodore - waaaay slower than the TeamVodafone's finest. It's run on a tight budget by careful gentleman drivers with nothing like the freedom afforded to works Nissan test drivers (ie empty track, half a dozen replacement cars ready if you bin it.)
More importantly, that time was set at the Nurbriging 24 hours, which uses a special combination of Nordschliefe and GP circuit (for its first rate pit facilities) that is four kilometres longer than the traditional 20.8km `ring.
The fastest lap for the circuit in that configuration is 8:43.367, set by a seriously worked (but not turbo) Manthey Racing / Porsche GT3.

[Tourer]

Originally Posted by pplater

You can't use that as a comparison. That ``V8'' is Mal Rose's ancient VX commodore - waaaay slower than the TeamVodafone's finest. It's run on a tight budget by careful gentleman drivers with nothing like the freedom afforded to works Nissan test drivers (ie empty track, half a dozen replacement cars ready if you bin it.)
More importantly, that time was set at the Nurbriging 24 hours, which uses a special combination of Nordschliefe and GP circuit (for its first rate pit facilities) that is four kilometres longer than the traditional 20.8km `ring.
The fastest lap for the circuit in that configuration is 8:43.367, set by a seriously worked (but not turbo) Manthey Racing / Porsche GT3.

Yeah and not any old GT3 either - a GT3 RSR that was run out of the factory (alledgedly) by Manthey. Totally irrelevant comparing times in Mal's car to the GTR times for all the reasons that you state.

The GTR is an awesome car but anyone thinking that in its standard road car trim on road tyres a GTR would be quicker around the mountain than a leading V8 is out of touch with reality.

[billy bigtime]

Originally Posted by Matt

Quick job, you have no idea how much this pained me to make.


EDIT: Autocensor does links too? Damn, lol.

**** job but points for trying.

[Rick76]

All this GTR talk.... Chev also know how... V8, pushrods and rwd can still do ok! http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=k6mEirkQN8o

[B24]

Sorry but its nowhere compared to 'true' supercars. The GTR is a true supercar which in showroom form is one of the quickest in the world.
The holden and ford is not. Good cars,but not inthe same catergory or league. Sorry,but this is a cold hard fact.
It is pointless to compare V8SC and the GTR as that is not the point of the exercise (pace car). I dont know the point but its not 'mines bigger than your's'.
If there are too many problems with the V8SC crowd, Im sure the GT championship will be happy to have the GTR as a pace car.

[nic.v814]

Its only a name to make the series sound good

[rockdog]

and still a GTR will be unbeat...unpassable

[Falcadore]

Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks

Very strange.

Good on Nissan for not holding grudges against CAMS.

Leon Daphne has retired now I guess :P

Curious though, accepting money from anybody, as if they wanted Nissan could run some beautiful ambush adds. And it will draw attention to the car the V8s had to ban so they could actually win a race.

[peckstar]

a whole 17 years ago falc, wow that will blow away the punters.

Maybe we should ask Pro orchatters if they remeber them racing when they were 2

[Falcadore]

Originally Posted by peckstar

a whole 17 years ago falc, wow that will blow away the punters.

Maybe we should ask Pro orchatters if they remeber them racing when they were 2

Who said 17 years? The right question from a newsprint journalist at a press conference at Clipsal to the right figure could provoke a very interesting denial.

As you say the punters don't care as a rule, so why should they care how long ago it was?

[V8 Fireworks]

The GTR is an awesome car full of technology, just wondering how well it would convert to either the GT3 or GT2 sportscar classes... Are AWD and active this and that allowed in those classes?

[pplater]

Nah, they have to be RWD with simplified bits - eg the Ferrari GT2 doesn't have any kind of e-Diff or mannetino function, just a nice LSD.
Reiter GT3 Gallardos (as run by Ross Lilley etc) are RWD and the upcoming Audi R8 is also RWD (usually quattro).

[billy bigtime]

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/conten...ew_safety_car/

[Muznik]

If only they would let someone do a lap of the Mountain in anger in it !!

[Razor]

Originally Posted by Muznik

If only they would let someone do a lap of the Mountain in anger in it !!

I wonder if Jimmy Richards and Marky Mark Skaife could do it? Yet again, the lads might crash it on Conrod, and call the crowd a pack of bum holes.