RSC23 R10 Repco Bathurst 1000 (WITH POLL)

[Kingair]

They interviewed Simona at one stage on Sunday afternoon, did she mention that she was heading off next week for an Olympic games training camp?

[Umai Naa]

Correct.

She's hoping to be part of Switzerland's bobsled team.

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Umai Naa

I thought Mr Love was wasted on the wildcard effort. Should have been in the #3.

At C least he had current driving experience in a Supercar..
Although never having bet a wall he couldn’t hit seems to be a risk also.

[Kingair]

Thanks Umai Naa!

There was SVG, winner on Sunday and get’s to drive the mobile home back to Brisbane on Monday.
No Learjet to fly him home, just Ms Dane in the copilot seat of the mobile home.

[GTRMagic]

From The B Pillar, from Story here

[Mixer]

Originally Posted by bluesport

Ford take the moral high ground.

Article by Connor O'Brien

[Mixer]

Originally Posted by Umai Naa

I thought Mr Love was wasted on the wildcard effort. Should have been in the #3.

Even after he destroyed his Super2 machine?

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Mixer

Even after he destroyed his Super2 machine?

Mr Masterton seems he’ll vent on doing the same to the former sister car too..

[bluesport]

Now that it has been found that the parity changes to the mustang would have been justified for Bathurst it would have been interesting to see if the mustangs could have taken the race to the leading camaros?

[bluesport]

Erebus have a good attitude.

https://www.drive.com.au/news/fastes...bathurst-1000/

[GTRMagic]

Perhaps 888 should have offered to let the Ford teams have their homologation update... in exchsange for the 150 points taken from the opening round race winner... in that scenario #97 would be leading the series... and the Fords would have done whatever the Fords would have done

[Mixer]

The drive article is ****.

Camaros cruising but Mustangs being driven flat out?

[E.B]

It seems the gear lever bracket issues that led to the #88 and #888 DNF's also struck the #97 SVG car, albeit only on the final lap. It seems the bracket only cracked and was not broken on SVG's car. They had warned SVG to be very mindful of the issue in the race after the failure of the #88. It seems the part had already undergone several updates following problems on the works and customer cars from the start of the season. Clearly more work needed and SVG was indeed fortunate the team had told him to be gentle and take a kid glove approach to gear changing.

Full story https://www.speedcafe.com/2023/10/12...r-lever-riser/

[bluesport]

Originally Posted by Mixer

The drive article is ****.

Camaros cruising but Mustangs being driven flat out?

That's a fact.......and the mustangs were more reliable, I guess they were just constructed better.

[Woolley]

Whatever the intention was with the new generation cars, that has to go down as one of the dullest Bathurst races in history. Not a phrase I thought I'd ever use about anything that happened at such a great track.

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Woolley

Whatever the intention was with the new generation cars, that has to go down as one of the dullest Bathurst races in history. Not a phrase I thought I'd ever use about anything that happened at such a great track.

I don’t think the broadcaster used the competitor base to its full possibility to create some level of competition and tension..

Didn’t help that the straight man of the broadcast was very ill at the big end of the week…

[bluesport]

Originally Posted by Woolley

Whatever the intention was with the new generation cars, that has to go down as one of the dullest Bathurst races in history. Not a phrase I thought I'd ever use about anything that happened at such a great track.

Maybe the mustangs could have taken the race to the camaros if the changes had been allowed?

[one five five]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

I don’t think the broadcaster used the competitor base to its full possibility to create some level of competition and tension..

Didn’t help that the straight man of the broadcast was very ill at the big end of the week…

Who is the broadcaster? Supercars, Fox Sports or Seven?

There was plenty of good little battles going on all race down the field from my vantage point. Did the director just focus on the leaders running round alone?

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by one five five

Who is the broadcaster? Supercars, Fox Sports or Seven?

There was plenty of good little battles going on all race down the field from my vantage point. Did the director just focus on the leaders running round alone?

Mostly, yes. And in the old days of following interesting cars in the field of talking to teams doing it tough, or even understanding why a car was in the pits or out of the race, it was not very expansive.

Almost like they cut some resources out of the on-site crew..

[GTRMagic]

From One To Three

Did Todd Hazelwood drive at all last weekend?

[Ares]

Originally Posted by Woolley

Whatever the intention was with the new generation cars, that has to go down as one of the dullest Bathurst races in history. Not a phrase I thought I'd ever use about anything that happened at such a great track.

I agree, the race was boring because of the tyre selection. The soft tyre was used to make the lap times look better for Gen 3. Only everyone is racing at 70 to 80% as to not kill the tyre. Also the BS top speed of 300kph will got all day, other than the Supercars live timing showing mid to high 280+kph. SVG also said at the Thursday press conference, he had managed a 291kph going flat through the chase. The others hadn't hit that. It was said with a taller drop gear they could hit 300kph, they didn't end up using that gear, so how were they still hitting that speed?

[Mixer]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Did Todd Hazelwood drive at all last weekend?

Is he one of a few who needed a good result to continue their career?

Scott Pye too?

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Mixer

Is he one of a few who needed a good result to continue their career?

Scott Pye too?

Sure.. but no golden parachute for Mr Hazelwood it seems

[Jack65]

Hazelwood hardly seemed to get a mention when the runners and riders were being drawn up for the various seats that became available. Maybe a bit too much seat hopping. Much like Nick Percat, he would have better off knuckling down at BJR.

[Alan52]

Originally Posted by one five five

Who is the broadcaster? Supercars, Fox Sports or Seven?

There was plenty of good little battles going on all race down the field from my vantage point. Did the director just focus on the leaders running round alone?

Supercars since 2015.7 uses their own people for the colour features but everything else is the company line.
As to your last point I think they generally give way too much air time to pitched battles for 17th that no one except anoraks give a rats about.If there isn’t much going on with the first 6-8 cars you will lose people.