Boost Mobile Pole Winner Award - HATGATE

[Kingair]

Mr Adderton has stumped up a healthy amount cash for pole position at each round.

Shame the last few laps were behind the Eveready VW, could have Chaz taken on the Red Bull boys?

[Sandgroper]

Good on Adderton to support support the year after rubbishing the series most of the time. 5k per race is a nice pay packet

You can do all the testing you like and someone is always going to complain. At the end of the day, they are different body shapes and engines so NOTHING will be 100% identical. The trumpets are playing already from Chaz.

[Sandgroper]

Bigger issues !!!!!

Its all about the HAT or NOT the right hat

[Mixer]

Originally Posted by Sandgroper

Its all about the HAT or NOT the right hat

Imagine the one who complained about the CATEGORY CEO who visited a competitor's function complaining about guys sponsored by a competitor not wanting to wear his ****ing hat?

[Kingair]

Could hatgate be the drama that replaces the drama of the 2023 Champion not driving this year?

Perhaps Boost man, could say if you don’t wear my cap at the presentation we only give you $500.00?

[E.B]

It s seems very Adderton.... turn an award that normally gets 30 seconds and an inch or two of media exposure into a long drawn out drama getting the Boost name maximum exposure. He probably will, as a result, get more brand exposure and media attention for Boost from the first round than Armorall got for the same award all year.

[GTRMagic]

Regulation Changed... End of Hatgate?

[Kingair]

We can rest easy!

[GTRMagic]

[HDTVKSS]

im sure Optus will be super excited if Chaz gets pole and has to wear a competitors logo....

[GTRMagic]

Mr Reynolds Weighs In

No sponsorship… no money to go racing..
No hat sponsor, no couple of minutes on national teev with the pilot adorning his team’s sponsors on his race suit.

And.. of course… Mr Reynolds doesn’t seem to have Vodafone branding on his race suit anywhere… just his stack hat..

There is a reason some people shouldn’t run be considered to run race teams..

[Mixer]

It's in the supp regs so I can't see anybody not doing it now.

Don't you love how Adderton is just getting free advertising on top of free advertising now.

It's way more than if Broc had worn the hat.

[Tourer]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Mr Reynolds Weighs In

No sponsorship… no money to go racing..
No hat sponsor, no couple of minutes on national teev with the pilot adorning his team’s sponsors on his race suit.

And.. of course… Mr Reynolds doesn’t seem to have Vodafone branding on his race suit anywhere… just his stack hat..

There is a reason some people shouldn’t run be considered to run race teams..

He's only about 20 years too late. Dunlop branded caps and only Supercars supplied beverages on podiums and at press conferences have been in place for a very long time.

In fact the previous pole award sponsor already had a requirement in the rules re branded caps. We only had the issue at Bathurst because the wording in the rulebook hadn't changed from last year - presumably because the deal for Boost support came together late in the day.

I expect that Mr Adderton is still pretty happy with the coverage it's given his brand name!

[PVDA]

It wasn't a rule change, someone in Supercars f'ed up and forgot to cut and paste the new pole sponsors name in the event Sup Regs.

[Tourer]

Originally Posted by PVDA

It wasn't a rule change, someone in Supercars f'ed up and forgot to cut and paste the new pole sponsors name in the event Sup Regs.

Actually, cut and paste wasn't missed in the Supp Regs - the previous pole sponsor's details were still where they normally are placed in the Supercar Ops manual at E.8.5.2.2:

8.5.2 Any Driver who is required to attend this presentation must be suitably attired with their driving suit done up to the neck.
8.5.2.1 Drivers are required to wear caps supplied by Dunlop during the post race interviews and official podium presentation at the end of a Race.
8.5.2.2 Drivers are required to wear caps supplied by ARMOR ALL during the official Pole Award presentation at the conclusion of qualifying or the shootout.

The Supp Regs for the AGP support have been used to override and amend 8.5.2 though. Definitely an oversight by Supercars at Bathurst, which I suspect indicates that the Boost deal was done quite late in the day.

[GTRMagic]

Hatgate Now Has Exemptions

Does that mean Mr Adderton doesn’t have to pay the blokes who who won’t wear the hat?

How stupid…!

[GTRMagic]

As it should be…

[Mixer]

This exemption is ****ing stupid.
What next, no competing sponsor logos on stickers for event sponsors?

If people don't want competing sponsors take the ****ing sponsorship.

No fan of Adderton but this is BS

[Adam43]

This is the worst thing ever. I’m so angry.

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[GTRMagic]

Boost Mobile Pole Award Reduced

Is there anyone left at V8Supercar with a commercial bone in their body?

It would be funny if it wasn’t so fundamentally stupid.

[Jack65]

How many times does Boost have to tell the world that it is done with Supercars only to surface somewhere else? To stop the circus, Supercars needs to grow a backbone and tell Boost and its gobby proprietor to go away.

[GTRMagic]

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Jack65

How many times does Boost have to tell the world that it is done with Supercars only to surface somewhere else? To stop the circus, Supercars needs to grow a backbone and tell Boost and its gobby proprietor to go away.

V8Supercars either enforces the rules or they don’t.
I wonder if a team can protest another team’s pole position because the driver wouldn’t wear the official sponsor’s hat in the presentations..

Wonder why DJR didn’t get a dispensation for Pivotel?
Maybe thought a pole was beyond them…

[Tourer]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Boost Mobile Pole Award Reduced

Is there anyone left at V8Supercar with a commercial bone in their body?

It would be funny if it wasn’t so fundamentally stupid.

Happens. The gAFL had similar dispensations in place when sponsored by Toyota for example the Ford sponsored Geelong & its stadium.

[billybanana]

The biggest surprise to me is that David Reynolds has an exemption. Why on earth would Vodafone sponsor him with his propensity to stick his foot in his inappropriate mouth quite often ?