[VASC18R22R23] OTR SuperSprint, The Bend Motorsport Park 24-26 Aug

[Razor]

A new track for the boys and girls of the Supercars Championship to play at. One of the longest tracks on the calendar with it just being shy of 5km distance using the "International" circuit. Shall be interesting to see who can get on top with no previous data to fall back on.

Will Mr McLauglin still be in conservative mode? Will Red Bull HRT/Autobarn Lowndes Racing still be in "full attack" mode? Will the HRT of old that is Mobil 1 Mobile Boost Racing finish a race without mechanical drama or team mates swapping vinyl ink?

For yours truly, I'll be watching highlights recorded on the set-top hard drive due to doing a weekend drive with friends and family driving the latest Ferrari 488 and Aston Martin DB11 thanks to a good friend. So if you see tyre smoke and hear high pitched screaming engines around the Byron Bay area, you know who and what it is.

[Average Punter]

I'm heading over!

Couple of days on a houseboat in Murray Bridge.

Not sure quite what to expect. Think it will be a circuit that's better to drive on than watch at...

[Average Punter]

Originally Posted by Razor

So if you see tyre smoke and hear high pitched screaming engines around the Byron Bay area, you know who and what it is.

I'll just think schoolies has come early...

[Racing Harz]

https://www.supercars.com/news/championship/mobil-colours-for-percat-at-tailem-bend/?sf195037866=1

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Racing Harz

https://www.supercars.com/news/championship/mobil-colours-for-percat-at-tailem-bend/?sf195037866=1

Interesting that X Convenience is sharing it’s SA distribution alliance with Mobil on the car, while OTR’s long time BP alliance is yet to be fleshed out in signage or a car livery.

Maybe the #15 Nissan will be re-stickered in BP colours

[Razor]

Originally Posted by Average Punter

I'll just think schoolies has come early...

Can't see a teenager/young adult in the latest Ferrari or Aston. A million year old hippie van with colourful "murals", weird smells and an even weirder stained interior though

[Razor]

Originally Posted by Racing Harz

Actually if they made the blue and white into stripes running parallel to the side and kept the black on the roof and bonnet (for sponsor sake) they could put it as a Brock/Brad Jones Sierra tribute with the number 105.

[JAFA851]

Originally Posted by Razor

Actually if they made the blue and white into stripes running parallel to the side and kept the black on the roof and bonnet (for sponsor sake) they could put it as a Brock/Brad Jones Sierra tribute with the number 105.

Saving that one for Sandown later in the year??

[Razor]

Originally Posted by JAFA851

Saving that one for Sandown later in the year??

Yep

[Sandgroper]

SHould be an interesting weekend.
No one has the edge (as yet)
Will Scotty outgun them all for Pole and continue on his form.
How will Todd Hazlewood go back in the Olden

Looking forward to it.

[Razor]

Welp, due to a family member needing to go under the knife, I've put off the GT drive and will be watching the race waiting for the doctors to do their thing.

[Just Do It!]

Originally Posted by Razor

Welp, due to a family member needing to go under the knife, I've put off the GT drive and will be watching the race waiting for the doctors to do their thing.

Oh dear! Hopefully, it all has a positive outcome

[GTRMagic]

Whincup Injured!!

[Sandgroper]

Originally Posted by Razor

Welp, due to a family member needing to go under the knife, I've put off the GT drive and will be watching the race waiting for the doctors to do their thing.

Best of luck to your family

[mayhem]

This wins.

[sizzle]

What is it with that hair!

[mayhem]

I dunno, surely a haircare sponsor would be prime pickings for the current Nissan drivers?

[GTRMagic]

Mr Ingall and Mr Skaife can’t seem to understand the chassis move Here

Simple answer seems to be that JRR may have bought a pair of old shoes, loved old shoes, closer to their end of usefulness than the beginning, and definitely offering the latest style or performance. Maybe nobody over at SCTV thinks DJRTP can do wrong

If MSR update the underneath of their 2016 Lowndes Caltex main game chassis, it may be for all the world a ZB except for bodywork...

[GTRMagic]

[GTRMagic]

[Umai Naa]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

If MSR update the underneath of their 2016 Lowndes Caltex main game chassis, it may be for all the world a ZB except for bodywork...

My understanding is that's exacty what's happened.

Will be running in current Triple Eight customer spec.

[Sandgroper]

WOW some movers and shakers in the last session. SDS in form early. CL second last, nice to see Hazelwood move up the grid a bit. RBR and BJR seem to have a handle on this.

Didnt Giz and Slade run laps on this track previously? If so maybe its helped.
Mind you, its only Friday.

[E.B]

Originally Posted by Sandgroper

Didnt Giz and Slade run laps on this track previously? If so maybe its helped.
Mind you, its only Friday.

I know a few of the V8 drivers did the GT race earlier in the year (Shane van Gisbergen, Garth Tander, and David Reynolds) So certainly some of them have a number of laps of the track, although the GT race may have had a different layout due to dust at the time. I think they had a last minute change to a shorter circuit.

JW as ambassador for Tailem Bend also has certainly cut a few laps there.

[Sandgroper]

Originally Posted by E.B

I know a few of the V8 drivers did the GT race earlier in the year (Shane van Gisbergen, Garth Tander, and David Reynolds) So certainly some of them have a number of laps of the track, although the GT race may have had a different layout due to dust at the time. I think they had a last minute change to a shorter circuit.

JW as ambassador for Tailem Bend also has certainly cut a few laps there.

Yep and thats exactly paying off.

What a sensational facility. I hope it pays off for them. Alot of investment to recoup. I hope the govt contributed to it also.

Interesting race day for sure.

[GTRMagic]