DJR cars seem closer to the pace but it's only first practice.

DJR has closed the gap it looks like, LG.  Good for the series.

I cannot beLIEVE that only a FEW teams picked up on the wet track/tyre issue.

Hats off to those who did.

Race 2 tomorrow.

A mixed bag of tyre compounds, too.  It'll be worth a look, Trev.

44 year anniversary today of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant meltdown.

As for recalculating Newcastle Race 1 scores, there is no need.

I have added the rules of the 2023 V8CFL Tournament to the Tournament thread.  They are pretty simple.  Mostly the tiebreaking formulas for both rounds and the season.  Just remember, there is only one WIN and one LOSS per round.  Individual races are for points but the overall round score is what counts.

Something to watch each round is how your team matches up with the team you are racing.  I will do this only once, and this is for the AGP.  Eight cars are scored in the V8CFL.  No teams racing against each other this round have the identical eight cars.  Here are the team differences in each matchup:

TAA Performance: 88, 99, 18, 14
A1 SimSports:  8, 26, 5, 3

Kalyara Racing Team:  26, 9, 20, 55
The Arrow Motorsport:  8, 5, 18, 3

Bump and Run Racing:  20, 55
R&K Motorsports:  5, 3

Woftam Racing:  25, 8, 26, 5, 18, 3, 34
Ecurie Escargot:  17, 88, 99, 9, 20, 31, 55

Brazen Autosport:  6, 99, 3
Super Seven Racing Aotearoa:  17, 88, 31

Ain't Care Motorsports:  97, 3, 31
Shogun Autosport:  17, 14, 55

So, the easiest way to decipher this is Bump and Run Racing v. R&K Motorsports.  Bump and Run Racing has the 20 and 55 cars whereas R&K Motorsports has the 5 and 3 cars as the differences.  Hence, the former will be pulling for the 20 car to best the 5 car, and the 55 car to best the 3 car.  The latter will pulling in the opposite direction.  This matchup only has a two car difference.

Now if you look at Woftam Racing v. Ecurie Escargot, there is a SEVEN car difference.  Many more variables.

You can look at your camp and see what you are up against this round.  Four races.  One final points tally for the WIN or LOSS.  Rosters are locked in per the V8CFL rules.  I am excited that the Tournament js back.

Just wanted to mention Scotty Mac and his teammates picking up the LMP2 class win and an outright podium at the 12 Hours of Sebring.

It was a crazy finish with the outright top three coming together and going out of the race with twenty minutes remaining.

They actually were third on the overall podium due to the majority of the GTPs going down or out!

AND Tower Motorsports is atop the LMP2 table and their three drivers, including Scotty, are all tied for the overall LMP2 drivers lead.  Of course, he'll fall off for he is not running every round, but for right now, what a feather in his cap!

I have to agree with Troy & Murph above in the thread.  This is not "new" news.  The Camaro was tapped to be discontinued some time ago. 

It is unfortunate that now the series has entered a new era that the longevity of said era is already marked.  I think what is interesting is that once again, Supercars' hand will eventually be forced.  They knew the Camaro had a limited life time when they went to this formula.  I just wonder how far ahead, if at all, they thought this out.  What will be the tonic to keep Gen 3 alive? 

Or maybe, just maybe, they are just winging it?  I would like to give them the benefit of the doubt and think they were/are getting ready for this next change down the stretch in a few years.

LeClerc is taking a 10+ place grid penalty for Jeddah:

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Excerpt:  Ferrari has confirmed that Charles Leclerc will take a grid penalty of at least 10 places for this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, after his retirement from the Bahrain GP forced the team to install a fresh electronics power unit component.

https://racer.com/2023/03/15/leclerc-to-take-grid-penalty-in-saudi-arabia/

Back to the then future: One thing I can't understand is that Burgess looked into the car. Even if he didn't approve the cooling unit (as he testified), he didn't tell them that it was incorrect.

Maybe it works like ice fishing in Michigan, Steve?

A few years back a couple of friends I know, along with the one guy's little daughter, went ice fishing on an inland lake.  The max take for bluegills was 50 per day.  The little girl was not fishing - just watching, unhooking the caught fish, and baiting the hooks..

So they are fishing away, having good success.  One a little better than the other.  They had two piles of fish.  After the one guy hit his limit of 50, he kept fishing and tossing the catches on the other guy's pile until HE had 50.  Once that was done they were getting ready to leave and the DNR (Department of Natural Resources) guys showed up and issued him a citation for exceeding the limit of 50, even though they had 100 total between the two of them.  He personally caught more than 50.

"We were watching you and saw what you were doing," the rep said.

"Why didn't you just stop us and tell us that is not how it works, then?" asked his little girl.

"That's now how we work."