Mass amount of damage/safety cars that have ended races. Bummer for competitors and viewers.
When it's been green it's been great racing!

Quote from: murph_fan51 on April 13, 2025, 04:45:20 PMWas Middys just changed for the event?

What was cool is they allowed spectating from the T11 bank.

Support categories - where were they? Lots of dead track time 

Either Supercars don't want them there or the event is too expensive to join??

Middy's is on a rotating sponsorship basis this year.

The crowd looked great trackwide. NZ definitely showing their support in numbers, and a rumoured second event should increase efficiencies of the cost of transport etc.

I enjoyed watching the supports. The different builds within the field are awesome. Could you walk through their pits?

Kostecki making a bit of a point with the Wood incident. With this ruleset there will always be a grey area.
Some great ding-dong racing though, if some of these incidents were happening 5 years ago this forum would've lit up.
https://speedcafe.com/supercars-news-brodie-kostecki-ryan-wood-contact-penalty-reaction-video/

Team18 just doing Team 18 things, arguably the fastest Camaro in qual trim, just for a mixture of error, bad strategy and bad luck to completely ruin their weekend. Not sure Reynolds will last long there.

And the same for 888, managing to pull an OK weekend out of what looked terrible. Brown increases his lead.

Randle seemed to measure up to Waters and even look better for the best part of the weekend. Good on him.

Why was there so much double stacking when the second car could've circulated and not been penalised waiting in the lane? Highly unlikely the SC would only do one lap.

Feeney with a little slow down once the SC was called too.
And how about the pit exit cone for 888, the thing almost needs a 90deg turn to get out.

Coincidentally ADP has been the top performing Chev so far.

Charlie already suggesting the Camaro won't goto Windshear. Caretaker.

I'd say they wanted it to run as late as possible so here in Australia the end of the race is mid afternoon.

Enjoying GT/Chad in the comms box for P1, and Skaife is fantastic when crossed to trackside. It's a better mix.

Z06 only 3sec slower around QR than a Supercar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2UthqAqCbE

The FG is a gorgeous car. If I were to pick one of the modern era it would be an FPV FG GT variant.

Quote from: murph_fan51 on April 07, 2025, 09:07:08 PMAny way we can watch it without Kayo/Fox?

Yep!

https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/bathurst-6-hour-tv-broadcast-times-where-to-watch-mount-panorama-production-car-enduro/

Quote from: madbugger on April 04, 2025, 08:42:26 PM

Quote from: Sonic on April 03, 2025, 08:13:29 PMwheelwork LOL!!! I've driven around the circuit in my road car, I'm not dumb enough to do it at speed

I've done it in a non turbo 2.8 diesel hilux 4x4.  speed wasn't an issue for me 😂😂

I try and attend the BLCC Speed Weekend and the NSW Hillclimb Championship rounds. Awesome fun.
Once you click through the kink pinned at about 220, nothing much tickles the heart rate.

Next up, the Flying 1/5th. My surname sat as the record holder for almost 30 years thanks to the addition of the Chase.

Looking like a dry weekend.

Team18 now seemingly the favourite.

Autoaction and Speedcafe are both reporting that BJR are in deep talks with Toyota.
The makeup of which is unknown, they could run 2 Supra's and 2 Chev's.
Ideally it would be 4 of the same make to take advantage of the additional data. Will the second team be sharing data with WAU?

PremiAir also in talks - which would be my pick.

I don't mind the older spec cars, as long as they hit safety requirements and under the cut off time to qualify.
Maybe the 130% rule needs to come down? The 2:22 that Davo set last year in Qualy meant that to participate you only needed to be a tickle over 3mins.

Good luck up there Sonic, are you just on the camera or doing some wheelwork?

Quote from: AlbertM on April 02, 2025, 08:24:54 PM

Quote from: skaifeman on April 02, 2025, 03:10:44 PMSeems that the GM teams themselves can't agree.
There's currently 6 Chev teams, unsure if 888 still get a vote. So they can't get 3 or 4 teams to agree per A1.5 of the Ops Manual.

https://autoaction.com.au/2025/04/02/supercars-update-trouble-at-the-gm-mill

I bet PremiAir and Team18 are in a bun fight over the role. Legal or defection threats probably have been made to postpone the announcement.

Ford's idea of re-homologating using the Dark Horse Mustang will have a few GM team rethinking who is competent to keep up the fight with both Ford and Toyota.

If nothing else GM really were blindsided by 888 defection back to Ford. Exposing that GM was happy to remain with the status quo and no plan for the future.

That was my first thought too, and they have a few teams taking their respective sides.
BJR have been suspiciously quiet in this whole ordeal, and they probably have the largest operation.

It would be interesting to see if the Dark Horse was homo'd. I'd assume every new shape would have to go through the wind tunnel from here on?
Teams will be creating thousands of CFD models within the now closest ever (wind tunnels, laser scanning, G and pitot tubes) performance window to try and get the car to have certain minute characteristics before even entering the wind tunnel.

Seperate to the above, my thoughts, does the GM HT really matter at this stage? The current Camaro is set, GM have no clear future, the Supra has to hit the set figures per the incumbent models which, as above, is tighter than ever. Whoever GM choose is just a caretaker at this stage.

I said earlier, if GM decide to stick around post-Camaro, then they can just pull the wallet out and rekindle the market to the best suited team at the time.

Quote from: stevo qld on April 02, 2025, 09:35:11 PMFrom a new car manufacturing company point of view, I struggle to think of any good reason GM would want to stay in Australian Supercars, or even sell cars here.

Chev lead the pickup truck market.
Is that a reason to stay racing? Going by reports, they probably get a hell of a lot more media coverage than input $$$. Suggestions of around $500k for the homologation duties isn't that rich.
They do make a nice business for Ausralia's biggest auto maker down in Clayton, who convert not only the Silverado's, but also the RAM's and Tundra's.

https://www.drive.com.au/news/chevrolet-overtakes-ram-in-australia/

And as for your earlier question, no nothing official from Ford. However by the sounds of it, Ford have a bit more of an iron fist.
It would probably be in Grove and BRT's best interest to have 888 come on board. DJR seem unphased.
Tickford maybe have a gripe with it seeing as they have successfully had that role previously, but it's irrelevent by then.

https://speedcafe.com/supercars-news-2025-triple-eight-factory-ford-status-awaits-team-vote/

Massive 72 car field. I predict some backmarker shenanigans.

https://speedcafe.com/bathurst-6-hour-news-2025-entry-list-mount-panorama-classes-supercars-drivers-line-ups-details/

I must say, I did have a little look at entry fees for a potential entry. Cage up a prod car and away we go. Just keep an eye on the mirror.

Seems that the GM teams themselves can't agree.
There's currently 6 Chev teams, unsure if 888 still get a vote. So they can't get 3 or 4 teams to agree per A1.5 of the Ops Manual.

https://autoaction.com.au/2025/04/02/supercars-update-trouble-at-the-gm-mill