Im gunna take the safe bet and say Macca will be P-nowhere all year.

I was pretty unhappy with the end of race 1. I think a local caution to allow the race to actually be a race to the end would have been much better.

Quote from: Wrighty05 on December 09, 2022, 03:03:31 PM
Grove have got some big scalps.

And they have a co-driver who is at least the equal of their main ones.

Talk at WAU of a potential wildcard, so Luff stays.

DJR need to up their co-driver spend it seems

I know it will never happen due to previous rivalries, team commitments, SVG's ego etc, but I would love to see SVG and Scotty Mac pair up for Bathurst.

Dont sponsors often sponsor a driver more than a team? Reynolds took Penrite with him when he got off the Errorbus.

IMO, Winton, Queensland Raceway, and Tassie are always the most boring races. Even when the racing is good, its boring.  Im not sad to see any of them go away.

Skaife and Crompo love to quote the rules but I've never heard them mention this.

I know Ive seen cars that were delivered on a tow truck back to the pits being worked on during the race, but maybe that was a Saturday race and the teams were trying to be sure the car would be ready for Sunday.

Are their any rules around whether cars that have to be removed from the track by recovery vehicles cannot being returned to the pits for (potential) repairs?

I've seen races where cars are returned to the pits (Gold Coast last week) and at times the teams repair them enough to attempt to get the qualified as finishing, and other times like this year's Bathurst lap 4 crash where the Tickford, Erebus, and BJR cars were parked in a locked section of the paddock and left to sit for the duration of the race.

It seems the teams would want the opportunity to at least evaluate the cars potential to be repaired.

Is this a decision the teams have to make based on what they see from the coverage?  Or is it if the car cant make it back to the pits under its own power it isnt allowed to continue?

If there is a rule about this, I've never heard it mentioned.

2019 Bathurst had Skaife and Crompton over the track PA speakers as well.

Will Davo is working his way back through they field pretty quickly. Up to 12th now with Lowndes up next...

Top 10 shootout cancelled. Im glad I decided to sit today out and watch it on Foxtel.

Adding rain to Bathurst is like adding vodka to the punch bowl. The results may vary, but they're guarenteed to be entertaining.

Quote from: mikeamerica84 on October 05, 2022, 11:04:02 AM
Thinking outside of the box..... The Indianapolis 500 has been rolled back a week, or so, once in a while due to weather and a huge opening lap crash in 1973.  Why not just roll the 1000 back a week?  It might be the segway to have the race go the full distance.

On a different note, the International Space Station just flew over our house - way up in the nighttime air, of course.  Now THAT was cool!   

Well I for one want it to go on as planned since im here and wont be for any rescheduled race.

All this talk of rain on the news since we arrived Monday... Is this an uncommon weather event or are the newcasters just bored?

That amount of rain over a few days  in most places in the States - especially during spring - would be a non event.  The weather forecasters would mention it in passing and move on.

Quote from: mikeamerica84 on September 22, 2022, 11:25:48 AM

Quote from: Yamarocket630 on September 22, 2022, 01:44:34 AM
Well the races on speedvision back in the day were condensed...

The condensed coverage we got of Supercars circa 2004-2005 albeit QUITE condensed, gave me my first look at the Bathurst 1000.  A one hour presentation of the Great Race.  The first time they went up through Griffins Bend, then the Cutting, and across the top and down, my jaw was in my lap.  I had heard about this race in the early/mid-90s when Dick Johnson came over to the States and ran a couple of NASCAR road races in the Redcote Ford but that was it until then.  Media/internet coverage was simply not there for us.  The announcers spoke of the Bathurst 1000 and its place in Australian motorsport, and I always remembered that.

So when it comes to Bathurst, THAT condensed version from the mid 2000s was the moment this Yank became hooked on Supercars.  I have since learned more and more about it, the drivers, the cars, and the series.

Yams and I may have gotten a bit off topic with our Yank banter, but I think I just may have gotten us back between the ditches for this thread.  Let us continue on, talk about Bathurst, and possibly throw some spoliers out there.   

Back into the ditch...

I grew up in the (American) south with a Nascar loving dad. I discovered V8s in about 2005 on Speedvision. I used to drive home from work on my lunch break just to watch you crazy Aussies race on TV because mid-week and mid-day was when it was broadcast here.

I would tell people " you gotta watch, those f'ers will take each other out racing for 23rd place on lap 1 of a 161 lap race".

By contrast, the Nascar equivalent of Bathurst is the Daytona 500.  For any of you who have never seen it, it was 459 miles of follow the leader and one lap of racing. At least it was that way the last time I saw it 30 years ago.

Back on topic...

Will it rain this year? Bathurst is always better in the rain.

A geological oddity!