I am heartedly sick of the media telling us of some local skirmish or civil war.

Too often the government of Australia finds a reason for Australians to die in these foreign skirmishes. e.g., The Malaysian Crisis, The Korean Police action. The Vietnam civil war, the Afghanistan civil war etc. etc. and a heap more etc.

Some of these have been going on for all of my long life and beyond.

Let's look at India and Pakistan skirmishes. "They shot first", " "no they shot first", since at least 1947.

How about they get fair dinkum and bomb the **** out of each other and get a resolution.

Maybe a few million less humans would alleviate the famine crisis.

https://autoaction.com.au/2025/05/10/brad-jones-racing-tipped-for-toyota-switch-xiberras-still-undecided-on-2026-move

QuoteMeanwhile, Peter Xiberras has confirmed that he has yet to settle on a manufacturer for 2026 but hopes to make a decision before the next round of the championship.


PremiAirs Peter Xiberras and recently appointed CEO Gwyn Dolphin are still thinking about which brand they will run beyond 2025.

The PremiAir Racing boss remains one of the key wildcards in the ongoing manufacturer shake-up. Despite running Chevrolet Camaros and being heavily invested in GM-aligned race car programs, Xiberras is understood to be genuinely conflicted about his next move.

Reports suggest he is weighing up a switch to Ford and retaining his alignment with Triple Eight or doubling down on his existing GM relationship. Both camps are reportedly pushing hard, and Xiberras will meet with new Supercars Program Manager for General Motors, Simon McNamara, for the first time tomorrow.

If PremiAir do move to Ford, I would surmise that it would be in 2027 after another year with existing 88 GM equipment.

Peter has an extensive, no very extensive, collection of past GM Commodores. If he goes to Ford, the collectors' market may get a real shakeup.

I suspect that Simon McNamara has a large bucket of incentive available.

4 less GM with the BJR switch. There are a diminishing number of GM cars.

I really wonder why GM persists considering the GM range of vehicles available to the Australian buyer, and generally relatively expensive.

GM could take their tents and go quietly into the night.

They sell Fords in Australia.
They sell Toyotas in Australia mass market.

Thomas Randle has pole for race one showing his driving talent.

If you want to see Thomas' musical talent, watch the "PIANO" on Sunday night ABC.

In the realms of fantasy, I would really like to see the Arabs buy Red Bull Team, license and facilities with the Thai/German Red Bull consortium retain the RB team.

And maybe another bunch of Arabs buy the Alpine Team. Stelantis is a mess.

Quote from: AlbertM on May 05, 2025, 11:24:47 AM

Quote from: stevo qld on May 04, 2025, 07:46:37 PM

Quote from: AlbertM on May 04, 2025, 07:20:12 PM... Now Brodie has no credibility?

Now, I would absolutely love to see you justify your comment "Now Brodie has no credibility?"

I was asking a question. That what that little ? symbol means. I'm now questioning whether you are that stupid or just trolling.

If you had no basis for the question, then I'm now questioning whether you are that stupid or just trolling.

But I do agree that I must be stupid to even respond to your obvious stirring.

Quote from: AlbertM on May 04, 2025, 07:20:12 PM... Now Brodie has no credibility?

Now, I would absolutely love to see you justify your comment "Now Brodie has no credibility?"

Tickford is full of praise for Mark Winterbottom.
https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/winterbottom-exceeding-tickford-expectations/

This raised and re-raises some questions in my mind.

Mark was a top-level driver at Tickford and yet left to drive for a back-marker team.

The question in my mind: Was he pushed out by Tickford?
Or: did he just make a sub optimal decision?

What followed was a rather drab time with the rather drab Toyota Forklift team and he was then dumped by them. What is worse the drab team kept the rather drab Reynolds and dumped Mark.

At least he has a driver mentoring job and an endurance co-drive with a far superior team.

The extraordinary expansion of GT4 and it's large capacity fields could spell the death nell for TCR.

GRM alone has a shedfull of unused TCR cars and a distinct lack of buyers or renters.

The published drivers and entrants are very few for the 2025 series and it is just possible that TV land decision makers are dropping rounds from the Supercar support classes.

The International TCR Australian rounds may be the last we will see of TCR as a serious feeder category let alone a stand-alone category.

A great pity. Garry Rogers has been a great supporter of Australian racing.

The GRM shedfull of S5000 and TCR cars could be a great source of cars for future historic categories.

Maybe they will be used at local events by club racers.

I could be wrong about Keating.

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In reference to interlocking wheels: there are so many articles and opinions that you can do your own research.

Brodie has suggested that the current flash wheels be allowed for practice and new wheels in a superior design be used for racing.

My opinion which does not count with Supercars.

Nominate an alternative non locking wheel as an alternative and allow the teams to choose themselves.

At the rate wheels are being destroyed, replacements would cost no more in the new alternative design and could result in fewer replacement wheels being needed. The old ones would be saleable foe a hot rod or custom show car. They are ever so pretty.

It need not be a greatly more expensive option.

Example: (Team Principal) will I run the new wheels at Bathurst or risk having the suspension torn out on lap 1 (or later) and get a DNF or lowly finish?

Gee! That's a hard one!

Gee! These guys are tough.
Disqualified for one loose bolt when the other 17 were apparently OK.

https://au.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/rfk-racing-explains-preece-issue-will-not-appeal-disqualification/10717775/

Quote from: Sonic on April 23, 2025, 06:45:22 PMBelieve the 3 hour limit you mention is for a single stint. so you could have the opening driver do a 2hr stint, middle driver do 2hr 55min, and then driver 1 gets back in to the end (as an example)

thanks Sonic

If A2 is quicker than A2, why not just have class "A"?

If B2 is quicker than B2, why not just have class "B"?


That's a side issue of too many classes, but congratulations to Dean Campbell and his sidekick Cameron Crick for a well won race and to Crick for a new lap record on the last lap and for both drivers after starting well out of sight: another record, probably for all Australian enduros anywhere.


I do have a question about the rules on driver stints. The talking heads talked about a 3 hour driver limit. That is easily achievable with three drivers but surely there must be different limits for two driver teams.

Peter has some family and business issues requiring his time. He might be glad to be free of extra responsibilities.

And he is now free to accept a better offer for 2027.

Quote from: muz on April 11, 2025, 03:52:07 PMhttps://speedcafe.com/supercars-news-2025-team-18-confirmed-general-motors-motorsport-homologation-ht-details/

This is ****ing hilarious. A team that can barely engineer a car out of the midfield, with a track record of burning drivers and blaming them for issues, not realizing the team should take some responsibility...


...is now the GM homologation team.

What a circus. RIP Chevrolet Racing.

There are a few Ford fans on here that will be happy to see Team 18 get the nod for GM.