2024 Bathurst 6 Hour

[skaifeman]

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!

[murph_fan51]

Tyre failures too.
Rain unlikely, looks to be a dry race till the end.

[Sonic]

very tiring. hard fought. disappointing first 2 days with the continual reds/SC's. gotta admit I am pissed off too about the podium presentations. for whatever reason it wasn't coming together upstairs and it appeared pretty poor to the point that the crowd that was there was not happy. and then, adding insult, Bathurst council have still not bothered to put any lights on the podium at all (and even the 2 little ones that are there were not turned on) so almost every deserving winner received their trophies in the dark. piss poor indeed most disrespectful.

[stevo qld]

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.

[Sonic]

Believe 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)

[stevo qld]

Believe 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

[mikeamerica84]

Without reading any part of this thread to prevent a spoiler, I have the 6 Hours downloaded and will commence watching it tonight, cheering for the Sonic-wrenched Mazdas. 

To quote Arnold:  "I'll be bock."

[mikeamerica84]

I just started watching the coverage.  Is Aaron Noonan 7 feet tall or is Bargs 4 feet tall?

2.3 meters and 1.22 meters respectively metric.   

[Sonic]

Won't breach any secrets in case you haven't finished yet Mike... (keep an eye on 86, our second car)..

don't think I was really anywhere in the coverage BUT you will spy me post race in the winner interview in pitlane

[mikeamerica84]

I spied nothing that looked like a Sonic in Victory Lane, my friend, but thoroughly enjoyed the race when it wasn't under yellow.  Lots of tyre issues, but one has to factor in camber vice the tyres themselves.

What happened to the 20 Mazda?  I thought it blew up the power plant but it finished.

[Sonic]

I spied nothing that looked like a Sonic in Victory Lane, my friend, but thoroughly enjoyed the race when it wasn't under yellow.  Lots of tyre issues, but one has to factor in camber vice the tyres themselves.

What happened to the 20 Mazda?  I thought it blew up the power plant but it finished.

nope, sadly did not finish. leading easily and, unfortunately, it seems something flicked into the oil cooler. parked it as soon as it was noticed and we got trayed down from the top of the mountain. they discovered the leak and spent ages to fix it (replacing radiator and cooler I think) and it was running so they sent it back out with the goal to do a lap and then complete our final mandated pit stop, then park it for a bit and go out with 5 mins to go so we could be classified as we would have been able to come away with 3rd place but the damage was more severe than thought and it didn't make it around. we were a DNF

keep an eye on the vision from after the chequer when they switch to pitlane for the interviews... pink vest, number 19

[mikeamerica84]

Oh yeah!  I spot you now in the background!  I kept getting distracted by the blonde girl that everyone was hugging post-race.   

Too bad about the Mazda.  It is usually the little things off the road that cause a problem.