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I thought the same regarding Holdsworth, he definitely didn't leave the car width he claimed to in the post race interview.
I mean Scott is as far over on the curbing as he can go. Lee just came right across his nose. Don't agree with their decision at all.
I like Lee but this sort of '' I left him a car width'' incident has plagued his career.
This one is a split second after the contact and it's pretty easy to see Lee had still been moving over on SM after that other screen grab. No way was there a car width between the front of Lee's car and the sausage kerb.
Yeah it was good seeing the Kelly cars have great pace. Some very impressive driving from Heimgartner, and they definitely weren't suffering from the lack of pace down the straight they had when I was at the test day.
Yeah, I think that run into the right right hander after the sweeping Turn 5 could be pretty interesting. It could get pretty dicey into there with cars getting unsettled through the sweeper.
Turn 6 and 7 (double right) should be far easier to defend than the normal left hander of turn 6 unfortunately. The natural momentum of a slight error in the sweeper will put them on the inside for turn 6 (right hander) unlike in this previous round where it was easy for the attacking car to slip up the inside for turn 6 (left hander). Using Heimgartner's great 3 wide overtaking manoeuvre into turn 6 as an example, he would now be on the far outside for turn 6 and Mostert could have easily covered the inside into what will be a right hander next round.
WAU, T8 and BJR all had far more weird stuff going on with their tyres than anyone else. Hopefully WAU and BJR get on top of it for the next round. T8 not so much.
It cuts out that really long loaded right hander and some of the fast sweeping stuff so I presume it could change things by not having to run as much camber for that bit. It's a lot more of a stop/start style of circuit than the International Circuit.... with less overtaking spots.
I'd hate to be an engineer and trying to sort that out within a week. Although I think the Crompo and Skaife mentioned that the shorter layout cuts out the bit of track that causing the problems?
I don't know, most of the passing spots still remain. T1, T3, T6, T8, T11 and T12. I think it'll be fine. Granted they may not have tire issues this time around so it could be follow the leader because of that.
Six will be much less of an overtaking spot for reasons I've already mentioned (in the quote below) and the run from seven to eight is now far to short, so two less imo. The turn 11, 12 and 1 section is almost just one overtaking spot as it often starts at 11 but doesn't get completed till one, and three is only an overtaking spot if one of the cars tyres are completely shot.
It's even harder to pick a winner this year. There are a lot of double A combinations, the most we've had in a long time - McLaughlin/Slade, Whincup/Lowndes, Van Gisbergen/Tander, Holdsworth/Caruso, Waters/Davison, Mostert/Luff and Reynolds/Brown (ok the last two may not be AA but they might as well be). Look out for some of younger pairings of De Pasquale/Kostecki, Hazelwood/Boys and Heimgartner/O'Keefe - they'll have a big chance to prove themselves against the best.
