Bathurst 2002 is go!
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Well, Skaifey won!!!
Lowndes went out with a plastic bag flying around the top got caught in the grille.
Skaife barely made it to the end though. he almost retired with the same problem as lowndes...
Second: Perkins i think? well, it was someone from castrol and they fought off bright to take it out
Third: Bright. good race for him and his partner...
vat_man and everyone else who watched, what were your highlights??
Lowndes went out with a plastic bag flying around the top got caught in the grille.
Skaife barely made it to the end though. he almost retired with the same problem as lowndes...Second: Perkins i think? well, it was someone from castrol and they fought off bright to take it out
Third: Bright. good race for him and his partner...
vat_man and everyone else who watched, what were your highlights??
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brocky wasnt there to win - he was there for a good time. he was quite happy to just fart around the track 25 laps behind the rest of the field and atleast he finished the race (unlike most of the big money factory teams). it was good to see the fans come out in their thousands for the great race.
for me, bathurst is one of the hardest races in the world. half the field doesnt finish and the other half finish with panels missing.
bathurst is the race.
for me, bathurst is one of the hardest races in the world. half the field doesnt finish and the other half finish with panels missing.
bathurst is the race.
I had to laugh - when they were interviewing him and told him they'd cop a black flag for the fuel spill, he's said 'oh well, that's life - you've got to expect a penalty when you spill fuel in pit lane', in complete contrast to Murph's Mt Etna impersonation earlier in the day.
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i reckon murph had the right to blow up. a 5 minute penalty is pretty severe. i think the best part of the day was when he was sitting in his car and you heard him scream '****ING ****!'.
priceless TV
I thought that was a fair penalty - you can't drive off with the fuel hose still attached. That could have been incredibly bad, I mean did you see how much fuel was spilt?!?
Murph's anger was directed at the crew chief, not the officials - and rightly so, where the hell was the pit board guy telling him not to go?!?
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early in the day, you mean the whole day
it seemed that everytime someone got a decent lead, the pace car would come out and diminish it.
Very true - and I must admit I hate the pace car at Bathurst. They go on about the close finishes in the V8 Supercar era, but what do you expect when the moment someone gets a 30 second lead there's a crash and the pace car comes out and bunches the field up.
Don't know how you'd get around it, though - if cars crash across the top of the hill, there's no way to get them off the track quickly.
It was interesting that Lowndes' car cooked its motor pretty quickly after picking the bag up (mind you, they probably made a mistake coming in to get it out, but that was going to get them sooner or later), and the HRT car was able to run for as long as it with severe blockage of the front air dam - nice testimony to the strength of the HRT motors.
