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Holden or Ford

  • Holden

    Votes: 209 36.2%

  • Ford

    Votes: 175 30.3%

  • Ford and Holden

    Votes: 64 11.1%

  • Nismo

    Votes: 74 12.8%

  • Erebus

    Votes: 7 1.2%

  • Nismo and Erebus

    Votes: 6 1.0%

  • Volvo

    Votes: 43 7.4%
  • Total voters
    578
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van Gisbergen! Go you good thing :D
 
Boo!:grumpy::p
 
News from first race:
1) Caruso docked 25 points for carless driving running dumbrell off the road
2) Dumbrell docked 25 points for the shortcut he took at the start of the race.
3) Whincup docked 25 points for careless driving and tapping Winterbottom at the restart
4) Van Gisbergen docked 25 points for overtaking before the start line on the restart
5) Winterbottom docked 25 points for carless driving and tapping Wincup at the end of the straight after the retstart.


Lowndes is now very close to Wincup in championship, could make for an interesting garage for the rest of the year, being that the two drivers are from same team. Although he has been handed a $10,000 fine for doing a burnout when he was not allowed and in a dangerous position.

HRT are in real trouble. Many behind the scenes changes and some very poor results.

Now we wait a little for Townsville in couple of weeks.
 
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Lowndes also got a $10,000 fine for doing donuts after the race. Apparently the drivers were told they were allowed to do them, but only between the first and last corners. It appears Lowndes did his on the main straight. I don't really understand that, but the rules are the rules.
 
Great to see Lowndes challenging for the championship again. Do hope he can win it as its been a while for him.

Great drifting skills by Van Gisbergen.
 
You spelled neither wrong, or is that how you spell it over there?

Someone told me that V8 Supercars is pretty much Australia's Nascar only with more turns.

True or bullocks?

To me they resemble DTM cars more than Nascars.
 
sumbrownkid
Someone told me that V8 Supercars is pretty much Australia's Nascar only with more turns.

True or bullocks?

To me they resemble DTM cars more than Nascars.
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To be fair, it's kind of both - NASCAR and DTM rolled into one.
 
Tander is staying at HRT until 2014. I suspect this is the press conference ranhammerR34 is talking about.

I also found these pictures of Murph's latest monster:

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I think I like this one the best.
 
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^Damn that looks good. :drool:

It's definitely his best looking car this year.
 
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Definitely the least outrageous car that Murph has had this season.
 
I liked the first one. It was very original, if super-busy. The second one was hideous, but this one is very refined.
 
Just recently caught a few of these races and man are they entertaining:tup:
 
Townsville 1st race Race Results.
1st) Garth Tander.
2nd) Jamie Whincup.
3rd) Will Davison
 
First images of the Car of the Future!

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It doesn't look any different to the current spec of cars. In fact, if you didn't know what was being changed in advance, you probably wouldn't notice any differences.

The most important difference here is that COTF is going to be roughly half the cost of the current cars to prepare.
 
It's great to finally get a glimpse of how the future will look. I was actually expecting some sort of NASCAR/V8 Supercar hybrid, I'm happy either way though. What would've been ideal, to me, is if the cars looked almost completely stock on the outside but with fat, grippy tyres and huge venturi tunnels cutting through the floor underneath. :p
 
Miles Racing have secured a wildcard entry for Philip Island and Bathurst.
 
It could be me but the rear track looks heaps wider, the rear fender flares on that FG look a lot bigger.
 
Sorry for the double-post, but I have a very good reason: James Moffat overtook James Courtney in the points standings in the second race at QR yesterday afternoon. And he took fourth in the final race while Courtney was just twelfth, further extending his lead over them.

On a similar note, Lee Holdsworth - probably the most competitive Holden driver outside Triple Eight - is the man in demand for 2012. FPR and Stone Brothers both want him (after Slade's three podiums at QR, a Holdsworth-van Gisbergen-Slade line-up at SBR could be ultra-competitive).

The moral of this story is that karma's a bitch. All the money in the world cannot buy Simon McNamara some talent. Courtney's 2011 season is probably the most embarrassing title defence in the sport's history. He's well over a thousand points behind Jamie Whincup.
 
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The moral of this story is that karma's a bitch. All the money in the world cannot buy Simon McNamara some talent. Courtney's 2011 season is probably the most embarrassing title defence in the any sport's history. He's well over a thousand points behind Jamie Whincup.
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Fixed:sly:

Have to say, that was a superb weekend for Tim Slade, chasing Lowndes all the way and on triple 8's pace all weekend (Although I would have preferred it to be Van Gisbergen myself:D) Murphy with some top ten finishes too.
However, always happy to watch Lowndes sideways and winning. Roll on the enduros:tup:
 
More on Holdsworth: apparently, four teams have been looking at him - SBR, FPR, Paul Morris and Walkinshaw (who are believed to be about to absorbed by HRT). Holdsworth has said he's narrowed it down to two teams, and he's been seen talking to both Ford Performance Racing and Stone Brothers. After Slade and van Gisbergen had such a strong showing at the Paperclip, Alex Davison appears to have fallen out of favour at SBR, and Holdsworth is tipped as a replacement. Alternatively, he could be driving the #55 Rod Nash entry at FPR. He'd get more money there, but the Stone Brothers would give him better career chances. If Holdsworth replace Davison, it's unclear as to where Davison would go.

David Reynolds is also being head-hunted, which is upset Rick Kelly to the point where Reynolds got a roasting at QR. Exactly where Reynolds would go is unclear - probably to the seat Holdsworth passes on - but Rick Kelly apparently sees him as the "future" of the team and is upset he wants to go elsewhere. Kelly's got a funny way of showing it, since he seems to get priority in the team, followed by Todd, Murphy and then Reynolds, who is effectively the fourth driver in a three-car team.

Right now, the entire driver transfer market hinges on what Holdsworth will do. I think he'll wind up at SBR, with Fabian Coulthard moving to replace him at GRM, with Davison going to Rod Nash Racing and Reynolds moving into the Walkinshaw Performance car, which will be run as a satellite of HRT. That, in turn, would open up an entry at Kelly Racing, which would probably be filled by either a returning Jason Ricahrds or a Fujitsu Development driver like Thompson, Blanchard or Percat.
 
Rumours are spreading that a new manufacturer for the COTF regulations could be announced as early as November 1, and that a big team could be running their cars. More rumours - and these are pretty thin, based on the gossip between marshalls at QR - suggest that Mercedes could be joining the V8 Supercars with Triple Eight Racing moving to the German brand from Holden. The rumour seems to have started with talk that Holden have over-extended themselves and cannot support the sheer number of cars on the grid that they already do, despite Simon McNamara's warning that there is no place on the grid for more manufacturers. I've heard that some of the higher-ups in the Holden hierachy are very unhappy that they spent so much money securing James Courtney, only for Courtney to have such a poor season. There's talk they could do what Ford did a few years ago, and scale back funding to teams who could survive on their own (which is what led Triple Eight to defect in the first place). With Ford unlikely to pick up any more teams, there could be a huge void for a third manufacturer to exploit.
 
Is Mercedes relevant in Australia though? McNamara said new manufacturers should be relevant to the Commodore, ie directly competing against the Commodore and Falcon in the Aussie domestic market (http://www.foxsports.com.au/motor-s...-in-v8-supercars/story-fn2ms9um-1226057726712). Off the top of my head, the only car that I can think comes anywhere near meeting that criteria is the Aurion, and there have been rumours about Toyota joining the V8SC championship floating around for several years now with nothing happening.
 
TheStig13
That would only be because McNamara wouldn't want anyone else coming in and stopping his Holden "domination".
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Exactly. Those comments came in the middle of Holden's big spend, and Holden have made no secret of the fact that they want people to see the success of Holden in V8 Supercars and use it as a marketing tool.
 
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