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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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Typically terrible race weekend for HRT. :grumpy:

Big thumbs up to Michael Patrizi, what a great race he's having. 👍
 
Now THAT gentlemen, is why V8 Supercar racing is the best racing series in the world!

WOW what a last lap....
 
What a fantastic last lap by Davision, Frosty & Whincup. Bet you don't mind that win there R1600 ;)
To bad HRT weren't up in the top 10:(
Great job by FPR.

EDIT: Race 9 Highlights:
 
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Patrizi did very well in this race. Not getting into trouble and also great job by the Tekno Racing guys. Very well deserved 5th place and if his tyres get to last a little longer, he could've been there together with the lead battle!

But what a fantastic last lap moment for the three leaders. That's pure hardcore racing! :D:tup:
 
Excellent race. I'm liking these different compound tyres, it's producing some good racing with the different strategies.
 
What did everybody think about that mistake by the safety car picking up the wrong driver? It ruined Lowndes, Gisbergen and Courtney's race.
 
Matthew77258
What did everybody think about that mistake by the safety car picking up the wrong driver? It ruined Lowndes, Gisbergen and Courtney's race.
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It certainly was not the first time this has happened but obviously it has destroyed a part of the race. The mistake has been done and there's nothing much can be done to re-correct things back. The one thing that the race management can do now is to apologise to the fans, drivers and teams...
 
I know. Roland Dane was not happy about it when he spoke about it to Larkham, same with Ross Stone
 
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I found this interesting from Russell Ingall's twitter.
Never been as embarrassed to be part of this @v8supercars as I am today. What a joke with the pace car. How many times has this happened.
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What were they supposed to do?

Lowndes was not in the lead when he pitted. He didn't inherit the lead until most of the cars had pitted. Meanwhile, Whincup was in the lead when the stops began - at a circuit where a full pit stop from entry to exit can easily take over a minute and go down a lap. Replays of the incident clearly showed Lowndes and van Gisbergen passing the safety car. Why didn't Triple Eight and Stone Brothers contact race control? Why didn't they tell their drivers that they were in the lead? It's all well and good for them to be outraged about it, but they made no move to alert race control to the problem until after racing was ready to resume. If the commentators picked it up two laps before the safety car returned to pit lane, the teams surely would have known about it.

And what were they expecting race control to do after the fact? Have everyone pit together, keep the safety car out there and then release the drivers in the order that they were supposed to be in?
 
I haven't seen the race (due to it being free to air and partly because TV3 in NZ continues to screw over the V8 fans, eg having it on the 6pm news despite not covering till 11:30 that night, they could run the footage of the race in the time available (they run saturdays race on sunday but end the motorsport coverage at 5 so they can play some stupid sitcom) ) *rant over* but could banning pitstops during pace car periods stop that from happening?
 
prisonermonkeys
What were they supposed to do?

Lowndes was not in the lead when he pitted. He didn't inherit the lead until most of the cars had pitted. Meanwhile, Whincup was in the lead when the stops began - at a circuit where a full pit stop from entry to exit can easily take over a minute and go down a lap. Replays of the incident clearly showed Lowndes and van Gisbergen passing the safety car. Why didn't Triple Eight and Stone Brothers contact race control? Why didn't they tell their drivers that they were in the lead? It's all well and good for them to be outraged about it, but they made no move to alert race control to the problem until after racing was ready to resume. If the commentators picked it up two laps before the safety car returned to pit lane, the teams surely would have known about it.

And what were they expecting race control to do after the fact? Have everyone pit together, keep the safety car out there and then release the drivers in the order that they were supposed to be in?
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How do you know they made no move to alert race control?? Stupid error and cost both Lowndes, SVG and no doubt alot of others some good track position!

Matthew, that interview was with Roland Dane not Burgess if I remember?

Anyways despite the race control screw up we did get some exciting races over the weekend. Its going to be a great year ahead!!
 
Dustone
How do you know they made no move to alert race control??
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Because if they had, race control would have told the pace car to pick up the next driver, preventing Lowndes and van Gisbergen from passing. When race control investigated, they would have found that Lowndes was the leader and sent a new instruction to the safety car.
 
What a finish to race 3. In my opinion all the races had their moments this weekend.

This is a brilliant series. Can't wait for the next round.
 
prisonermonkeys
Because if they had, race control would have told the pace car to pick up the next driver, preventing Lowndes and van Gisbergen from passing. When race control investigated, they would have found that Lowndes was the leader and sent a new instruction to the safety car.
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Race control would have been made aware of the situation during the safety car period as it was more than just 2 cars affected. Even if it was after they picked up whincup They could have corrected it before pitting the safety car.
 
prisonermonkeys
Lowndes was not in the lead when he pitted. He didn't inherit the lead until most of the cars had pitted. Meanwhile, Whincup was in the lead when the stops began - at a circuit where a full pit stop from entry to exit can easily take over a minute and go down a lap. Replays of the incident clearly showed Lowndes and van Gisbergen passing the safety car. Why didn't Triple Eight and Stone Brothers contact race control? Why didn't they tell their drivers that they were in the lead? It's all well and good for them to be outraged about it, but they made no move to alert race control to the problem until after racing was ready to resume. If the commentators picked it up two laps before the safety car returned to pit lane, the teams surely would have known about it.
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I thought Lowndes never inherited the lead. From what I could tell that late at night with TV3’s pathetic schedule, Lowndes was in 5th/6th (can’t remember what position) and pitted immediately when the safety car was called(with van Gisbergen etc), Whincup pitted 1 lap later unobstructed by the safety car. Lowndes/van Gisbergen were nowhere near the lead at any point.
 
Will27
I thought Lowndes never inherited the lead. From what I could tell that late at night with TV3’s pathetic schedule, Lowndes was in 5th/6th (can’t remember what position) and pitted immediately when the safety car was called(with van Gisbergen etc), Whincup pitted 1 lap later unobstructed by the safety car. Lowndes/van Gisbergen were nowhere near the lead at any point.
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Yep this is correct. Lowndes was never, at any point, in the lead. Lowndes and everyone behind him had the benefit of pitting straight away where as Whincup etc had to go around and pit. Whincup was never out of the lead the whole time it was just yet another race control/safety car problem that seems to have happened quite a few times over the years now
 
I managed to miss the first 2 races. What was up with the door drama on frostys car, while on the grid?
 
DRIFT4EVA
I managed to miss the first 2 races. What was up with the door drama on frostys car, while on the grid?
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Mark Winterbottom left the door open on Tander, who, being a bit of a knob, slammed into it, and the ensuing drama hinged on the fact that the FPR team had to fit a new one before race start. Needless to say they had a handle on things.
 
peter_vod69
Mark Winterbottom left the door open on Tander, who, being a bit of a knob, slammed into it, and the ensuing drama hinged on the fact that the FPR team had to fit a new one before race start. Needless to say they had a handle on things.
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Puns intended!
 
Philip Island Practice Results ( Friday ):
P1:
1.Dean Canto
2.Steve Richards
3.Paul Dumbrell
4.David Russell
5.Luke Youlden

P2:
1.Paul Dumbrell
2.Jonathon Webb
3.Russell Imgall/Christian Klein
4.Greg Ritter
5.Dean Canto

P3:
1.Jamie Whincup
2.Craig Lowndes
3.Jason Bright
4.David Reynolds
5.Greg Murphy

P4:
1.David Reynolds
2.Todd Kelly
3.Jason Bright
4.Jamie Whincup
5.Will Davison

Full results can be seen here
 
Race 1
1 Winterbottom
2 Van Gisbergen
3 Slade

Good drive by Slade, shame about what happened to Davison. Looked like just a racing incident to me.
Also bad luck for Reynolds after putting in a great lap to qualify 2nd
 
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