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Post by twomanymontes on May 13, 2011 20:35:06 GMT -5
LOL! I like to catch stuff on Sci Fi and of Course the Simpsons!!!
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Post by twomanymontes on May 27, 2011 21:28:34 GMT -5
Missed the race replay, but I guess there was some excitement when 1 car got rearended and burst into flames!
TeamVodafone dominated the first race, with Jamie Whincup taking the race win by a comfortable margin ahead of teammate Craig Lowndes. After starting from the front row Will Davison finished third.
Jason Bright won the second race, and finally handed Brad Jones Racing their first ever V8 Supercar race win. Jamie Whincup came in second and Jason Bargwanna third. It was Bright’s first race win in 138 races, and he was clearly thrilled.
The second race was red flagged after a horrific crash on the start line between Karl Reindler and Steve Owen. Reindler stalled on the grid and was stationery when Owen, who was unsighted, hit him from behind at high speed. The car burst into flames but Reindler reacted quickly, leaping out of the car.
TeamVodafone’s Jamie Whincup won the final race. Whincup was again challenged by Team BOC’s Jason Bright for the race lead over the last half of the race, but this time he managed to hang on and take the win by just under one second. Garth Tander came in at third position for the final race.
Saturday 2PM to 4 PM on Speed is the replay from Winton.
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Post by twomanymontes on May 30, 2011 20:48:34 GMT -5
That was a really cool race to watch!! Open course and these guys are nuts! they just move people out of their way. LOL! 2011 WINTON MOTOR RACEWAY REVIEW Whincup won Saturday’s Race 10, which was his fifth race win for the season. Whincup stopped on lap 14 and while other drivers were unable to keep the pace with fading tyre grip after stopping early, the TeamVodafone Holden had the pack covered and took first place. Lee Holdsworth drove a strong race to snag second place, just 0.03s in front of Steven Johnson after the two drag-raced to the line off the last corner after 40 laps of racing.  Jason Bright won Sundays Race 11, with a superior strategy paying off in the face of darkening skies that eventually produced a deluge after the race ended. Winton finished second, with the final podium spot going to Garth Tander. |
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Post by 85t5mcss on May 31, 2011 17:49:26 GMT -5
Race 10 finish 2nd and 3rd was close. Great finish
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Post by twomanymontes on May 31, 2011 18:59:29 GMT -5
those guys know how to race don't they? Right down to the wire!
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Post by 85t5mcss on Jun 1, 2011 17:56:46 GMT -5
Love it. I especially like their street courses. They either can't drive or they r insane. I'm thinking the latter.
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Post by twomanymontes on Jun 1, 2011 21:42:09 GMT -5
I am thinking the latter myself too!
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Post by twomanymontes on Jun 26, 2011 21:18:13 GMT -5
The SKYCITY Triple Challenge provided some spectacular racing!
Jack Daniel's Racing's Rick Kelly snatched an unlikely race victory of Saturday’s Race 12. He started from 12th on the grid and had worked his way into the top 10 but took advantage of a restart accident between leaders Mark Winterbottom, Jamie Whincup and Shane van Gisbergen that saw all three drop off the road.Steven Johnson and Craig Lowndes were able to take advantage of the dramas up front, finishing second and third on the podium.
Shane van Gisbergen claimed Ford’s second race win in Sunday’s Race 13. The 22-year-old pounced on Craig Lowndes with three laps to go, his soft option Dunlop tyres having enough grip left to help take the young gun’s second win of the season. Van Gisbergen started from 12th to take the win – the same position that Rick Kelly won Saturday’s race from. Craig Lowndes finished second position, with Mark Winterbottom rounding out the podium after starting from pole.
Hoping the replay on SPEED is next weekend!
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Post by twomanymontes on Jul 4, 2011 21:33:09 GMT -5
Aussie V8 Supercars just signed a 5 year deal to run at the new Circuit of America in Austin Texas starting in 2013. This will be the 1st time tis series will have ever run on American soil. This could be good for other US road course tracks. It would be awesome to see them race at Watkins Glenn some day.
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Post by 85t5mcss on Jul 5, 2011 17:43:21 GMT -5
Weekend with F1? Or on their own? Either way that is SWEET! I still think a month long road course extravaganza at IMS. Aussies, DTM, ALMS, GrandAm, SuperBikes...U get the idea.
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Post by twomanymontes on Jul 7, 2011 21:37:17 GMT -5
I don't know the details, I just saw it scrolled across the bottom of Speed TV.
A month long? I don't think I could get away for that long, LOL!
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Post by 85t5mcss on Jul 8, 2011 17:34:41 GMT -5
New thread.
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Post by twomanymontes on Sept 16, 2011 21:31:16 GMT -5
I can't believe it's been months since I have caught a Aussie race! My brother in law hasn't even seen any! Maybe with all the other series coming to an end the last few races will be televised.
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Post by 85t5mcss on Sept 18, 2011 18:34:57 GMT -5
That would be nice since we should be in their season now.
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Post by twomanymontes on Sept 24, 2011 21:00:41 GMT -5
Saturday October 8th, 7PM on SPEED. The Bathurst 1000!!! All 6 Hours! This is going to be a fun night!
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Post by 85t5mcss on Sept 25, 2011 17:25:46 GMT -5
Yep, I'll probably invite the Captain and Coke and sit myself in front of the TV. Havent done that in a while. Maybe some junk food to go along with it.
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Post by twomanymontes on Oct 1, 2011 21:49:45 GMT -5
LOL! I'll probably just have a few Cokes and some chips. Just hope I can stay up till 1 AM to see who wins, And then the F1 race from Japan is on at 2:30 AM. Might be pulling a 24 hour day! LOL!
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Post by twomanymontes on Oct 7, 2011 21:44:54 GMT -5
less that 24 hours!!! I really hope I get back from the car show in time to see the start!
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Post by twomanymontes on Oct 7, 2011 22:17:34 GMT -5
Could factory driver Garth Tander, winner of the Bathurst 1000 in 2000 and 2009, be primed for win No. 3? After blasting to the fastest time during Friday's qualifying session for the 2011 edition of Australia's Great Race, the lanky Aussie seems to be hitting his stride when it counts most.
With Bathurst's qualifying procedure broken into two sessions across Friday and Saturday, today's run for pole did two things: It set the grid for tomorrow's Top 10 Shootout, where the final order of the top 10 and pole position will be awarded, and it locked positions 11 through 29 in place for Sunday's 1000-kilometer race.
Tander was quite pleased with his performance, but reckons there are three or four areas where his Holden can be improved for the Top 10 Shootout. (Photo: Marshall Pruett)
Tander, who ran seventh in Friday’s wet practice session and fourth in this morning’s first dry outing of the event, hauled his HRT Holden Commodore VE to Friday’s pole in the final moments of the session, clocking a lap of 2:07.664.
“It was good to get some consistent dry running today,” said Tander. “The car was very, very good this morning. I was kind of surprised at the lack of speed looking at the qualifying times. We all were in the [high] 2:07s this morning and you’d expect we’d be in the low 2:07s in qualifying this afternoon, but it wasn’t to be. I’m very happy with the car, though; it’s very comfortable across the top. Easily the best car I’ve had here before.”
Leading the field during preliminary qualifying, as Tander explains, is nice, but rarely counts for much.
“It’s only Friday,” he said. “We still have the Shootout to go. Where we start is insignificant on Sunday for a 1000 kilometer battle. If we can start somewhere near the front we’ll be happy.”
Ford’s factory ace, Mark “Frosty” Winterbottom improved one spot from this morning, taking second-place in his Orrcon Steel-sponsored Falcon. Frosty’s lap of 2:07.718 was close to what Tander achieved, but the 2010 Bathurst pole-sitter says his car will need a bit of fine tuning if he’s to earn his second straight pole.
“The car was good,” he said. “I was up on the second sector twice. I snagged a tire at The Chase, but I’m happy to be in the Shootout; that’s the main thing. I think the car can be improved. We improved some at slow speed corners and lost some at the top--we picked up understeer. If we can marry one up with the other, I think the car will be quite good. Tomorrow, that one lap doesn’t mean a lot for Sunday, but it means a lot for Saturday night. I’d love to be on pole position and it is a big thing. So we’ll tune it, try and put it on pole and try to lead the race and see how we go.”
2011’s dominant team, Triple 8 Engineering, placed Jamie Whincup in third after his crew worked minor miracles to repair the two-time series champion’s car after a hard hit just before qualifying.
“There’s been plenty of times where I’ve done some major damage,” said Whincup of his crash atop the mountain. “They’ve fixed it and it’s absolutely perfect. It’s great.”
Whincup rewarded the T8 team with a lap of 2:07.740, which was good enough for third.
Jason Bargwanna's team has plenty of work to do to get his Holden Commodore back into running shape. (Photo: Marshall Pruett)
Like the rest of the qualifiers, Whincup also felt the effects of the wind slowing cars as they blast from Forrest’s elbow to The Chase.
“I was having a bit of a go at the engine guys, saying it felt down on power, [but] there was quite a big headwind going [down Conrod Straight],” he continued. “We’re all a half-second down at the moment.”
Watch the Bathurst 1000 Live on SPEED, Saturday, 7 p.m. ET
The unquestionable star of Friday’s qualifying was David Reynolds, who secured fourth and his place inside the Shootout with a stellar last-lap performance. Reynolds, one of the rising stars of the series, was quite shocked after displacing so many of the big names in V8 Supercars.
“I could cry!” he said after climbing from his Stratco-sponsored Holden. “That was gold. This is just awesome. I’ve had such a bad day today and nothing’s gone right until that very last lap. I just threw it on the line, chucked it down the hill, stomped out of it on Conrod Straight and ended up P4. I’ve still got the Shootout to do but that’s awesome. And most people do it on their second flying lap; that was on my first lap.”
Fifth went to an equally surprising name as Greg Murphy, Reynolds’ Kelly Racing teammate and the owner of the Bathurst qualifying record, tapped into his more youthful days and delivered an amazing lap of 2:07.912 in his Pepsi Max-sponsored Commodore.
“You know, that’s what we’re paid to do and we haven’t done it enough this year,” said the feisty New Zealander. “You’ve got to repay all the hard work and it’s good to have been able to do a lap. It wasn’t effortless by any means, there’s still a bit in it. It wasn’t a perfect lap, there’s two more tenths in the car there’s no doubt about that.”
The rest of the top 10 was completed with Whincup’s teammate, five-time Bathurst winner Craig Lowndes, in sixth, Tander’s HRT teammate James Courtney in seventh, Garry Rogers Motorsports’ Lee Holdsworth in eighth, Stone Brothers Racing’s Shane van Gisbergen in ninth and Steve Owen, also delivering an unexpectedly good driver, in 10th behind the wheel of the Paul Morris Motorsports’ Holden.
DW couldn't believe how fast Bright's V8 Supercar went around the mountain, or how daunting some of the turns happened to be. (Photo: Mark Horsburgh/V8 Supercars)
Winterbottom’s factory Ford teammate, Will Davison, was on the bubble in 10th as the checkered flag waved, but Reynolds demoted the 2009 championship runner-up to 11th, the first car out of Saturday’s Shootout.
UPDATE: After the conclusion of Friday's qualifying, Lee Holdsworth was penalized five grid positions for failing to stop at the post-session weight check station. Will Davison has now been promoted to 10th and will transfer into the Top 10 Shootout.
Just one accident occurred during qualifying, but it didn’t slow the session.
Qualifying came to a conclusion just as Jason Bargwanna speared hard into the wall on entry to The Dipper. His Jana Living-sponsored Holden will require extensive repairs if it’s to take part in Saturday’s morning practice session.
With Thursday filled with rain, Friday mostly dry and the specter of rain on the horizon for Saturday and Sunday, tomorrow's Shootout could be largely academic, but even this early in the event, teams are readying themselves for 1000 kilometers of changing conditions.
Adapting to Bathurst is the only option available, and for the best teams in the series, strategy planning sessions are already under way for what could be a wild six hours on Sunday.
NOTES:
• SPEED's Bathurst 1000 broadcasters held a press conference Friday morning, and based on the continual feedback from those within the series and the media-at-large, the American support and interest in the V8 Supercars series has been a major talking point of the event so far.
• 2010 ALMS LMP co-champion Marino Franchitti, who will drive for Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports at the Gold Coast 600 in two weeks, made the trek down to Bathurst to familiarize himself with the car and team ahead of his V8 debut.
• Jason Bright took SPEED's Darrell Waltrip for a wild ride shortly after qualifying came to a close, and if his in-car audio is anything to go by, it was unlike anything he's ever experienced.
"All I could do is hold on," said Waltrip. "You know that bug eye feeling? I had that all the way around! That's hard work. After the first lap I thought the throttle was stuck but then I realised he was working it all! It's amazing how fast they are and with so much grip! The car started 'popping' and you don't even want to know what's going to happen next! I didn't even look over to see what Jason was doing!"
• The series will announce its 2012 schedule tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m.
Pos., Car No., Team, Driver, Car, Time
1 2 Toll Holden Racing Team Garth Tander Holden Commodore VE2 2:07.6640*
2 5 Orrcon Steel FPR Falcon Mark Winterbottom Ford Falcon FG 2:07.7187
3 88 TeamVodafone Jamie Whincup Holden Commodore VE2 2:07.7408
4 16 Stratco Racing David Reynolds Holden Commodore VE2 2:07.8371
5 11 Pepsi Max Crew Greg Murphy Holden Commodore VE2 2:07.9126
6 888 TeamVodafone Craig Lowndes Holden Commodore VE2 2:08.0024
7 1 Toll Holden Racing Team James Courtney Holden Commodore VE2 2:08.0035
8 33 Fujitsu Racing GRM Lee Holdsworth Holden Commodore VE2 2:08.0942
9 9 SP Tools Racing Shane Van Gisbergen Ford Falcon FG 2:08.0955
10 49 VIP Petfoods Steve Owen Holden Commodore VE2 2:08.1411
11 6 Trading Post FPR Falcon Will Davison Ford Falcon FG 2:08.1982
12 55 The Bottle-O Racing Team Paul Dumbrell Ford Falcon FG 2:08.2443
13 4 Irwin Racing Alex Davison Ford Falcon FG 2:08.2887
14 34 Fujitsu Racing GRM Michael Caruso Holden Commodore VE2 2:08.4464
15 47 Lucky 7 Racing Tim Slade Ford Falcon FG 2:08.4721
16 15 Jack Daniel's Racing Rick Kelly Holden Commodore VE2 2:08.5250
17 18 Jim Beam Racing James Moffat Ford Falcon FG 2:08.6631
18 8 Team Boc Jason Bright Holden Commodore VE2 2:08.6681
19 7 Jack Daniel's Racing Todd Kelly Holden Commodore VE2 2:08.7271
20 61 Bundaberg Racing Fabian Coulthard Holden Commodore VE2 2:08.7746
21 14 Jana Living Racing Jason Bargwanna Holden Commodore VE2 2:09.1155
22 30 Gulf Western Oil Racing Warren Luff Holden Commodore VE2 2:09.1503
23 3 Wilson Security Team McGrath Tony D'Alberto Ford Falcon FG 2:09.1948
24 17 Jim Beam Racing Steven Johnson Ford Falcon FG 2:09.3076
25 200 Supercheap Auto Racing Russell Ingall Holden Commodore VE2 2:09.3328
26 19 Mother Energy Racing Team Jonathon Webb Ford Falcon FG 2:09.4017
27 21 Fair Dinkum Sheds Racing Karl Reindler Holden Commodore VE2 2:09.4020
28 12 Triple F Racing Dean Fiore Ford Falcon FG 2:10.0191
29 77 Shannons Mars Racing Grant Denyer Holden Commodore VE2 5000 2:11.7371
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Post by 85t5mcss on Oct 8, 2011 16:46:27 GMT -5
Woohoo, home already. Ready for the start. Reminder is set, junk food is ready and don't have to work tomorrow unless the daughter wants to actually wake up early.
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Post by twomanymontes on Oct 8, 2011 22:30:07 GMT -5
This has been a great race so far, 2.5 more hours of racing, but The best was Darryl Waltrip taking a ride around the track. Here is the video of what was aired in Australia www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr1a81v-zsgI laughed so hard!! |
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Post by twomanymontes on Oct 9, 2011 8:47:59 GMT -5
What an ending!!!! Those guys are insane! Toll team driver Garth Tander drove the wheels off that Holden Commadore to hold off the ever charging Vodafone team Craig Lowndes in his Holden. It was right down to the wire! I stillc an't believe I stayed away till 2 AM to watch the end!
Really exciting throughout the entire race, Alternator problems, drivers going off the track at spots, sick officials, the pavement pealing, Lap #113 Besnard crashes coming out of pit lane, They changed the brake pads and he didn't know it. no brakes he hits the tire barrier and the car in engulfed in flames! Thankfully he was alright, the car, not so much. It made for a great 6 hours of racing last night and into this morning!
2 weeks it's the Gold Coast!!
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Post by 85t5mcss on Oct 9, 2011 10:57:04 GMT -5
CRAP!!! Fell asleep at 10:30, just couldn't stay awake any longer.
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Post by twomanymontes on Oct 9, 2011 20:48:24 GMT -5
LOL! I think at 2 AM, I turned off the TV and passed right out! I so wanted to see the F1 race right afterwards, But we went to Octoberfest today and I needed some sleep.
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