V8 Supercars 2014

[Jader1973]

StefanVXR8 said:

Ah right, Perth for me, bit cloudy and windy here, best conditions for watching the race live, not being pestered to take the family out!

Stef

28 and clear skies here. Missus has taken our son out

I should really be doing something in the garden......

[HereBeMonsters]

First time watching a live V8 Supercar race. Are they often stopped due to the shoddy workmanship of the colonised peoples?

[DanielSan]

Looks like we're about to start again, and now we're getting some darker clouds appearing

[Mostro]

I should really be in bed but hey. Staying up to watch some extreme spannering instead. Racing to start again shortly - how long will it last for?

[Jader1973]

Mostro said:

Racing to start again shortly - how long will it last for?

Hopefully it will be red flagged once a Holden gets in P1

[Colonial]

Jader1973 said:

28 and clear skies here. Missus has taken our son out

I should really be doing something in the garden......

Same here in Newcastle.

I did a 15km run yesterday and then got drunk so nursing a hangover, writing a report for work while the nopics is doing some cooking.

[Hasbeen]

What I really couldn't believe was driver changes starting at 18 laps. Hell in the old days we were just starting to get warmed up for our 45 lap stint at lap 18.

Many of us did double stints, of 86 to 90 laps, & up to 125 laps with just a toilet break. Bruce McPhee won the 68 race with just a one lap toilet break.

You have to wonder how these blokes would have gone in the early days of racing at Bathurst, when it was just a gravel road?

[Jader1973]

Whincup!

[Colonial]

Whincup spun and in pits at restart.

[DanielSan]

Gutted for JW but I do want to see Volvo win today.

[Kecky]

Mistake by Whincup

[GravelBen]

Hasbeen said:

What I really couldn't believe was driver changes starting at 18 laps. Hell in the old days we were just starting to get warmed up for our 45 lap stint at lap 18.

Many of us did double stints, of 86 to 90 laps, & up to 125 laps with just a toilet break. Bruce McPhee won the 68 race with just a one lap toilet break.

You have to wonder how these blokes would have gone in the early days of racing at Bathurst, when it was just a gravel road?

Dare say they would have been fine, they're all pretty bloody fit. A lot of the driver change stuff is rules and strategy now isn't it? Maximum number of laps allowed for a driver, so they time the changes to have the faster driver on track for as many of the more critical times as they can.

From memory Van Gisbergen and Lowndes are both handy enough on gravel, not sure about the rest.

[Colonial]

SJ in the 17 into the wall. Safety car back out.

[DanielSan]

This does Whincup a favour now! Gotta take the luck when you get it

[Kecky]

Blink and another one bites the dust, talk about unpredictable racing, you just couldn't call it!

[Colonial]

Kecky said:

Blink and another one bites the dust, talk about unpredictable racing, you just couldn't call it!

Watching it here in Oz and Channel 7 it's more a case of blink and you'll miss the racing in between the ad breaks.

[GravelBen]

Colonial said:

Watching it here in Oz and Channel 7 it's more a case of blink and you'll miss the racing in between the ad breaks.

I'm watching the live feed and it just keeps freezing on me! Grr

[Colonial]

Whincup gets drivethrough penalty for unsafe re-entry to racetrack.

Oh dear. Not going to well for him today.

[Jader1973]

That looks very nasty.

[GravelBen]

Carnage! Already the most action-packed Bathurst in a few years.