Bathurst 12 Hour Race.

[TypeR]

I caught up on some coverage of the Bathurst race this morning. last time I saw the race a year or 2 ago the the cars seemed to be fire spitting, barely controllable monsters. Yesterday's cars were completley different. There was even a Diesel powered Alfa farting around at the back.
Was this an entirely different race to the one I remember or have the Aussies gone a bit "ghey" and started allowing cars with less then 8 cylinders to race?

[sheps]

Different race chap.
That was for production based cars iirc?

[FourWheelDrift]

The V8 Supercars race is the Bathurst 1000, 1000km race usually completed in about 6 1/2 hrs (161 laps).

[Jungles]

Bathurst 1000: V8 Supercars Championship

Bathurst 12-hour: endurance race for production cars (9 classes: A to I)

[DiscoColin]

Indeed, but wasn't the 12 hour race the one that not long ago was being contested by V8 powered Monaros???

[Aused]

DiscoColin said:

Indeed, but wasn't the 12 hour race the one that not long ago was being contested by V8 powered Monaros???

It may have been, but monaros have been out of production for a couple of years now so the people running Holdens were running the current generation sedan based V8 cars, which are pretty much the same anyway. it was won outright by a BMW 335i from class B this year.

I watched it and found it to be more interesting than the V8 supercars, especially in the awful conditions.

[AMD87]

DiscoColin said:

Indeed, but wasn't the 12 hour race the one that not long ago was being contested by V8 powered Monaros???

24hr race
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt991EpMqpQ

[anonymous-user]

Slightly o/t i know, but does anyone know if they are going to show the 1000 on british tv this year? I miss the old days when it was screened on british tv, used to be a good laugh sat watching that with me dad

[DiscoColin]

snowy slopes said:

Slightly o/t i know, but does anyone know if they are going to show the 1000 on british tv this year? I miss the old days when it was screened on british tv, used to be a good laugh sat watching that with me dad

MotorsTV usually have it live - that is where I watched it the last couple of years.

[wackojacko]

I beleive you saw the coverage of ' the 12 hours of Bathhurst ' which as described is essentialy for all stock outline production cars racing in relative classes

[onomatopoeia]

snowy slopes said:

Slightly o/t i know, but does anyone know if they are going to show the 1000 on british tv this year? I miss the old days when it was screened on british tv, used to be a good laugh sat watching that with me dad

Motors (Sky 413) show the whole thing live with repeats in the week following.

It's not like it was in the 80s & 90s as it's a round of their supercar championships so it's all Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores. Still a good fun six hours or so.