Bathurst 2025

[p38arover]

I haven’t watched the race in years so I don’t know the drivers nor the cars.

I can see Mustang badges and a Chevy badge but I don’t know what model it is. Are there any other marques in SuperCars. I should go and do some searching.

Who is the presenter who is wearing white racing gear?

Who is Frosty? Is that Winterbottom?

I’ve seen about 30 minutes of it. That’s probably enough, it’s rather boring.

[RANDLOVER]

Just got interesting as started to rain.

Chevy is a Comaro, and Frosty is Winterbottom.

I'm more interested in the Gold Coast race end of October as the old Indy 500 normally brought the first big rain to S E Queensland and my tank is empty.

[Slunnie]

Mark Larkham is the technical presenter, a former successful driver in the series.

the other presenters are:
Mark Skaife - former super successful driver in the series
Neil Crompton (Crombly) - former driver also, mostly as a 2nd driver including with the factory Holden team and mostly as a commentator but he can hold his own.
Both commentators are exceptionally serious and lose their sense of humour when behind the wheel.

Mark Winterbottom, I'd never heard him being called Frosty until he got into V8's.

As kids, it was always Winterbottom, Courtney and Whincup who were cleaning up in domestic open class racing (Formula A), and despite Supercar results, it actually James Courtney who was in a league of his own, he was supported by the late Jim Morton in Australia, and then lived with the manufacturer in Europe and very nearly ended up in F1 (where he demolished the car during his test)!

[p38arover]

Thanks Simon.

I'd heard of Skaife and Crompton.

I've just been watching a bit more of it.

I don't understand why a number of cars overtook the train of cars behind the safety car. They barrelled past down Conrod. I really don't understand motor racing.

I did go to the Bathurst race once before I got married so probably in 1967 - I can guess the year because it was in my mate's new VC Valiant and in January 1968 I moved to Moree.

[RANDLOVER]

It's because the rules say you can close the gaps under the safety car, so lapped cars can un-lap themselves.

[d2dave]

Just watched the Bathurst 1000 race and what a race it was. After last years most boring race I have seen,
today's race would be one of the most exciting I have seen and I have seen a lot, probably every race since 1976.

[V8Ian]

I realize that sport evolves, but the V8s have become more of a business than a sport.
Safety cars eliminate competition, bunching up the field, artificially creating close racing and crashes to amuse non-fans who only watch for the prangs.
Super V8s has become a bi-formula race, soon to become tri-formula.
Racing is supposed to improve the breed, but nowadays does not share a single component with what the public can buy.
Over forty years ago a prominent race driver tested a then, current model Australian family car, with a view of moving to production racing. The wheel bearings failed after two laps of the track.
I have been a flag and fire marshal locally, in my youth. I was a keen follower of the premier class of racing and Bathurst. The last five years my interest in the former has waned. After this year's Bathurst, I doubt the race will dominate my weekend, in future.

[Saitch]

I have been a flag and fire marshal locally, in my youth. I was a keen follower of the premier class of racing and Bathurst. The last five years my interest in the former has waned. After this year's Bathurst, I doubt the race will dominate my weekend, in future.
In the '60s and upwards, it was an almost religious, annual pilgrimage by several of my mates and myself, to make our ways to another mate's place (His family were very wealthy and always had the latest TV) to watch Bathurst. The 'Road' cars, with the several classes, were so entertaining.
My interest waned a little, with the Falcon/Holden only thing, but I still watched occasionally. Now, I couldn't give a rat's arse.
My car, motor sport pleasure now is in the Goodwood Racing event's coverage.
I do succumb to MotoGp!

[p38arover]

Just watched the Bathurst 1000 race and what a race it was. After last years most boring race I have seen,
today's race would be one of the most exciting I have seen and I have seen a lot, probably every race since 1976.

I must have missed those bits.

[BradC]

If I want to watch a restricted formula I'll watch F1 (and I do). I gave up on local racing when they binned Touring Cars and turned it into a formula with no relationship to the manufacturer outside of the supply of parts nobody can buy.

F1 and MotoGP for me.

[p38arover]

I haven't watched MotoGP in many years, umm, when the Australian bloke was world champ (not Wayne Gardner). (Off to Google...)

Ahh, Mick Doohan. When I did a search I found out about Casey Stoner.

I used to marshal at the bike races at Wakefield Park but I preferred the starting grid. After the race started, that was it for me so i could do photography. I never actually watched the races as they didn't interest me (even though I'm a bike rider).

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[BradC]

I took dad to Philip Island in 2012 to watch Stoner race. Doohan did some display laps on his Honda during the weekend too. Bloody good race and a good way for him to retire.

I used to marshal for the State rounds and also the Historics at Wanneroo years ago. Pulled back on that a bit after having to pour one of my mates into the back of an Ambulance. They did a good job putting him back together though.

I did a lot of track work on my bikes and even managed to get my race license. Then I sold the bikes and left the country. Bought a bike up in Dubai and used to track that also but stopped riding when I had kids. I lost a couple of good mates. One was his own fault, and the other was "Captain Sensible" and wouldn't have seen it coming. Too many idiots on the roads over here.

Still have the bikes out the back, but both need $$ and TLC. I'll get back to it one day.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Probably best Bathurst ever... even at the finish we didnt know who made the podium..

Great result for Penrite,, on their hundred year anniversary.

[Saitch]

I haven't watched MotoGP in many years, umm, when the Australian bloke was world champ (not Wayne Gardner). (Off to Google...)

Ahh, Mick Doohan. When I did a search I found out about Casey Stoner.

I used to marshal at the bike races at Wakefield Park but I preferred the starting grid. After the race started, that was it for me so i could do photography. I never actually watched the reaces as they didn't interest me (even though I'm a bike rider).

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Ron, if you can stay up to mid-night, MotoGP is still worth a look at.

[Tins]

If I want to watch a restricted formula I'll watch F1 (and I do). I gave up on local racing when they binned Touring Cars and turned it into a formula with no relationship to the manufacturer outside of the supply of parts nobody can buy.

F1 and MotoGP for me.

I can't be bothered even with F1 anymore. They have legislated the innovation and daring out of it. Goodwood is my fix these days.

Bathurst ended for me the day the mob booed Jim Richards. He didn't make the rules, and I hated Group A. Everything after that is just bloody silhouette racing. Grumpy Old Bugger hat on, but give me the days when a privateer could potter down to his showroom, by a GTHO or A9X and go racing. It's just a snooze fest these days. I don't even turn it on.

[p38arover]

During Bathurst, I noticed one of the cars had "PERENTIE" across the top of the windscreen. Why?

[V8Ian]

Perentie or Penrite? Car 100?

[p38arover]

Initially I thought PENRITE but maybe my brain said PERENTIE.

The race was recorded in the hope something exciting might happen and I could view it, so I’ll check.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

no, it had Perentie...

[RANDLOVER]

Speaking of Australian wildlife, the news showed a lucky kangaroo that jumped onto the track being missed by inches when a car flew by on Conrod.

[Tins]

Speaking of Australian wildlife, the news showed a lucky kangaroo that jumped onto the track being missed by inches when a car flew by on Conrod.

That's not a first!

[Tins]

Might have seen something a bit bigger than a roo here.


https://youtu.be/c37ozsYYKAc?si=dpnLhOPmpv09ndnl

No, I wasn't there. I was celebrating my 11th birthday. I was there from 70 - 76 when I got arrested, only missing 72 due to the Army not giving me leave from recruit training...