Thread: Who Will Be Watching Bathurst?

Originally Posted by Pickles2

A "Privateer", just won this race.
Pickles.

In another sterilized clone car with a motza of sponsorship dollars. ......
Ps is this his only race for the year, because in the past a privateer could just put his car in at bathurst without running a team for the season 😛

You have to have an "REC" (license) to run the car, and you have to run the car in every race,...if you do not rock up, you cop a sizeable financial penalty.
You may think they are "clone cars", & it's true that they do have to run with a set of rules, but you may be quite surprised, that "underneath the skin", even cars of the same brand may be quite different in the way in which they can be "engineered" /built. And that is why you do not see real close ups of the mechanicals on TV,....because all teams do different stuff, which they do not wish to disclose to other competitors.
I was looking for an HRT Car 2 win, and they drove a good, tough, race, until.....
Pickles

Well thats bloody impressive.....

A true sign of a good petrol/piston head.. watching Bathurst since its been broadcasting!!!!

While I cant claim that one as I'm simply not that old, I have been watching it since I was 12 (1982) in all the glory of the HDT, Peter Brock and the Holden Commodore....

So yes, yesterday was just a total classic Bathurst, with a jaw dropping leader change on the last 13 laps

Regards
Daz

Originally Posted by Outback 1

In another sterilized clone car with a motza of sponsorship dollars. ......
Ps is this his only race for the year, because in the past a privateer could just put his car in at bathurst without running a team for the season 😛

That car was built by Red Bull Australia.

Originally Posted by scarry

That car was built by Red Bull Australia.

My point exactly to the v8 supercar specifications the era i refer to they were built by ford. Holden.chrysler.etc etc and then modified to race some competitors actually drove them to bathurst raced them and then drove them home 😛😨😨

Originally Posted by DazzaTD5

Well thats bloody impressive.....

A true sign of a good petrol/piston head.. watching Bathurst since its been broadcasting!!!!

While I cant claim that one as I'm simply not that old, I have been watching it since I was 12 (1982) in all the glory of the HDT, Peter Brock and the Holden Commodore....

So yes, yesterday was just a total classic Bathurst, with a jaw dropping leader change on the last 13 laps

Regards
Daz

I had been watching since the late 60s the days of the mini gt and gts cripes they even had corollas and mazdas

Originally Posted by Outback 1

I had been watching since the late 60s the days of the mini gt and gts cripes they even had corollas and mazdas

In that case you probably remember the days when one of the big questions about the race was, "How long before the wheels fall off the Studebakers?"

One of the few times I have watched the whole race was when the Celica carried the world's first in-car-camera.

Originally Posted by vnx205

In that case you probably remember the days when one of the big questions about the race was, "How long before the wheels fall off the Studebakers?"

One of the few times I have watched the whole race was when the Celica carried the world's first in-car-camera.

No I'm not that old that I would remember Studebaker at bathurst but like you I do remember the first racecams 😆