Thread: Bathurst on Sunday

Strange about the GTR (Race Bred) You can take a GTST out to the track and belt it around all day...then drive it home. Do that with a GTR and it would be dead .probably within 5 laps I have allways thought that was very strange

Seton or Lowndes sound good to me. Both are genuine blokes who are good ambassadors to the sport.

That and they drive Fords!

I really miss the showroom formula. Unfortunately many people who support this class don't like it when their car gets flogged.

The silly thing is that the class system where the fords and the holdens can do battle means the manufacturers actually have to try and build better cars so these people would get better product to buy.

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

I really miss the showroom formula. Unfortunately many people who support this class don't like it when their car gets flogged.

The silly thing is that the class system where the fords and the holdens can do battle means the manufacturers actually have to try and build better cars so these people would get better product to buy.

The race, in my opinion was a lot better when, as you have said the cars were off the showroom floor, could be "blueprinted" to manufacturers specifications and no modifications (except if my memory(?) serves me right) to tyres.

AND there was the class racing included which made a number of races within the race and to me increased the interest.

AAAAHHHHH the days of Cortina GT's, GT500's, Mini Cooper S's.............

Originally Posted by RichardK

The race, in my opinion was a lot better when, as you have said the cars were off the showroom floor, could be "blueprinted" to manufacturers specifications and no modifications (except if my memory(?) serves me right) to tyres.

AND there was the class racing included which made a number of races within the race and to me increased the interest.

AAAAHHHHH the days of Cortina GT's, GT500's, Mini Cooper S's.............

It would be awesome, but would CAMS allow it to happen, safety wise?

Come on guys, Skaife is a clown, Tander was heaps faster than him at sandown, if they win it will be because of him. Its unfortunate that the driver i hate the most is sharing a car with one i like.Longhurst won recently with Skaife, 04 i think, and the Skaife and Todd won it last year.What we have to remember is that the driver hit the hardest by Brock's death was Lowndes, Brock was a mentor for Craig and without brock's help craig wouldnt be where he is today.I am neither a holden nor a ford supporter, i just dont like Mark Skaife. It would be good to see Russell win, as it always is but i reckon Lowndes will have it if the car is reliable (which is isnt always) and he doesnt do what he did last year and clip the wall trying to set the world on fire in the first hour. The reason skaife and kelly won last year is because they settled into the groove, stayed out of trouble and plugged away until after the last safety car period. There is no point being in the lead on the first lap, you only need to be leading the last lap.Just bring on the race, its great no matter who wins, having said that i would like to see a ford win to break the 7yr drought and shut all those holden fans up. Matt

The Godzillas are a damn fast and good handling car. The issue I had at the time was they were not a production car, where as the Holdens and Fords could fairly much be bought as raced (at that time) the Nissan's could not. The lower spec version could but was nothing at all like the race version. At the time the Nissan's were $500,000 race cars with out spares compared to most Holden & Fords at around $100,000 in race trim. At the end of the day it was not a fair fight and all came back to money. Its like putting a GT3 Porsche up against a series 2 Landie. The bathurst win was the biggest croc as the Nissan actually crashed and the race was not cautioned and then red flagged for another 2 odd laps, which under the existing rules meant the Nissan was out. There were lots of crashes but still some 2wd s were getting around the track unscathed. I have watched the footage time and time again and there were no flags were the officials said there were and at the time. This has been doccumented many times since.
I would love to see them go back to the different class production format. While I like the Supercars they are not even close to what you can buy. The days of being able to buy Bathurst cars are long gone. Oh for the days of the A9X, E38 and GTHO's.

Originally Posted by dobbo

He has allready won it before in the Nizzon GTR

I was at the F1 in Adelaide a year or two after the your all a POA event when Godzilla reigned supreme. The car was on show in the street, I still cannot believe the mentality of the people spitting on a car cause it wasn't a Ford or Holdens


I would love to see Seaton or Lowndes win it

In this day and age why is there still a mentality of Holden being the Australian car company and Ford being the outsider when both are owned by the USA?

I have never owned a Holden but have had a Ford before, Out of the two I would prefer the Fords to win but I still cannot wait to see the new comode race prepared but that will have to wait

Go Holden

Andrew