Thread: 1,2 and 3 for Ford in taxi racing.

great to see some the young drivers doing well (particularly in a blue oval ) .

Great race, as usual I watched it, and I enjoyed it.
Some very hard hits, showing the remarkable strength of the cars, and also that the safety barriers are doing their job. I wasn't wrapped in a one hour delay, & a shortened race, but the main thing is that despite the serious nature of several crashes, no one was seriously injured.
However, the stand out feature of the day for me was the driving of Richie Stanaway,....Pro Drive say they have a "co-driver contract" with him for the enduros next year, with a "no out" clause, so it will be interesting to where He ends up.
Bathurst is near!!...Pickles.

It's no longer fair to call this taxi racing.

After all there aren't many Prius' and hybrid Corollas on track....

Originally Posted by VladTepes

It's no longer fair to call this taxi racing.

After all there aren't many Prius' and hybrid Corollas on track....

Yes, a more apt title may well be 'Irrelevant Dinosaurs of yesteryear racing'...

Oh Yes!! just cant wait to see the Dual cabs running around,

Hmmm, you're right, that would be as exciting as watching grass grow...

The Bathurst 1000 would become a 24 hour event....

Yep. V8 supercars have been largely irrelevant since before it's inception.
How much relevance do they have with the cars the manufacturers sell? Badge, yes. Motor, maybe? Everything else, none.

The '70s and '80s, they were the best time for touring car racing. Who can forget the Chickadee Chicken Celica driven by Peter (Wilo) Williamson.

The dualcabs will be good, and for those who want relevance to what can be driven on the street, dualcabs being the most popular vehicle at the moment, there will be some relevance here, although of course there are many who wouldn't be happy no matter what a new formula was.
I was watching a motorsport telecast a while ago, and a race came up fo small 2L utes,...very small, very slow, and I was just about to switch off the telly, but nope, I watched it,...and it was great,.....sure, they were probably quite (well, VERY slow actually!) slow, but they were sliding, banging, locking up etc etc, and as they were all doing the same speed, ya don't notice the "slowness", it, a bit like the old HQs!
So, I reckon the superutes or whatever they're gonna be called will be good, several manufacturers, including Holden, have already got behind the new series, and seeing a bunch of them going through the dipper at Bathurst will be good.
Oh, and dare I say it, "shock & horror", there's a bit of talk about for Mustang to be involved in Supercars, and with a further rumor that HSV will do a deal with GM that will enable them too produce a RHD Camaro at a reasonable price, there's the prospect of Mustang V Camaro!!.....Of course, I'm drawing a fairly long bow here, but ya never know, because there's a lot of fans that'd like to see this happen,....V8 engines of course!
Pickles.