Thread: Supercars.....Newcastle.

IMHO, there are two aspects to Scotty's winning, .....(a)his skill as a driver, (b)very well engineered, fast car.
Pickles.

and what more do you need?

Luck.

nowhere to be seen today. some bits of luck were his fault, some were'nt. but in the end he ran out of car.
Not surprising really.

Dont anybody say its a great track.
Its beautiful to watch on telly(who'd a thunk?)
but it produces terrible racing. (not TV...) might as well put train tracks around the course.

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Dont anybody say its a great track.
Its beautiful to watch on telly(who'd a thunk?)
but it produces terrible racing. (not TV...) might as well put train tracks around the course.

Nope.
If ya watched todays "unbelieveable" racing incidents, and what can happen in any Supercars race, there's a lot more than "train tracks".
An unblelieveable result.
Me?..big fan of Jamie, so glad he won, BUT, do I believe or agree with the penalty Scotty incurred re the Lowndes incident?...NO, I do not, but as they say,....."That's Racing".
Roll on 2018.
Pickles.

Originally Posted by Pickles2

Nope.
If ya watched todays "unbelieveable" racing incidents, and what can happen in any Supercars race, there's a lot more than "train tracks".
An unblelieveable result.
Me?..big fan of Jamie, so glad he won, BUT, do I believe or agree with the penalty Scotty incurred re the Lowndes incident?...NO, I do not, but as they say,....."That's Racing".
Roll on 2018.
Pickles.

I don’t watch the V8s much, agree it was an exciting finish to decide the champion but what Scotty did to Lowndes was disgraceful.....he made a mistake at the corner and deliberately put Lowndes into the fence. With or without side mirror Scott knew he was there.

I think there is too much crash and bash showing the inability to drive......

A GREAT W.E. of racing IMHO,....and apart from the racing, I reckon that Newcastle would have to be super happy with the "exposure" they got,...I had no idea it was such a picturesque location, so really good for tourism, and nearly 200,000 people there over the 3 days, so Supercars would be happy too,.....obviously a massive amount of planning to get this off the ground.
The track?...yes, when I saw it, I thought jeez, that's a bit narrow, and yes, there were a couple of occasions when at the times there wasn't much action, and I thought to myself that the "taxi racing" brigade would be happy. But like I've said before, to see the cars get out for 1st practice, then the 2nd, getting "tuned up", getting the lap times down for quali, the T.T. Shootout etc, is all part of it for me. I also enjoyed seeing Steve Johnson win the Muscle Car race, and the Series, in the Mustang,...what a great race that was.
A great "come from behind" by Jamie, but devastation for Scottie, and another terrible W.E. for Walkinshaw Racing who will have no room for excuses next year...bring on 2018!!
Pickles.
Weeds,..."Crash & Bash"?...I'm not too keen on that side of things either, so I'm with you on that one, but the majority of fans don't seem to have an issue with it?