Australian V8 Supercars

[melbournian]

Originally Posted by fbc

Jason Bright. That's what's wrong with the Green Fujitsu Falcon.

harsh but fair!

I managed to catch the end after racing home from my movie screening. GodDAMN that was a close finish! I missed the second-to-last safety car and was unaware of any troubles that Tander and Davo had while I was gone. Very very very very happy that they won though, and also really pleased to see that Richards and McConville got on the podium too. Murph was on FIRE (in the non-Winterbottom way), shame he couldn't get past Holdsworth but that's racing. Will definitely have to watch the parts that I missed, the ending was epic!

[Red_Bull]

I watched it up until 2:30 and then I had to go to work. Fantastic watching though, especially when the rain started falling and seeing the cars slither about for a few laps on the greasy tarmac, especially Davison in the #2 Holden Racing Team car with the hapless Murphy trying to keep up. 'Do what he does'? How bout you concentrate on your own strategy! Fat lot of good it did them anyway when they ended up in 13th or so afterward...around about where Lowndes/Whincup were after their car failed to respond to the wet conditions. Must've been an impressive fightback for those guys to finish where they did, but great to see Tander and Davison hold on. Didn't put a foot wrong all weekend and thoroughly deserve the victory.

For those interested, The Stig finished 20th

[Cold Fussion]

One thing that always pisses me off at bathurst is that every time a car goes off its a safety car, even if they are 300m deep in a sand trap.

[fbc]

^ It's a very worthwhile safety precaution - if one car's ended up there, there's every chance another car could do the same.

[Cold Fussion]

Originally Posted by fbc

^ It's a very worthwhile safety precaution - if one car's ended up there, there's every chance another car could do the same.

They don't do it in formula 1 and i've not seen such an anal thing in any other racing series i've seen. If they designed the track a bit better so it had some openings in places they wouldn't have to spend hours cleaning away each car.

[fbc]

^ F1 cars are a lot easier to recover than a beached 1500kg V8. Across the top of the mountain there's not really many places they can put openings to ease car-extraction. It's also a very, very long race, so it's better to err on the side of caution and throw a safety car.

[Cold Fussion]

I'm talking more of the chase where there they don't need to throw a safety car every time someone goes off.

[fbc]

^ It's a 300km/h approach there - to not throw a safety car for an incident there would be downright stupidity & negligence.

[stevanford1]

My liver is screwed...

[stevanford1]

+ YouTube Video

A few pictures i took.

[stevanford1]

http://www.speedcafe.com.au/2009/11/...-under-lights/

The opening round of the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series at Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina Circuit will be held at under lights.

It will be the first V8 night race since the opening round of the V8 Supercar Championship Series at Calder Park in 1997.

A collection of V8 Supercar delegates recently returned from Abu Dhabi where they met with circuit officials to decide the track layout and schedules for the February 18-20.

V8 Supercars operations manager Kurt Sakzewski confirmed to Speedcafe the intention is to run the first round of the V8 series under lights.


A track map of the circuit that the V8 Supercars will race on at the Yas Marina circuit
“The circuit has a full lighting system permanently installed, so it has the ability for us to do a twilight/night race, similar to Formula 1.

“Our intention to run in that format. It worked very well for F1 and in terms of the best time, the later in the afternoon, the better it is for them, in terms of how they operate.

“It will be very cool. We’ll start the races in daylight with the lights on and then as it gets darker, the lights come into their own. The drivers will hardly know it’s night time.”

Sunset in Abu Dhabi in mid-February is just after 6pm, which means that the races are likely to be broadcasted live into Australian homes in the early hours of the morning (approximately 1am).

The meeting will be run on Thursday, Friday night and Saturday night and will feature two 200km races.

The circuit selected is the 4.7km variant, revealed by Speedcafe two weeks ago, and is 800 metres shorter than the full Grand Prix track.

[devil500]

Wish we had Aussie V8's shown on TV over here.

[racingfan1]

Originally Posted by devil500

Wish we had Aussie V8's shown on TV over here.

With them going to Bahrain and now Abu Dhabi, I wish they'd come to America. Preferably somewhere within a 12-hour driving distance to me, so I can go watch.