The Battle of Bathurst 2022 (With Poll)

[275 GTB-4]

Originally Posted by MCWB

Bloody hell, that was sketchy with the recovery vehicle and Brodie! Surely they need to wait until the safety car collects the field?

Either someone in Race Control (Recovery) released the Ute incorrectly or the Ute driver had a rush of blood when he heard car in the tyre barrier...not good!

SC was on track...Were SC Boards and Yellows waving when Percat shot past Kostecki??

[Kingair]

BJR are looking for a black cat, please contact Brad at their Albury workshop if you have one.

[Sandgroper]

SVG legend.

Needs to go overseas and spread his wings.

Well done GT also

[chavez]

Originally Posted by Kingair

BJR are looking for a black cat, please contact Brad at their Albury workshop if you have one.

Their debut year remains BJR's best result.

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Kingair

BJR are looking for a black cat, please contact Brad at their Albury workshop if you have one.

Let’s see if brand new equipment in Gen3 helps their cause.

The pink Middys car did ok to finish in the ten.

[dsg]

Originally Posted by Kingair

BJR are looking for a black cat, please contact Brad at their Albury workshop if you have one.

Answers to the name Macauley?

[Sandgroper]

Originally Posted by Kingair

BJR are looking for a black cat, please contact Brad at their Albury workshop if you have one.

Thats a yearly thing for them. Sadly 3rd Tier Team.

[Kingair]

Least Fullwood/Fiore got home inside the top ten for BJR.

From the couch potato’s in-depth analysis of the event,

-SVG/Tander couldn’t fault their drive and it seem to run on rails all day

-Stanawy//Murphy standout performance across the event, could have been very interesting if Sunday had been a wet race,

- Big balls award goes to Will Davison for admitting it was driver error,

- Low profile award Lowndes/ Fraser,

- thought Supercheap would have bombarded the event with commercials,

- thought that there would been a little bit more about Brocks 1972 victory,

- no need to buy a lotto ticket this week Jamie Whincup,

- hardluck stories- Heimgartner/Wood, Brown/Perkins and Waters/Moffat.

Next stop Gold Coast.

[GTRMagic]

I thought Mr Ojeda did very well at the weekend.
Calm and didnt seem to hurt the equipment.

Same as the Caltex Techron MCM wildcard.. Mr Chahda and Mr Robotham didnt scratch the toy, and would have been even further up had a brake caliper not failed

[GROUPA]

Zane Goddard should never get another run after that effort

[mite5255]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Yep, taken at one of his non-safety car stops

Thanks, must of missed that bit

[Kingair]

Chahda and Robotham put in a good effort, hopefully may pickup a drive in the 2023 Bathurst 1000.

Hopefully a few drivers from this year, may not get an invitation back for next years event.

Thought King Charles and bride might have made an appearance over the weekend, shared a couple of slabs with the troops up on top hill.

The king could have punted the Colin Bond XU-1 around in a few hot laps, in the lead up to the start of the great race.

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by GROUPA

Zane Goddard should never get another run after that effort

He made a mistake.. unfortunately so did many others...
And at least Mr Goddard owned it and apologised to the 2 teams he impacted (haha) by his actions.

[Maggo]

Too many paydrivers.
Not sure if that will get better when every team has to buy new cars for next season.

[Mr X]

Originally Posted by MCWB

Bloody hell, that was sketchy with the recovery vehicle and Brodie! Surely they need to wait until the safety car collects the field?

Why? so they can sit on standby for 5 minutes whilst the cars go max speed to file through pit lane and go flat chat to catch the cue, then move out?

Safety Car Boards and Flags, means you should be looking out for recovery vehicles on circuit, even when they are off the racing line.

They need to fix the interpretation of "Safety" in Safety Car, but that would hurt the entertainment.

[Mixer]

Originally Posted by Kingair

- Big balls award goes to Will Davison for admitting it was driver error,

I have to ask whether this really was driver error - i heard the incar, and I think it's the same as Luffy's off, Percat's crash and Slade's from last year.

If you have the rears locked and you downshift, the dogs clash and it spits it back out of gear and you lose engine braking and lock up totally.

The downchange sounded really "crunchy" to me and that is what I had assumed.

The data would show it I guess.

[Kingair]

I was a bit surprised that with state of hell corner, that a few teams didn’t elect to start from pit lane?

[chavez]

Originally Posted by Mr X

Why? so they can sit on standby for 5 minutes whilst the cars go max speed to file through pit lane and go flat chat to catch the cue, then move out?

Safety Car Boards and Flags, means you should be looking out for recovery vehicles on circuit, even when they are off the racing line.

They need to fix the interpretation of "Safety" in Safety Car, but that would hurt the entertainment.

Yes

Having no minimum sector times under safety car these days is just irresponsible.

[banksie]

How did D'Alberto not get penalised for spinning Winterbottom when Wood had crashed? Clear contact with yellow flags out, thought there was a chance the penalty could be more than a plp.

[chavez]

Originally Posted by banksie

How did D'Alberto not get penalised for spinning Winterbottom when Wood had crashed? Clear contact with yellow flags out, thought there was a chance the penalty could be more than a plp.

What was his alternative course of action?

Drill Wood in the quarter panel at 150kph.

[Mixer]

Originally Posted by chavez

What was his alternative course of action?

I would have said not boot it under a yellow flag, which he clearly did after he passed the first crash. It was unnecessary.

[GROUPA]

Probably harsh of me to say Goddard shouldn't get another drive - I'm OK with the pass in the chase after all it is racing but the re entry was very ordinary

[chavez]

Originally Posted by GROUPA

Probably harsh of me to say Goddard shouldn't get another drive - I'm OK with the pass in the chase after all it is racing but the re entry was very ordinary

As ordinary as a seven-time champion's attempt at a redress at nearly the same sport a few years ago.

[Mixer]

Originally Posted by GROUPA

Probably harsh of me to say Goddard shouldn't get another drive - I'm OK with the pass in the chase after all it is racing but the re entry was very ordinary

The pass was the bit that was preventable, it was very early in the race and everybody knew what the track verges were like.

if you look at Davison's off it was pretty obvious he was out of control so it's possible that once Goddard got the boot into it too much, he couldn't slow down or meaningfully change direction.

Unfortunately the priority should be rejoining safely, not rejoining while losing the least number of positions.

But I guess his drama served the rest of the field to pull their heads in a little bit.

[mite5255]

Originally Posted by Mixer

The pass was the bit that was preventable, it was very early in the race and everybody knew what the track verges were like.

if you look at Davison's off it was pretty obvious he was out of control so it's possible that once Goddard got the boot into it too much, he couldn't slow down or meaningfully change direction.

Unfortunately the priority should be rejoining safely, not rejoining while losing the least number of positions.

But I guess his drama served the rest of the field to pull their heads in a little bit.

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