SBR announcement.

V8 Fan · 22 Dec 2002, 07:04 (Ref:455302)

SBR will announce their new driver lineup just after midnight of new years eve. It will also have pics of their new cars. Considering the timing it is obvious it will be Ingall. No surprise there

Dazz · 22 Dec 2002, 20:24 (Ref:455693)

Ingall was confirmed (basically) as Ambrose's team mate on channel Ten news over the weekend in a piece with Neil Crompton, as well as Max Wilson to DJR, Rat to Briggs, and Besnard to 00 with Lowndes!

**GTRMagic** · 22 Dec 2002, 23:08 (Ref:455774)

Dazz I think if you listened carefully to what #10 said about Besnard, it was claimed that Besnard would become Lowndes' teammate, but there was no mention of 00 at all

The FPV/Seton link is still on... this will be the new home of Cwaig & Bezzy

mac · 23 Dec 2002, 01:11 (Ref:455861)

What about Cromley? He's a good commentator, but a better driver IMO.

Is there any spot for him?

**GTRMagic** · 23 Dec 2002, 02:22 (Ref:455892)

Doesnt look like it mac

Amaroo Park · 25 Dec 2002, 22:47 (Ref:457373)

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Originally posted by Tricky
SBR will announce their new driver lineup just after midnight of new years eve. It will also have pics of their new cars. Considering the timing it is obvious it will be Ingall. No surprise there

Gee thats all we nedd to stuff the new year up a half baked ford team annoucing that theey will beat HRT this year as they have said for the last 2 or 3. This will be the end of Ingalls career

Phase3 · 26 Dec 2002, 10:33 (Ref:457559)

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Originally posted by colinbond
Gee thats all we nedd to stuff the new year up a half baked ford team annoucing that theey will beat HRT this year as they have said for the last 2 or 3. This will be the end of Ingalls career

No point watching then Colin is there? or posting in Forums really???

Come to think of it, wasn't the last thing Colin Bond drove a Caltex Sierra????

Mattracer · 26 Dec 2002, 22:37 (Ref:457845)

Whoa Colin,

The end of Ingall's career, half-baked Ford team?

How about the only Ford team to get a result of any sort this year and Ingall's chance to at last get out from under the shadow TWR casts over ALL other Holden teams.

**GTRMagic** · 27 Dec 2002, 02:32 (Ref:457932)

Expect to see a reduction in Caltex Signage, indeed taken over in some way by a Nestle brand or 3....

Caltex it seems has reduced its level of funding to SBR, or at least maintained parity while the greedygobblers asked for more which might be a better description...

So external sponsors were required...

William Dale Jr · 27 Dec 2002, 15:10 (Ref:458227)

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Originally posted by Phase3
No point watching then Colin is there? or posting in Forums really???

Come to think of it, wasn't the last thing Colin Bond drove a Caltex Sierra????

Come on, who's going to be the spoil-sport and tell him the last thing Bondy raced was a VP Commodore? No one? Okay, I'll do it then...

Amaroo Park · 27 Dec 2002, 21:36 (Ref:458434)

Well children when there is a genuine front running Ford team who challenges Holden Racing Team every race then I will think more of a Ford teams announcement........

And this has to be Ingalls last throw of the dice but I believe that he will NEVER be a V8 Supercar Championship winner

**GTRMagic** · 27 Dec 2002, 22:35 (Ref:458472)

And that very same VP Commodore forms the basis of the GRM SuperUte!!

Amaroo Park · 28 Dec 2002, 01:18 (Ref:458564)

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Originally posted by GTRMagic
And that very same VP Commodore forms the basis of the GRM SuperUte!!

AND????????????????????

**GTRMagic** · 28 Dec 2002, 01:36 (Ref:458573)

And what? Colin Bond's last drive was in a Winfield VP, which passed thru GRM and was builtinto the silver Superute

William Dale Jr · 28 Dec 2002, 04:28 (Ref:458634)

I thought the Superute was built out of Tander's VS which was an ex-HRT car?

bondy_racing · 30 Dec 2002, 05:09 (Ref:459915)

nah it was built of the original vcrt vs commodore ex gibson winfeild car which was up spec'ed from a vp

Amaroo Park · 30 Dec 2002, 05:18 (Ref:459918)

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Originally posted by bondy_racing
nah it was built of the original vcrt vs commodore ex gibson winfeild car which was up spec'ed from a vp

The Bond Winfield car ended going to Scotty Taylor who I belive still may have it. The other VP was converted to VR and then Skaife turned it into a Bannana at the Triple Challenge in 1995 during practice on the friday. They then built a new car to replace that and the Jim Richards ATCC was sold off to Rogers at the end of the season

V8 Fan · 30 Dec 2002, 05:42 (Ref:459927)

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Originally posted by Tricky
SBR will announce their new driver lineup just after midnight of new years eve. It will also have pics of their new cars. Considering the timing it is obvious it will be Ingall. No surprise there

This has now been confirmed and will also include the news that Caltex is staying as a sponsor and some new sponsors will be announced

BJAY · 30 Dec 2002, 06:05 (Ref:459931)

At the Stone Brother's website, they have a sneak peak photo of the Caltex Ford:

http://www.stonebrothersracing.com.a.../sneakpeak.jpg

BJ

Amaroo Park · 30 Dec 2002, 06:30 (Ref:459932)

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Originally posted by Phase3
No point watching then Colin is there? or posting in Forums really??

Just an opinion like everyone elses so if you dont like ignore it as I do with the ones that annoy me............

Have a Good Day

**GTRMagic** · 30 Dec 2002, 06:35 (Ref:459935)

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Originally posted by colinbond
The Bond Winfield car ended going to Scotty Taylor who I belive still may have it. The other VP was converted to VR and then Skaife turned it into a Bannana at the Triple Challenge in 1995 during practice on the friday. They then built a new car to replace that and the Jim Richards ATCC was sold off to Rogers at the end of the season

The car Richards crashed at the Triple Challenge, the year before Skaife crashed, was the one rebuilt and sold to Scotty Taylor.

The car Skaife crashed at Eastern Creek was a brand spanker from memory, not a repanelled VP...

It gets hazy after a few years but if I recall rightly, the car Richo Jr brought from Gibson to GRM was the one he ran at Bathurst with Anders Olofsson which was the #3 Gibson car at the time, and the same car run in 1994 with Bond & Olofsson at the wheel.

This vehicle was run by GRM for Richo Jr, and at Bathurst combining with Richo Sr... and for the year after that, was Garth Tander's regular ride in VS specification.

The VS was built into the SuperUte, and the shell has been for sale in AA for some time, as the remnants of the stuff not carried over was for sale by GRM for $45k....

I could be wrong but dont think so....

Crash Test · 30 Dec 2002, 07:14 (Ref:459939)

Did GRM only ever get one Gibson car? When they expanded with Bargs, Bargs got the ex-HRT one, did Richo Jr continue on with the same old Gibbo car?

BTW- Like the look on the Stone Bros Barra

RaceTime · 30 Dec 2002, 07:47 (Ref:459949)

Which part? The paint work or the cover?

Amaroo Park · 30 Dec 2002, 09:12 (Ref:459971)

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Originally posted by Crash Test
Did GRM only ever get one Gibson car? When they expanded with Bargs, Bargs got the ex-HRT one, did Richo Jr continue on with the same old Gibbo car?

BTW- Like the look on the Stone Bros Barra

Yes the HRT car that they purchased was the VR built for Brock at the end of the 1995 season that then went to Murphy in 1997 when he crashed his Petty Bar car at Phillip Island in 1997.

The Tool Man · 30 Dec 2002, 09:24 (Ref:459973)

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Originally posted by BJAY
At the Stone Brother's website, they have a sneak peak photo of the Caltex Ford:

http://www.stonebrothersracing.com.a.../sneakpeak.jpg

BJ

I Like the tiny bit you can see in the photo