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Caruso was lucky not to roll

Big battle for 2nd between Scotty Mac and Whincup.

Whincup into 2nd

Whincup to 2nd.

Gis wins

Fireworks at the finish!

And the top 5 is SVG from Whincup, McLaughlin, Lowndes and Mostert.

Good race. Lame winner. I hope they do this night thing again.

What a battle. What a race.

Reason #10,004 why Supercars is the best fender car series out there

Had to stop, too much tyre smoke in the cockpit

That closes up the title race a fair bit, the gap is now down to less then 100 points between SVG and McLaughlin.

https://www.speedcafe.com/2018/08/13/matt-stone-racing-ditches-ford-for-holden/

https://www.speedcafe.com/2018/08/13/t8-support-crucial-in-msr-move-to-holden/

Todd Hazelwood and Matt Stone have abandoned the Falcon with immediate effect and will be running his Super2 championship winning Holden from last year for the next round onwards. They've signed a technical support deal with Triple Eight and will be switching to the current model Holden next year.

The first ever round at Tailem Bend is this weekend on the 4.95km International Circuit. It comes as the series heads towards the business end of the season, with the three enduros and the final two sprint rounds the only events after this weekend. Scotty McLaughlin leads the series but only by 90 points over Shane Van Gisbergen, who did race here in the GT round earlier in the year unlike McLaughlin. The momentum in the last few rounds has also been in favour of Triple Eight, with their drivers winning 4 of the last 5 races.

Also of note is that there are two extra entries for the round for Macauley Jones (Holden) and Kurt Kostecki (older Holden) bringing the total number of starters to 28.


Here is the schedule for the weekend:
https://www.supercars.com/2018-otr-supersprint-the-bend-schedule-results/

Track map:




And here is an onboard lap in an old Group A E30 M3 from earlier in the year. Hopefully there's less dust going around this weekend.

Been plenty of off's in V8 Touring Cars quali. Maybe it's new track inexperience but this place is biting so far.

Almost a flip in FFord

Warmup lap is on for the first of the main races.

Tander's had a mechanical issue. SC.

safety car for Tander

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this track is kinda bleh, just haven't liked it so far from the races I've watched (either VASC or Shannons Nationals)

It's very modern F1-like.

van Gis wins. Kelly and Caruso 2nd and 3rd, which is a solid run for them. Whincup ended up 4th, Winterbottom has a 5th which he and Prodrive will be pleased with while McLaughlin got a disappointing 6th. Hopefully Scott can get a better run tommorow, his championship lead has dropped from 89 to 41 points today. It seems the Red Bulls are definitely the class of the field here though. All in all that was a fairly mediocre race by Supercars standards.

Nice spinning in Aussie Racing Cars...

Wow, that is a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong way off O.o