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It was getting ludicrous when we were past the halfway stage of the race and the only "highlights" in the highlight clip was the stall at the start and a load of crap on pit lane...whoooo...

go away.

Read that in the paper today, was quite shocked when I read it. Hopefully that company shouldn't be allowed to sponsor another V8 Supercar ever again.

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what a scumbag, it's one thing to be disappointed with your team it's annother to be physically agressive towards them, i hope this bastard never get's near annother race event.

EDIT: LOL WUPS didnt read the above posts

Damn, the Rat is very unlucky.
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He would have to be thinking about it. Really poor luck.

Wow, didn't think those injuries were that bad. Hope he has a speedy recovery.

Certainly would be the smart move, considering he suffered greatly from his broken left ankle and now having 2 weak ankles. Even if he has a full recovery and does want to go racing again, the smart thing to do would be to never race Bathurst again.

Damn, never thought his injuries were that bad. At first they said only a broken ankle.

I hope they extend the tyre wall at that part of the track.

Your right, & it wasn't a 'normal accident' (although Damien White's similiar off last year could easily have had the same ending) though CAMS were quick to install tyres there afterwards...there is probably a perfectly good explanation why there wasn't any tyres there in the first place, but lets hope they give us an explanation at least.

If he was still driving full-time i'd have said he would be back... as a part-timer though (was he racing anything other than V8 enduro's and the New Zealand championship?), he might ease himself out of it.



It's quite amusing to read that people found the racing so boring that they wanted safety cars to artificially tighten it up. You may want me to 'get over it', but why should i be making apologies for wanting to see proper racing? If the safety cars had of been for actual accidents, i have no problem with that...but when they throw them for sand on the track (they let the similiar Rick Kelly incident go last year), or for cars bogged at Murray's Corner, it just ruins the flow of the race.....

Lets be honest, all anyone seemed interested in (even Crompton & White) was the dash to the flag after the last safety car....why do we bother racing all day then???

What was crap about the first 72 laps, you had a proper motor race. #888 had built up a lead on merit... what a farce it would have been had #4 won, they were over a minute off the lead when the first safety car came out, yet they finished 3rd! Similiarly #1 was saved going a lap down by the first safety car.


Surely if yellow flags are what was required to keep the race interesting (as you seem to suggest), that indicates there is something wrong with the formula.

And create a very dangerous situation as a result. In fact, had they left the 777 Reindler car that was bogged there in the middle of the race, Matt Neal would have slammed into it. They've thrown safety cars for cars bogged at Murray's for years, and I've got no problem with it.

I'm not advocating leaving the cars there, anything but. Why not have a tractor stationed at Murrays? Other series seem to try everything they can 'not' to throw a caution, on Sunday it was like they were looking for reason's to do so.




What did they have to do with it? The safety car was only introduced for the 1987 race as it had World Championship status, and the pace car was part of the International rules (who knows how long we would have carried on with the tilt trays had we not had the WTCC round in 1987). In terms of safety cars in actual ATCC/V8SCS, the first one wasn't until Symmons Plains 1997.

And scotty, this is a discussion forum where everyone has & is entitled to different views, there is no need to take it (seemingly) personally just because someone offers a different opinion to something you are obviously passionate about.

They are ridiculously trigger happy with SC in this country though. It completely ruins our development races since they are so short to start with, then we have 7 laps under SC because someone was buried in the kittly litter in an area where local yellows would more than suffice.

Might be enjoyable for spectators but fuck me it's frustrating times in the pits.