2015 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour - Discussion Thread

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EDIT: It's back.
 
Shame the V8 Supercars drivers aren't in it this year. Stupid decision by the TV company to do their practice to deliberately clash. SVGs charge across the mountain in the orange McLaren last year is one of the racing highlights I'll always remember and this race is what has really turned me on to endurance racing.
 
Shame the V8 Supercars drivers aren't in it this year. Stupid decision by the TV company to do their practice to deliberately clash.
Blame the 12-Hour organisers. V8SC already work around several major sporting events, and they have a schedule that they need to keep. The 12-Hour had more scope to change its date.
 
Blame the 12-Hour organisers. V8SC already work around several major sporting events, and they have a schedule that they need to keep. The 12-Hour had more scope to change its date.
What? The 12 hour had the date long before V8SC, and they have teams coming from all over the world. Much easier for V8SC to schedule around.

More importantly though, V8SC banned their drivers from taking part. Drivers could have practiced at Bathurst thursday/friday, done the V8 test Sat/Sun morning and then raced at Bathurst Sunday afternoon. Teams were running endurance drivers at the test, so it wouldn't have made a difference anyways.This was V8SC and Fox being petty, they are to blame.
 
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From checking the live timing, it's showing a nice battle forming in the "AP" class 1st to 3rd in it are 2 seconds from each other with an old BTCC driver in it Alex Macdowall :D.
 
What? The 12 hour had the date long before V8SC, and they have teams coming from all over the world. Much easier for V8SC to schedule around.
V8SC compete in a dozen events over the season. Each one needs preparation and cool-down times, all of which must be worked around several major sporting events later in the season, plus the availability of the Eastern Creek circuit. A scheduling conflict was always a potential outcome, and I think it is unreasonable to expect V8SC to work around that as well. Especially when there is talk of using the 12-Hour to establish an Asia-Pacific GT Series. There are fifty-one other potential weekends for the 12-Hour to be run, so they have the most potential to reschedule.

V8SC drivers are V8SC drivers first, and everything else second. It's like any other job. If your obligations clash, you follow your first employer.
 
The Canto-Bell-Macdowall battle rages on through the traffic!

Bowe vs Canto... :lol:
 
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