2018 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12HR - Race DiscussionSports Cars

[05XR8]

https://www.speedcafe.com/2018/02/05/whincup-fumes-prompted-unusual-race-errors/

I wonder who else had issues.

 

[Spacegoat]

They mentioned earlier in the broadcast that the race started as early as it did to fit it into a broadcast window in Australia. They couldn't stop the clock.

The irony of a timed race going time certain.

 

[Pete05]

The irony of a timed race going time certain.

This is why I think the Supercar races that don't have a distance attached to them, should be timed races.

The people calling for the clock to be stopped yesterday, fail to see the fact that a 12 hour race can only run for 12 hours. Not 12 hours & xx minutes.
As also happened yesterday, if a race has to be stopped & a resumption is unfeasable, then call it just as they did.

It would've been a sham & tokenism to the max for the officials to resume the race for a last lap or two dash for honours.

 

[ScottPuss20]

The decision to declare the race early was justified. I know it robs us of a spectacular finish but these things happen. There was too much rubbish on the track and it would've taken quite a while to clean it all up. Still, at least Whincup wasn't given a chance to win. The crash is scarily similar to this one during the 2008 Bathurst 1000 practice:

Compare:

 

[CodeRedR51]

The people calling for the clock to be stopped yesterday, fail to see the fact that a 12 hour race can only run for 12 hours.

My be so sure to finish the race at exactly 12 hours when they didn't even start it at zero?

 

[Pete05]

My be so sure to finish the race at exactly 12 hours when they didn't even start it at zero?

For clarification:

A timed race see the leader shown the Last Lap board the first time they cross the start/finish line AFTER the countdown clock hits zero.

 

[05XR8]

Yep

 

[LumpiestFish]

Yellow lights like you see at NASCAR speedways could work.

 

[Pete05]

Yellow lights like you see at NASCAR speedways could work.

That's what they installed at the crest before McPhillamy Park following the race stopping pile up in 1981.

 

[Spacegoat]

The crash is scarily similar to this one during the 2008 Bathurst 1000 practice:

Also very similar to the DVS crash that claimed Mark Porter's life in 2006. Good thing that both the Audi and the Merc are LHD.