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[Spacegoat]

WELP it looks like Race 2 will be an absolute snoozefest.

Looks like it. Hoping that McLaughlin can give the Red Bulls a challenge.

 

[GTFan24]

 

[Pete05]

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Well that's maturity for you.

 

[Spacegoat]

Crompo is great and all that, but why doesn't Larko do the pre-race analysis?

 

[05XR8]

Those car models are cheap. Should use the one in the intro.

That Altima!

 

[LumpiestFish]

Rick Kelly’s crap cgi car showed what his paint job would’ve been before the late Castrol deal was made. It was a White nismo design.

 

[05XR8]

Wish Courtney didn't do that move. Just let Giz get away.

Edit: wondered why Scott got close to Giz.

 

[Spacegoat]

Oh well, Red Bull 1-2.

 

[05XR8]

Yeah. They usually go bad at the AGP. So, a 1-2 here, is fine until a few more rounds in.

 

[Nismonath5]

RIP Whincup's lead
...or even chance of a decent placing by the looks of it!

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Feeling like there could be some rain soon.

 

[05XR8]

 

[Spacegoat]

Oh well, Red Bull 1-2.

Spoke too soon. This has made the race interesting.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Way too much time spent on this, can we watch the race please?

 

[05XR8]

Looking good for Tander and Tickford.

Can't believe there are 30 laps to go.

 

[LumpiestFish]

Reynolds not covering has sort of let some air out of what would’ve been a super good race..

 

[CodeRedR51]

I agree with Tim on that one. The Kerb thing has been so inconsistent this weekend, it's a joke.

 

[LumpiestFish]

They’ve just given up on censoring language hahaha, Murphy’s as he was saying it was great.

 

[05XR8]

The #78, #888, #34, #17 have bad sportsmanship flags.

Damn Heimgartner in the garage with smoke in the cabin.

Edit: So, Giz pressed the button to drop spikes and Scott got the puncture.

 

[Nismonath5]

Gotta say, all this drama and still no safety car.. impressive!

 

[05XR8]

Simona got past Golding, but too far from Depasquale. Two top 20 finishes are fine with me.

 

[05XR8]

Is that an Opel badge on Tamder's car?

 

[LumpiestFish]

Is that an Opel badge on Tamder's car?

It’s not a badge necessarily, but part of the grille does have an Opel badge as standard, which they add the Holden badge to once they’re here in Aus. A friend of mine said they may have just damaged the grille and didn’t have a spare.

Although I have a feeling there’s something a bit more important. The missing Holden badge could be a sign of GRM finding a new Manufacturer. In 09’ when Ford had left 888 in the wilderness, 888 dropped the Ford badges, and more importantly, in 2013 GRM had gotten rid of the Holden badge before they announced the Volvo deal.

 

[05XR8]

If that's a possibility, GRM need to get cracking on development.

Just a bad penalty for Frosty.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Did the TV coverage mention anything about Tander’s car? Both today and yesterday it sounded like it had a broken header.

 

[Litening1]

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Nah full time SVG fan even when he’s not winning.

But how lucky was he that Reynolds didn’t cover cause SVG wasn’t pulling away.

 

[Pete05]

It’s not a badge necessarily, but part of the grille does have an Opel badge as standard, which they add the Holden badge to once they’re here in Aus. A friend of mine said they may have just damaged the grille and didn’t have a spare.

Although I have a feeling there’s something a bit more important. The missing Holden badge could be a sign of GRM finding a new Manufacturer. In 09’ when Ford had left 888 in the wilderness, 888 dropped the Ford badges, and more importantly, in 2013 GRM had gotten rid of the Holden badge before they announced the Volvo deal.

From what I could see on the TV, GRM haven't removed the Holden badge on Tander's at all - it's just painted black, possibly to help identify between the #33 & #34 when the cars are viewed from the front.

If any team has questions over a manufacturer switch, I'd like to know why I watched a Shell ad with Scotty Mac driving a shiny Bavarian?

There's been no change in financial support from Ford but, last year's ad had Scotty & Fabs in a Ford.

Is that smoke I see?

 

[LumpiestFish]

From what I could see on the TV, GRM haven't removed the Holden badge on Tander's at all - it's just painted black, possibly to help identify between the #33 & #34 when the cars are viewed from the front.

If any team has questions over a manufacturer switch, I'd like to know why I watched a Shell ad with Scotty Mac driving a shiny Bavarian?

There's been no change in financial support from Ford but, last year's ad had Scotty & Fabs in a Ford.

Is that smoke I see?

The badge was removed, in the post race interview you can see the bare Opel logo which would be under where the badge would be placed on to of.

For the Falcon turning into a BMW, id imagine that would just be them wanting to show a ‘classier’ car.

 

[05XR8]

http://www.supercars.com/championship/2018-virgin-australia-supercars-championship-points/

Nice to see Simona starting in 16th and even with one of the rookies. I'd say her goal should be, to finish ahead of Blanchard this year.

 

[FPV MIC]

I agree with Tim on that one. The Kerb thing has been so inconsistent this weekend, it's a joke.

We're not the only ones.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/motors...m/news-story/5d0ebdfb52b2b2bee4d94f4e375ba70d

Did anyone else notice CL miss the chicane by two car widths after he'd been given the bad sportsmanship flag. I know it was of no advantage to him at all but neither was MW's cut. So miss it by millimeters is not ok but miss it by metres is . Something has to be done.

Just as an aside, I also think Chaz got away with one after the bad sportsmanship flag.

 

[CodeRedR51]

We're not the only ones.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/motors...m/news-story/5d0ebdfb52b2b2bee4d94f4e375ba70d

Did anyone else notice CL miss the chicane by two car widths after he'd been given the bad sportsmanship flag. I know it was of no advantage to him at all but neither was MW's cut. So miss it by millimeters is not ok but miss it by metres is . Something has to be done.

Just as an aside, I also think Chaz got away with one after the bad sportsmanship flag.

Seeing the images in that tweet in that article just disgusts me.