2018 Virgin Australia Supercars ChampionshipTouring Cars

[Spacegoat]

Missed the first dozen laps. What happened to Courtney?

 

[05XR8]

Missed the first dozen laps. What happened to Courtney?

Friendly fire from Pye.

First lap mayhem. Cars were bunched up. Slade was making a move on Courtney at onec turn. At the next, it allowed Pye to try up the inside of Courtney. Wound up pushing Courtney into Frosty, spinning him in the dirt.

Courtney trying to do 49laps to be classified as a finisher.

Edit: I still don't get why drivers make passes easy for Giz. Giz always says he doesn't expect. Just hold him up for one corner. Ridiculous.

 

[FPV MIC]

Friendly fire from Pye.

First lap mayhem. Cars were bunched up. Slade was making a move on Courtney at onec turn. At the next, it allowed Pye to try up the inside of Courtney. Wound up pushing Courtney into Frosty, spinning him in the dirt.

Courtney trying to do 49laps to be classified as a finisher.

Edit: I still don't get why drivers make passes easy for Giz. Giz always says he doesn't expect. Just hold him up for one corner. Ridiculous.​

Ford drivers handing spots to SVG ​

 

[05XR8]

Ford drivers handing spots to SVG ​

Yeah, I just can't, don't understand it. Red Bull wouldn't make it easy.

 

[Spacegoat]

Friendly fire from Pye.

Of course it was. *facepalm*

 

[05XR8]

Wake me up when it's over.

 

[FPV MIC]

Yeah, I just can't, don't understand it. Red Bull wouldn't make it easy.

They handed the lead to him, only had to hold him up for 2 seconds but nah, here ya go, have a win ol' mate.... ridiculous!!

 

[05XR8]

The recent generation of racing is almost too by the numbers. Engineers get uu ng paidv big money to tell a driver who they are racing.

This one pitted earlier or later. Let them go because you're not racing them. Or they'll come back to you by the last lap. Yes, it's a gamble based on numbers. That's what the eggheads get paid for.
Micro managing every aspect, that fans at the track can't see.

The tyre rules are just unreal for a high level sport as this. Yes, there is a budget, but seriously, please, I don't read up on other series, someone let me know of other motorsports that run one new tyre and the other three are from practice. All in the name of saving tyres for another round.

 

[05XR8]

Yeah right, Giz.
https://www.supercars.com/news/championship/coulthard-explains-indicating-van-gisbergen-past/

 

[FPV MIC]

Yeah right, Giz.
https://www.supercars.com/news/championship/coulthard-explains-indicating-van-gisbergen-past/

Of course he would.... but only if it's a team mate, and then with a clause that if you can't overtake the next car you have to give the spot back. Ask Craig Lowndes

Still, it's not SVG's fault. I think Rusty needs to go and have ''the Dave Reynolds talk'' to a few others.

 

[05XR8]

Of course he would.... but only if it's a team mate, and then with a clause that if you can't overtake the next car you have to give the spot back. Ask Craig Lowndes

Still, it's not SVG's fault. I think Rusty needs to go and have ''the Dave Reynolds talk'' to a few others.

No doubt!
I'd put more emphasis on the teams championship that the DC.

 

[05XR8]

The recent generation of racing is almost too by the numbers. Engineers get uu ng paidv big money to tell a driver who they are racing.

This one pitted earlier or later. Let them go because you're not racing them. Or they'll come back to you by the last lap. Yes, it's a gamble based on numbers. That's what the eggheads get paid for.
Micro managing every aspect, that fans at the track can't see.

The tyre rules are just unreal for a high level sport as this. Yes, there is a budget, but seriously, please, I don't read up on other series, someone let me know of other motorsports that run one new tyre and the other three are from practice. All in the name of saving tyres for another round.

Ta da!
https://www.speedcafe.com/2018/07/24/supercars-to-review-practice-tyres-proposal/

 

[Pete05]

Ta da!
https://www.speedcafe.com/2018/07/24/supercars-to-review-practice-tyres-proposal/

I’m all for fresh tyres each time a car leaves pitlane but, this isn’t going to solve the problem of Fabs stepping aside for SVG.
That needs to be solved by opening up the race strategy options.

Having said that,the boffin within an Engineer is always going to crunch the numbers & come up with an ultimate race strategy/pace AND get their driver to stick to it.

If the other teams in pitlane didn’t know how your team was going to do a 60 lap race, letting the opposition pass would be a thing that’d disappear quickly.
Are they doing 4x 15, 3x 20, 2x 30 or not stopping at all because they started with a full fuel load.
Teams should be able to decide which of the two tyre compounds they run too.

 

[05XR8]

I’m all for fresh tyres each time a car leaves pitlane but, this isn’t going to solve the problem of Fabs stepping aside for SVG.
That needs to be solved by opening up the race strategy options.

Having said that,the boffin within an Engineer is always going to crunch the numbers & come up with an ultimate race strategy/pace AND get their driver to stick to it.

If the other teams in pitlane didn’t know how your team was going to do a 60 lap race, letting the opposition pass would be a thing that’d disappear quickly.
Are they doing 4x 15, 3x 20, 2x 30 or not stopping at all because they started with a full fuel load.
Teams should be able to decide which of the two tyre compounds they run too.

This is a good first step though. If the weather and support category rubber were big deciding factors for the teams, at least now, they will know how new rubber reacts on longer runs.

What will be telling, is a team, say Nissan, make break throughs with understanding the tyre. They get even better results, that could have transpired earlier in the season.

 

[05XR8]

https://www.speedcafe.com/2018/07/26/cindric-mustang-supercars-project-on-track/

 

[05XR8]

https://www.supercars.com/news/championship/djrtp-confirms-coulthard-for-2019/?sf194337771=1

I can't see any movement in the rest of then teams.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

I’m not sure what’s up with Mostert’s contract, but I’ve been hoping to see him as McLaughlin’s team mate for far too long now.

 

[05XR8]

I’m not sure what’s up with Mostert’s contract, but I’ve been hoping to see him as McLaughlin’s team mate for far too long now.

We'll, if Fabs is only at DJRTP for next year, we'll see.

 

[Spacegoat]

We'll, if Fabs is only at DJRTP for next year, we'll see.

Think Mostert is contracted until the end of next year too? Wouldn't be a big surprise to see DJRTP make a play for him to replace Coulthard.

 

[FPV MIC]

Think Mostert is contracted until the end of next year too? Wouldn't be a big surprise to see DJRTP make a play for him to replace Coulthard.

According to this he is: https://www.motorsport.com/v8superc...bourne-mostert-inks-new-tickford-deal-997819/

Also found this interesting, https://www.motorsport.com/all/article/?id=997198 but I'm not sure how good of a source they are. Hopefully above Phelps level.

 

[05XR8]

Think Mostert is contracted until the end of next year too? Wouldn't be a big surprise to see DJRTP make a play for him to replace Coulthard.

They'd have to bring Adam with that deal. With those two, DJRTP would then be unstoppable. Just hope the Mustang goes good.

 

[Spacegoat]

Also found this interesting, https://www.motorsport.com/all/article/?id=997198 but I'm not sure how good of a source they are. Hopefully above Phelps level.

That's going to make it real interesting if that's true. Whincup retiring. Mostert, Coulthard off contract (think Pye and Courtney are as well, at the end of 2019). The grid could look completely different in 2020.

 

[05XR8]

https://www.supercars.com/news/cham...ham-out-at-preston-hire-racing/?sf194394131=1

Eh, dunno about this.

 

[noshog]

Aww I thought we had seen the last of Bright

Surely he knows he's not that good anymore

 

[Spacegoat]

Didn't Brabham crash the car in the one test he had earlier in the year? Bright might be well past his used by date but I'd take him over Brabham.

 

[FPV MIC]

That's going to make it real interesting if that's true. Whincup retiring. Mostert, Coulthard off contract (think Pye and Courtney are as well, at the end of 2019). The grid could look completely different in 2020.

Yes, could be verrry interesting indeed. SVG will be off contract as well, but I can't see RD letting him go easily, or Shane wanting to go for that matter. I do wonder if Whincup's just playing around a bit, just trying to bump his price up for the last couple of years before his true retirement.

Didn't Brabham crash the car in the one test he had earlier in the year? Bright might be well past his used by date but I'd take him over Brabham.

Yeah he did, I was just reading about that before https://www.supercars.com/news/championship/preston-hire-holden-damaged-in-testing-crash/ But he has had other testing sessions, he was slowest in the last one. Pretty hard to come from Stadium Trucks to Supercars and be on the pace.

 

[05XR8]

I figure they could find an S2 driver.

 

[Spacegoat]

I do wonder if Whincup's just playing around a bit, just trying to bump his price up for the last couple of years before his true retirement.

Might he cop the Lowndes treatment? Get exiled to the third car and then pushed into "retirement" after a couple of years.

I figure they could find an S2 driver.

Who's available? I'd guess that all the half decent S2 guys already have drives.

 

[05XR8]

Might he cop the Lowndes treatment? Get exiled to the third car and then pushed into "retirement" after a couple of years.


Who's available? I'd guess that all the half decent S2 guys already have drives.

Still should be some race fit. Them Kostecki boys. There's like 8 of them, right?

 

[Spacegoat]

Still should be some race fit. Them Kostecki boys.

Ah, I forgot about the Kostecki's.

Saw something on the Supercars site about the possible WAU wildcard for Bathurst a few days ago. A Kostecki bros wildcard would be cool to see.

There's like 8 of them, right?

Certianly feels like it. 👍