2018 Virgin Australia Supercars ChampionshipTouring Cars

[05XR8]

Good job by Nismo. Courtney gets drive of the race.

Edit:
Rick has a real shot at finishing the season in thec to three. Having Jacobson as his co-driver, will definitely improve his chanced to close the gap to Whincup.
https://www.supercars.com/championship/2018-virgin-australia-supercars-championship-points/

 

[twitcher]

Cool new circuit, I like it 👍 what an opening lap by Courtney, that was really fun to watch.

 

[05XR8]

Oof! All T8 cars top 3 first hob out. JC and Pye nest, with Percat the sixth Holden.

Call this one a wrap.

Hope Lowndes can get the jump on the other two.

Well, look at that. 3 Nissan's top 10. Great job by the late hitters to make the 10.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Looks like tonight will be more of the same.

Might just go to the mountain tonight and watch the re-run tomorrow morning.

 

[Spacegoat]

Much better from qualifying pace from both WAU cars. Happy to see Pye up on the second row.

McLaughlin has some work to do.

 

[05XR8]

All the Fords have work to do. Mostert down in 24th.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Really impressed by the venue. We’ve had a decent wander around so far. There’s a great viewing spot between turns 4-9, crazy how much elevation change there ya between turns 8 and 9.

The final section is also a pretty decent spot to sit, another spot where you can get a good idea of how great the elevation change is. The circuit is certainly far from flat.

It’ll be interesting to see how the facility evolves over the coming years. It’s still a bit dusty and rocky but once the grass has grown in and all the development around the area is complete it’ll be incredible.

 

[05XR8]

Hope Pye can get Giz.

Edit: oh well, fantastic circuit.
I'll call Rick and Jacobson win Sandown.

 

[Spacegoat]

Unless T8 have a sudden drop in form. I can see SVG easily walking away with this championship.

 

[05XR8]

Unless T8 have a sudden drop in form. I can see SVG easily walking away with this championship.

Yep. It's that time of the year when T8 are winning.

Update to the NASCAR visit
https://www.speedcafe.com/2018/08/28/supercars-ceo-plans-us-visit-to-foster-nascar-relationship/

 

[Cap'n Jack]

So surely Lowndes will have a livery pulled out of his own racing history for the retro round at Sandown, right?

 

[magic_town]

I sure hope so.

Edit:
Hopefully he doesn’t get a Caltex one, despite how good they can look.

 

[Pete05]

So surely Lowndes will have a livery pulled out of his own racing history for the retro round at Sandown, right?

I sure hope so.

Edit:
Hopefully he doesn’t get a Caltex one, despite how good they can look.

I fully expect him to get a retro Autobarn livery & I don’t see why he wouldn’t.
Autobarn would have to agree to anything else, as would the other sponsors on the car & I don’t see that happening.

 

[Spacegoat]

Hopefully he doesn’t get a Caltex one, despite how good they can look.

How about the old Betta Electrical livery from when he first joined T8 back in '05? Could imagine them maybe doing something like that to celebrate his time with the team.

Either way, I'm sure they'll do somthing special for him.

 

[05XR8]

HRT livery with Caltex on the side, instead of Mobil?

 

[magic_town]

I fully expect him to get a retro Autobarn livery & I don’t see why he wouldn’t.
Autobarn would have to agree to anything else, as would the other sponsors on the car & I don’t see that happening.

I completely forgot Caltex isn’t his main sponsor anymore. Give me a break, the seasons just started!

@Spacegoat that could work. Does Betta Electrical even exist anymore? Not that you’d need them on there anyway.

 

[Pete05]

I completely forgot Caltex isn’t his main sponsor anymore. Give me a break, the seasons just started!

No worries mate 👍 In an era where one livery a season just won't do, it's hard to keep up.

Look at how many seasons DJR ran the livery in your avatar. IIRC from 1988 - 1991, it was largely unchanged & if I was a betting man, I'd say that pic is from the '89 Bathurst win? I know it's not '88 because of the three cars entered, #17,18 & 28, none had JOHNSON BOWE on the windscreen.
by 1992, Palmer had disappeared as a sponsor & the Shell signage had changed to yellow.

 

[magic_town]

I’m not even sure which year it’s from to be honest.
I much preferred it when teams kept a livery for at least a couple of years, but it just doesn’t work like that these days.
Can you imagine how many suits Percat has in his wardrobe?!

 

[FPV MIC]

https://www.speedcafe.com/2018/08/30/the-bend-has-potential-to-host-supercars-enduro/

The new Bend Motorsport Park circuit has all the ingredients required for endurance racing, according to Supercars CEO Sean Seamer.

I'd like to see it happen 👍

@Cap'n Jack Are the rocks still this bad?

They needed to come in with many hundreds of truckloads of top soil back then, and later when I was there it was the same but with more grass.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Full circuit though please.

 

[FPV MIC]

Full circuit though please.

I don't think they'd be able to cater to running the full circuit properly yet. They struggled for the last event from what I heard.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

@Cap'n Jack Are the rocks still this bad?

Just about. The little grass coverage helped though. I saw three people trip over the same rock at one point, so they’ve got their value.

 

[Spacegoat]

Does Betta Electrical even exist anymore?

No idea.

Maybe they could do the "Lnowdes" livery for Sandown.

 

[Pete05]

No idea.

Maybe they could do the "Lnowdes" livery for Sandown.

There's a Betta Electrical in Traralgon, VIC. That's the only one I've seen since the chain went bust & considering the way the partnership with T8 ended, I wouldn't hold out hope of anything resembling this livery.

Personally speaking, This tops my list of most-hated Lowndes liveries . I'm sure no one at T8 remembers it fondly either
We all know what happened that day 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

 

[05XR8]

Wonder if Polyphony Digital, are working with them, to get that deep deep extra deep red to look like the real thing in HD.



Edit: Speedcafe reporting T8 cars will run their current liveries. Even Lowndes.

 

[Pete05]

Wonder if Polyphony Digital, are working with them, to get that deep deep extra deep red to look like the real thing in HD.



Edit: Speedcafe reporting T8 cars will run their current liveries. Even Lowndes.

RD the party pooper

 

[LumpiestFish]

RD the party pooper

It’s not RDs fault if the sponsors don’t want their liveries touched. Sponsors can be a fair bit work, and for them it’s not always about an attractive car, but what gets their logo the most eyes. To be honest, it surprises me that Holden and Autobarn wouldn’t want a retro livery, but Red Bull are to be a very hard company to statisfy.

 

[Pete05]

It’s not RDs fault if the sponsors don’t want their liveries touched. Sponsors can be a fair bit work, and for them it’s not always about an attractive car, but what gets their logo the most eyes. To be honest, it surprises me that Holden and Autobarn wouldn’t want a retro livery, but Red Bull are to be a very hard company to statisfy.

Yeah Red Bull doesn’t surprise me. Autobarn? I’m disappointed.

 

[05XR8]

https://www.speedcafe.com/2018/08/31/supercars-considering-two-day-race-meetings-in-2019/
I'm for this, at certain events.

 

[FPV MIC]

Yeah Red Bull doesn’t surprise me. Autobarn? I’m disappointed.

Even if Autobarn went back to the '08 livery it would be better than nothing.