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Disgusting to hear Winterbottom and Owen being booed on the podium.
I wish race control had issued it about thirty seconds sooner. It gave Whincup the opportunity to block everyone. If the team want to issue orders to their drivers, then that's their business - but they shouldn't be allowed to issue orders that interfere with everyone else's race. So now we'll never know if Winterbottom could have genuinely challenged Lowndes because he was gifted a buffer by a driver who was effectuvely out of the race.
It's weird that it's only really re-emerging now. It's never a great thing when a (relative) rookie doesn't listen, but Whincup has been pretty disciplined since then; if he wasn't listening, then at least the team was able to head it off. To a certain extent, the driver needs to make a judgement call when the situation is marginal, but neither of Whincup's judgement calls have made any sense.
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Yeah, it's mind boggling why they didn't call him into pit lane just before the re-start. He undoubtedly ruined what would have been another great finish by blocking everyone.
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Whincup still adamant that the safety car lights were green. 
You'll always be adamant you weren't at fault if you're a racing driver, just some more than others.Whincup still adamant that the safety car lights were green.
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I'm guessing that the logic was that they wanted it to be an actual penalty. Passing the safety car is a pretty serious infringement, but with his stop made, calling him in at the restart would have minimised the penalty. They don't want to send the message that it's okay to play the rulebook. The problem is that it gave Triple Eight the opportunity to back everyone else up, and how do the stewards punish that? Whincup did it, and Lowndes got the advantage, so they can't rightly penalise Lowndes. No-one wants to see the race decided by a penalty. They could try it to send a message to Triple Eight, banking on a fan revolt against the team, but Roland Dane and Simon McNamara would just play the victim card. How many of those Holden fans at the podium would accept such a move? To many of them, the ends justify the means.
It's not the stewards' responsibility to issue penalties in such a way that the teams avoid further penalties. It's down to the teams to know the rules.
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Damn, 16k likes on this post in 20 minutes.
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Great result for Frosty after a very difficult day, 399 points clear of 2nd now so championship is pretty much in the bag. Whincup was still claiming the safety car was showing green lights in the post-race interview so possibly a mistake by the SC but either way he knew he was breaking the rules.
Gutted for Scott Pye and Ambrose, can't imagine anyhting worse than the steering breaking going over the top of the mountain!
Gutted for Scott Pye and Ambrose, can't imagine anyhting worse than the steering breaking going over the top of the mountain!
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I think that corner where the #3 and the #17 crashed needs to have a safer barrier installed. Not on the racing area but over the grass where they both hit the wall.
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Too late to save that representation.
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Too intense fir the last couple of hours to make a post
Been barracking for the #17, #55, #5 and #111 all day, a shame about some of their results.
Couldn't have picked a better Holden driver to win though, I've always loved Lowndes. Well done 👍
Been barracking for the #17, #55, #5 and #111 all day, a shame about some of their results.
Couldn't have picked a better Holden driver to win though, I've always loved Lowndes. Well done 👍
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Actually I heard booing when Tander went up, when the CEO went up... actually when anyone else went up
I'm not saying they are all bogans, just some were booing everyone else because LOWNDESY
Was it wrong that I enjoyed how Whincup looked almost in tears from in his post-race interview?
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I noticed that Pye and Ambrose were bottoming out through the dip after Sulman Park all day; the front right of the splitter was scuffing the surface all day. I know everyone does it, but they were doing it much more. I'm guessing that they were running just a little too much rake.
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How long before Roland claims an unfair advantage to the #5 due to no double stacking...
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Each time something relevant happened, we had the same inclination to message the other that it had happened.
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I don't know, but he's the only person who can turn "we have the two best drivers" into a complaint.
Have to wonder at the wisdom of taking van Gisbergen next year. He's quick, but he's inconsistent. It doesn't help that Tekno keep saddling him with strategies that are unorthodox, but he just does not have the consistency over the long runs. He had fresher tyres than Reynolds, and yet burned them all up.
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