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Am I the only one who hates the stadium super trucks? Sure, they look spectacular, but everything feels so fake - I mean, a mandatory competition caution to bunch the field up? And manipulating the drivetrain to lift the front wheel? It's not motorsport - it's reality TV, a heavily-controlled version of the sport fir entertainment purposes.
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- catamount39
So it's the WWE of motorsports?
That Ute race... 
I love how you say it feels so fake, but the very same thing can be said for F1 with DRS & FE with Fan Boost.
Jeez... lighten up. They're a bit of fun, which is what they were designed to be.
I love how you say it feels so fake, but the very same thing can be said for F1 with DRS & FE with Fan Boost.
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Don't we all love a ute race! 
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I disagree on DRS. While it might make passing too easy, without it, passing would be impossible. And when it works, it actually works really well; it gives the driver a chance to pass without guaranteeing it, so in the end, it comes down to the driver.
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- catamount39
Dem ute's doe!Don't we all love a ute race!
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- mustafur
Highly disagree, when it gives you enough speed to flat pass the car before the braking zone its just a gimmick.
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Whincup has changed his story about Bathurst again: in an interview with Mark Skaife, he says that he had no idea that the safety car had been deployed, and opted not to pit when he saw Lowndes go in, but had to make a judgement call when he saw the safety car. Extended footage does show that the safety car had green lights when he crested Mountain Straight, but they changed before he got to the safety car. He blames race control for making a mistake, but as Mark Skaife pointed out, he could have backed off and let the safety car back through and received the benefit of the doubt - a case of "I was doing 200km/h when the lights changed; I could not safely slow down in time" - and avoided a penalty, but he chose not to.
Whincup has also accused the commentators of deliberately misrepresenting events for the sake of telling a better story ... so if he does retire, I'd say he has a promising future as a member of the Liberal Party.
Whincup has also accused the commentators of deliberately misrepresenting events for the sake of telling a better story ... so if he does retire, I'd say he has a promising future as a member of the Liberal Party.
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Everyone needs to get over Bathurst. He ignored team orders and bought of all this crap on himself.
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Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they arrange their gantries so that Whincup and Lowndes share one, while van Gisbergen and Davison share the other to avoid double-stacking Whincup and van Gisbergen. Sure, it sticks it to Lowndes and Davison, but Lowndes has only ever gotten priority when Whincup is down for the count, and Davison will be in a Tekno, so he and the team will have no say.
That's what really peeved me off. He's basically blamed all the industry experts (and Skaife, whom was interviewing him) for his "villain" tag despite it being himself that did it. Whincup has really made an even bigger fool of himself.
Also liked Skaife's comment back in the studio about how he and Lowndes have lost Bathurst's having to double stack behind Whincup. Really rubs the salt into the wounds.
Whincup keeps bringing it on himself, whether he's changing his story, or blaming commentators. Red Bull really needs to discipline this guy. You wouldn't think he was in his 30's with the way he's carrying on.
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CodeRedR51
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They should do a top 10 shootout every race just because it's awesome.
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Scotty P2! 
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Every meeting should be two races of 250km.
Each race should have its own qualifying session and top-ten shootout, with one session on the hard tyres and the other on the soft (and the drivers allowed to choose when they use each).
The top-ten shootout for the Endurance Cup should be based on aggregate times, with both drivers doing a qualifying session and their times added together.
Adelaide should be part of the Endurance Cup, with one 500km race; likewise, the Gold Coast 600 should be one race. There should also be an Endurance Cup race in New Zealand to go with a Super Sprint. And get rid of the International Super Sprint format.
What would be truly amazing is an international touring car festival, with V8 Supercars, the BTCC, SuperGT, DTM and WTCC all racing at the one circuit over the course of a week. But it would be too expensive.
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- mustafur
Like the World Touring Car cup thing they had in the early 90s?
It would be practical if everyone was using same spec cars like they were with Super touring so each country can just bring their own car to the race.
but it wouldn't happen unless its Class one.
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