Bathurst 1000 - on SpeedTV Tday

This year's Aussie V8 series' run at the Mt Panorama circuit airs this afternoon at 3PM (est) on SpeedTV.

If you're interested, it's usually an entertaining to spend a couple of hours.

Enjoy!

Doood, that was a wicked flip!

damn it, in DC not near my tv or dvr!

What a great race on a great "old school" track. Makes pre-chicane Road Atlanta look tame!

Those cars are awesome!
It's the way NASCAR should be.

fornetti14 wrote: Those cars are awesome! It's the way NASCAR should be.

they are nascars =(

well they go around corners but still, theyre identical no matter how much you tell the general public

pickstock wrote:

fornetti14 wrote: Those cars are awesome! It's the way NASCAR should be.

they are nascars =( well they go around corners but still, theyre identical no matter how much you tell the general public

Welcome to the board(s) pickstock!

But, please, do some research before commenting, so as to establish some credibility. Unless, of course, you think Boone's Farm is the same as Moet cause both come from grapes.

pickstock - Cars in the Aussie V8 Supercar series are production-bodied touring cars featuring fuel-injected V8's, like their RWD street car counterparts, and they run a full schedule of road course sprints and enduro's. This is 'identical' to NASCAR how exactly?

oldsaw wrote:

pickstock wrote:

fornetti14 wrote: Those cars are awesome! It's the way NASCAR should be.

they are nascars =( well they go around corners but still, theyre identical no matter how much you tell the general public

Welcome to the board(s) pickstock! But, please, do some research before commenting, so as to establish some credibility. Unless, of course, you think Boone's Farm is the same as Moet cause both come from grapes.

I think the point he was trying to make was that the average person can't tell the difference. One time I was hanging out with this girl and her room mates. I was waitin for them, and flippin through the channels. I stopped on speed cause there was a SpeedGT or Speed Touring Car race on, I can't remember what it was called back then. Immediately one of them exclaimed, "oh anything but Nascar!"

I didn't even bother to correct her and just gave her the remote.

In reply to captainzib:

Obviously, none of them were "the one" and apparently had group plans; your man-card is valid.

I can't make presumptions about pickstock's knowledge. But, I'll defer to the adage that "it's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt".

YMMV.

sorry i should actually give some background. im a scrutineer in australia and i was working at bathurst with the V8 supercars. and we complain that they are nascars. the engines are both identical, diff, suspension brakes wheels all spec seires. yes they do course events not just around in circles. people here are either holden or ford, yet noone can see the cars are identical.

tripple 8 racing converted from ford to holden at the start of this year and i asked some of the mechs how different the two cars were, he said they tried to put the pannels off the holden on a spare ford chassis they had theyre. gaps were marginal maybe 10mm but still looked like a holden

this is why they are almost nascar, all spec seires

That's true enough, but at least the racing is radically different, (to NASCAR.)

While I'm on the subject, I think it's funny how V8 Supercars can attract two very dissimilar fan types. You've got your typical redneck/"bogan", cheap beer-swilling loudmouth, with the "I'd rather push my HOLDEN than drive a Ford"-bumper sticker'd Commodore. Conversely, you have the bloke who's into all cars and any kind of racing, doesn't take a side one way or the other, who's just there to see an entertaining race.

In reply to Luke: its very rare to find somone who goes for the racing though =(

its mosttly bogans......................... im into cars and prefer all the support races instead

Wow they have changed things a lot, i noticed how the car that rolled over shed panels like a Nascar, last time I went to Bathurst they were using (modified) factory shells, that was only 15 years ago.

yeah now they have cut and shut the cars to make them fit the rules

i want production cars back =(

yeah now they have cut and shut the cars to make them fit the rules

i want production cars back =(

In reply to pickstock:

Thanks for the inside info - never knew the specs were standardized in such ways. But, hey, the V8's still approximate the original cars far more than the COT's used by NASCAR.

And they sure look, sound, stop and go around corners far better, too!

In reply to oldsaw:

until 2012 when we turn worse more restictions under the car of the future crap

"Car of the Future"?! Yikes, you guys really have been drinking the NASCAR cool-aid.

nderwater wrote: "Car of the Future"?! Yikes, you guys really have been drinking the NASCAR cool-aid.

Any reference to a "car of the future" relates to the plans of a series organizer, not the forward-thinking of a race car design.

Try to keep up.