Things you miss in Australian Motorsport

[Adrian Shelton]

This should be good for some lists, here's mine


Amaroo Park

Greg Murphys Flat-Top hairdo

The Max3, Foodtown, Daily Planet and Everlast Commodore teams

The Supercar round at Lakeside

Mark Gibbs
BMW,Volvo and Audi saviging each other in super touring(remember Lakeside in 96, try and do THAT with 3 V8's!)

The Bathurst and Eastern Creek 12 Hours

The night racing at Calder

NASCAR, AUSCAR and those escaped physcos passing themselves off as racedrivers in HQ's

More than 1 brand of tyre on touring cars

....and more than 2 brands of car

VL Commodores cruising around Bathurst 12-15 seconds of the lead pace

Bob Holden(and that damn Corolla that did about 10 Bathursts, 2 Spa 24 hours and a Nurburgring 24 hours)

HRT breaking 2 Commodores at Bathurst in the first 32 laps.

Mike Raymond sounding like he was going to wet himself every 5 minutes

Alan Moffats Cenovis Falcon

Doug Mulray talking crap at Bathurst every year

and more than anything else...Peter Janson!!

 

[JUBJUB]

Mike Raymond sounding like he was going to wet himself every 5 minutes

Don't you watch ch9's coverage of PROCAR's ?

 

[Adrian Shelton]

Whoops! at least young Andy Raymond's got an annoncing gig more up his alley these days too(Ring announcer on FOX)

 

[ViperV10]

What do I miss in Australian Motorsport?

Ford winning Bathurst...

 

[NICK THE PIE MAN]

HRT dominating.

 

[WA ROO]

Nissan dominating touring cars

 

[roostersgal4eva]

Adelaide F1 Grand Prix

 

[Klyntonius]

Shell 2 plus 4 Series

 

[DB10]

Drag Racing at A.I.R.

 

[DEVO]

Nissan dominating touring cars

Godzilla was the greatest Touring Car ever built.

It would be interesting to see how it would go against the current V8 supercars, especially without all the handicaps placed on it by CAMS.

 

[adams]

barry sheene

 

[mongrelpunt]

- Tracks designed for real racing, not for the viewing (Queensland Raceway is in that category)

- Kim Jones and Garry Rogers keeping their mouths shut for longer than 5 minutes

- GT Production race on Saturday at Bathurst

- The Full 50 car grid at Bathurst

- "Personalities" - the days of the Jim Richards / Pack of Assholes is ruined by the governing bodies and their fines

- Neil Crompton driving - as a commentator he's a great driver

- Wayne Gardner trying to drive V8's, then complaining that it was the car's fault he kept crashing

- The Number 1 on Skaifey's drivers door