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Klyntonius said:
To reach their own I guess but that feels like misplaced prioritising to me.
It really sounds like justifying to himself getting cold feet.
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Absolutely it is. As it said, he won 4 titles consecutively while being with her, how was this any different?
 
It’s 2017, we don’t use a radar gun, because everything has a plus/minus tolerance.

“We use a thousand percent accurate timing loop system, the same as Formula 1 or anyone else; every car has a timing transponder, parked in exactly the same position on the car; that transponder’s got to travel over two timing loops, five metres apart.

“It can’t get from one timing loop to the other timing loop without speeding; it’s the law of physics, there’s no magic.
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there is a screen grab on the net where McLaughlin crossed the line at 34km/h and another further in the pits at 38km/h. That's a 4km/h increase and would show a increase in time over that distance even if it was half or a quarter of that 4km/h. Seems a flawed logic with plenty of question marks around it.

Then Baird pumps this out

Baird on whether the position of the wall played a factor in the decision

“No, because why did they hit the gap in the wall? Because one car crowded the other car into that gap.

“And look, we can all go in hindsight, ‘There’s a gap’; when you look at the gap, it’s such a small thing.

“It looks different from different angles but we all walked the track, every engineer walks the track, we all looked at all the gates, and it didn’t look that bad.

“But at 200km/h, with a 1400kg Supercar, or two of them, crashing into it, I would suggest that the gate actually deflected in, maybe more than what it should, or what anyone thought it would have, which resulted in the accident.

“The gate magnifies the problem. Had the gate not been there, I don’t think Lowndes would have had the accident, I agree with that.

“But Scott certainly would have lost the position, because Lowndes had already had the overlap and had the inside line.”
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No Craig there was room until your poorly designed track jutted out. Lowndes bumped Scott and then flung him into that protruding wall. Scott also may have held the position if he went around the corner with lowndsy because of the shape of turn 3 which turns into favour for the outside car on 4.

Then he pumps this out.

Baird on comparisons between the incident where Whincup pushed McLaughlin onto the grass in Race 23 at Pukekohe and the former received only a bad sportsmanship flag.

“Did anyone gain a position, lose a position, or have a crash?

“So when nothing happens… there was no wall there, I think it’s bad sportsmanship, hence a black flag warning.

But what would they want me to do, exclude him from a race because I ran a car a little bit out of road?

McLaughlin returned serve exiting the hairpin, they all want a good game, they want to play on, they want Bairdo to keep the whistle in the pocket, until it bites them in the arse.

“What we’ve tried to do this year, is to try and have a good, flowing game.

“We go on about consistency but there is no consistency in this game because every corner’s different, every incident is different, every amount of overlap is different.”
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Because Scott held onto it being pushed onto wet grass that makes it okay. The bloke running the show is a ****wit with a massive ego
 
hey shorty said:
Easily
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Funnily enough, it seems only Ford fans have a problem with it ;) Roles reversed, if Craig had done that to Scotty, they'd be screaming for a breach of rules.

You can't run someone off the road like he did. Fairly straightforward really.
 

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Shaxx Attaxx said:
Yep after watching a few replays I’ve changed my mind on the last incident. No doubt it was there. It’s just weird how quick they were to make the call since Supercars is famous for making the decision after the race.
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Purely because of the championship. They've set a bit of a precedent now though - we should hopefully get quicker decisions next season.
 
Jatz said:
Funnily enough, it seems only Ford fans have a problem with it ;) Roles reversed, if Craig had done that to Scotty, they'd be screaming for a breach of rules.

You can't run someone off the road like he did. Fairly straightforward really.
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We screamed for it when JW ran him off the road in NZ and got a slap on the wrist. The ONLY difference was Scotty lifted and saved himself from a massive accident. CL had no business interfering in the title race and could have lifted.

Can't shoot Bambi
 
hey shorty said:
What's so funny ?? He knows full well what it's like to have your title hopes dashed by someone punting you off
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The fact that you think he shouldn't have tried to race scotty purely because he's in the championship fight. It's laughable.
 
Bacon Warrior said:
The fact that you think he shouldn't have tried to race scotty purely because he's in the championship fight. It's laughable.
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Everyone else stayed out of it, even guys like Tander and Courtney. I thought Lowndes using the excuse "I was racing for 6th" was pathetic
 

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hey shorty said:
We screamed for it when JW ran him off the road in NZ and got a slap on the wrist. The ONLY difference was Scotty lifted and saved himself from a massive accident. CL had no business interfering in the title race and could have lifted.

Can't shoot Bambi
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Absolute rubbish. Awful call. Scott ran wide and CL had the speed. If Scott hadn't squeezed him into the fence, he'd have driven straight by McLaughlin.

Why should he not take advantage of an error?
 
hey shorty said:
We screamed for it when JW ran him off the road in NZ and got a slap on the wrist. The ONLY difference was Scotty lifted and saved himself from a massive accident. CL had no business interfering in the title race and could have lifted.

Can't shoot Bambi
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Scotty squared up with him a few laps later
 
hey shorty said:
What's so funny ?? He knows full well what it's like to have your title hopes dashed by someone punting you off
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If he wanted to take Scotty out he could have easily done so in the preceding laps , he even had a dive at turn 9 and thought better of it.
I don't work for RBR but i've watched enough motorsport over the years to know that his " brief " would've been to shadow Scott and either harass/pass/kamikaze him - simple case of who pays the bills mate.

Trust me i understand the anger , Lowndsey got the biggest shafting in 06 but these are 2 different scenarios.
 
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Jatz said:
Absolute rubbish. Awful call. Scott ran wide and CL had the speed. If Scott hadn't squeezed him into the fence, he'd have driven straight by McLaughlin.

Why should he not take advantage of an error?
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CL knew the fence closed in, he either lifted or got slammed. He could of lifted and still had him.
 
hey shorty said:
CL knew the fence closed in, he either lifted or got slammed. He could of lifted and still had him.
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No he couldn’t. If he’d lifted he wouldn’t of got close to getting past him. Would have lost all momentum.
 

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