Bathurst 1000 Tips. Anyone Care?

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Wrong forum I know but there could be major bragging rights to be had tomorrow night.

Who do you think will win? Crash? break down on the last lap? take someone out?

I'd like to see Lowndes win his last race for HRT but wouldn't mind if Ingall or Gardner won. Even if Seton finally won one I wouldn't complain.

 

[Richmondfan#1]

What about Scaife? Does he have a chance to win?

 

[CJ]

HOLDEN. IT HAS TO BE HOLDEN!! FORDS SUCK!!

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

RF1, Skaife and Lowndes are in the same car this year. Not at the same time though. Hehe.

I just watched the top 10 shootout as all the Holdens bar Skaife went off in the wet at the same spot. Unreal.

Gardner pole, Steven Johnson 2nd.

[This message has been edited by The Old Dark Navy's (edited 18 November 2000).]

 

[CJ]

RF#1,

Scaife is co-driving with Lowndes and has a damn good chance! That is asumming that Lowndes doesn't try to be a bloody hero like he usually does!

Eventhough he drives a ford, well done to Gardiner for getting pole after blitzing the rest in the final qualifing round.

 

[Mags]

Holden!

 

[Richmondfan#1]

Yeah i thought Scaife had a chance.

He is a good driver.

ALL THE WAY SCAIFE!!

 

[Frodo]

It has to be Ben Cousins or Diatribe

 

[ptw]

lost interest since Dick Johnston got hit by a rock in '81.

ptw

 

[JUBJUB]

Radisich/Bright will win with Longhurst/Besnard 2nd,Perkins/Ingall 3rd.

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[fighting fury]

Well, not that I care much about Bathurst, but I have at least heard about Seton. If he's a top bloke, hope he wins! The whole race sounds like 'speeding mosquitos' to me anyway. Not my 'cup-of-tea'.

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[CJ]

SETON????

What a joke! My money is on on him f@cking up! AGAIN!!!!!

 

[CQ]

well im going for the rat.

 

[Bloodstained Angel]

Have to agree with ptw there

Bathurst is boring compared to tye good old days. These days its just Falcons v Commodores, neither car is particulery interesting, get 30 plus of the buggers out on the track and they all look the same, go the same, sound the same, perfrom the same, etc etc.

I want to return to the good old days when their was genuine variety out on the track. Where V8 Fors and Holdens would mix it with things like Mazda Rx7's, Celca Twin Cams, Straight-six BMW's, V12 Jaguars, Nissan GT's etc etc. There even used to be a whole seperate class for 1600 cc cars (dominated by the mighty Holden Gemini of course).

Yesterday's race was rainy. In years gone by this would have given another car a good chance of pinching the race, those of you with long memories may recall the 1972 race where Peter Brock won his first title in a straight-six Holden Torana that was more nimble and had better wet weather handling than the V8 Falcon GTs who had much more horsepower.

By comparison these days it is just boring and two-dimensional. If you don't happen to be a rabidly one-eyed Ford man / Holden man then I'm afraid Bathurst and Australian Touring car racing in general holds little interest.

cheers