V8 Supercar Champs

[Azz]

Lowndes fan here.

Sydney is going to be great, I hope Lowndes, Whincup, Winterbottom & Davidson all qualify 1, 2, 3 & 4.

I would like Lowndes to win, then Whincup, but most importantly I want to see more close racing like Phillip Island produced.
Winterbottom is hungry for it, so I think we should see some great racing.

Only problem with a street circuit, is when they tangle it ends really bad, with cars getting taken out completely.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Yeah, go Loundes.... 

Hey, what about ol Russell Ingals wife... hubba hubba. She is one cutie.

Ol Russ is punching way above his weight there.

Opps, gotta go, Mrs Jeepers coming into room.

[kylarama]

Check out the in car footage from the following car.

V8 Supercars 2013 Courtney Crash


Cams & V8SC deemed the chassis a right off... Don't know why?

[Robbo]

Wow! That is scarey how those rails let go. James is very lucky that he did'nt sustain worse injuries. Hopefully the replacement design will offer better protection in future.

[Black Diamond]

Very lucky and due to the limited side vision Courtney wouldn't have seen it coming.

not much he could do if he did anyway. He better get a lotto ticket

BD

[edz]

Ahhh I see they have gone to a NASCAR style side intrusion bar now !! Though I think there needs to be a bit more than they have in the new one .

[kylarama]

Wow! That is scarey how those rails let go. James is very lucky that he did'nt sustain worse injuries. Hopefully the replacement design will offer better protection in future.

From what they were saying on the telecast the following day.  The designers are happy with the way it held up considering the side impact load.  They are not in the pics, but there is a 50mm thick composite honeycomb panel attached to the side rails and then the same panel again inside the door, designed to spread the load.  Supposedly these cars exceed FIA side impact protection, better than WRC cars, but they are probably not at NASCAR level.
I'm tipping JC's race suit and fire proof undies were a write off too...

[oldmate]

He is lucky, although he still suffered a broken leg from the prang. Nick percat will drive 22 at the final round.

[D4D]

I'm tipping JC's race suit and fire proof undies were a write off too...

I'm tipping whoever it was with the in-car footage needed a change of undies too

[VKPrado]

It was one of the Kelly's driving the car the footage is taken from.

[oldmate]

Yep. Todd Kelly's car

[kylarama]

Well done Jamie Whincup, 2013 ATCC winner.

30 years old, 4 Bathurst crowns and now tied equal first on the winners with 5 ATCC titles.  Not bad considering Dick Johnson didn't win Bathurst or his first ATCC until he was 37.  Whether he goes overseas or not, I'm tipping by the time he retires, he will have smashed to pieces every single Australian touring car record.
He has serious balls too.  Like his last lap lunge at Bathurst, today he starts rubbing panels and diving past cars with 4 laps to go.  Title on the line and all he had to do was stay out of trouble and finish the race.

[oldmate]

Well done Rusty!  Thanks for the good racing over the years!

[evans52]

I'm not a Whincup fan (that's the first time I've used his correct surname in a long time) at all. But after the weekend's race he deserves to be 5 Time Champ. Frosty handed it to him at the first corner of the race for the weekend. All he had to do was, be more aggressive, move to the left half a metre and the roles would have been reversed with Whincup on the outside heading for the tyres. Whincup didn't let up all weekend and it paid off.

79 days until Clipsal..........Sweet.

[DannyG]

I agree with above. Im not a Holden or Whincup fan but you have to admire his will to race and win. Anyone else would have played it safe but instead he took risk after risk because he is a racer.

[Footy Shorts Shane]

Thiking the structual engineers might have a bit of x-raying of welds on the safety cages to do ... Looks very much like a weld wasnt done properly or at all , you can see how the tube has been notched out to fit up to the another and looks pretty clean all the way round on the front bottom tube.
Maybe they should go to a NASCAR style of anti side intrusion cage, looking back a few years on racing sites  it seems the X style cages have failed in a big hit at the welds with not so good results for the drivers ..

It appears to me that the passenger side is definately like that, but the drivers side looks as though the lower bar is straight with the upper bar bent like a V and held together with a dirty great big ugly looking gusset in the shape of a bow tie. Even if it is a notched bar join, it still appears to have torn at the end of the gusset.

I too think they need to have a serious look at some other forms of motorsport chassis and cage designs. That's a serious FAIL.

Shane.

[blackie66]

Fair dinkum how good was frosty at bathurst this year.
Maythefordsbewithu. 

[evans52]

Well it's all just gone to sh|t........Paul Morris and Chaz Mostert for the Endouros. FFS!!

[oldmate]

Well that's is one ford in the wall or on fire lol

[evans52]

Well that's is one ford in the wall or on fire lol

I'm going a drive through or two per Enduro all because of Morris. The Bloke's an idiot!

[DannyG]

Well it's all just gone to sh|t........Paul Morris and Chaz Mostert for the Endouros. FFS!!

Strange decision I would have thought. Maybe it had something to do with money............

[oldmate]

The Bloke's an idiot!

Never a more honest word said. Lol.

[evans52]

Strange decision I would have thought. Maybe it had something to do with money............

Unfortunately that is the only reason I can think of. Mind boggling simply.

[kylarama]

Maybe it had something to do with money............

Bingo!

From here http://www.speedcafe.com/2014/02/24/morris-join-mostert-enduro-cup/

It is expected that Morris will also assist FPR to acquire sponsorship

The Morris families wealth is around 200 million and the FPR cars look a bit bare this year sponsor wise.

In Paul's defense (I can't believe I just said that!) he did manage a 6th with Scott Pye in the LDM s#$% heap at last years 1000.

[Mace]

In Paul's defense (I can't believe I just said that!) he did manage a 6th with Scott Pye in the LDM s#$% heap at last years 1000.

I glad you confirmed that, I thought I saw his large frame in a race suit last year too!   

I though I must have been going senile.