V8 Super Cars Bathurst 1000, 2011 edition

[Burgey]

Ok, so this is the one motor racing event which genuinely floats my boat. It's going live to the US on Speed Channel this year too.

161 laps, 1000kms. For those overseas who haven't seen it, this is a brutal race over a circuit which climbs, then descends, over about 300 metres. Just an amazing circuit.

Here's an in-car clip from 2010.

Lowndes Onboard 2010 Bathurst 1000 Lap Record 2:06.8012 - YouTube

Hope they all get around safely this year.

 

[Johnners]

Pretty much my favourite weekend of the year

Hoping for a Winterbottom win. Althought anyone but Tander/Whincup/Lowndes would do really.

 

[Flem274*]

This weekend is perfect sporting wise.

 

[Burgey]

Ok, so who's a tad disappointed at the clean start?

Admit it, come on...

 

[Burgey]

Hoping Paul Morris/ Steve Owens do well. Mate of mine is involved in managing that team.

 

[Flem274*]

I don't get how Murphy can be on a rapid decline that somehow excludes Bathurst.

 

[Flem274*]

Ok, so who's a tad disappointed at the clean start?

Admit it, come on...

Genuinely surprised tbh. Someone always chokes on the first lap.

 

[Johnners]

Ok, so who's a tad disappointed at the clean start?

Admit it, come on...

Especially after the first lap of last years race...

I'm happy enough for Tander to pummel a wall at any stage during the race though, doesn't necessarily have to happen at the start 8|

 

[Burgey]

Especially after the first lap of last years race...

I'm happy enough for Tander to pummel a wall at any stage during the race though, doesn't necessarily have to happen at the start 8|

Oh Jesus, you mean Fabian Coulthard?


youtube.com/watch?v=XgVFC-n7RFE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Insane, wasn't it?

 

[Flem274*]

John McIntyre WAC.

 

[benchmark00]

Can't wait until lap 160 where they have to go the other way to finish off. Always a good spectacle.

 

[benchmark00]

More fire than the Windies pace attack crica 1985.

 

[Burgey]

Seeing that makes me think of flame-grilled chicken tbh.

 

[benchmark00]

Are you proposing that we replace the human drivers with chickens next year?

I like where your head's at.

 

[Burgey]

Are you proposing that we replace the human drivers with chickens next year?

I like where your head's at.

I am. I'm also advocating a return to 1920s style greyhound racing, when they used to have monkey jockeys, for the LOLs.

 

[benchmark00]

Let's attach a harness to the dogs and let monkeys drive them. Like miniature trots.

 

[Flem274*]

Damn, missed it.

 

[benchmark00]

Damn, missed it.

Nah they haven't developed the miniature harness technology yet. I'll let you know when they do.

 

[Burgey]

Let's attach a harness to the dogs and let monkeys drive them. Like miniature trots.

Yes! And if there's interference, they can have a protest hearing and fling **** at each other.

Be like Site Discussion.

 

[Burgey]

Well, that was exciting.