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Maybe he had been talking to Bargwanna about the best lines to take through the top of the mountain. Better to do it on the first practice session than the warm up lap the morning before the race

7th October 2004 - 05:45 PM  Reply  Quote

Here is my prediction for the final top 5 places come 5pm Sunday:-

1.) 15 Kmart Racing Team R.Kelly/G.Murphy Holden Commodore VY
2.) 2 Holden Racing Team M.Skaife/T.Kelly/J.Plato Holden Commodore VY
3.) 50 PWR Performance Products Jason Bright Holden Commodore VY
4.) 11 Castrol Perkins Motorsport S.Richards/J.Richards Holden Commodore VY
5.) 34 Repco Valvoline Cummins Team C.McConville/G.Tander Holden Commodore VY.

Personally I believe that the Castrol Perkins team of father and son, that being Jim & Steven Richards are the team to watch. Whilst I have tipped Murphy to win I wouldn't be suprised to see The Richards boys take it out. Also PWR with Jason Bright are also one to watch.


P.S. Position No.6 will be my 10" shot peened and polished crankshaft being placed in Dions block . It's ok Dion I'm thinking a 30w should be a nice weight for the reciprocating mass

7th October 2004 - 10:23 PM  Reply  Quote

Yes so a F*^# should have won the Konica/Minolta race as there were 18 F*^#'s compared to 6 Holden's . Just goes to show how F*^# are so cheap they give them to anyone, especially an AU

On another note, this was brilliant to see was the race between Brock in his old A9X Torana (400hp), Skaife in the current VY HRT (600hp)and McConville in a current VZ SS Commodore (250kw). The VZ SS was given a 10sec head start over Brock in his A9X, and Brock was given a 20sec head start over Skaife.

McConville held off Brock by a good 10 seconds if not more, and Skaife managed to pass McConville at the end of Conrod under brakes. It really goes to show how/what it's like comparing old technology to the new and how road cars compare to V8 Supercars.

All jokes a side it was a fine effort by McConville in a stock VZ SS to hold off Skaife as long as he did and still keep Brock at bay too.

It would be interesting to see the same comparison with some F*^#'s. OK I lied, who cares about F*^# anyway

8th October 2004 - 08:51 PM  Reply  Quote

Boooooo hiss you suck (only joking)

How dare you call the best production car in the world, that being a GM Holden the same as a F*^# and only differ by colur. Talk about an insult to the NASA type engineering of the all mighty General

Besides I haven't seen anyone "drift" better yet than a V8 at the bottom of Conrod straight sitting on 295km/hr when the brakes are hit and it starts to flick sideways. Now that takes skill to avoid going beach driving across the sand trap.

Gentlemen, T - 2.5hrs and counting

P.S. all the Top Ten Shootout cars were given brand new tyres as well because road work on the field behind had used blue metal dirt, and it had found it's way onto the track and it made their tyres look like Swiss chesse. Special dispensation was given for all teams to be able to do this that were in the Top Ten Shootout.

9th October 2004 - 01:34 PM  Reply  Quote