Bathurst 1000 Starts shortly

[sledgemeister]

For those of you that like motor sport, Australia's well the worlds best race is about to begin, the Bathurst 1000 V8's
For those that have access to it in the states look about and find the telecast and have a gander.
A few of yours have came over to give it a whirl but none have conquered the Mountain, perhaps its because we drive it upside down?

Heres a clip of a well known US racer getting a lift around at 3/4 pace

the speed down Conrod Straight is over 300+ kph not quite 200mph in yank language  

[tombogan03884]

We had this in July,

and this 2 weeks ago

About 10 miles from here, the crews and vendors stay in a Hotel I can see from my window and my local coffee shop is the only place that will stay open to feed them after a day of prep or after the race.
The crews of Jimmy Johnson and Mark Martin often show up together and are a great bunch.
Their wives keep them in line. (mostly    )

[sledgemeister]

Cant your drivers handle corners? 

[DGF]

I've always thought it was wrong for them to continually turn left. They should reverse direction and make right turns.

[tombogan03884]

I've always thought it was wrong for them to continually turn left. They should reverse direction and make right turns.

Flip a coin on race morning, heads turn right, tails turn left 

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[fightingquaker13]

Cant your drivers handle corners? 

Only if its to the left, and since you Auusies do everything backwards, they'd have to turn right. I'd anticipate a thirty car pileup at the first corner, and I'd pay good money to watch it. Throw in a British car with a left handed shift? It would be mayhem. I'd be there with bells on, and thats first time I can say that about a Nascar event.

[Timothy]

Boogity, boogity, boogity Darrel!

I've seen this once before, pretty funny to see Waltrip whining like a little girl!  Surely, he'd have preferred to be driving!

[ellis4538]

Said it before and I'll say it again...Austrailian V8 Supercar is what NASCAR wishes it was!  Only reason Marcus Ambrose came over is for the $$$$$ IMHO

Richard

PS:  Might s..t myself but I'd like to ride around 1/2...3/4 whatever.

[Solus]

While I enjoy almost any kind of auto racing, I've always favored "road" racing to the oval track.

Just challenges all the skills and abilities of the drivers and the designers of the car.

I'd expect an oval track car might flip if it ran the other direction.

[tombogan03884]

Back in the 50's and early 60's there were 4 things you did not do unless you were inbred white trash.
1 - Live in a log cabin
2 - listen to "country" music
3 - shoot muzzle loaders (had to throw that in, it IS a gun forum    )
4 - go to car races
The reason was that it had not been that long since people had no choice but to do at least 3 of those things because they had no other options