Re: Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here)

by BWard Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:02 am

After a months break, the V8's are finally returning to racing action this weekend at the Hidden Valley in Darwin. Mark Winterbottom currently leads the standings on 1199 points, with Craig Lowndes on 1098. BJR's Fabian Coulthard is 3rd with 1059 points and Jamie Whincup by his standards, not having the best start to a season so far currently sitting 4th on 986 points, with James Courtney 5th on 928.

by BWard Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:58 am

So, this sounds interesting.

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/childress-wants-v8-supercars-deal

by Alta Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:13 am

>All these Nascar teams looking at V8 plans when Ambrose is in a contract year.
Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here) - Page 5 497319835

Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here) - Page 5 497319835

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:46 am

Alta wrote:>All these Nascar teams looking at V8 plans when Ambrose is in a contract year.

The last three years have been contract years for Ambrose. He's only been signing one year deals.

by BWard Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:54 pm

The 3 Wildcard entries have been confirmed for the 2014 Bathurst 1000.

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/wildcard-entries-confirmed

by Nascar9fan Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:05 am

DJR are going to run a retro scheme at Bathurst celebrating Johnson & Bowe's 1994 Bathurst 1000 win
http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/djr-20-year-livery-for-bathurst

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:56 am

Nascar9fan wrote:DJR are going to run a retro scheme at Bathurst celebrating Johnson & Bowe's 1994 Bathurst 1000 win
http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/djr-20-year-livery-for-bathurst

Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here) - Page 5 Wobble10

My first Bathurst 1000 was 1994, and I grew watching a video tape of highlights of the 1993-1996 races, and the late race battle between John Bowe and a then 20 year old Craig Lowndes was some of the best racing ever.

by BWard Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:47 am

Nascar9fan wrote:DJR are going to run a retro scheme at Bathurst celebrating Johnson & Bowe's 1994 Bathurst 1000 win
http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/djr-20-year-livery-for-bathurst

Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here) - Page 5 Giphy

by **crl** Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:12 am

The Dunlop Series will run one 250km race at Bathurst:

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/dunlop-series-showcase-race-for-mount-panorama

by kriswascher97 Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:09 am

crl wrote:The Dunlop Series will run one 250km race at Bathurst:

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/dunlop-series-showcase-race-for-mount-panorama

Why not take the top 10 in a Dunlop race and they can run as a separate class? Just my two cents

by Nascar9fan Wed Jul 30, 2014 7:02 am

kriswascher97 wrote:
crl wrote:The Dunlop Series will run one 250km race at Bathurst:

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/dunlop-series-showcase-race-for-mount-panorama

Why not take the top 10 in a Dunlop race and they can run as a separate class? Just my two cents

I think that this is happening so that channel 7 doesn't air the last practice session. It's an hour long & has usually finished 2-4 hours before airing, making it a waste of television

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Wed Jul 30, 2014 9:29 am

kriswascher97 wrote:
crl wrote:The Dunlop Series will run one 250km race at Bathurst:

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/dunlop-series-showcase-race-for-mount-panorama

Why not take the top 10 in a Dunlop race and they can run as a separate class? Just my two cents

Because a lot of teams don't have the budget and resources to run 1 250 race kilometres in two days. Hell I don't think they get that many kilometres in a season.

by BWard Sun Aug 03, 2014 5:06 am

Jamie Whincup has taken back the points lead in V8 Supercars after Mark Winterbottom finished 22nd in Race 3 at the Queensland Raceway while Whincup was 6th. The 5-time Champion won the first 2 races while HRT driver James Courtney took the win in Race 3.

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Sun Aug 03, 2014 6:34 am

BWardboy88 wrote:Jamie Whincup has taken back the points lead in V8 Supercars after Mark Winterbottom finished 22nd in Race 3 at the Queensland Raceway while Whincup was 6th. The 5-time Champion won the first 2 races at the Victoria-based track while HRT driver James Courtney took the win in Race 3.

Hi Rence.

by BWard Sun Aug 10, 2014 8:42 am

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/tyrepower-tasmania-400-secured-for-a-further-five-years

Australian Tyre Retailer Tyrepower has signed a 5-year deal to continue to be the primary sponsor for the Tasmania 400 until 2019.

by BWard Tue Aug 19, 2014 6:46 am

The V8's are back this weekend, returning the Sydney Motorsport Park track (formerly known as Eastern Creek International Raceway) for the first time in 2 years. Last time out at the Queensland Raceway, Jamie Whincup took the Championship lead from Mark Winterbottom after Ford Performance Racing's lead driver had a troubled weekend. Is anyone gonna stop the 5-time Champion from claiming a record breaking 6th title?

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:25 pm

For the first time in a very long time, they will be no on track activity of V8 Supercars on Friday. All practice will be done on Saturday morning.

by BWard Thu Aug 21, 2014 2:06 pm

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/mark-webber-joins-the-ten-team

Mark Webber will become a part of the crew on Channel 10 that will take back coverage of the V8 Supercars for the first time since 2006.

In the meantime, from what I've heard, Channel 10 will only broadcast the 6 big events for the V8's next year, the Clipsal 500, Townsville 500, Sandown 500, Bathurst 100, Gold Coast 600, and Sydney 500. the others will be shown on Highlights programmes which I find to be very bemusing.

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:43 pm

BWardboy88 wrote:http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/mark-webber-joins-the-ten-team

Mark Webber will become a part of the crew on Channel 10 that will take back coverage of the V8 Supercars for the first time since 2006.

In the meantime, from what I've heard, Channel 10 will only broadcast the 6 big events for the V8's next year, the Clipsal 500, Townsville 500, Sandown 500, Bathurst 100, Gold Coast 600, and Sydney 500. the others will be shown on Highlights programmes which I find to be very bemusing.

That is true, although I think it was Darwin instead of Townsville. Speed will run non-stop coverage from Friday (and Thursday for Bathurst) to Sunday of all categories every weekend.

by Nascar9fan Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:50 pm

Spannerhead29 (Nelson) wrote:
BWardboy88 wrote:http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/mark-webber-joins-the-ten-team

Mark Webber will become a part of the crew on Channel 10 that will take back coverage of the V8 Supercars for the first time since 2006.

In the meantime, from what I've heard, Channel 10 will only broadcast the 6 big events for the V8's next year, the Clipsal 500, Townsville 500, Sandown 500, Bathurst 100, Gold Coast 600, and Sydney 500. the others will be shown on Highlights programmes which I find to be very bemusing.
That is true, although I think it was Darwin instead of Townsville. Speed will run non-stop coverage from Friday (and Thursday for Bathurst) to Sunday of all categories every weekend.

Aren't Fox Sports doing the same thing as Speed? I also don't get why people are so mad about this, especially when NRL only shows 1 game (sometimes 2, depending on whether there's a Thursday night game) live for the whole round on free-to-air.

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:52 pm

Nascar9fan wrote:
Spannerhead29 (Nelson) wrote:
BWardboy88 wrote:http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/mark-webber-joins-the-ten-team

Mark Webber will become a part of the crew on Channel 10 that will take back coverage of the V8 Supercars for the first time since 2006.

In the meantime, from what I've heard, Channel 10 will only broadcast the 6 big events for the V8's next year, the Clipsal 500, Townsville 500, Sandown 500, Bathurst 100, Gold Coast 600, and Sydney 500. the others will be shown on Highlights programmes which I find to be very bemusing.
That is true, although I think it was Darwin instead of Townsville. Speed will run non-stop coverage from Friday (and Thursday for Bathurst) to Sunday of all categories every weekend.

Aren't Fox Sports doing the same thing as Speed? I also don't get why people are so mad about this, especially when NRL only shows 1 game (sometimes 2, depending on whether there's a Thursday night game) live for the whole round on free-to-air.

Speed is Fox Sports, unless you're talking about stuff they're putting on one of the 3 FS channels.

by bartman97 Fri Aug 22, 2014 12:44 am

Nascar9fan wrote:
Spannerhead29 (Nelson) wrote:
BWardboy88 wrote:http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/mark-webber-joins-the-ten-team

Mark Webber will become a part of the crew on Channel 10 that will take back coverage of the V8 Supercars for the first time since 2006.

In the meantime, from what I've heard, Channel 10 will only broadcast the 6 big events for the V8's next year, the Clipsal 500, Townsville 500, Sandown 500, Bathurst 100, Gold Coast 600, and Sydney 500. the others will be shown on Highlights programmes which I find to be very bemusing.
That is true, although I think it was Darwin instead of Townsville. Speed will run non-stop coverage from Friday (and Thursday for Bathurst) to Sunday of all categories every weekend.

Aren't Fox Sports doing the same thing as Speed? I also don't get why people are so mad about this, especially when NRL only shows 1 game (sometimes 2, depending on whether there's a Thursday night game) live for the whole round on free-to-air.

I've never heard anything but negative from fans about the NRL only airing 3 games on Channel 9 for the week (Only 1 being live, depending on where you live). They only give the games mainly to the Broncos (understandable they get the most TV ratings and get the best crowd numbers even though they are a lame team to watch, yes I'm a Broncos fan so not biased), Roosters, Bulldogs, Souths and Manly. If you're a Warriors, Raiders, Cowboys or a Panthers fan, good luck having to need Foxtel to watch them teams.

This is the same thing with what the V8 Supercars fans are going to have. Fans want to watch every race on 10 but are just slapped in the face with having to order Foxtel to. Foxtel is expensive, it's $50 for the sports package which is bloody ridiculous.

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:16 am

bartman97 wrote:
Nascar9fan wrote:
Spannerhead29 (Nelson) wrote:
BWardboy88 wrote:http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/mark-webber-joins-the-ten-team

Mark Webber will become a part of the crew on Channel 10 that will take back coverage of the V8 Supercars for the first time since 2006.

In the meantime, from what I've heard, Channel 10 will only broadcast the 6 big events for the V8's next year, the Clipsal 500, Townsville 500, Sandown 500, Bathurst 100, Gold Coast 600, and Sydney 500. the others will be shown on Highlights programmes which I find to be very bemusing.
That is true, although I think it was Darwin instead of Townsville. Speed will run non-stop coverage from Friday (and Thursday for Bathurst) to Sunday of all categories every weekend.

Aren't Fox Sports doing the same thing as Speed? I also don't get why people are so mad about this, especially when NRL only shows 1 game (sometimes 2, depending on whether there's a Thursday night game) live for the whole round on free-to-air.

I've never heard anything but negative from fans about the NRL only airing 3 games on Channel 9 for the week (Only 1 being live, depending on where you live). They only give the games mainly to the Broncos (understandable they get the most TV ratings and get the best crowd numbers even though they are a lame team to watch, yes I'm a Broncos fan so not biased), Roosters, Bulldogs, Souths and Manly. If you're a Warriors, Raiders, Cowboys or a Panthers fan, good luck having to need Foxtel to watch them teams.

This is the same thing with what the V8 Supercars fans are going to have. Fans want to watch every race on 10 but are just slapped in the face with having to order Foxtel to. Foxtel is expensive, it's $50 for the sports package which is bloody ridiculous.

>tfw live 5 minutes from the stadium and season tickets are cheap as fuck.
Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here) - Page 5 Happy_11

by BWard Sat Aug 23, 2014 5:38 am

Shane Van Gisbergen has gone 2 from 2 so far at the Sydney Motorsport Park, while Jamie Whincup extended his points lead to 69 points over Mark Winterbottom after the FPR driver struggled in the first two races. Also Tim Slade sat out Race 2 and won't take part in Race 3 either after this happened to him in Race 1:

Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here) - Page 5 20140823_142924__E5R4228

Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here) - Page 5 20140823_142924__E5R4228

by BWard Sun Aug 24, 2014 3:40 am

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/blanchard-to-join-ingall

Russell Ingall's Co-driver for the Endurance Races has finally been announced, with Tim Blanchard who drove for Dick Johnson Racing last year partnering him for this year's Pirtek Enduro Cup.

In the meantime, Scott McLaughlin fought off a late race challenge from Walkinshaw Racing's Nick Percat and took a brilliant 2nd win of the season in Race 3 at the Sydney Motorsport Park. Percat still got his best finish of 2014 with 2nd, Fabian Coulthard was 3rd, James Moffat an impressive 4th while Championship leader Jamie Whincup came home 5th, and further extending his championship lead to 135 points over Mark Winterbottom. The FPR driver could only manage 20th after suffering more problems in the third race.

by Nascar9fan Sun Aug 24, 2014 7:35 am

BWardboy88 wrote:http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/blanchard-to-join-ingall

Russell Ingall's Co-driver for the Endurance Races has finally been announced, with Tim Blanchard who drove for Dick Johnson Racing last year partnering him for this year's Pirtek Enduro Cup.

In the meantime, Scott McLaughlin fought off a late race challenge from Walkinshaw Racing's Nick Percat and took a brilliant 2nd win of the season in Race 3 at the Sydney Motorsport Park. Percat still got the best finish of his career with 2nd, Fabian Coulthard was 3rd, James Moffat an impressive 4th while Championship leader Jamie Whincup came home 5th, and further extending his championship lead to 135 points over Mark Winterbottom. The FPR driver could only manage 20th after suffering more problems in the third race.

Does everyone seem to forget that his best finish is 1st at Bathurst? I know he was the co-driver, but that still counts as a career race.
McLaughlin, Percat & Coulthard were the lucky 3 to take on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, as, I forget who it was, challenged the top 3 finishers to take it on the podium.

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Sun Aug 24, 2014 10:39 am

Nascar9fan wrote:
BWardboy88 wrote:http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/blanchard-to-join-ingall

Russell Ingall's Co-driver for the Endurance Races has finally been announced, with Tim Blanchard who drove for Dick Johnson Racing last year partnering him for this year's Pirtek Enduro Cup.

In the meantime, Scott McLaughlin fought off a late race challenge from Walkinshaw Racing's Nick Percat and took a brilliant 2nd win of the season in Race 3 at the Sydney Motorsport Park. Percat still got the best finish of his career with 2nd, Fabian Coulthard was 3rd, James Moffat an impressive 4th while Championship leader Jamie Whincup came home 5th, and further extending his championship lead to 135 points over Mark Winterbottom. The FPR driver could only manage 20th after suffering more problems in the third race.

Does everyone seem to forget that his best finish is 1st at Bathurst? I know he was the co-driver, but that still counts as a career race.
McLaughlin, Percat & Coulthard were the lucky 3 to take on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, as, I forget who it was, challenged the top 3 finishers to take it on the podium.

That's because co-drivers really don't do much these days expect log the minimum laps. Everyone keeps forgetting that Paul Dumbrell is a Bathurst 1000 winner, despite being one the worst drivers ever.

by BWard Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:52 pm

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/v8-supercars-and-circuit-of-the-americas-agree-to-end-current-contract

V8 Supercars unfortunately will not race at the Circuit Of The Americas in 2015 due to economic issues.

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:21 pm

Todd Kelly is suggesting he may f*** off out of the car to try and "help" Nissan. Hopefully Rick does the same.

by BWard Tue Sep 02, 2014 4:18 am

Will Davison will be driving his Mercedes with his brother Alex Davison, with a new livery for the Pirtek Enduro Cup.
Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here) - Page 5 ErebusTeamBeko1

Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here) - Page 5 ErebusTeamBeko1

by BWard Tue Sep 02, 2014 2:44 pm

Another livery change, as Michael Caruso and his co-driver Dean Fiore will run a brand new paint scheme for this year's Bathurst 1000 to commemorate 30 years since the car with it's original scheme took pole for the 1000km event in 1984, driven by George Fury and Gary Scott.
Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here) - Page 5 Caruso_fury_studio21

Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here) - Page 5 Caruso_fury_studio21

Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here) - Page 5 Caruso_fury_studio1

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Tue Sep 09, 2014 9:13 pm

New "NASCAR-style" paint scheme for the 4 car for the Enduro Cup.

Australian Motoracing General (V8 Supercars go here) - Page 5 4_lee_10

Norton have confirm they will leave Nissan next year.

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Fri Sep 12, 2014 7:59 pm

>V8 Supercars put out their 2015 calender
>Official Test Day on same weekend as Bathurst 12 Hour
>Thus ruling out V8 drivers in the 12 Hour.
>SVG voiced his displeasure about the decision
>He then got told to remove the posts from Facebook and Twitter.

by navycook75 Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:35 pm

Spannerhead29 (Nelson) wrote:New "NASCAR-style" paint scheme for the 4 car for the Enduro Cup.

Norton have confirm they will leave Nissan next year.

Car looks better intact.

http://www.djr.com.au/news/breaking-news-djr-team-penske

Penske has confirmed to be going to V8's and the driver will be Marcos Ambrose.

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:25 pm

navycook75 wrote:
Spannerhead29 (Nelson) wrote:New "NASCAR-style" paint scheme for the 4 car for the Enduro Cup.

Norton have confirm they will leave Nissan next year.
Car looks better intact.

http://www.djr.com.au/news/breaking-news-djr-team-penske

Penske has confirmed to be going to V8's and the driver will be Marcos Ambrose.

>in the #17

Neat, although that means we'll probably get paired up with lil' Dick Johnson (Steven) for the Enduros. What would be cool, since this is a Penske team now, is Will Power coming over to do the Enduros with Ambrose.

by BWard Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:42 pm

Big news for the V8's:

We all know that Ambrose is going back to the V8's next year, but he's returning a earlier than expected. Dick Johnson Racing are going to field a Wildcard entry for him for the final round of the 2014 V8 Supercar Season at the Homebush Street Circuit in Sydney, for the running of the Sydney NRMA 500.

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/ambrose-to-race-v8-supercar-in-sydney

by **crl** Thu Nov 13, 2014 12:34 am

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/holdsworth-departs-erebus

by BWard Thu Nov 13, 2014 3:28 am

crl wrote:http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/holdsworth-departs-erebus

Wow, never saw that one coming.

by LadyKathy Thu Nov 13, 2014 3:46 am

crl wrote:http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/holdsworth-departs-erebus

Any chance of him joining Marcos Ambrose driving for the Captain?

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:59 am

SweetErin wrote:
crl wrote:http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/holdsworth-departs-erebus

Any chance of him joining Marcos Ambrose driving for the Captain?

No, he's already replacing Jack Perkins at CSR. Holdsworth is tipped to be replaced by Ash Walsh, who is to be replaced by Ambrose.

by BWard Thu Nov 13, 2014 8:15 am

So with Perkins being replaced by Holdsworth, does this leave Jack out of a full-time drive? If he is I honestly won't care that much because he's really not that impressive.

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Thu Nov 13, 2014 3:46 pm

BWardboy88 wrote:So with Perkins being replaced by Holdsworth, does this leave Jack out of a full-time drive? If he is I honestly won't care that much because he's really not that impressive.

Yes.

by BWard Sat Nov 15, 2014 4:30 am

While the Volvo of Scott McLaughlin took the win in Race 1, the Red Bull of Jamie Whincup won Race 2 and seals a record-breaking 6th V8 Supercar Title, surpassing the record of 5 titles that were equaled by Ian Geoghegan, John Bowe and Mark Skaife.

by **crl** Sun Nov 16, 2014 2:26 am

McLaughlin wins Race 3 from pole...when Garth Tander's Holden runs out of fuel on the start-finish straight, coming to the line.

by Nascar9fan Sun Nov 16, 2014 3:22 am

crl wrote:McLaughlin wins Race 3 from pole...when Garth Tander's Holden runs out of fuel on the start-finish straight, coming to the line.

http://www.darcyf1.com/download.php?z=38127

by BWard Sun Nov 16, 2014 3:47 am

I just uploaded the finish of it here:

by BWard Sun Nov 16, 2014 4:58 pm

And I am just gonna leave this here:

http://autoaction.com.au/roger-penske-ford-pulling-v8-supercars/?adbid=769409903114248&adbpl=fb&adbpr=204021419653102&adbsc=social_20141116_35706047

by BWard Fri Nov 21, 2014 9:58 am

Unsurprisingly, Robert Dahlgren will leave the V8's at season's end due to a disappointing Rookie year with GRM.

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/dahlgren-s-australian-assignment-to-end

by BWard Wed Nov 26, 2014 6:16 am

David Wall has been confirmed to replace Robert Dahlgren alongside Scott McLaughlin at the GRM Volvo team in 2015.

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/wall-to-join-volvo-polestar-racing-and-grm

by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:39 am

BWardboy88 wrote:David Wall has been confirmed to replace Robert Dahlgren alongside Scott McLaughlin at the GRM Volvo team in 2015.

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/wall-to-join-volvo-polestar-racing-and-grm

>no random euros in next year.

bbbooooooooooooooo

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