Bathurst 1000 2014

[Dodgey]

Those who follow Australian Motorsport will know about Bathurst 1000. For those who don't it is a 1000 kilometer endurance race which is the pinical of Australian Motorsport which takes place at Mount Panorama in New South Whales.

As I post this the race is in its 16th lap out of 161. Jamie Whincup after starting in last (position 25) has just entered into 5th, a whole 20 positions gained!

Is anyone else watching this amazing (and surprising crash free) race?

[Wanderfound]

Gave up on Bathurst when the V8 boys had their bad-loser tantrum after Godzilla won and banned everything modern. Production racing I like, antipodean NASCAR not so much.

The best bits of Bathurst were always the contrasts between cars with differing strengths: a Mini Cooper vs a GTHO Falcon, an RX-7 vs an HSV Commodore, etc. With that gone, the race lost much of its appeal.

[Dodgey]

That was way before my time, I've only know it as it is. As I see it means it is more between the drivers than the cars now.

[Wanderfound]

Hunt up some old Moffat vs Brock footage. Worth the time.

The GTHO vs Cooper stuff was the best: the Falcons would annihiliate the Minis on the straights, but the Minis would make it all back during the corners. In the last thing I saw at Amaroo Park, the lead was neck and neck Falcon vs Mini for the whole race; the Falcon won in the end by the trick of keeping his car sideways across the track for the entirety of the last lap.

Bathurst also used to be a multi-class race, with everything from factory V8 professionals to club racers in commuter hatchbacks all running at the same time. It was like one of those "weave through the slow traffic" levels on Forza.

Edited October 12, 2014 by Wanderfound

[Dodgey]

Now that sounds like a race, it defeintly sounds like it's worth the watch. I still can't get over Whincup though.

[Bilfr3d]

Poor Whincup.... ran out of fuel he should've reserved and just taken 2nd place. Also feeling for Van Gisburgen. The bloody starter motor fried after he stalled it at the pits Think it was Van Gisburgen anyway.

[Dodgey]

Yea it was Van Gizburgen, they got him going again anyway so he still got points. What a recovery by Whinterbottom though after Lownds spun him.