Grand Prix Rejects

Looks nice-ish.

Also, the new Toll-HRT COTF that got given a shakedown looks stellar in black and gold.

I'm sorry Dick, but how desperate are you for money that at the 50th Bathurst, in a special Tru-Blu livery, you are going to put James Muppet in the #17?

It's pretty obvious that while DJR wanted to do a special livery to mark the anniversary, Jim Beam wasn't willing to let them change the design; hence, they swapped Johnson's number and Moffat's number so that the Tru-Blu car could be #17.

Is it only me that thinks it would have been great if they put the other car in Green

Captain Hammer wrote:It's pretty obvious that while DJR wanted to do a special livery to mark the anniversary, Jim Beam wasn't willing to let them change the design; hence, they swapped Johnson's number and Moffat's number so that the Tru-Blu car could be #17.

Not that it'll make much of a difference as Moffat is bound to either put the car into a nearby fence at some point during the weekend or simply fail to make any impression whatsoever.

Waters replaces Denyer in the moving chicane, to the surprise of nobody.

It's a sad day when you can say even Jacques freaking Villeneuve would have been a better replacement. Waters does have promise but he's been thrown into the deep end far too early for the second year and a row. And we all know the Kellys are only doing this to feed their already oversized egos.

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/championship/newsarticle/saturday-sleuthing-the-2012-bathurst-grid/tabid/70/newsid/12962/default.aspx

Far out. I knew Uncle Tom had a habit of giving the dodgy cars to the customer teams but I didn't think the BJR cars would be THAT dodgy

Wizzie wrote:http://www.v8supercars.com.au/championship/newsarticle/saturday-sleuthing-the-2012-bathurst-grid/tabid/70/newsid/12962/default.aspx

Far out. I knew Uncle Tom had a habit of giving the dodgy cars to the customer teams but I didn't think the BJR cars would be THAT dodgy

The history of James Moffat's car makes me laugh, It must have been sitting aroung unused for ages

Grovey wrote:

Wizzie wrote:http://www.v8supercars.com.au/championship/newsarticle/saturday-sleuthing-the-2012-bathurst-grid/tabid/70/newsid/12962/default.aspx

Far out. I knew Uncle Tom had a habit of giving the dodgy cars to the customer teams but I didn't think the BJR cars would be THAT dodgy

The history of James Moffat's car makes me laugh, It must have been sitting aroung unused for ages

And knowing Moffat, he'll find a way to return the car as a bag of bits by weekend's end

FPR join the growing trend of going retro for Bathurst

I must say though, the two works FPRs look a lot better with the retro liveries than with the corporate botch jobs that they usually run

Wizzie wrote:FPR join the growing trend of going retro for Bathurst

I must say though, the two works FPRs look a lot better with the retro liveries than with the corporate botch jobs that they usually run

I thought they looked OK, but I still hate Failed Publicocrap Racing

And because I've decided that I have nothing better to do, I'm gonna run a special edition Bathurst 1000 Predicament Predictions round, mostly to keep things interesting during the inevitable FPR and T8 domination of the race, like just about everything else this years. For anyone that's bothered, the deadline's the conclusion of the Saturday Morning Free Practice session

Wizzie's Predictions
2012 Bathurst 1000
1. Whincup/Dumbrell
2. Winterbottom/Richards
3. Webb/McLaughlin (I believe )
4. Tander/Percat
5. Van Gisbergen/Youlden
6. Coulthard/Besnard
7. Londwes/Luff
8. Courtney/McConville
9. Johnson/Simonson
10. Slade/Thompson

Pole: Tander/Percat
Fastest lap: Whincup/Dumbrell
First Retirement: T.Kelly/Blanchard
ROTR: Garry Rogers Motorsport (Ritter and Premat put both cars in the wall whilst leaving Lappy and I wondering why the hell they didn't pair up Caruso and Perkins)
IIDOTR: Webb/McLaughlin (Comes within one catch-22 Safety Car of pulling off a miracle win)
Number of Safety Cars: Five
Laps Car 23 will last before retiring: 43

Craig Lowndes' near-perfect recreation of Peter Brock's 1979 livery:

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THERE IS A GOD! Now we just need to get rid of Rick for a while and we're set

Also, Lowndesy's livery is sheer brilliance. He's the guy I want to win (Luff deserves it much more than Ritter in my opinion), and how brilliant would it be for Brock's protege to win the most historic Bathurst yet with one of Brocky's liveries?

Wizzie wrote:Wizzie's Predictions

My predictions, though this may turn into a narrative about how 2012 will see the most-epic Bathurst ever halfway through.

2012 Bathurst 1000
1. Reynolds-Canto
2. Lowndes-Luff
3. van Gisbergen-Youlden
4. Winterbottom-Richards
5. Davison-McIntyre
6. Murphy-Kelly
7. Webb-McLaughlin
8. Johnson-Simonsen
9. Holdsworth-Baird
10. Caruso-Ritter

Pole: Tander-Percat
Fastest lap: Lowndes-Luff
First Retirement: Tander-Percat, Whincup-Dumbrell and Kelly-Russell in a farcical first-corner tangle that leaves all three cars limping back to the pits and retirement.
ROTR: Tander for emphasising the importance of pole after downplaying it last year; Whincup for causing the first-corner clash; Rick Kelly for mistaking Jonathon Webb for the safety car (his new livery looks like it belongs on the safety car).
IIDOTR: Douglas-Pye, for running in the top ten late in the race before running low on fuel and finishing 12th.
Number of safety cars: Eight.
Laps car 23 will last before retiring: 23

No, that is the sort of thing I have nightmares about

the Masked Lapwing wrote:THERE IS A GOD! Now we just need to get rid of Rick for a while and we're set

Also, Lowndesy's livery is sheer brilliance. He's the guy I want to win (Luff deserves it much more than Ritter in my opinion), and how brilliant would it be for Brock's protege to win the most historic Bathurst yet with one of Brocky's liveries?

Does that mean that muppet Jacques will be back to cause more carnage at the Gold Coast?

Wizzie wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:THERE IS A GOD! Now we just need to get rid of Rick for a while and we're set

Also, Lowndesy's livery is sheer brilliance. He's the guy I want to win (Luff deserves it much more than Ritter in my opinion), and how brilliant would it be for Brock's protege to win the most historic Bathurst yet with one of Brocky's liveries?

Does that mean that muppet Jacques will be back to cause more carnage at the Gold Coast?

Oh this could be almost comical

The chase joins the craze of going retro.

Now, if they'd allowed the ridiculously large grids of old, then we would have been in for a real back to the future show

Wizzie wrote:The chase joins the craze of going retro.

Now, if they'd allowed the ridiculously large grids of old, then we would have been in for a real back to the future show

1999 FTW, 55 car grids were epic.

And as expected, the Kelly Racing PR machine is already the best part of two seconds a lap slower than everyone else.

My Predictions
2012 Bathurst 1000
1. Lowndes/Luff
2. Bright/Jones
3. Whincup/Dumbrell
4. Davison/McIntyre
5. Tander/Percat
6. Courtney/McConville
7. Van Gisbergen/Youlden
8. T Kelly/Blanchard
9. Webb/McLaughlin
10. Slade/Thompson

Pole: Winterbottom/Richards
Fastest lap: Lowndes/Luff
First Retirement: Fiore/Halliday
ROTR: Owen/Morris (Both drivers spend all their time bouncing off the walls before finally crashing out)
IIDOTR: Bright/Jones (Gamble on tyre strategy and almost win as a result)
Number of Safety Cars: 7
Laps Car 23 will last before retiring: The car will finish, but a dozen laps down and held together with Duct Tape

2012 Bathurst 1000
1. #888
2. #5
3. #1
4. #6
5. #8
6. #2
7. #9
8. #51
9. #22
10. #34

Pole: #888
Fastest lap: #34 (Caruso)
First retirement: #14 (Because Coulthard has zero luck at Bathurst )
ROTR: James Muppet (Crashes the Tru-Blu Falcon at a familiar spot...)
IIDOTR: Perkins (for running well in the top 10 before he got kicked out by the French bloke)
Safety Cars: 5
Laps before #23 retires: 46

My word that was an epic intro. Bring it on, I say!

Larko's chuffed to bits with his new office for the weekend

eurobrun wrote:

Wizzie wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:THERE IS A GOD! Now we just need to get rid of Rick for a while and we're set

Also, Lowndesy's livery is sheer brilliance. He's the guy I want to win (Luff deserves it much more than Ritter in my opinion), and how brilliant would it be for Brock's protege to win the most historic Bathurst yet with one of Brocky's liveries?

Does that mean that muppet Jacques will be back to cause more carnage at the Gold Coast?

Oh this could be almost comical

Am I the only, actually hoping for this? Wouldn't he get a slightly better car than earlier this year, and with some more experience. He could... end up, with some luck. Top 15?

Must say though. As a die hard JV-fan. It's kinda sad to hope for a top 15...

Myrvold wrote:

eurobrun wrote:

Wizzie wrote:Does that mean that muppet Jacques will be back to cause more carnage at the Gold Coast?

Oh this could be almost comical

Am I the only, actually hoping for this? Wouldn't he get a slightly better car than earlier this year, and with some more experience. He could... end up, with some luck. Top 15?

Must say though. As a die hard JV-fan. It's kinda sad to hope for a top 15...

Nah, all the Kelly cars are absolute rubbish this year as the Kelly boys are too busy feeding their oversized egos before they get their hands on the Nissans next year

Micheal Hector seems to be doing his best to be the Sakon Yamamoto of the Dunlop Series

Myrvold wrote:Am I the only, actually hoping for this? Wouldn't he get a slightly better car than earlier this year, and with some more experience. He could... end up, with some luck. Top 15?

The team has already said that they will probably take a local driver, rather than an international one.

Captain Hammer wrote:

Myrvold wrote:Am I the only, actually hoping for this? Wouldn't he get a slightly better car than earlier this year, and with some more experience. He could... end up, with some luck. Top 15?

The team has already said that they will probably take a local driver, rather than an international one.

So, David Russell then.

Good to see Percat take the first DVS race. Even if the top 3 were main game teams yet again...

Garry's finally seen some sense and put Perkins in the car for qualifying.

Oh and there's an 80% chance of rain for tomorrow's shootout. Another surprise pole position, anyone?

Oh dear Garth...

the Masked Lapwing wrote:Oh dear Garth...

Now THAT's a game changer if I've ever seen one. Red Flag to clean up all the mess up at Griffith.

Man, Lowndes looks like an enormous accident waiting to happen.

And how Moffat didn't plant that in the wall I'll never know

How does that muppet have a drive yet Jack Perkins doesn't?

And then he goes and only gets 26th

Garry? Y U NO GOOD IN QUALIFYING?!

Bathplug you health and safety monkeys

For those who missed it, here's the epic intro for Friday's coverage.

Hell, I think it outdoes my favourite Bathurst Intro ever (That being the Sunday intro for 2009).

Captain Hammer wrote:

Myrvold wrote:Am I the only, actually hoping for this? Wouldn't he get a slightly better car than earlier this year, and with some more experience. He could... end up, with some luck. Top 15?

The team has already said that they will probably take a local driver, rather than an international one.

Ah, well. Maybe just as good. Montreal-NASCAR Nationwide still bugs the bathplug out of me!

And the intro was awesome, until the blurred the winfield name.