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Completely agree there are many reasons for a tyre to go down. The series has built an outstanding driver protection system inside the car, and the one thing that puts them in need of that system are the 4 round black things keeping the car in contact with the road. |
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The round black things ARE the most critical component on any race car as all the other components are connected to the racing surface by the round black things. So tyres need to be taken very seriously and are taken very seriously by teams. If however, teams overload the tyres through suspension settings or pressures then the tyres can be pushed outside their performance envelope and may fail, or be more susceptible to punctures. Similarly, driving over the back of kerbs may lead to punctures, particularly when running a softer tyre at a track for the first time as it probably won't stand up as well to that treatment as the previously used harder tyre. We'll likely see the odd tyre problem at Bathurst - it's not been uncommon there (across a number of tyre brands and racing series) but teams will always push to the edge and sometimes over the edge and know the risks. As is often the case, the teams that manage their tyres best are likely to see better results, same the world over in motorsport. |
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I woke up at 5 a.m. to watch the race. I was very well rewarded despite the one-hour interruption, great show.
A great proof of maturity from Waters. He's really fast but often too much foul, today he's been perfect. Stanaway is a great driver, here in Europe is quite well known, I look forward to see him full time in Supercars. Amazing Mostert. Owen did a stupid mistake, Mozzie did a great repair. Triple Eight very unlucky. Whincup in Sandown is incredibly unfortunated since three years, but now he is the man for the title because SVG is too far in the standings. Impressed by Campbell, he raced against the best in the business and he showed great performance, Porsche did a very good move putting him in its young programme. Now waiting for Bathurst |
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Seeing as we lost 100km, it's a pity they didn't just ditch the co-drivers and just run the 400km for the main drivers only like this race used to be
It was "retro round" afterall.... |
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I'm guess that Mr Jones will spend a bit of time getting familiar with the driving time rules. To be fair to Bradley, the time certain finish may well have confused him. |
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Not surprisingly turn 6 is being brought into question. http://www.speedcafe.com/2017/09/18/...andown-shunts/ There have been some big crashes there in recent years, Will Davison in 2010, Lee Holdsworth in 2014 and James Golding in 2016 spring to mind and obviously the events of the weekend just past.
With only a few years left in the circuit, a major rebuild would be undesirable. But this is section of track that was bypassed by the infield section in the 1980s after the circuit was deemed unsafe by the FIA when Sandown hosted sportscars events. Presuming it still exists, perhaps reactivating the infield section may be a more cost effective solution? |
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The infield section was ripped up in a number of places last time I saw it (a few years ago) and by now I'd suggest that there wouldn't be much of it left. Agree with you on the likelihood of turn 6 getting seriously modified with only a couple of years left for the track. Any such changes would need a vast amount of earth works etc. Ultimately, there WERE shunts there on the weekend but all the safety gear did it's job (as it did last year too) so humans were well protected. No doubt they'll look at the corner safety gear after the weekend but it's hard to see what they could do differently. |
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Well, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect the fastest corner on the circuit to be bordered by a trap, rather than a downhill grass slope. The 90deg bend at the bottom of the esses has a trap, and that's a second gear corner. I'd have thought the track safety guidelines would have had a browse after the Golding crash there last year, with a similar result of race time lost.
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Surely it needs modification just from a liability standpoint. I concede that everyone walked away after going into the wall on the weekend (a testament to COTF and circuit safety) but what happens when there's a serious injury and nothing has been done to the corner after its proven to be a high incident "zone"? Possible litigation?
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Im still thinking that the whole 54 laps thing is dodgy.
Technically the race distance need only be 82 laps, no way that both drivers can reach the 1/3race distance in that case the rule is not smart and not clear |
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Congrats to Cam and Stanaway, a huge effort and what a race to get your first win.
I had a good feeling about this car after Stanaway's 2016 efforts. I did put some cash on them for the win - only wish I had done it before they put the thing on pole. Not upset to see the 2 Redbull cars finish down the order, great for the c'ship but did feel for Reynolds who had been looking strong. Pither did well in the other Erebus car too. Shame about losing so many laps due to the Tas crash. I hate timed races, though this length of delay is rare. |
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So has Sandown been confirmed that it will be torn down in a few years?
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Those rules on driving time have been in the regs for a very long time but the big change has been the time certain finishes and those time certain windows being rather small. If the race started earlier and the time certain finish time was a bit later, even a long delay like yesterday's race suspension might not reduce the number of laps, so we'd get an actual 500km race. Most of the teams were onto it and got their co-driver running done then hoiked them out of the car, BJR tried something different and out-thunk themselves in the process. The problem to me is the time-certain approach rather than the driving time rules. |
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Does the race finish so early due to noise constraints?
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