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But now you have explained the ongoing nature of the differences I understand more the intense cross referral and scrutiny of every comparable stat from both sides and the tone of some of the 'banter'.. What I will say is that the one thing we can all celebrate and agree on is that all of those that took part, regardless of badge, budget, resources, performance or willie size, all combined to produce a great days entertainment enjoyed and appreciated by a lot of people, directly or via multimedia, in many parts of the globe....myself included and for that I thank all teams equally, and look forward to all yours and many more teams participating again next year.. And, just because you anticipated a historical angle somewhere, I apologise not for thinking Porsche have never been the same since the 908 / 917 eras. It comes with having been fortunate enough to watch the likes of Kinnunen, Willy Kauhsen, the Martinis at Silverstone Interseries races in the early seventies. No other car has ever so captivated me as those mighty machines. We all have our opinions and reasons for them. [/"resume of driving/official/mechanical history that spans 50 years"] |
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And, just because you anticipated a historical angle somewhere, I apologise not for thinking Porsche have never been the same since the 908 / 917 eras. It comes with having been fortunate enough to watch the likes of Kinnunen, Willy Kauhsen, the Martinis at Silverstone Interseries races in the early seventies. No other car has ever so captivated me as those mighty machines. We all have our opinions and reasons for them.
No argument from me EB about the halcyon days. After 30 years with the marque on a personal and business level, the 70's and 80's Porsche wins piqued my enthusiasm for the sport...and made me as painful as FFC in vocal support of my chosen brand. Anyway, onto next years B12hour. My suggestions would be no 'local' parity, run to FIA GT3 rules,2 seeds (assessed independent of organisers) and timed stops but no minimum number so that economy can play a part in overall strategy. ...and get a woman to organise the trophies, only a bloke on a budget and in a hurry could have picked this years junk. I've seen best and fairest under 12 rugby trophies that would leave for dead the 'piston cups' given to the winners this year. It's an International event, I'm embarrassed for Audi to have that thing pride of place back at HQ. |
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But seriously, was the event a convincing improvement on previous years? I was a critic of the GTs entering, and I couldn't get down there this year so my comments are based on the internet streaming and hearsay from mates. It was a very entertaining event for anyone with a love of beautifull cars and great racing. It seemed to maintain it's atmosphere of fierce but friendly competition, and it gave enthusiasts the first opportunity to see top international competition at Bathurst since the Taxi takeover. I loved it and, barring the sort of problems I had this year, will certainly be there next year. As an event that appeals to the casual sport or TV armchair fan I'm not so sure. Much will depend on the standard of the 3hr special on One on Friday evening. As beautiful as they are, do the Audis, Porsches, Ferraris etc have the sort of appeal to attract a mass audience? I think, with a bit of rule tweaking, it will become a very successfull International event, and become just popular enough to spoil the "access all areas" atmosphere that is so great. Unfortunately though it has lost the potential to become the "see my car race" showcase that could have attracted a much wider attendance and TV audience. But then I guess that was unlikely without significant manufacturer and importer involvement. One thing the event has proved over the past couple of years is that live streaming, if accompanied by a great commentary, can provide a great way of watching motorsport. |
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I am all for opening the rules to allow for teams to select their own steerers regarless of 'subjective' seeding. The current rules are way to ambiguous and result in the Audi vs VIP Porsche issue and will ultimately drive people away. That said there needs to be a way of keeping the event relevant to Australian amatuer GT car owners. Last edited by D.R.T.; 13 Feb 2011 at 07:49. |
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Sorry but I cannot work out how to quote a post, but in regards to Oldtony post
"As an event that appeals to the casual sport or TV armchair fan I'm not so sure. Much will depend on the standard of the 3hr special on One on Friday evening. As beautiful as they are, do the Audis, Porsches, Ferraris etc have the sort of appeal to attract a mass audience?" I believe that having the Audis, Porshes etc racing at the 12hr will appeal more to the casual TV viewer than the production cars. The reason I believe this as that most people dream to own a car of this type and being able to see them race at an event like the 12hr would be very appealing. |
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Hope you are right rig, but the usual reason given for getting rid of the Sierras, Jags and Godzillas was that they were not cars driven by the average punter. Same goes as the reason given by many for the demise of the 2 litre series with Audi, Volvo etc.
One could of course say the same about BMWs, EVOs WRXs and even HSV or FPVs. At present the V8s hold that part of the audience. Can they continue to do so as they become increasingly irrellevant to the mass market? |
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Do less of them to get the jump on the competition rather than gain .05 of a second in pit lane in a mad flurry of fuel, tyres and driver change. |
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I think for pitstops, rather than a 90 sec stop, rules should be introduced to make the stop longer (like ACO with 1 wheel gun, no touching tyres while fuelling) that kind of thing and definitely no predetermined amount of stops...it is part of the competition.
As for the 'viewer-ship' I don't think that they can ever expect this to be as big as V8 Supercars but saying that, there is more growth potential in a sportscar event. With the event in this prod/sportscar format you do get the best of both. As much as people like to go on about 'seeing your car win' I really have to doubt whether that is a draw anymore. if it was such a draw, would the B12H organisers have looked to go in the sportscar direction? Do that many people really drive Evos and Imprezzas anyway - and how many of those people want to watch an enduro - are those people watching rallying and drifting? Something at the other end of the motorsport spectrum. It is hard to argue that the sportscars/production format can't work, it works in a lot of places in Europe, America, Mid East and at Sepang, just gotta fine tune it to the Australian car owners and audience. |
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I was pleasantly surprised by the size of the crowd. I hadn't been to any of the previous events so I wasn't sure how many people really turned up. And there seems to already be a bit of a buzz from competitors about next years event. |
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Looking forward to watching it on the TV. Unfortunately couldn't get up there as I'm banking brownie points to have Easter away.
I'm with most on the timed stops stay, mandatory amount of stops goes. Timed stops is a good way to ensure you don't need to outlay a tonne of cash in buying the best guns, having a ripper pit crew etc. Putting in big $$ in research on liquid dynamics for fuel rigs etc. Especially for a once a year event. Running to FIA GT3 regs could mean cars from anywhere turn up to have a go as they know they wont be paritsed down. Without knowing what's going to happen when you turn up, I could imagine having a ? over your cars eligibility requirements would deter a lot of people. |
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Well apparently those local parity restrictions detered the Reiter Gallardos from entering, which is a big shame as they would've been a sight to see.
Im in favour of a fixed time for pitstops too, its good for safety and it does disadvantage as much the Australian teams that havent done much endurance racing. But I think the determined number of pitstops has to go, on one hand it'll disadvantage the older cars the most if it goes because they cant make up the time on the faster newer cars in the pits but sticking with a minimum number of stops seems a bit artificial to me. |
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I was all for keeping it to the production cars but I worked the event and motorsport is what it is....The promoters have lifted the game on this race and with several more teams interested in 2012 I say that the future is bright...its a shame that many of the production car teams boycotted the race but they have 4 long didtance races thru out the year and also their sprint rounds...
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ah, been away for a few days (tassie wooden boat festival FWIW, ace event, highly recommend it) anyway, you out qualified us because overall, at THAT TIME of the event, you were faster than us... it's really quite simple... hectors eyes were on stalks when he drove the track for the first time, and as anyone knows, it takes while to get fast there.... AND, we crashed in qualifying... twice.. Luke had a slow spin and a nudge, then hector did a proper job of it. We almost withdrew the car, the damage was worse than we thought initially, and thanks to many up and down pit lane for loaning welding equipment and skill and time, to fix it all up. We couldn't have done the later qual if we'd wanted to, and we did for hector to get more laps. His best of a 2.22 for the weekend was pretty good, but it took about 50 laps or so to get there. As I said though, when the car allowed it, we were fast enough to beat sheep etc... Allan 2.12.3, Luke 2.13.4 and hector 2.22. A cyber problem is one of those Italian things.. the computer thought the car had a problem (it didn't), so stopped the camshafts variating their timing.. which cost us about 8-10 sec per lap with Allan driving.... we lost so much, But It just needed clearing in the ECU in the pit stop. And in THAT pitstop we stuffed up the cool suit box strap which made us pit again.... oh well.... YES we would have loved to have been 5th not 6th, and we were fast enough to have beaten the sheep and crew... but we were beaten on the day, albeit by a slower car/team We're still delighted to have gone as well as we did. I did some numbers this week, we ran that car ridiculously cheap, and take great pride in just getting there at all! never mind beating all the other cars below 6th (and Maranello car ) bad luck to maranello (and EFI OZ) though, they put in a huge effort too and it would have been even better for all if they'd got to the end. Oh well, next year.... Hectors car left to return to Scotland today, I doubt it'll be back, but never say never! |
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The older cars only had to stop 9 times, the newer were 12. It seems irrelevant now as most stopped more than their allowance (notably not sheep and crew ) , and as always the race is all about spending the least amount of time in the pits. In hindsight, I think the 07 and 08 Lambos should have run, and maybe even Teds 2010 spec car with 12 stops would have still been a chance..... As always, Bairdo and crew were onto it.. stopping on lap 1 to get one done, although I think the rule needs tweaking to have a window around lap 9 or 10 to stop that, but good on them this year Last edited by ff s conscience; 15 Feb 2011 at 07:15. |
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You did a great job, really. Although why you'd blame your poor long (and noisily) suffering hard working team for fitting wets i have no idea... tyres are ALWAYS drivers call... perhaps your team didn't feed you info about others times? but you would have seen for yourself out there anyway to some extent You're faster than hector though, happy to concede that. And hector has won races and had pole in Aus GT, so perhaps it's best you go do some Brit GT and see if you can kick some more arse! DARE ya |
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Nah, he has a hard enough job with the intense competition in GT3 Cup Challenge...no point going back a grade or two to pick fights.
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Re Kingsley Vs Simonsen I think Matt does a great job at the wheel-- see my comments written some time ago about him-- definately worth watching. At this stage of his driving he is not in the same class as Alan. Across a great variety of cars Alan is a proven Pro who shows great speed whenever and whatever he drives. He also has another characteristic with his driving that is always there--- he rarely crashes -- and is always fast. I think most of us watched a great Australian race driver(the greatest?at least with a roof over fhis head) who seemed to have an uncanny ablity to almost never crash-even early in his career. I grew up admiring that characteristic and respecting that in race drivers. Alan has that characteristic and it will be one of the reasons he gets paid to drive for many teams all around the world.In reality-- in any capable car-- Alan will be fast and close to its potential.If we were trying to compare-- a Craig Baird would be closer to my thinking .At this stage of Matts development it is probably necessary for him to develop the keeping the car in one piece syndrome if he wants to keep getting invitations to drive that can help him realise his potential. Regardless-- I thought he did a great job in this race and the whole team deserves high praise and congratulation on a terrific result. |
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I'm sure he will, but probably not with that car, and probably not if they don't address the parity imbalance.
The 06 430 GT3 is NEARLY as fast as an 08 GT3 cup S. And, seeing as Allan did a 2.12.3 and Steve owen did a 2.10.0, parity within the class was a whopping 2 sec off. Our 430 had to run to regs that expired in 08, since then there has been further EVO's to the car homologation, regarding weight and performance, that were not allowed, which is simply silly. As the oldest and slowest car in our class, we still had to de-tune it to be elligible. But it's easily fixed (by intelligent people ), so lets hope they do. |
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