What happened in the development series

flyingduck · 17 Sep 2006, 20:48 (Ref:1712501)

Just want to hear what the gossip was comming out of mallara. Also what happened to shannon obrien did he bin it in qualifying as a see he didn't feature in race results

D.R.T. · 18 Sep 2006, 02:18 (Ref:1712582)

There was a development round on ?

James63 · 18 Sep 2006, 02:27 (Ref:1712586)

hmm...I had no idea.

Exceler8 · 18 Sep 2006, 05:58 (Ref:1712628)

well the usual
macrow one
price second

and Mark Porter 3rd

Chatters · 18 Sep 2006, 06:56 (Ref:1712640)

Of course the V8 website had full details...

Race 1: Macrow, Price, Perkins
Race 2: Scott, Youlden, Pither
Race 3: Macrow, Price, Porter

Round: Macrow 300, Price 294, Porter 284
Championship: Macrow 1504, Price 1364, Porter 1288, Pretty 1200, Perkins 1077.

Fairlane GTA · 18 Sep 2006, 11:26 (Ref:1712801)

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Originally Posted by flyingduck

Just want to hear what the gossip was comming out of mallara. Also what happened to shannon obrien did he bin it in qualifying as a see he didn't feature in race results

Nice to see someone is interested. Shannon O'Brien had engine problems, but as I understand it his spare engine was already in another car when the problem was found.

No pace cars at all, no major wrecking.

Kerri · 18 Sep 2006, 11:29 (Ref:1712807)

Turn 1 was a bit messy for Race 2 though

racer69 · 18 Sep 2006, 16:51 (Ref:1713049)

Abit silly for the round to clash with the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix wasn't it?

Trev Campbell · 18 Sep 2006, 22:19 (Ref:1713273)

Well there were still 30,000 people out at Mallala !!!!!!!! A few would have been their because of Brocky but that is a massive crowd for a stand alone development series round. And good old VESA in their wisdom have dropped the round from next years calendar.

**GTRMagic** · 18 Sep 2006, 22:30 (Ref:1713279)

Meantime whispers from the collective powder room at Mallala suggest that there are 3 current development series teams eyeing off a place in the main game in 2007.

It has been suggested that OptimaSport, Howard Racing and O'Brien Motorsport are all looking at a couple of lazy franchise licence slots currently on the market... it will be interesting to see if any of these actually get up...

Presuming any of this actually happened

Fairlane GTA · 18 Sep 2006, 22:39 (Ref:1713283)

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Originally Posted by Trev Campbell

Well there were still 30,000 people out at Mallala !!!!!!!!

Trev, where did you get that figure from?

Trev Campbell · 18 Sep 2006, 22:55 (Ref:1713288)

It's what was reported on the news. They might have got their crowd figures from VESA. Ha Ha Ha

birtek · 18 Sep 2006, 23:00 (Ref:1713292)

'Twas the biggest crowd I have seen at Mallala since, well probably since Clipsal 500 started. But I doubt there was 30,000 there. I would have thought maybe 10-15,000 but I am generally a fairly poor judge of crowds. It is definetely a shame that Mallala is losing this round, and when it was mentioned on the weekend there was a lot of unhappy people.

As much as I love Clipsal, Mallala is an excellent track to take the family, but getting out at the end of the day was a bit of a headache. In the pre-Clipsal days when V8 Supercars used to race at Mallala they used to close the road out and make it 1 way into the Malllala township which would have alleviated much of the hassles on Sunday.

I hope Sporting Car Club and Mallala can get this round back for 2008, I cant see them getting it back for next year now.

Chatters · 19 Sep 2006, 09:36 (Ref:1713548)

Well it wouldn't be the first time someone's lied about crowd attendance... Ch 10 said there were 1,200 people at Bathurst today!

Kerri · 19 Sep 2006, 10:51 (Ref:1713606)

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Originally Posted by Trev Campbell

It's what was reported on the news. They might have got their crowd figures from VESA. Ha Ha Ha

Actually they said the last time Brocky was at Mallala for his finale race there, there was a crowd of 30,000.
You were half right Trev

But I must agree, it was the biggest crowd I have seen there for a development round and yes I am very disappointed it was the last one

Chatters · 19 Sep 2006, 12:29 (Ref:1713733)

The last one... For now.

Kerri · 19 Sep 2006, 12:40 (Ref:1713749)

I hope you are right Chatters.

mountainstar · 20 Sep 2006, 00:25 (Ref:1714220)

Why did mallala lose it's round?

pete55 · 20 Sep 2006, 00:42 (Ref:1714225)

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Originally Posted by mountainstar

Why did mallala lose it's round?

Possibly because of the amount of money required to be paid to VESA to hold a round.

**GTRMagic** · 20 Sep 2006, 01:21 (Ref:1714237)

It is also in need of some serious upgrades... a resurfacing would start.. but the paddock is possibly the least good in the country

Alan 52 · 20 Sep 2006, 01:48 (Ref:1714243)

The main issue I think was that the competitors wanted the development series limited to 7 rounds and The Artist wanted Development races on at all Championship meetings where the main game has to be finished by 2pm due to 7's AFL coverage.Winton needed to pick up a round of the Development Series for its Championship meeting and Mallala was flicked instead of Wakefield Park.

**GTRMagic** · 20 Sep 2006, 02:31 (Ref:1714254)

Plus the fun of Carrera Cup allegedly wavering as to whether to support the VESA rounds in future years....

Chatters · 20 Sep 2006, 06:53 (Ref:1714329)

Do I see another case of two Bathurst 1000's coming on?

00 XR8 · 20 Sep 2006, 12:21 (Ref:1714615)

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Originally Posted by GTRMagic

It is also in need of some serious upgrades... a resurfacing would start.. but the paddock is possibly the least good in the country

The paddock GTR? You mean the lockable garages surrounded by sealed tarmac? Much better than the dirt/grass floored marquees they have been kept in at the Clipsal 500 in previous years........ Sure Mallala isn't the most elaborate place that they travel to, but the Fujitsu teams are treated better as the main act at Mallala than they are at plenty of the combined rounds.

Also, why do you think Mallala needs resurfacing? I would have thought that Wakefield Park and Queensland Raceway need it more than Mallala does.

Your comment about Carrera Cup is interesting also. Cup Car displeased with the imminent arrival of the GT Championship onto the V8Supercar card perhaps?

Richard Craill · 21 Sep 2006, 12:47 (Ref:1715496)

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It is also in need of some serious upgrades... a resurfacing would start.. but the paddock is possibly the least good in the country

I think thats a bit harsh mate - Sure it's not up to the standard of some of the other bigger and better funded tracks but the only main complaint I hear is that there aren't any pit garages on the actual pit straight. However, there is room for 120 cars under lock and key which is an advantage many competitors like.

I havent driven Mallala for three years or so but the surface seems pretty good. Its not what you would call bumpy. For bumpy go to AIR..

As far as the crowd goes at the weekend - I think the general chatter around settled at about 7,500 - 8K ish. About average for a majority of the rounds there. To be fair a few of us were expecting more but it wasnt bad at all.

There is no way it was 30,000 - I was there in '97 for the Brock finale' and it took three hours to get from the grandstand to the intersection up the road.

/end random muse.

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