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Old 7 Jul 2017, 09:13 (Ref:3749399)   #26
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Why did they change one Ford & not the other?
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Old 7 Jul 2017, 10:51 (Ref:3749415)   #27
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Why did they change one Ford & not the other?

Maybe they looked too alike?

Maybe their is a limited sticker budget for Super2?

The Porsche looks awesome in gold!!
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Old 7 Jul 2017, 10:54 (Ref:3749416)   #28
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Revised Woodstock livery for Davison http://apexnews.co.nz/?p=24325
And the Woodstock bonnet looks great sanding still, but with the reflection in the last practice today, the spectacle and branding got completely lost, sadly.

It might as well have been plain jet black or a mirror tint as either would've been as much use.

The late Michael Erceg wouldn't be happy
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Old 8 Jul 2017, 09:33 (Ref:3749562)   #29
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What a dull race!
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Old 8 Jul 2017, 12:31 (Ref:3749585)   #30
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Good to see it on FTA today.. except #10 didn't seem to do a lot to publicise it was on.
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Old 9 Jul 2017, 07:25 (Ref:3749709)   #31
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Reynolds fading, and does Scotty Mac just have a cool suit failure? Why in gods name would you put Ludo on the radio? He is brilliant but I wouldnt want him to instruct emergency surgery,

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Reynolds fading, and does Scotty Mac just have a cool suit failure? Why in gods name would you put Ludo on the radio? He is brilliant but I wouldnt want him to instruct emergency surgery,

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There has to be a different solution to a cool suit surely? The GT cars have in-car air conditioning units running off the electrics in the car. Someone like CoolDrive would have to have the capability to pull one of those apart, improve its performance, and sell it to the field?

I don't get having Mr Lacroix on the radio either. Surely they can hire Siri for the job
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Great win for Mr Whincup today, got them on strategy, and having a functioning coolsuit. Traffic wasn't too kind to any of the top 3 near the end, lots of cars getting in the way when there was clearly no need to.

Do they still use blue flags?
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I swear I saw Aaren Russell lapped more than twice today.

Maybe there were extenuating circumstances but .3 of a lap faster than Alex, but a whole lap down.
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Old 10 Jul 2017, 03:21 (Ref:3750080)   #36
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Great win for Mr Whincup today, got them on strategy, and having a functioning coolsuit. Traffic wasn't too kind to any of the top 3 near the end, lots of cars getting in the way when there was clearly no need to.

Do they still use blue flags?
Nope. Only used a last resort after the email, fax, telegram and carrier pigeon has failed to let the team know to tell its driver to move over.
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Old 10 Jul 2017, 08:24 (Ref:3750099)   #37
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Nope. Only used a last resort after the email, fax, telegram and carrier pigeon has failed to let the team know to tell its driver to move over.
The rules for Supercar require a lapped driver to get out of the way, if they don't get out of the way, blue flags may be shown.
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Old 10 Jul 2017, 10:53 (Ref:3750124)   #38
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Is it just me or was there a noticeable downturn in crowd numbers at Townsville this year?
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Old 10 Jul 2017, 11:50 (Ref:3750135)   #39
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Old 10 Jul 2017, 12:00 (Ref:3750141)   #40
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Why? Crowd numbers are crowd numbers. Anybody got them?
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and even then i didnt really make a retort. Probably crowds were down because the Aust Gt grid was down by a third and we know they are big crowd drawers
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Is it just me or was there a noticeable downturn in crowd numbers at Townsville this year?
TV ratings on Sunday according to TV Tonight on Foxtel were up 9.1% (11,000). Your observation on crowd numbers however is correct according to the Townsville Bulletin article about the event which stated the accumulative attendance for this year was 142,278 which is slightly down on the 2016 total of 145,411

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142,000 people in what is effectively a country town is pretty special I would have thought...
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State government said before the event that it was responsible for 120,000 beds being booked in local accommodation places. That's pretty impressive.
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State government said before the event that it was responsible for 120,000 beds being booked in local accommodation places. That's pretty impressive.
that would be around double the Clipsal amount of bed nights, so it would be impressive ? (i guess its possible people stay longer or extend their trip to other areas)

around 100 motels in townsville (according to a quick internet search)
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I'm not sure about Saturday as I didn't catch any of the footage, but my estimate of Sundays crowd is 20-25k.
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I'm not sure about Saturday as I didn't catch any of the footage, but my estimate of Sundays crowd is 20-25k.
and how many did you estimate last year?
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and how many did you estimate last year?
I didn't watch it. But if you want to see a video of an alleged 168k weekend crowd, here's an aerial video from the 2009 townsville event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yPquhm5x8
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This again

If you didn't go to the venue, who cares how many people went, really...
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