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25 Jan 2010, 03:16 (Ref:2618892) | #378 | ||
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Looking sharp as always!
Working on any class A cars this year? |
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Theres something so cool about having a liveried-up race car in your driveway
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25 Jan 2010, 06:00 (Ref:2618912) | #382 | ||
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But Paul Morris, who is listed to sub for Murphy in AbU Dhabi is listed in the EC BMW.
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25 Jan 2010, 08:07 (Ref:2618942) | #383 | ||
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The RS looks great, well done.
A little disappointed by the lack of competition for the RS, Alfacors I was looking forward to our RS v Proton match, oh well maybe next year, also so much for the Hyundai's. While i'm on about classes, it makes you think about the future of the diesel class, maybe a rebate could be given for diesel cars to increase competition as a way to reduce the so called carbon footprint. In enews Alfa stated they were going to enter both the 147 & 159, maybe it was too expensive or they didn't think there was any point racing against each other in the same class. Class A,C,D & H have good numbers, would have liked more HSV's in B and I noticed no Chris Sexton cars. Is anyone having guesses as to who will be the third driving for the Mustang. Apparently its a big name driver. A bigger named driver than Alan Simonsen, anyone's guess |
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The 3rd driver for the Mustang is............... Ohhhh You will just have to wait!
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25 Jan 2010, 10:36 (Ref:2619008) | #387 | ||
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Dunno how I feel about this Mustang.
The race is supposed to be for attainable sports cars - I don't see why the Mustang should be allowed but not the Porsche Cayman, new GT-R or M3 V8. You can buy a new M3 sedan in the showroom for $145k, GT-R for $156k or Cayman S for $157k - all cars deemed to expensive and ineligible for the 12 hour. (Prices sourced from the latest edition of Motor magazine) A quick check of online classifieds found the cheapest GT500 was a two-year-old used model at $138k. Demonstrators and near new cars trade for $150,000 and I bet ordering your own brand-spanker would cost close to $160,000. 2008 GT500 - $135k http://www.carsales.com.au/all-cars/...=gt500&trecs=8 2008 GT500 - $148k http://www.carpoint.com.au/all-cars/...d=1261F583234F 2008 GT500 - $150k http://www.carpoint.com.au/all-cars/...d=1261F583234F Like the big Monaro in 2002 and 2003, I don't feel that the Stang is in the spirit of the rules. |
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So who will replace Ingall in the Sportswagon?
And what of Craig Baird...will he turn up to fill one of the 'tbc' seats, in a Quinn Evo, perhaps??? |
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the article suggested nick percat might get the job, but it was speculative
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I reckon EVO's would still be competative with M3 & Cayman, not sure about GT-R though?
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Steve Glenney took production on pole with a 1:44.0390 lap in his Evo X a few minutes before Tony Alford ran the Donut King GT-R in the GT challenge, and qualified with a 1:41.5764 effort. It's a solid margin (just under 3.5 sec) but I reckon the heavy GT-R would burn through tyres and fuel more rapidly than the lighter evos. At the Sprint Bathurst event in 2008, Motor Magazine's Michael Taylor lapped a stock R35 GT-R around Bathurst in 2:47.9398, a time I'd consider to be ballpark with a well-driven STI or Evo in stock form. Steve Owen's pole at last year's 12 hour was a 2:28.88... I don't see the GT-R going any faster than 2:25 or so. |
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It's just an idea.......it could add a green component to the race with more fuel efficient cars more likely to figure in the results rather than the most powerful cars.
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Have done a bit of back of napkin stuff on diesels and the 12hr.
The regs state that either: The standard tank is used with dry break refueling or A replacement tank is fitted using fuel safety cell technology with the tank size limited by a formula based on engine size. The max as far as I can calculate is 85ltrs. Read the regs on the B12hr site for more detail. This means that effectively the limiting factor is allowable driver time for many diesels. The other point is the safety car interventions tend to set strategy as much as tank capacity, so really long spells do not always bring the expected result. Hate the concept of race winners being decided on paper or on an economy run for outright, and that will always be the most recognised result, but I do think an index could be put together based on economy or carbon footprint. That was always part of Le Mans and fairly well recognised as part of the competition. But then maybe that was about the only way the French could win anything at their own race for a number of years. |
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