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24 Jan 2013, 10:15 (Ref:3193632) | #1 | ||
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Top 5 tracks on the Calender
lots of good rounds in the Country, but theyre can only be one winner, which is no guess really but I got thinking of doing a top 5 and here it is, wats yours?
1 Bathurst - Legendary, Brock, dipper 2 Clipsal 500 - 1st race, F1 history, turn 11 = best corner. 3 Gold Coast 600 - difficult track, Internationals, those chicanes. 4 Sandown 500 - 1st Endurance, co-drivers 5 Townsville 400 - Small track good racing, lots overtaking |
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Bathurst speaks for it self. And Townsville is a great small track too with a few fast kinks to upset the car. I know many wont agree but Homebush i think is good. Specially when it rains and the weather is involved. Very slippery. |
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Tracks vs rounds are totally different things. For me Phillip Island is the best track as a pure racing circuit but is a mile behind many of the other rounds for various reasons.
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24 Jan 2013, 16:59 (Ref:3193757) | #5 | |
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1. Bathurst
2. Adelaide 3. PI 4. Hidden Valley 5. Sandown |
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Topic is tracks though so PI should be in the top 5. |
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24 Jan 2013, 19:52 (Ref:3193828) | #7 | ||
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my bad, tracks it is then. but you get the Idea
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25 Jan 2013, 00:30 (Ref:3193954) | #8 | ||
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...opinion from across the ditch; based purely on TV viewing as I have only been to one Aussie circuit in 1998 in Tassie for the V8's.
1. Adelaide 2. Homebush 3. Bathurst 4. Lakeside 5. Symmons Plains (just 'cos I been there! Love the downhill hairpin!) |
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25 Jan 2013, 03:05 (Ref:3194000) | #9 | ||
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Best tracks ... but from which perspective?
As an on-track spectator, I could never vote Clipsal/GC/Townsville/Homebush as a favourite because you see so little of the actual race. I'm keen on motorsport photography, and these tracks are VERY limiting unless you have the authority to work from the other side of the fence. My choices would be different if I was responding as a TV spectator, and probably different again if I was responding as a driver. 1.) Phillip Island 2.) Bathurst 3.) Sandown 4.) Barbagallo (OK, I'm WA origin, I admit to the bias) 5.) Albert Park, so long as I can into the Chicane Skybox. |
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25 Jan 2013, 05:00 (Ref:3194024) | #10 | ||
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[QUOTE=RedZedMikey;3194000]4.) Barbagallo (OK, I'm WA origin, I admit to the bias)
I agree a great little track with exciting corners and bends. Three wide over the hill, 2 into the first corner continuing to duel all the way through the esses plus go off the road and the quicksand gets you. |
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25 Jan 2013, 06:52 (Ref:3194040) | #11 | ||
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1. Phillip Island.
2.Bathurst. 3.Sandown. 4.Symonds Plains. 5.Waneroo. |
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25 Jan 2013, 10:38 (Ref:3194132) | #12 | ||
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As a spectator?
Bathurst Phillip Island Symmons Winton Sandown |
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Punters Beer Fest. Indy 02, Clipsal 03, Winton 04, Paperclip 05, Darwin 06, Oran Park 07, Phillip Island 08, Sandown 09, Townsville 10, Symmons 11, Eastern Creek 12, Winton 13. Townsville 14. Paperclip 15, Sandown 16, Symmons 17, PI 18, The Bend 19 |
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AMAROO PARK
CATALINA PARK ORAN PARK SURFERS PARADISE INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY WARWICK FARM |
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I miss Oran...had the best of everything. Could practically see the whole place from anywhere as a spectator, great racing, passing, ups/downs/the flip flop...final corner into pit lane always interesting...and turn 1 and 2 as a dicey passing spot. Hey...it had a bridge!!!
Never saw a bad race there, you could always follow who was where and the atmosphere on the hill on a Sunday arvo was brilliant. Nothing like watching in anticipation as someone left the pits as another car was screaming down the hill on the main straight...just a great place. |
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25 Jan 2013, 21:59 (Ref:3194358) | #15 | ||
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I was judging the tracks from the current calendar, so add Oran and omit Hidden Valley from my list. |
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25 Jan 2013, 22:36 (Ref:3194374) | #16 | ||
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I picked as per the thread heading. I have walked Catalina & it must have been awesome. Went to Amaroo & OP & miss them dearly
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Longford Hume Weir Catalina Amaroo All gone but what great tracks. |
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27 Jan 2013, 03:51 (Ref:3194737) | #20 | ||
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MY choice from current active tracks 1 BATHURST 2 CLIPSAL 3 PHILIP ISLAND 4 HIDDEN VALLEY 5 SANDOWN
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27 Jan 2013, 11:37 (Ref:3194839) | #21 | ||
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My picks
I'll confine my self to tracks that I've seen on TV, or in person.
Bathurst. 2013 will be my 20th year Lakeside. (not current, but fast, flowing & close to my humble abode) Sandown. P.I. Winton. I went to Surfers ( the real track- not that street abortion) in the 60's. Don't remember it well enough to comment. |
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I don't undestand how anyone could pick any of the street tracks. I think people confuse crashing into walls with motor racing, but hey, what ever floats your boat.
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28 Jan 2013, 09:03 (Ref:3195201) | #24 | ||
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Bathurst and Phillip Island cleally ahead, Albert Park is great then I would say Adelaide and Hombush.
Of the old tracks creek corner at Warwick Farm was good and Amaroo too (I'm from Sydney). For a laugh Hume Weir. |
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