Aussi V8'S on the mountain at Bathurst this weekend

our number 1 race of the year is on this weekend at Bathursts mount panorama, thought some of you guys might be interested.
Greg Murthy's lap of the gods from 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_78NrSGBudI
you can follow this years race here
aussi V8 Supercars site
http://www.v8supercars.com.au/home/t...9/default.aspx
if you sign up you can watch the top 10 shootout this afternoon.
the race is on tomorrow, 161 laps around this 6.213klm mountain

info about the track here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Panorama_Circuit
hope you guys enjoy.
cheers barnsey

We do get those races on our SPEED Channel - but usually way after the race. I really enjoy them even with drivers that I have no clue as to who they are or their past role in racing. What these races are to me is what NA$CAR used to be with 'real' cars way modified to go very fast (kinda dumb analogy, but that's how I see it).

I clicked on the v8 supercars link, but no cheer there:CRY::CRY: Maybe tomorrow with the desk top computer as the laptop I'm using now is really low end in today's computer world.

Thanks for the links though

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Originally Posted by barnsey

our number 1 race of the year is on this weekend at Bathursts mount panorama, thought some of you guys might be interested.
Greg Murthy's lap of the gods from 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_78NrSGBudI

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lowndes beat it yesterday. not sure what he ran though.

i have to go to a bloody lunch at the inlaws!:mad:
will still watch what i can

the link takes a few minutes to load, even when it says done at the bottom.
glad you guys get it over there, there have been a few drivers from the US that have tried to conquer the mountan over the years
Ryan Briscoe Borris Said amoung others have all tried to tackle the mountain.

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Originally Posted by spikeo

lowndes beat it yesterday. not sure what he ran though.

i have to go to a bloody lunch at the inlaws!:mad:
will still watch what i can

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will be interesting to see if anyone can beat it in the shootout under make or break conditions, where you only get 1 lap to do it, unlike lounds after doing 7 or 8 laps of practice before reaching it, not taking anything away from craig, but if its done in the shootout, it will be under more trying circumstances, knowing that you only have 1 lap to do it.
barnsey
ps craig beat it by a hair lol

It came up on the desk top (in less then 5 seconds) - this PC is a homebuilt, fairly high end computer vs the laptop that is -----not

2010 Bathurst 1000 - Fabian Coulthard 270km/h Crash on First Lap at Mt Panorama
Fabian had a tyre blowout on the first lap, he climbed out and walked away un hurt after this spectacular crash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCXZVuiEtdE

Holden drivers Craig Lowndes and Mark Scaife won Australia's premier motor race, the Bathurst 1000, beating Jamie Winchup and Steve Owen in the first one-two finish by teammates since 1984.
Lowndes won the 1,000-kilometer (621-mile) endurance race for the fifth time and Scaife for the sixth, beating the fellow TeamVodafone Holden combination of Jamie Whincup and Steve Owen by 0.173 seconds.

Garth Tander and Cameron McConville of the Holden Dealer Team were third, a further second behind.

Lowndes drove the last 79 laps of the 6.2-kilometer (3.9-mile) Mount Panorama circuit in New South Wales state to win the race. James Courtney, in fifth place, was the first Ford driver to finish.

a couple of other highlights.
skippy runs accross the track in front of Tander.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHe9Z...eature=related
this is the first lap of the mountain in 2010 race
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAdER8yr0qU