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The next round of the V8Supercar Championship commences this Friday, 23rd of March, when the V8Supercar Transporters make the long haul to Western Australia.
It is a three race format, with one event on Saturday, and two on Sunday.
Details shortly.
Don't forget your entries in the V8Supercar Tipping Competition.
Entries need to be in by Noon Friday.

Sorry tis late..........in my next life I will have supreme control over Destiny, Fate, Hope, Faith, Charity, and Time.
I will be God, or a Woman. (Please refer all complaints directly to ED )
Barbagello is an interesting circuit, it certainly keeps the drivers focused.
2:41 kms in length, clockwise,....... and little of it is flat.
Top speed is a portly 250 plus on the straight, and Cat corner is a ......roll a smoke and wait for the bugga to finally turn in while the brakes are cooking.
Tell you what........I will stumble over to the locker n see whats left of my race suit.........see if I can find a pair of Ugh boots that fit.......I really should be putting in my answers to Jacfans Quiz (That was not a paid announcement)........but we all better get used to night time racing
Back in a minute. .........Oh,.......bring your Brain bin

In your next life you could be a woman and constantly pregnant/giving birth and have no time or inclination to worry about V8s or car racing at all

and ....... waiting.....

Guy, n Girl...........thats not appropriate anymore.......is it ?.........s< you have 11 hours n some to get your tips in
Now, tis 12 years since I binned it on this circuit.......so This is from memory I tried to forget.
Jump in, n lets go.
We are in 2nd spot on the grid, we have to do the mandatory stops, so the team boss says, we will you fill you light, ........you simply drive around the outside of Skaife at turn 1, and disappear in to the distance.

We are now sitting in a very heavy vehicle, with a clucth that would last a week in a Honda Accord, only driven on Sundays by a ........ and "Only" 100 litres of fuel.
GREEN.
Bugga........bog it off the start.......three are past like sharks after minnow.......bang thru the gate twice........stand on the brake pedal........shite .......Rusty is on the Inside......as we click it back to 2nd for the 85km turn 1, if he leans on us its gunna be all sand/grass and ten spots lost, then its torture the LH rear as we start to climb toward the Esses........on camber, off camber, off camber......apexes are critical here,.....shoulder Rusty on entry.......GT tries to take advantage.....cloud of sand dust in the mirror......oops....under the regs we have to have a LH mirror too.......top the rise....and bury the boot (gently, of course )
Long downhill, camber rolls over,........have to slow, point, pick the apex, get it perfec........thats where I binned it.........never completed a race lap

Sorry, people, I am experiencing constant internet dropouts.....updates asap..(it has taken 3 hours to post this)

Julian Mayo wrote:Sorry, people, I am experiencing constant internet dropouts.....updates asap..(it has taken 3 hours to post this)

that is so annoying for you.
Don't worry I am sure we have all had that at one time or another.

37 times today Can't be fixed til Monday

Top Ten from Friday practice.
Tander
W'bottom
Skaife
R Kelly
Lowndes
T Kelly
Johnson
Ingall
Courtney
S Richards
The gap was .728 from first to tenth.

Julian Mayo wrote:37 times today Can't be fixed til Monday

The Results of Qualifying

Pole...Tander
followed by

R Kelly

Lowndes

Skaife

T Kelly

J Courtney

Davison

Johnson

Whincup

Holdsworth.

An excellent effort by Lee Holdsworth in the old banger.

Mutter mutter .... stupid kiwi... Oh why oh why did I pick ......?

I didn't know you were from UnZud

Julian Mayo wrote:I didn't know you were from UnZud

Oh no!!!! Shoot me now...

Whats wrong with us kiwis . If you take time to get to know us better you might start to appreciate what our great country is about.