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Also looking back the only thing close to a mechanical failure over 6 hours was Payne's gearbox that caused the crash
11 of the last 18 Bathursts have been close too for very much the same reasons
No one can pass
Stanaway ran out of fuel. Lucky to finish
Drove real well today too.
He's a pro around that place, shame about elsewhere.
FWIW I hope TH gets the Team 18 gig
No... they were close because they had SCs which bunched the field close to the end.
Last year there was no SC in the last 500km of the race, which is why it wasn't close. This year there was an SC with 30 laps to go, which bunched them up, resulting in a close finish between Feeney & Kostecki.
We saw passes in all the usual spots this year - at Hell Corner, the top of Mountain Straight, and in The Chase.
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Was wondering what happened to him.
This is where the finals series next year might spice things up.
People might NEED to take more risks to get in, or those who are safe not take them because they can.
Passing is still incredibly difficult
That's not a bad point, particularly with Bathurst being the last event before the Finals.
For drivers in the mid-pack, it's likely to introduce a degree of desperation, as they compete for the points required to claim those last few positions in the top-10. The Waters/Mostert battle devolved today, once they decided just to settle for the points, rather than risk losing everything in an overtake-gone-wrong. If they're 10th & 11th going into Bathurst, then they're fighting all the way to the line, knowing that the winner makes the Finals and the loser misses out.
For those at the head of the pack, their positions in the Finals are likely to be secured already. They are thus free to fight for line honours, knowing that they have nothing to lose.
Having said that, by the time they get to the "final sprint to the line", they've already had 800-900km of racing, in which a pecking order has well and truly had time to get established. We probably still won't see much overtaking, as the faster cars will have already gravitated to the front, and the slower cars to the back, over the preceding 130-odd laps.
As for passing being "incredibly difficult", it's difficult at every track. At the end of the day, it's easier at Bathurst than almost any other race track in Australia.
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Hell of a race by Kostecki/Hazelwood and Feeney/Whincup. It was pretty close all day between those two cars. Cooper Murray drove really well as well. Incredible reliability of man and machine all day.
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Just some thoughts on the commentary why not highlight the driver and his lap positions and time.
I got sick of the UV track and temp also there side drafting over and over and over again,
Repeats of how a break made is made surely do we need to see this hour after hour.
Why not make the commentary communicate to a lot of people that are full on motor sport experts.
Used to be a great watch years ago I totally lost interest today.
I got sick of the UV track and temp also there side drafting over and over and over again,
Repeats of how a break made is made surely do we need to see this hour after hour.
Why not make the commentary communicate to a lot of people that are full on motor sport experts.
Used to be a great watch years ago I totally lost interest today.
Not an easy day to be a commentator. Nothing happened
