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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.
Not an easy day to be a commentator. Nothing happened
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Crompo delivered every cliche in the book after that Saftey Car.
More than once
An Erebus engineer was coward punched leaving his hotel last night and ended up in hospital
Some people are absolute morons.
A couple of last things...
- All this talk comparing Bathurst to Monaco, for difficulty of overtaking, is complete and utter nonsense. Bathurst has 4 clear overtaking zones - Hell Corner, the top of Mountain Straight, Forrest Elbow, and the left hand corner in The Chase. That's 2-3 more overtaking zones than almost any other race track in Australia, and 4 more than Monaco. It's one of the easiest tracks for overtaking anywhere in the world, not one of the hardest.
- Vaughan was interviewed during the race, about his crash with Mostert. He claimed that he wasn't expecting them to be so eager to get past. Now either he's incredibly inexperienced, incredibly stupid, or both. He was a slow car/driver, who was about to be lapped by drivers hunting a position in the top-5, and he'd been holding them up all the way from The Cutting to Forrest Elbow (all the way over the Mountain). Surely it would have been obvious to anyone & everyone that they were going to want to get past him at the first available opportunity (i.e. Forrest Elbow)? His interview highlighted just how culpable he was in causing the incident, and how little responsibility fell on the shoulders of Mostert.
Most likely a drunken moron at that.
Probably Barry Ryan throwing fists
A "missed downshift" was all it took for Matt Payne to become the only victim of an intense Repco Bathurst 1000 after a "character-building" crash at The Cutting.
Running in eighth place at the time, Payne was running all by himself when he made an unforced error and slid into the outside wall at The Cutting.
“It was pretty simple really, I just missed the downshift, got loose and there’s no real coming back from that at that section of the track,” Payne said.
I saw reports that they shouted **** Erebus, so it wasn’t “random” as such, but most likely drunk.
It's not that they can't over take it's that they can't get close enough to do it. Was 1st ever challenged by 2nd yesterday ? 1-2 car lengths was about it.
There's a reason why Kostecki was in front, and Feeney couldn't get close enough - Kostecki was consistently the fastest driver all day (aside from a brief period just before the SC).
