Australian V8 Supercar

John Stewart · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 1:38 pm Post subject: Australian V8 Supercar

For those who may not be aware Speed is again airing the Aussie V8 Supercar series.

The next race is Bahrain and will air this Sunday at 2:00 pm Eastern time.

If you have never watched this series I highly recommend it, think British Touring cars on steriods or vintage Trans-Am from the late 60's early 70's. They had 29 cars on the grid in Abu Dhabi, good turnout considering the current global economy.

Tune in, you won't be disappointed.

John
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TJ Koyen · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject:

Best racing you'll ever see, bar none. I'll set a reminder on the TV now, thanks!
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Bob Baldwin jr · Joined: 21 Sep 2006 Posts: 3579

It looked like a challenging track . Good to see Marcus Ambrose doing some Announcing . Do you know when that was taped?
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Chad Stapleton · Joined: 19 Jul 2001 Posts: 4403

The racing gets better when they get onto "real" tracks back in Oz.
The Adelaide and Melbourne ( F1 support) street race's are next up and will be much more entertaining Wink

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Greg Nelson · Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 1710

Best thing is its door banging brute force racing- J Stewart said it's 70's Trans Am, that's close, just add 250 hp, 2 more gears and way better brakes and rubber. It is the best series around even though they have been bitten somewhat by the NASCRAP spec body bug. At least their doors open.
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TJ Koyen · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:26 pm Post subject:

Adelaide is always an awesome race. These cars are much more exciting to watch on the street courses. The walls give them yet another option to bounce off of.
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Chad Stapleton · Joined: 19 Jul 2001 Posts: 4403

Adelaide ..Clipsal 500 .. has started if you can get a live feed.
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Greg Nelson · Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 1710

[quote="Chad

You could call it "spec body" but in reality they are very close to street bodys , its just that there are only 2 sedans they can race.. the GM/Holden "Commodore" ,
or the Ford "Falcon".

That's a Vette, the Commodore is the recently past GTO.

The spec I referred to is they have two bode profile templates they use that both the Ford and Holden must be the same and the team build the cars to fit the template as well as common wheel base and track. Not as extensive as Nascar's aluminum maiden they use, but still not exactly what drives down the street.
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Chad Stapleton · Joined: 19 Jul 2001 Posts: 4403

Ahh, they have changed the photo on that link !
..I will fix it again.
Yes i know what you mean , the cars are all built to a spec but at least they do retain many of the original body panels.
Adelaide race 1 over, another to run today.
i wont spoil the results for those that pick up the broadcast later.
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Joe Brizzolara · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:10 am Post subject: Re: Australian V8 Supercar

John Stewart · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:09 am Post subject:

Joe,

The air date for the Bahrain race was Sunday March 7th.

The next V8 Supercar race is Adelaide and will air this Sunday March 21st at 2:00pm Eastern time (USA) on Speed.

John
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Joe Brizzolara · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 4:31 pm Post subject:

Thanks John, missed today's race. I'll check the Speed website and see when it is on again.