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7th June 2011, 08:57
Thread: V8SC coming to North America?
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SpeedTV in Australia is not allowed to show the...
SpeedTV in Australia is not allowed to show the series (other than replaying the races a prescribed number of hours after they occur), and V8SC themselves have said that they will stay on FTA rather...
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6th June 2011, 07:43
Thread: V8SC coming to North America?
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Trans-Am regs in its last few years were...
Trans-Am regs in its last few years were basically what V8Supercars is today.
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4th May 2011, 13:13
Thread: Closer to the Edge TT 3d movie.
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I'm told we will get it.... no idea where or when...
I'm told we will get it.... no idea where or when though
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13 isn't always abad luck, Bob Holden and Rauno...
13 isn't always abad luck, Bob Holden and Rauno Aaltonen won the 1966 Bathurst 'Great Race' in a #13 Mini Cooper, and Holden continued to use that number for much of the rest of his career.
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23rd April 2011, 02:33
Thread: Numbers In the Windows
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Poll: Race cars have numbers on the doors, full stop. ...
Race cars have numbers on the doors, full stop.
The likes of the STCC, BTCC and V8Supercars now just look like billboards, and the car numbers mean very little hidden away in the back window.
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1st March 2011, 11:18
Thread: BTCC 2011 Confirmed Thread
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To be fair, V8s got the idea from the Swedish...
To be fair, V8s got the idea from the Swedish Touring Car Championship didn't they, who have been using this practice since the mid-00s?
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18th February 2011, 15:51
Thread: BTCC vs WTCC vs DTM vs V8 Supercars
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I think your being abit fanciful with how...
I think your being abit fanciful with how 'exciting' the COTF is going to be, it is effectively just a NASCAR COT, with a standard chassis and any bodywork covering, not Touring Car racing in my...
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24th December 2010, 06:14
Thread: Car Numbers
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Actually i have an interview where Villeneuve...
Actually i have an interview where Villeneuve says that he didn't choose #27, it was just the number that Team Green was alotted by CART in 1995 as it was considered a new team (after the split at...
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19th December 2010, 00:55
Thread: Car Numbers
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It was only in 95/96 that most teams started...
It was only in 95/96 that most teams started keeping 'their' numbers
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10th December 2010, 07:41
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Group A touring cars in particular have risen in...
Group A touring cars in particular have risen in value quite steeply in the last few years, particularly in Australia
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30th November 2010, 05:52
Thread: Did anybody watch the original WTCC?
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What was a disaster about it? The grids were...
What was a disaster about it? The grids were full, and although BMW and Ford were caught cheating on seperate occasions, they got found out and punished.
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25th November 2010, 11:18
Thread: 2011 WSB calendar
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How many of the WSB teams running Japanese bikes...
How many of the WSB teams running Japanese bikes are actually official japanese works teams, aren't most of them (Ten Kate for example) just funded by the European arms of the companies?
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23rd November 2010, 05:17
Thread: Did anybody watch the original WTCC?
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In the end it was dispensed with because Bernie...
In the end it was dispensed with because Bernie was pushing the new PROCAR formula (F1 engines in production bodies), which he envisaged as a replacement for Group A and the future of the world...
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21st November 2010, 05:10
Thread: Did anybody watch the original WTCC?
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It was only a farce was because the protest of...
It was only a farce was because the protest of the clearly illegal Sierra's took 66 days to be heard, and the result was given on the Friday morning of the final round at Mt Fuji....
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19th November 2010, 06:43
Thread: Did anybody watch the original WTCC?
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I was young, but remember it. Channel 7 in...
I was young, but remember it. Channel 7 in Australia in got behind it (not least because Australia was the only country to get two rounds) and we got highlights of all the Euro rounds, and full...
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5th November 2010, 15:20
Thread: V8 Supercars-Gold Coast 600
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The shortening of the track had more to do with...
The shortening of the track had more to do with an impending railway running through where the track went down at that end of the circuit.
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8th October 2010, 06:41
Thread: Bathurst V8 Supercars 2010
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Exactly, that was the grandaddy of touring car...
Exactly, that was the grandaddy of touring car racing in the mid-80s, us Australian's even agreed (well the likes of Grice and Moffat anyway ;) )
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3rd October 2010, 03:34
Thread: Do you consider BSB a 'feeder' series?
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It depends how you look at it. BSB had already...
It depends how you look at it. BSB had already raced there in '03, and all of Friday was lost due to wet weather of that meeting, so that helped the locals abit.
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13th July 2010, 04:50
Thread: "Not BAD for a Number Two Driver"!!!
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Not standing up for yourself and "doing a...
Not standing up for yourself and "doing a Coulthard/Barrichello" in public isn't going to change much either...nor bring home a championship.
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12th July 2010, 09:44
Thread: How to make the WTCC more interesting?
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That only works if cars from around the world are...
That only works if cars from around the world are included in the grid mix, be they big cars or small cars.
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12th July 2010, 07:54
Thread: "Not BAD for a Number Two Driver"!!!
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If Webber had have put on a public 'team unity'...
If Webber had have put on a public 'team unity' face and said all the right things and acted as if all was ok, then he immediatly finds himself in the Barrichello or Coulthard mould of appearing on...
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2nd July 2010, 08:30
Thread: Thompson to test NGTC
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How many manufacturers have shown any interest...
How many manufacturers have shown any interest though? One could see the control engine being a steep obstacle to overcome
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28th June 2010, 12:58
Thread: BSB Mallory Park
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I read that Brookes and Kiyonari are running the...
I read that Brookes and Kiyonari are running the Silverstone WSB round as wildcards. Anyone else joining them (Tommy Hill for example?)
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Cheers tannat, good to see you too :) I try to...
Cheers tannat, good to see you too :) I try to drop in occasionally :)
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I was a fan of the original as well, was alot of...
I was a fan of the original as well, was alot of fun particularly in multi-player
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