Aus V8 SC - driving skills

[Humber]

Have the driving skills of the Aus V8 Super car drivers reduced in recent years or are the drivers just pushing harder than in the past ?
e.g Aus GP 2012.
Big Start Crash V8 Supercars 2012 Albert Park Race 2 - YouTube

[Rollo]

The car which taps Whincup is James Courtney (HRT #22) and the tap is really quite subtle.

As for the question if driving skills have fallen off, then you need to ask what the likely steps driver could have taken to avoid the accident. Cars came around that corner three wide and virtually blind.
Ingall drove into a spot which only 6 frames beforehand was completely empty. I wager that it is quite difficult to pull a car up to a stop in less than 0.24 of a second. Cars which were following behind at distances of inches had virtually nowhere to go.