NOTTTTTTT HAPPPPPYYY!!!

The way the race a pukekohe finished on Sunday is and and .

It would not have mattered who won BUT the fact that Crash Bandicoot won the round under questionable circumstances is PLAIN WRONG!!
One LAP B..........

Regardless of what the following report says I still think the race was cut short to suit sevens Televising of the GAYFL.
I recall some of you fellas saying this would be a problem!!



The culprits have been found for the controversially shortened V8 race at Pukekohe Park Raceway – the bungling recovery crew.





V8 Supercars chief executive Wayne Cattach pointed the finger at the local recovery staff after the 43-lap final race was slashed to 36 to fit in with television commitments on Sunday.

The drivers were taken by surprise after the race was held under a pace car until one minute from time, leaving the drivers with just one final lap to tussle for positions in New Zealand.

Cattach said the recovery crew panicked under pressure and cost valuable time, forcing his organisation to cut the race short so that viewers got to watch the traditional podium ceremony.

"Basically the recovery crew didn't do their job properly and there were long delays that ran us out of time, we had a choice to make we could have run the race further and abandon the podium," he said.

"But all of our research shows that the fans like to see the traditional finish to the race and like to see the emotion of the winning driver up their spraying champagne around so we stuck to the format.

"I think we dropped about seven laps out but these things happen in motorsport."

V8 great Larry Perkins, now owner of Jack Daniels Racing, said organisers needed to put a "wider buffer margin" into their schedules to allow for mishaps.

"It took everyone by surprise, it was not the ideal way to go," he said.

Paul Morris rolling his Commodore and Dean Canto hitting the wall hindered the race running to schedule.

Cattach said the recovery crew "lost the plot".

"The guy with the flat-bed truck almost backed over the race car pulling up to it and they forgot to pull out the ramps to pull the thing on, had the wrong angle, all of that cost valuable time we lost about five to ten minutes of it," he said.

"The probability is we would have finished the race if that had not occurred.

Cattach denied there had been pressure exerted by Network Seven to wrap up the V8s in time for AFL commitments. "We made the call, Network Seven had no say in it... we had to be off air at a certain time," he said.



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What's your opinion????

Would you rather see

a) the race completed with ALL remaining laps and miss the Podium accolade ... OR

b) end the race early and watch the spraying of champagne??

poll away

Shaz

Ch 7 should have cut the ping pong to 3 1/4's!

Not that I watch super cars, but if they did it to the motogp I would have come out swinging, still not right!

Felix

yes gayfl is the worst sport ever but things like this will soon turn every one off v8's
heads

still cant believe it anyhow gayfl is a loyal sport for mexicans, people were only on the channel to watch the big boys (v8's)any way why dont they put gayfl on channel 2 as well. whats the go there when is v8 motorsport going to look after its loyal crowd ,i guarantee that more people were watching ford v holden than grown men smash each other over a piece of pig skin.

I was snoozing through most of the race, when I woke up to PM rolling down the road.
Watching the recovery crew was like a watching a council road crew. One working, 7 watching all with NFI. I was even commenting to my wife that the towie had no idea what he was doing. Then the clark of the course turned up and it all seemed to get organised.
I think 7 should allow 15 mins extra to cater for most incidents, but the NZ round would have buggered most schedules as there were 2 big hits with lots of cleanup, but the local support crews did not help.
There have been many races in the past that have been timed. Indy and Bathurst comes to mind on a regular basis.

Yep....absolute f*cking joke. Also it was the last round there for at least five years, it should have been extended for that reason alone.

Don't get me started on 7's piss-poor telecast quality.

Who even watches the podium ceremony? We tune in to watch cars race, not dorks spraying champagne at each other.

The race was shortend before the last accident any way because the comentators mentioned it several times during the broadcast.

Channel 7 sucks if they can not meet there commitments they should give the rights to some who can.

Ian

If they show the V8racing they should show it till it is over, take NRL if it goes in to golden point they show the whole game and defer the next program that is what they should do if the racing is going to be longer

Afl will strike many times this year at a lot of rounds

Exactly !!!!!

but then again it depends who wins..

shaz

How many times has Bathurst been shortened because of incidents....

It's not just 7 and the footy causing it, Channel 10 used to do it all the time as well......

A race

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I would have thought a race started at point A and finished at point B

If a race finishes at A.5 then it is not a race at all just a wank for V8 owners....

Supercars is becoming like wrestling was in the 80's.. Theatre and bulllsh*t and money... We have cars on this site that would flog a V8 supercar... But yet we still post about a crooked sport...

Face it, one day you will come here and think political decisions are based on fact.........

V8's are finished.. let them drown in thier own vomit!!!!!!!!

What a poor decision by channel 7!! There is no way any sporting outcome should be influenced by the TV execs that way. Take test cricket for example, never seen that shortened cause the news has to start. If they had AFL committments they should have just cut to that and let the race run it's course and plan better timewise next time. I feel bad for the competitors!

Ben

they didnt show the champagne i watched the podium and i certainly dont recall it

the last quote should be "Network seven said we have to be off air at a certain time... so we made the call to piss off our supporters"


on a side note, i am starting to get over the V8's... they just arent honest anymore, as with everything politics has f*cked it!

We were under no pressure...but....the Seven told us we had to be off the air at a certain time..... CATTACH!!! Listen to yourself!!! Why has my "Big Fib" meter gone off the scale?

As for V8 Slotcars....I taped it and sped through it later to catch any highlights....Im just over sitting down all, sorry...some, of the afternoon watching it!!

The debacle at the finale last year.
The HSV ownership joke.
Drivers afraid to have a decent go for fear of turning someone round and copping a drive through.
And the petty rules...things like putting a foot, an air hose or a wheelnut 50mm over the boundary line.....or failing to turn off their pitstop light!!
Huge fines for not having your roller door not quite fully open during a pit walk or turning up 5 mins late for an autograph signing session.
Drivers that are afraid to speak thier mind and tell it like it really is.... lest they incur the rath of "bringing the sport into disrepute"
V8 SCA does a good enough job of making themselves look silly just on their own.

And the one that finished me off.... a driver in Perth that copped a drive through for not using his pit lane speed limiter......he didnt exceed the 40kph limit....he just didnt use the limiter!! WTF!!
Thats when it just lost me.
We'll still watch Bathurst and probably Sandown, but other than that, I just can't get interested anymore.
Sorry about the rant guys, but Ive been following Australian motor racing for more than 35 years now and Ive never seen it so sterile and artificial, just fed up with all the politics and bureaucracy.

I agree. I have tried to watch every race for years, but last weekend, I turned on the telly, watched for 5 minutes , then gave up.

How much more evidence of cheating do they need when it just so happens that the 4 Holdens involved in the ownership/sharing scandal, are the only Holdens in the top 10 of every race and round so far. If any other Holden got up there, it would be fine, but these guys aren't only blocking out the Fords, but every other Holden as well.

To top it all off, chanel 7 gives gay fl priority for their telecast.