Official 2005 V8 Supercar Thread

[xr6t ute]

Wasnt fords weekend unfortunately, and as long as skaife doesnt win I can live with it

Shane

[Turbo6man]

Were did the ford boys finish in race 3 ?

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6th 8th 10th

[crisso]

any comments on:

A) Marcos' pit infringement

B) Skaife 'punting' Ingall off

C) The whole event

I may as well start

A) Nothing to really say, there was traffic, he tried to get into the traffic lane, not sure if his pit crew told him to go or not, but I guess wacking into Todd warranted his black flag, after all, you can get a black flag for letting a wheel nut roll outside of your designated area.

B) Tough one, no question, Skaife's car bumped Ingall off the track. The pit entry probably did not help matters, I doubt Skaife did it on purpose, why would he?! Black flag warranted though, not Ingall's fault either.

C) I enjoyed the new track. With the addition of chine, it means Aus loses an event, matters not to me, I don't go to the track anyway. Fast track, awesome facilities, so I give it a thumbs up

crisso

[Turbo6man]

I agree with you on those points crisso - good weekend for the red guys eh?

I felt for Ambrose as he didn't want to pit at all - he had the fastest car on the track at that time and he wanted some clear road in front of him so as to capitalise. If he'd been allowed to stay out he could have effectively "passed" the guys on the track before having to pit - the debacle on pit exit wouldn't have been an issue. Also, if Ingall had been called in instead, the Skaife incident wouldn't have occured. Oh, hindsight ain't it wonderful!! I really think that enforced pitstop cost Ambrose the race.

Ambrose remains about 80 points clear of Ingall and Richo 10 back in third. Nice close contest, and with the variety of different winners at each round it is shaping to be one of the most interesting championships ever.

Very impressive track too! ...

[Falchoon]

Hidden Valley Race 1 results

1 22 Expensive Daewoo Racing Team Todd Kelly

2 2 Expensive Daewoo Racing Team Mark Skaife

3 888 Team Betta Electrical Craig Lowndes

4 1 Pirtek Racing Marcos Ambrose

5 16 HSV Dealer Team Garth Tander

6 021 Team Kiwi Racing Paul Radisich

7 67 Sirromet-Life Style Wine Paul Morris

8 18 Westpoint Racing Glenn Seton

9 15 HSV Dealer Team Rick Kelly

10 12 Team BOC John Bowe

11 5 Ford Performance Racing Greg Ritter

12 17 Westpoint Racing Steven Johnson

13 51 Super Cheap Auto Racing Greg Murphy

14 9 Caltex Racing Russell Ingall

15 23 Dodo Racing Jamie Whincup

16 45 WOW Sight & Sound Max Wilson

17 21 Team BOC Brad Jones

18 33 Repco Valvoline Cummins Team Cameron McConville

19 34 Repco Valvoline Cummins Team Andrew Jones

20 25 Fujitsu Racing Steve Owen

21 52 Fujitsu Racing Matthew White

22 11 Team Perkins Racing Steven Richards

23 7 Autobarn Racing Alex Davison

24 20 Larkham Orrcon Racing Mark Winterbottom

25 3 Dodo Racing Jason Richards

26 50 Super Cheap Auto Racing Paul Weel

27 8 WPS Racing Craig Baird

28 88 Team Betta Electrical Steve Ellery

DNF 75 Toll Racing Anthony Tratt

DNF 24 Team Perkins Racing Paul Dumbrell

DNF 48 WPS David Besnard

DNF 44 Team Dynamik Simon Wills

DNF 10 Larkham Orrcon Racing Jason Bargwanna

DNF 6 Ford Performance Racing Jason Bright

[hafadude]

Thanks Falchoon,

Hope Ambrose and Lowndes get up. I'll be there tomorrow. Will be a great day. The weather is terrific up here right now. Goo-ooo Ford!

[ktford]

GO FORD

[turbojet]

Expensive Daewoo 1st 2nd 3rd

[hafadude]

Just got back from the track at Hidden Valley. AAAAhhh, total disaster for Ford. Ambrose was doing well in the 2nd round but skidded off the track. He didn't seem to recover after that. The cheering from the Expensive Daewoo guys when he did that was awful! What an uncivilised bunch of people! Lucky there are Ford owners in this world.

[Happyxr6t]

Lets hope Ford makes a come back in the next round