[V8RMBL]

Thought I'd get the ball rolling on the V8's Calender is;

2005 V8 Supercar Championship Series Calendar:

Non/Champ Mar 4-6 Australian Grand Prix Melbourne

Round 1: Mar 17-20 Clipsal 500 Adelaide

Round 2: Apr 15-17 PlaceMakers V8 International New Zealand

Round 3: May 6-8 Wanneroo 400 Barbagallo Perth

Round 4: May 27-29 Eastern Creek Sydney

Round 5: June 10-12 Shanghai China

Round 6: July 1-3 Sky City V8 Supercars Hidden Valley Darwin

Round 7: July 22-24 Queensland 300 Ipswich

Round 8: Aug 12-14 Oran Park Sydney

Round 9: Sep 9-11 Betta Electrical 500 Melbourne

Round 10: Oct 6-9 Supercheap Auto 1000 Bathurst

Round 11: Oct 20-23 Gillette V8 Supercar Challenge Surfers Paradise

Round 12: Nov 11-13 Tasmanian Triple Challenge Symmons Plains Tasmania

Round 13: Nov 25-27 BigPond Grande Finale Phillip Island


We get them back here in November... long wait ahead of us

[SL/ENUT]

Well let see if HRT are up near the top again.But then again with the new rules as seen here.
http://www.streetcom...d.php?t=8431333
It looks like its a helper for the ford teams.

[LS1350]

WOW... looks like the rule makers have been watching Nascar!!!

A few of them rules are a bit like modified versions of Nascar rules...

Last three races count towards championship after dropping worst round:- Nascar chase for chapionship in last 10 races (outa 30 sumfin!)

2 rattle guns... can change two tires... VERY Nascar like

50min practise time... Nearly happy hour...

Not that I see any of this being a bad thing... Keeps things new and exciting, and Nascar have been hugely popular in the states for years, so realy we should be looking towards that series for a few ideas... Just aslong as we don't start racing round bloody ovals!

[V8RMBL]

A good start would be to open up the series for something other than Ford and Holden. Get's a slightly bit boring with the same 5 cars at the front of the grid

[dwaynE]

i agree with you there 100%
let toyota and mitsubishi in...
or allow holden teams to use monaro's?
and ford teams to use... ohh s**t they don't have something like that.
ok then.

my rules......
make the holden and ford teams run the engines they use out of the factory... holdens use LS1/2, fords use them boss engines...
keep horsepower down to 600-650hp somehow and it'd be much more interesting...
then let toyota and mitsubishi in with some form of V8 engine too... toyota could use the 2UZ-FE... i'm sure that could make the required horsepower... mitsubishi... the astron 2.6 might do... ok maybe not, they would have to find, or build an 8

[LS1350]

Both mitsu and yota could use V8's from the states... Toyota run in Nascar trucks and dodge in the main game, so being that holden and Ford engines are american based, they could do the same... bit of development, slap on EFI... and away ya go...

[V8RMBL]

Saw some thing on the news this morning about Dick Johnson has a new sponsor shedded 20kgs and his son and some one else is driving for him...


ohh and the car was blue.

Wasn't paying too much attention being Ford... but yeah

[SL/ENUT]

Ahhh just checking his website out Goughy.The new team is Westpoint Racing. Probably 20kgs is what sonny lost?. Oh and the other driver is Glenn Seton.

[LS1350]

Blue #17... Glenn Seton co-driver... Might aswell give Bathurst a miss .JR, lol

[BLOWN-VT]

Any word on the whole super cheep sarger like Who are they sponsering this year

[SL/ENUT]

MY.HRT, on Feb 10 2005, 11:46 AM, said:

Any word on the whole super cheep sarger like Who are they sponsering this year

They are sponsering the ex PWR Commodore team this year.

[LS1350]

SL/ENUT, on Feb 10 2005, 12:40 PM, said:

MY.HRT, on Feb 10 2005, 11:46 AM, said:

Any word on the whole super cheep sarger like Who are they sponsering this year

They are sponsering the ex PWR Commodore team this year.

Umm... no, they are sponsoring PWR... not ex, it still is, it'll be called "Super Cheap Auto Racing" and will still have PWR signage aswell. the deal is for 3yrs.

Pics of the cars are on the HSV website.

Supercheap are also sponsoring Bathurst for the next 3yrs...

What I wanna know is who's gunna sponsor the ex-KRT?... apparently HSV and Holden service/spares will have significant signage on the cars for the AGP as a 1 off, or untill they sign a major backer.

[V8RMBL]

I didn't get to watch much of the racing over the weekend, but it was good to see Skaife on the podium at the end of the day.... long time between drinks!

Every time I walked into the room there was a prang, must of been hardcore carnage left right and centre through the race.

[Deano_20802]

here here, I don't get much time to watch the racing eva, but almost everytime I do Holden is given it to Ford

[AEROBR]

Ok. Well I missed Clipsal due to TassieNats. But im sort of glad I did. F#*d one two.
Nasty!!

Im not sure how my beloved GRM went, but knowing Cam McConville, they wouldnt have been too far back (knowing my luck they probably both crashed out).
They didnt finish on the podium, so they didnt do good enough.

And how confusing are the HRT/HSV teams?? Surely HSV could have painted there cars black or something. They're just too similar.