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[EZ2CME]

  Eugene said:

All I can say is about Bloody time, man Im glad I wasnt holding my breath between wins, but now we have one, Yippee.

I cought the last stint after the last Safety car, WOW, how good was that, then when Richards? smashed the wall with two to go.......WTF was going to happen, Gold, Just Gold.

Well dont to Craig and all his team, I am going to go and do anice big 425rwhp induced burnouit in thier honour now. God help the Goodyear eagles on the back.

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Take a vid of the burnout

[phantomchic]

I have to get this off my chest and share

Craig won by a number 5

he was sporting the number 5 on his black arm band

peter brock number 5

shazzy

[XRHappy]

Awesome win to Lowndes Whincup and great drive from the Stone Brothers team for their fighting finish as they crossed the line next to each other. Such as shame Channel 10 didn't replay their last lap afterwards so we could see that battle as well.

Sitting on my balcony with my mate overlooking a major city intersection I was very happy to have the Ford flag flying proudly and to see so many guys out with their mates in various XRs, GTs, Pursuits and Typhoons. Everyone with a performance Ford was out cruising afterwards

The sporting Gods have been smiling, Eagles last week, Ford this week

Woo Hoo

[RHR]

Good to see the SBR powered cars up at the pointy end..

I have never been so on the edge of my seat as I was this afternoon. The last 10 laps were brilliant..

Well done Lowndes and Whincup.. For the first time in ages I have not been dissapointed in watching this great race.

Good to see Seaton and Courtney on the podium too.. I hope Seton can crack a win. He in my opinion would be the most deserving driver to win it.

Go ford

[phantomchic]

championship points as of 8/10/06

Pos Driver Name Rd9 Total

1 Craig Lowndes 320 2,378

2 Rick Kelly 310 2,277

3 Mark Winterbottom 0 1,983

4 Russell Ingall 290 1,952

5 Jamie Whincup 320 1,880

6 Garth Tander 0 1,848

7 Steven Richards 280 1,812

8 Jason Bright 0 1,714

9 Steven Johnson 0 1,693

10 Paul Dumbrell 280 1,646

11 Todd Kelly 310 1,614

12 James Courtney 300 1,614

13 Mark Skaife 0 1,418

14 Jason Bargwanna 230 1,406

15 Max Wilson 190 1,390

16 Paul Morris 270 1,384

17 Will Davison 0 1,363

18 Dean Canto 160 1,360

19 Lee Holdsworth 160 1,325

20 Steve Owen 260 1,292

21 Jason Richards 0 1,279

22 John Bowe 220 1,269

23 Paul Radisich 0 1,235

24 Cameron McConville 0 1,229

25 Brad Jones 220 1,200

26 Greg Murphy 0 1,120

27 Andrew Jones 0 990

28 Warren Luff 0 815

29 Marcus Marshall 0 601

30 Steve Ellery 270 594

31 Jose Fernandez 170 548

32 Fabian Coulthard 0 478

33 Alan Gurr 0 367

34 Tony Ricciardello 170 328

35 Glenn Seton 300 300

36 Luke Youlden 290 290

37 Craig Baird 230 260

38 Tony Longhurst 260 260

39 Nathan Pretty 250 250

40 Paul Weel 250 250

41 Alex Davison 240 240

42 Grant Denyer 240 240

43 Mark Porter 0 226

44 David Besnard 190 220

45 Richard Lyons 210 210

46 Allan Simonsen 210 210

47 Cameron McLean 200 200

48 Greg Ritter 200 200

49 Mathew Halliday 0 180

50 Owen Kelly 180 180

51 Mark Noske 180 180

52 Tony D'Alberto 0 170

53 Anthony Tratt 0 170

54 Dale Brede 0 150

55 Kayne Scott 0 140

56 Ryan Briscoe 0 120

57 Jim_Richards 0 120

58 Adam Macrow 0 100

59 Jack Perkins 0 90

60 Shane Price 0 90

61 Jonathon Webb 0 80

62 Phillip Scifleet - 0

63 Michael Caruso 0 0

64 David Brabham 0 0

[ktford]

Great day for the fords, I felt for Bright and Junior Johnson

[JBomb3000]

  ktford said:

Great day for the fords, I felt for Bright and Junior Johnson

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For once the DJR cars had good pace and then Steve went and blew it. Good result from the 18 car though.

[replicant]

Congratulations to Craig and Jamie - they did a great job in very hot and windy conditions to carry themselves as the inaugural winners of the Peter Brock Perpetual Trophy.

They look like they were GONE after the Junior Johnson Safety Car as their strategy looked out of step with the rest of the fied and they languished outside of the top 10 in running order. Jamie did a great stint, picking off slower cars without rubbing walls and ticking off the places as cars in front of him pitted and importantly, staying out of trouble.

Interestingly, their initially odd strategy call meant they spent a crucial 4-5 seconds less in the splash and dash at the end of the race to put the buffer against the very fast Kelly Bros in the HSV Toll Cars - who did a great job all day. It was a close run thing but that slight difference in time stationary in the pits was the difference although they were great under brakes into the Chase and across to what we used to call Repco Bend.

Good result for SBR too who have struggled with reliability in the last couple of years at Bathurst and 3 of the fastest cars were running SBR built donks (they supply 888, themselves and Cruickshank Racing and I'm wondering if they will support TKR next year as they switch to Ford).

HRT were very unlucky. The starter seemed to hold on a bit on the lights and Jack was very unlucky to be at the wrong place at 200-odd and with nowhere to go - Mark looked gutted about what happened but motorsport is like that. Also FPR had their share too - to lose a valve was odd unless Mark gave the thing a big rev wrong slotting a gear but it's unlikely we'll know.

One observation is that a lot of drivers ended up having accidents all by themselves - Junior, The Rat, Jason Richards, Jim Richards, Marshall, Halliday etc - as opposed to being clobbered (eg Skaife) although JB was getting more hits than Elvis. Dunno if this was heat, the pace, Old No 7 which should have been blackflagged a long time before it did eventually get the catch tank emptied or simply that the cars seemed to be very edgy this year...

Thoughts also to Mark Porter's family - I love motorsport but there are times where I just hate it for what it can do...

[tmac450]

  replicant said:

Congratulations to Craig and Jamie - they did a great job in very hot and windy conditions to carry themselves as the inaugural winners of the Peter Brock Perpetual Trophy. 

They look like they were GONE after the Junior Johnson Safety Car as their strategy looked out of step with the rest of the fied and they languished outside of the top 10 in running order.  Jamie did a great stint, picking off slower cars without rubbing walls and ticking off the places as cars in front of him pitted and importantly, staying out of trouble.

Interestingly, their initially odd strategy call meant they spent a crucial 4-5 seconds less in the splash and dash at the end of the race to put the buffer against the very fast Kelly Bros in the HSV Toll Cars - who did a great job all day.  It was a close run thing but that slight difference in time stationary in the pits was the difference although they were great under brakes into the Chase and across to what we used to call Repco Bend.

Good result for SBR too who have struggled with reliability in the last couple of years at Bathurst and 3 of the fastest cars were running SBR built donks (they supply 888, themselves and Cruickshank Racing and I'm wondering if they will support TKR next year as they switch to Ford).

HRT were very unlucky.  The starter seemed to hold on a bit on the lights and Jack was very unlucky to be at the wrong place at 200-odd and with nowhere to go - Mark looked gutted about what happened but motorsport is like that.  Also FPR had their share too - to lose a valve was odd unless Mark gave the thing a big rev wrong slotting a gear but it's unlikely we'll know.

One observation is that a lot of drivers ended up having accidents all by themselves - Junior, The Rat, Jason Richards, Jim Richards, Marshall, Halliday etc - as opposed to being clobbered (eg Skaife) although JB was getting more hits than Elvis.  Dunno if this was heat, the pace, Old No 7 which should have been blackflagged a long time before it did eventually get the catch tank emptied or simply that the cars seemed to be very edgy this year...

Thoughts also to Mark Porter's family - I love motorsport but there are times where I just hate it for what it can do...

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The Rat's crash wasn't unaided and the 34 car was black flagged for causing it.

[Macktheknife]

What a day.

Meself & herself had the usual Bathurst BBQ Brecky with Champagne & Cranberry juice while watching the prelims.

First Beer about 10.30. (Copped a look)

Prawns avocado etc on fresh rolls around 2ish. (With more shampoo and beer0

Mate Lowndesy gets the gong. Cant get any better than that.

BUT HANG ON.......What was that big new hotel complex being built at the bottom of Conrod.

A quick google and a few phone calls sees me hopefully with either a booking for next year or I will just bloody buy an apartment at the "Best Western Panorama Resort" 1 Conrod Rd, Mt Panorama Bathurst.

Got all me little sausage fingers crossed.