Entire Race Or Podium..?

[phantomchic]

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 Late model camira 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

[Felix]

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

[rednuts81]

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

heads

[PIT STOP]

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 Expensive Daewoo than grown men smash each other over a piece of pig skin.

[ZAP]

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.

[tab]

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.

[aniken]

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

[GOLDIE]

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

[turbojet]

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

[T007]

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