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skidude88 - 3/7/06 at 04:08 PM

Google video link from the stunning Bathurst track

Incar footage - could be from a games console!!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5015979138679065195&q=elise+bathurst


RichieC - 3/7/06 at 04:21 PM

Bl00dy hell thats close racing

Superb circuit


graememk - 3/7/06 at 05:02 PM

thats made my heart go


cossey - 3/7/06 at 05:55 PM

that really doesnt look right unless they are different classes as he easily drives past 4 cars on a short straight which shouldnt happen with identical cars


JoelP - 3/7/06 at 08:16 PM

that bit where he flies past a few, i think he just got a better run onto the straight, and held it flat out when they touched the brakes.


Aboardman - 3/7/06 at 10:05 PM

do they still run the touring cars at bathhurst, remember watching it on bbc or itv years ago.


skidude88 - 3/7/06 at 10:55 PM

like this...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6618509877425244029&q=bathurst+tom+walkinshaw

Someone told me there's a 2hr race in there somehwere - with Murry Commentating


Aboardman - 3/7/06 at 11:25 PM

here it is with murray walker.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3111370469819433233&q=bathurst


skidude88 - 4/7/06 at 09:40 AM

Let me know if anyone organises a trackday over there!


Browser - 4/7/06 at 01:29 PM

Having been to Oz twice, missed the bathurst 1000 TWICE!! and driven the circuit twice as a civillian (which you can do on a non-race day, it's a public road) I can assure you it's every bit as awesome as the footage looks. You cannot appreciate though from the coverage on these clips just how steep the run up the mountain is, especially through The Cutting. When you get to the top, the control tower is a dot in the valley below, going through The Dipper feels like driving over a cliff and when you round Forest Elbow and see the whole of Conrod Straight ahead of you, all you want to do is floor it!
I am continually amazed that the safety police haven't shut the place down before now as there are few runoffs, lots of concrete walls and quite a few trees.


skidude88 - 4/7/06 at 02:12 PM

....You can go off people quite quickly!!!!


Jasper - 4/7/06 at 04:18 PM

quote:
Originally posted by JoelP
that bit where he flies past a few, i think he just got a better run onto the straight, and held it flat out when they touched the brakes.


Funny that - that's were I always do my best passing on the PS2 as well


Winston Todge - 4/7/06 at 04:21 PM

Went to the Bathurst 1000 in 2000 and it was truly unbelievable. Met a bloke that owned a house on the circuit and watched the entire race from his front garden, less than 5 metres away from the track!!

I taught in a school over there and the kids ran upto me the next day asking if was at the 1000 as they'd all seen me having a chat to one of the guys in the Wynns team who crashed right in front of us. Right in front as in headlight plastic and spoiler in my face!

Race safety? She'll be 'right...

Awesome track and very easy to see how someone could dominate on it too if they really knew it. Balls like melons!