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Surferdude · **Reply #30: October 10, 2010, 00:31:26**

Quote from: Lakes on October 10, 2010, 00:24:36

Quote from: surferdude on October 10, 2010, 00:18:58
Couldn't work out how this had so many replies so quickly.
Then i read the dates of the posts.

I'll be in front of it all day today.

Hey Trev, was not sure if you had gone on your trip yet, i'm ready for new Tyres now, would like to try Michelin if you could recomend an outlet to buy from. thanks & Cheers

We leave tomorrow.
You're in Sydney aren't you?
If so, the Jax stores do Michelin (or, I hope - still) down there. Castle Hill or Thornleigh (on Pennant Hills Rd)

Surferdude · **Reply #31: October 10, 2010, 00:35:28**

They're away

Dazzler · **Reply #32: October 10, 2010, 00:42:13**

That was some crash (glad driver is ok!)

Surferdude · **Reply #33: October 10, 2010, 00:45:41**

280 kph
6 full rolls
that tyre was flat before he lost it, then the bare rim dug in and flipped the car.

Looks like rain, too.

2i30s · **Reply #34: October 10, 2010, 00:49:59**

scary stuff,all from a flat tyre.

Surferdude · **Reply #35: October 10, 2010, 00:54:35**

Quote from: 2i30s on October 10, 2010, 00:49:59

scary stuff,all from a flat tyre.

Bet they'll be looking closely at everyone's tyres for a while but it was probably just a puncture - may even have been damaged in the run off the line by another car.

2i30s · **Reply #36: October 10, 2010, 00:56:16**

time will tell!

2i30s · **Reply #37: October 10, 2010, 01:01:25**

Quote from: 2i30s on October 10, 2010, 00:56:16

time will tell!

just seen a replay of contact on the starting line to the bundy car,hence the blowout.

Dazzler · **Reply #38: October 10, 2010, 01:07:42**

Quote from: surferdude on October 10, 2010, 00:54:35

Quote from: 2i30s on October 10, 2010, 00:49:59
scary stuff,all from a flat tyre.

Bet they'll be looking closely at everyone's tyres for a while but it was probably just a puncture - may even have been damaged in the run off the line by another car.

That was an impressive call Trev (spot on)

(none of the commentators made that call before it was established)

For a minute I thought you had made that call before the race started

(then realised you are not on daylight savings)

2i30s · **Reply #39: October 10, 2010, 01:13:30**

Quote from: Dazzler on October 10, 2010, 01:07:42

Quote from: surferdude on October 10, 2010, 00:54:35
Quote from: 2i30s on October 10, 2010, 00:49:59
scary stuff,all from a flat tyre.

Bet they'll be looking closely at everyone's tyres for a while but it was probably just a puncture - may even have been damaged in the run off the line by another car.

That was an impressive call Trev (spot on) (none of the commentators made that call before it was established)

For a minute I thought you had made that call before the race started (then realised you are not on daylight savings)

well he is our tyre guru.

[day light savings,faded curtains,remember. ]

Surferdude · **Reply #40: October 10, 2010, 01:15:49**

Quote from: Dazzler on October 10, 2010, 01:07:42

Quote from: surferdude on October 10, 2010, 00:54:35
Quote from: 2i30s on October 10, 2010, 00:49:59
scary stuff,all from a flat tyre.

Bet they'll be looking closely at everyone's tyres for a while but it was probably just a puncture - may even have been damaged in the run off the line by another car.

That was an impressive call Trev (spot on) (none of the commentators made that call before it was established)

For a minute I thought you had made that call before the race started (then realised you are not on daylight savings)

The commentators all focussed on Tander's slow start but I saw the melee going on down the back as well and could see a car didn't move with others going every which way.

And yeah. We started at 9.30 up here not 10.30.

Lakes · **Reply #41: October 10, 2010, 02:10:34**

We leave tomorrow.
You're in Sydney aren't you?
If so, the Jax stores do Michelin (or, I hope - still) down there. Castle Hill or Thornleigh (on Pennant Hills Rd)
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Thanks Trev, I wish you & your wife an enjoyable trip, i know you'll have a great time.
will check out Jax this week & thanks again.
tha sure was a spectacular roll, do you remember back in the 70's when the GT HO phrase 3 rolled along the top of the fence, & i think it was Bill Brown? walked away from that was very lucky.

Surferdude · **Reply #42: October 10, 2010, 02:13:48**

Sure do.
When you look at that footage there was a marshall running for his life across the front of the car. It hit his elbow and broke it. Now HE was the lucky one.
But to be honest when you se how the car broke it's back I don't know to this day how Bill Brown wasn't decapitated.

2i30s · **Reply #43: October 10, 2010, 02:21:49**

i remember that footage well.

agentr31 · **Reply #44: October 10, 2010, 02:29:22**

bloody kangaroo on the track again... it nearly got skittled!

2i30s · **Reply #45: October 10, 2010, 02:32:37**

they mentioned earlier in the comentry ,that one year a horse bolted across the track.

agentr31 · **Reply #46: October 10, 2010, 02:52:09**

a horse... wow

Lakes · **Reply #47: October 10, 2010, 03:59:50**

in the very old day's when it was the Hardie 500, the cars were as you drove everyday, if they got a flat tyre they would pull off onto the side of the track and the driver would pull out the jack get out the spare and change it himself. imagine what it would have been like if he had a space saver in the boot

2i30s · **Reply #48: October 10, 2010, 04:01:57**

agentr31 · **Reply #49: October 10, 2010, 04:03:46**

the i30... todays answer to the hardie 500!!!

*agent puffs out his chest and gloats that he has a full size spare*

Surferdude · **Reply #50: October 10, 2010, 04:14:04**

Quote from: Lakes on October 10, 2010, 03:59:50

Hardie 500,

Well, there's a company which has gone from one of Australia's favourites to somewhat "on the nose" in recent years.

Mutley · **Reply #51: October 10, 2010, 04:14:35**

Go Lowndes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

agentr31 · **Reply #52: October 10, 2010, 04:22:39**

Quote from: surferdude on October 10, 2010, 04:14:04

Quote from: Lakes on October 10, 2010, 03:59:50
Hardie 500,

Well, there's a company which has gone from one of Australia's favourites to somewhat "on the nose" in recent years.

QFT!

but you have to look at what they did and realise, they knew the dangeous nature of the material, but still continued to produce it... then to mess victims around with their compensation claims... thats pretty wrong!

Surferdude · **Reply #53: October 10, 2010, 04:25:54**

Quote from: agentr31 on October 10, 2010, 04:22:39

Quote from: surferdude on October 10, 2010, 04:14:04
Quote from: Lakes on October 10, 2010, 03:59:50
Hardie 500,

Well, there's a company which has gone from one of Australia's favourites to somewhat "on the nose" in recent years.

QFT!

but you have to look at what they did and realise, they knew the dangeous nature of the material, but still continued to produce it... then to mess victims around with their compensation claims... thats pretty wrong!

That was my point exactly.
They had the world at their feet and then threw it all away.

Mutley · **Reply #54: October 10, 2010, 07:56:50**

Quote from: Mutley on October 10, 2010, 04:14:35

Go Lowndes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2i30s · **Reply #55: October 10, 2010, 08:50:19**

bloody defectors!

Surferdude · **Reply #56: October 10, 2010, 09:51:42**

Quote from: 2i30s on October 10, 2010, 08:50:19

bloody defectors!

Yeah I feel a bit that way, too, but it was Ford which pulled the funding for their team a couple of years back which precipitated the change.
One of the biggest faux pas in Australian motoring history IMO.

I like Lowndes. Never liked Skaife but since he's been commentating for 7 he's grown on me a bit, so I'm happy to see them win.

BTW. Mark Webber - 2nd in Japan so retains and extends his lead in the title race with three rounds to go.

Dazzler · **Reply #57: October 10, 2010, 10:58:08**

Quote from: surferdude on October 10, 2010, 09:51:42

I like Lowndes. Never liked Skaife but since he's been commentating for 7 he's grown on me a bit, so I'm happy to see them win.

BTW. Mark Webber - 2nd in Japan so retains and extends his lead in the title race with three rounds to go.

Funny but that's how I feel about Skaife too (wife goes for Skaife, I go for Lowndes and Courtney) So both pretty happy with results..

Good about Webber too...

Lakes · **Reply #58: October 10, 2010, 11:13:39**

i like ford , but good to see Lowndes win good guy.
the end of the race was borring as they just follow in line no overtaking. i find the MotoGp more exciting to watch no safty car no pit stops just hard flat out racing lot of overtaking. but everyone to what he likes.

agentr31 · **Reply #59: October 10, 2010, 11:22:44**

rallying... the sport of kings!

thats where everything is unpredictable... the track changes every time a car runs on it... animals, people, water crossings, snow, mud, dust, rocks! its there! no perfect asphalt! no banked corners, no sand traps, no armco! just you, a co-pilot and nature, and your skill!!!!