Oct 222008
 

Bleat, Bleat, Bleat! Greg Murphy says he’s over the lap one incident at Bathurst, where he and Craig Lowndes touched wheels coming off the Hump at the end of Mountain Straight. He says that no absolutes exist at Bathurst, that the #3 Sprint Gas Commodore might and might not have won, despite the touch at 200 kph which bent a steering arm. Yet he claims he was robbed by the eventual race-winning car-driver combination. Race officials didn’t see it that way, and frankly, reviewing action several times, I can’t see anything in it either. Looking carefully at the incident several […]

Oct 112008
 
1 Down, 161 To Go

We keep hearing about the highs and lows of motorsport. How cruel the sport can be, if ever a non-physical happenstance can have human emotion attributed to it. That’s the crux really, that human beings should feel the emotion of success or failure in a single moment of time, such that it takes on an almost sentient form capable of kindness or cruelty. Doubtless Rick Kelly felt the slap of cruelty this afternoon, judging by his immediate reaction to his team mate, Paul Radisich, destroying the #15 Commodore at McPhillamy Park, Mt Panorama.

Sep 092008
 
What Is Parity?

I had a listen to the latest Panelbeaters podcast last night, which to those of you not atuned to the V8 Supercar scene in Australia, might think of as a recording made by a convention of motor vehicle repairers.

Aug 092008
 

By any other definition, the four-yearly global contest in sport can only be described as adversarial battle between nation-states, some of whom would dearly love to have at each other with real weapons of destruction.