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Keeping calm and getting on with it...

the4masters2013 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 05:56:13 GMT

It's only Wednesday and we've had the long weekend here in NSW, school holidays have started this week and the cars are here to do their race around Mt Panarama , Bathurst, at high speeds!!

And it's raining...

I, for one, am not complaining. I love race week here in town. I only do mental eye rolling if someone is trying to explain the difference between Holdens and Fords. As a non-driver, as far as I am concerned, both cars have the same amount of tyres and both can speed around the mountain at heart attack speeds!!

I only hope there are no major accidents on the mountain...dingles and breakdowns are ok providing the drivers are ok.

May Craig Lowndes win this year as it is his last time around Mt Panarama.

Sandra

Re: Keeping calm and getting on with it...

davidc4430 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 06:45:19 GMT

for me the Great Race stopped being great when the cars stopped being actual cars you could buy.

these stupid things they 'race' today are just techno garbage!

same as F1 cars.

go back to real cars with real drivers having to actually drive the darn cars.

the only bits i can see that are actually from a commodore or a falcon are the mirrors and door handles!

everything else is fake.

Re: Keeping calm and getting on with it...

the4masters2013 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 07:22:24 GMT

Yes, they are a different breed of car these days. Speed, speed and then some seems to be the order of the day.
Problem is, the ordinary driver thinks the normal road is to do up to 300kph with the regular car.
I get to hear the cars revving around the town with the police sirens not far behind them...LOL!

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marwi_3023 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 07:42:37 GMT

It's the last year I'll be watching.
Even though the cars are nothing like the road car under the fibreglass panels I was still interested due to them being Australian.
Now we don't make cars any more I've lost all interest and will be just enjoying racing my slot cars now.

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davidc4430 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 07:55:28 GMT

in say 10 years from now will it be electric cars and pitstops will be energizer battery stops?

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marwi_3023 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 08:53:49 GMT

Why does everyone hate electric cars.
I drove the Glenelg tram for years.
Electric vehicles will be excellent. Fuel fumes make me feel sick let alone exhaust emissions.
Most electric cars return about five hundred kilometres for three dollars of electricity.
No oil changes. No gearbox. No risk of a timing belt letting go and totally destroying your motor.
No stupid P platers roaring up and down the street in noisy V8's. The older I get the more I hate engine noise.
No queuing at fuel stations. Can be charged at home while you are asleep. No one harassing you to buy a chocolate bar when you pay for fuel. Definitely won't miss that.

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freddie*rooster — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 08:57:12 GMT

Ummm excuse me for butting in but..................

You forgot to mention the NRL GRAND FINAL and THE ROOSTERS are the PREMIERS!!

Thanks for allowing me to spread the word

Re: Keeping calm and getting on with it...

the4masters2013 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:09:11 GMT

Driverless cars perhaps??
Still will need the support teams though... mechanics for example.
Our rescue helicopters will only need to collect the car accident victims from the highways.

Re: Keeping calm and getting on with it...

the4masters2013 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:10:18 GMT

A good result.
Was plugging for the Rabbits but at least it was a NSW team who won.

Re: Keeping calm and getting on with it...

davidc4430 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:39:19 GMT

@marwi_3023 wrote:
Why does everyone hate electric cars.
I drove the Glenelg tram for years.
Electric vehicles will be excellent. Fuel fumes make me feel sick let alone exhaust emissions.
Most electric cars return about five hundred kilometres for three dollars of electricity.
No oil changes. No gearbox. No risk of a timing belt letting go and totally destroying your motor.
No stupid P platers roaring up and down the street in noisy V8's. The older I get the more I hate engine noise.
No queuing at fuel stations. Can be charged at home while you are asleep. No one harassing you to buy a chocolate bar when you pay for fuel. Definitely won't miss that.

i dont mind electric cars, id have one now if i could afford it.

but, you know the govt is trying to figure out how to make the owners pay a tax to put em on the road dont you?

no fuel no fuel tax going into the govt coffers! cant have that.

they killed the LPG system by sticking a tax on the gas.

Re: Keeping calm and getting on with it...

davidc4430 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:42:12 GMT

@freddie*rooster wrote:
Ummm excuse me for butting in but..................

You forgot to mention the NRL GRAND FINAL and THE ROOSTERS are the PREMIERS!!

Thanks for allowing me to spread the word

i didnt wanna say it but gee i cried when collingwood got beat just before full time.

poor eddie and his merry men, another almost won a flag, how many is that now?

but its being there that matters right? not winning.

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tasfleur — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:47:36 GMT

I know absolutely nothing about football, but YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to all the winning Roosters ....

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marwi_3023 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:55:18 GMT

David, of course the leaches are trying to figure out how they can tax them.
What will be fun to watch is the absolute mess they will make of the driverless revolution.
There will be no need for private vehicles and all the associated paraphernalia.
Licences, what will they do for ID. Cry out for the Australia card again.
Vehicle registration income will massively reduce.
Employment will be be massively reduced.
Too busy plying us with bull excrement at the moment to think about the future and how it will affect everything

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marwi_3023 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:58:45 GMT

OP, although I don't hate Craig I will be very upset if the rebadged Opel wins.
I hate Commodores and a foreign made one. Yuk!

Re: Keeping calm and getting on with it...

the4masters2013 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:30:58 GMT

Each to their own... it's what makes life interesting!!
Much as i love the car races, I don't usually mind who wins providing it's a fair and safe race.

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davidc4430 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 23:37:14 GMT

@the4masters2013 wrote:
Each to their own... it's what makes life interesting!!
Much as i love the car races, I don't usually mind who wins providing it's a fair and safe race.

thats the problem with 'production car' racing, cars arnt built equal.

so from when the Ford company stopped building falcons with stonking V8 power plants just to be in bathurst leaving it to Holden (who continued to build cars just to win bathurst) and some private ford groups to modify cars to be competitive.

so to cure one problem cams created another as year after year they 'fiddled' with the rules to try to make fords and holdens were competitive with each other.

history will show it never really worked.

leading us to todays rubbish where under the 'skin' the cars are identical! more or less.

and sure they are fast and sound great, but they are BORING!

its more about reliability now than anything else, survive to the end without anything major going wrong and your a good chance to be on the podium.

being on pole position is meaningless as how often does that car win? often crashing out in the early stages if a computer 'glitch' doesnt force it out.

geeze i hate hearing they have a 'software' problem or the guys are changing the computer module!

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marwi_3023 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 23:41:53 GMT

Or drive like Whincup. Break the rules. Smash the leaders off the road and hope you win by counter protest.
I hate him.
I've never followed a driver. I've always been a Ford fan whomever wins.

Re: Keeping calm and getting on with it...

marwi_3023 — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 02:23:05 GMT

Compulsory brake rotor change is going to be interesting to watch and could be a bit wet tomorrow. Rain in Adelaide at the moment and looks like a strong system

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marwi_3023 — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 02:25:23 GMT

Sorry, rain getting close to Adelaide

Re: Keeping calm and getting on with it...

marwi_3023 — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:58:57 GMT

Shoot out is over and now we have one sleep until the last great race.
It'll never be the great race again.
Just a bunch of foreign cars from next year on. Fifty one years of tradition gone.