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Sounds like fun

 

good point

I do feel so lucky every time I sit on the starting grid at Phillip Island. It's a world class event at a world class circuit and humbling to consider all the volunteers who make it happen.

 

He's still very fast and a gentleman on and off the track.

 

Great luck with that REV8OHOS,Ian.

Hope you come home without ANYTHING to do except to do a normal service!

 

12 HOUR ANALYSIS:

ONE OF the great Bathurst 12 Hour stints of all time was responsible for giving the No. 88 Maranello Motorsport Ferrari 488 enough track position to win the race last weekend.

Toni Vilander’s double stint between laps 163 and 231 of the race on Sunday were crucial in building enough of a margin over the chasing pack, to allow Jamie Whincup to be in striking distance of the No. 22 Mercedes-AMG GT3 when it completed its final stop.

Vilander jumped into the bright red 488 GT3 on lap 163 – a safety car rash of stops meaning nearest rivals the No. 12 Porsche, the No. 17 Bentley and No. 22 Mercedes-AMG all took new drivers.

Marc Lieb jumped into the Porsche, Guy Smith the Bentley and Craig Baird the Mercedes-AMG so all four leading cars were at that point on a similar strategy, with new drivers and full fuel loads.

From there, Vilander set about smashing out 69 laps of pure domination.

Of the 54 laps run under green – taking out Safety Car laps and also in/out laps from pit stops – Vilander completed the stint at an average lap time of 2m05.3s.

The stint included seven laps in the 2m03s and 25 in the 2m04s.

By comparison the other three cars only had ONE lap in the 2m04s combined: Maro Engel snapping out a 2m04.7s effort in the No. 22 STM Mercedes-AMG. No one else went quicker than a 2m05.0!

Vliander double-stinted this run while his nearest opposition changed drivers during a mid-stint Safety Car: Engel taking over the Mercedes AMG, Long the Porsche and Steven Kane the Bentley. But no one had an answer for the Ferrari at that point.

Between laps 216 and 220 Vilander was simply otherworldly; punching out consecutive laps of 2m03.93, 2m03.61, 2m03.64, 2m03.41 and a ‘slowish’ 2m04.07s with traffic.

At this point he was comfortably between 1.5 and two seconds per lap quicker than anything else moving on the race track. It was gobsmacking and deserved him the standing ovation the Maranello team gave him after he jumped out of the car.

In the end, the track position buffer the Flying Finn was able to create was enough to give the Maranello team confidence that they could put new rubber on the Ferrari for Whincup’s final stint to the flag.

When STM stopped for the final time, they gambled to save the thirty-seconds or so and not fit new rubber on the basis it would give them track position – and it worked to an extent with van Gisbergen getting out of the lane about two seconds in front of the Ferrari.

However it wasn’t enough track position and it took just a lap or two for Whincup to fight his way past SVG down Conrod the following lap. From there the pace advantage of the Ferrari was such that only misfortune was going to stop the Prancing Horse this day.

In the end, of course, it was the No. 22 car that struck well documented dramas just laps from home and while in second position leaving the Ferrari to survive one tension-filled restart to stroke the car home a lap in front.

My commentary colleague John Hindhaugh copped some flak for his comments about Vilander’s stint about being one of the all-time greats during our race coverage, but as the numbers show, he was absolutely bang on the money as expected.

In a stint run in the same track, traffic and weather conditions as everyone else, the simple fact is Vilander was an average of 1.5 seconds per lap quicker than anyone else on mount Panorama between laps 163 and 231 of Sunday's 12 hour.

69 really was the lucky number for the Finn that day.

Absolutely one of the great Bathurst stints.

#B12hr
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[VIC] PFA Track Day 2017 - 12.02.2017 - PFA Specific News, Promotions & Events - PFA

 

Looks like a fun day ...... if you like Porkers .......... Wes, Tristan ??

 

TV add for Phillip Island is up on the VHRR website: PHILLIP ISLAND | Victorian Historic Racing Register

There's even a little glimpse of me (left rear) from an earlier year, when I started from the back after being t-boned in qualifying.
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Hi mate.

 

Yep,what he ^^^^^ said,Brett.

 

STFU

 

No-one worth knowing

Welcome back mate .... here for a while ?

 

Yeah, he's in the Isa with the Papster ..... and I'm in the poo with his mum

 

I'll pm my garage number when I get it, come and say g'day

 

just found this on retrolegends, perfect for the chilly mornings at Phillip Island
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That's pretty cool.

Do they make them in 4XL?

 

He wants it as a shirt, not a dress.

 

Fixed.

 

It was for me, not him.

Lol. +1

 

Your pit crew will look great all turned out in that shirt



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I was more thinking of something like this:
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I have always been a fan of sequins - as you know
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