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February 23, 2008 by George Skentzos
By now most of you have come across a video of a Formula One engine playing some type of tune through an array of computers, software and wires. This is the Australian edition where V8 Supercar driver James Courtney plays Waltzing Matilda with the throttle alone!
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Its funny pity though its a ford is playing it it would sound better with an Aussie Car not a yank one
“tom the ford hater”, what yank one?
Yep seen it before.
Oz I was meaning the company Ford there american unlike holden
F.O.R.D suck
Tom grow up mate, this site doesn’t need anymore wankers like yourself.
Ford and Holden are both owned by American car manufacturers and if you took the time to do a little research you would quickly realise the Falcon has way more Aussie made parts than the Commodore.
I love Holden’s mate but even I can accept reality.
Tom….you carry on like a porkchop and a lurch, so please get your hand off your tool for you carry on like a fool!
And may I add, change your nickname so you can get in the game!
Well put JAS, your comment was ace!
Tom kid, go back to your H.O.L.D.E.N forum. A Holden is just as much a yank car as a Ford.
Geez mate, how did you get on to a site like this with the way you so freaking dumb? Bird brain.
Suck s#!t Tom. You just know nothing about cars.
does anyone else care about the fact that thats completely awesome? what i wanna know is though, how did James work out he could do this? I’m sure the blokes in the SBR engine department wouldnt have really appreciated him screwing around with their engines like that lol
LOL @ Tom
funny thing is- my anti-spam word was “smart”
Tom- don’t come back. The less of people like you here, the better.
…….and SMART your comment was CHRIS! Thanks as Tom is a tosser.
I wonder is that tom a kid i know? he sounds just like it, but I can’t believe someone that dumb learnt to post on a site like this.
Back on topic now that the tossers gone back under his rock…
Was James Courtney really playing it, or was it digital?
thats what i was thinking Oz. but the way the team applauded him makes me think he really did it, i mean why would you applaud him if it was really some software engineer who did it
Good point.
Thank god he did it in a Ford. It it were in a Holden, he would have got to Waltzing Matilda, and the thing would have given upon him! God, the sound of that SBR donk is intoxicating!!! FORD POWER
That was well done – onya james :)
F1 cars do this too, its all software engineered.. there is no way he’d be able to get it that perfect!
If it were real why dont they do it as a crowd pleaser at the next V8 supercars race meet?
I saw something like this done with a F1 playing the English anthem, but I think it was digital.
Richo,
mate i thought it was awesome.
i actually posted it in the forum a couple of months back.
i also suggest that they get him to do the national anthem at the start of races instead of the sometimes terrible talent they seem to round up
Team vodafone well done i knew we would win the boys did a great job and now we are winning team, red bf falcon takes ford to victory.Sucked in holden ya losers we number 1 now.hahaha.
Craig Lowndes – i sem to remember you sayign that YOU were going to kick Mark Skaifes a– if he didn’t put himself into the wall.
Sure Skaife did had smome mechanical – suspension] problems whivch effectively put an end to his race..
However; at least he did manage to actually finish the race. Whereas you managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by once again becoming impatient and bumping those infront of you out of the way and causing an accident – could it be you have lost the ability to affect a clean skillful passing manouvre?
I was at the track surrounded by Forfd fans and even they cheered when you got taken out as a result of your ego
Wheelnut – your right mate, lowndes ego is really starting to get the better of him. You can trace a number of stupid incidents over the past two seasons which have ultimately cost craig the championship and they where 100% his own fault. Ford fans like going on about the Rick Kelly incident in 06, but the fact of the matter is craig threw that championship away in the rounds leading up to the final, he had a huge lead in the championship and he threw it all away.
Those passes Craig was doing today down in turn 9, first on Winterbottom and then on Holdsworth, they may have been technically legal, but they where dirty and thats fact. You can just go jumping down the inside of someone, knowing full well that you won’t be able to stop in time, use the other car to get yourself around the corner meaning the craig gets the position and both winterbottom and holdsworth where shuffled back. Totally unfair and bullshit racing. then he tried to do it to courtney who has a well documented history of having brain explosions and so what happens? He pisses courtney off by doing it to him and courtney has said brain explosion and have a big accident and poor winterbottom gets taken out through no fault of his own.
Then you get that idiot Roland Dane coming on TV saying that Courtney should have just gotten out of the way because craig was going a bit faster at the time.. umm roland, ITS CALLED RACING NOT QUALIFYING! As if a driver is ever going to give up second place in a race just because the guy behind is .1 of a second a lap faster… as if! Just shows the attitude of craig and roland, they make a good combo. Whincup is too good for that team!
Mate,james courtney bumped me as we wer battling for 2nd,and mark did ok but said i hope he crashes again anyway our team won so sucked in holden,oh and happy birthday to russel ingall 44,out on the 2nd lap.The boys did a good job with the cars this year and its lookin good for the season.Craig Lowndes team 888 vodafone.
Carig you bumped into his rear bumper goingin into turn 9 which pushed him wide and made his exit wider than normal and tours just a little bit tighter
Then as you both approached the kink inbetween 9-10 you moved over to cut the apex and given JCs altered approach angel you once agian made contact with this front bumper as.
You weren’t really infromt of him because after the first hit at turn 9 JC had the ablilty and the reaction time to back maintain control an momentum and stayed right along side
Wheelnut your not actually stupid enough to think this is the real craig lowndes? there is no way that craig lowndes would ever be stupid enough to come on a forum like this trash talking other drivers and generally carrying on like a wanker. Your not fooling anyone “Craig” get a bloody life, let me guess your probably about 16 thinking your the coolest ever? wanker…
Yeah look, with the rules at the moment your allowed to bump other cars off the track and until the rules are changed,your going to see alot more of that.The boys are celebrating and im still smiling and happy the team won.cheers Craig Lowndes 888.
I realise it’s not the real CL.. And its understandable that someone who is dumb enough to call them selves
Craig Lowndes or Marcos Ambrose wouldn’t have a real understanding of the sport the rules or what happened etc
I know the Real CL from my years a s a Volunteer Flag Marshall..
BTW Craig Lowndes : If the rules state that you can bump cars of the track then why do they issue drive throughs for similar racing incidents where contact is made etc?
Richo….Wheelnut is definitely not stupid,he was just playing the Craig game!
Your still smiling the team won Craig……you just wrote off your new car….bet the team aren’t happy!
exactly BM, Jamies crew would be pretty happy, but the blokes who work on Craig’s side of the garage would be pretty pissed off right at the moment with the amount of work they have to do to the car.
Look,you can think what you want,and yes im still smiling our team won and the boys are very happy in my side of the garage.Craig Lowndes.
what? you cant cant bump others off the track?
well someone better tell Morris who has been doing it for years.
but seriously…….
as you said Richo, its racing!!!
who the hell is going to sit tied up behind a car that is obviously slower then them with out having a go??
james sure did his fair share of barging so he cant really whinge.
if a pass “is technically legal” as you put it then it is called “racing hard”
the standard was set on saturday for what was acceptable so i dont think any of the drivers could be to blame as all the barging that went on was “technically legal”.
oh and when you have a much faster car behind you and you dont get out of the way its technically called “blocking”
Andrew, where did i say that what jamie did on saturday was an acceptable overtaking move? Mate everyone up and down pit lane was outraged by that decision, did you notice how only the two 888 drivers where the ones doing moves like that? says something about the mentality of the team.
It can be legal all it wants, but that doesn’t make it good racing. Brock and Johnson use to race each other “hard” like you say, yet they never touched each other, never put each other off the track. Why? cos they had something called respct. Respect for each other, respect for their cars and importantly, respect for their team which have to repair the cars if you crash them. Thats something the lowndes and alot of the other “top” drivers lack these days and its to the discredit of the sport
theres a difference between “racing hard” as you say, and blatently pushing other cars off the track. Any old idiot can push another car off the track to make up positions, thats not racing mate as much as you like to think it is. Its absolute rubbish
i honestly think they relaxed the standards in order to promote a bit more exciting racing.
who wants to see people just plodding around minding their own business?
also the change in the points score encourages it as well as encouraging damaged (and then repaired) vehicles to get back out there and chase a few points rather than just parking it like many did last year
and Andrew, James Courtney wasn’t obviously slower then craig at all. It was just after a safety car period and that means everyones tyres go off a bit, lose a bit of pressure and it takes a bit for them to come back. Thats the only reason courtney was slightly slower at the time, before then courtney had been the fastest guy on the track so you can hardly say he was obviously slower.
If a slower car is infront then obviously you can have a go, but if courtney really was slower then lowndes, how come lowndes couldn’t pass him cleanly? why did he have to push him off the track? I’ll tell you why, because in reality there was bugger all in it as far as pace goes!
mate i never said you said what jamie did was acceptable.
i quoted you as saying what went on during the round was technically legal.
T8 werent the only ones doing it. dont forget that
Andrew, again, since when has driver a pushing driver b off the circuit to make up a position ever been considered good racing?
When craig was making those moves at turn 9, he knew full well he wouldn’t be able to pull his car up in time for the corner, he was all locked up and was using first winterbottom, then holdsworth and finally courtney to actually get around the corner, and courtney said “nup stuff you mate” and fought back, then craig just randomly turns in on him despite the fact that courntey was clearly up to the b-pillar which means you have to give room, but not Sir Craig… everyone is supposed to just get out of his way didnt you know? Roland said so!
Richo,
he obviously was slower as craig was right up his clakker for a few laps.
the “tyres coming up to temp” was cromptons theory. wouldnt lowndes have struggled the same fate?
it was recorded that courtney was lapping 1-1.5 secs slower!!!
either way it was obvious lowndes was being held up at the time.
im not a big “ooohhhhh its lowndesy fan” im saying it how i feel it is.
i actually hold high praise for JC as his racing history coming through the ranks shows he is a talented driver. unluke many JC didnt simply buy his seat at SBR.
sure JC had great pace all weekend (possibly the best pace) but it was just unlucky he came undone the few times he did.
turn it up andrew he wasnt that much slower, there was a few tenths in it thats all. Whincup was only half a second up the road at the time, so if he was 1-1.5 seconds a lap slower then old whincup in the same car as lowndes must have been traveling pretty darn slowly!
“Sir James” cant whinge either as he made plenty of “im coming through” moves too
Richo,thats not the real richo because hes staying in the same hotel as me and iv got a laptop and he dont,mate you sound like a wanker and yes i do go on forums time to time.Im in a very good mood, dont spoil the moment with your comments.Cheers Craig Lowndes.
mate i did turn it up when they were talking about james’s lost lap time because i obviously heard what the difference was and you didnt
it was more than a few tenths.
on the lap before the incident it was said that courtney was 1 sec slower
Richo imposter,get a life mate i did loser if you were here right now id punch you you sound like a kid who sits on mummys computer and cant accept this is craig Lowndes talkin to your 16 year old sorry ass.lol
settle down craig no need to insult the guy geez.
u better watch your mouth or you wont be winning the most liked title again this year
Hey CRAIG LOWNDES! Go to FPR.com.au, they have a news story on the main page with a furious title in upper-case letters about your driving today!
I think richo had better watch his mouth, my god you insult me what a loser,anyway one person cant affect my chances of getting most liked tittle.Craig Lowndes 888.
Sorry but I still think Richo is right,and if Lowndes still had a car at that time to continue in he would have got a drive through for cutting James off.
Lowndes cut in front of James,maybe James was slower but Craig shouldn’t have been so aggressive,he had already been lucky with Coldbum letting him through….
I do agree though Andrew with the fact that James was equally as aggressive during the race. He had been real lucky up till that,whats the go with the Ford drivers….their obviously frustrated.
Richo isn’t pretending to be Steve Richards unlike you pretending to be CL mate. He’s been around this forum for a while.
Lol, getting back on topic…
If anyone is interested they played waltzing matilda exactly the same way F1 played their tune. The song is software mapped by the engineers, James Courtney sits in the car at full throttle then the software mapping drops cylinders to get the different notes.
Have a listen about half way through on one of the low notes…the car has dropped at least 4 cylinders.