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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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It does sound a little too perfect. Cool tho.
Good on both CL & JC for racing hard. Watch european touring car series and this sort of racing is the norm. CL’s pass on Frosty was partly Frost’s fault for squeezing Lowndes onto the dirty line then onto the curb. Same with Holdsworth. JC changed lines pretty late b4 the major crash which is not allowed (you can only change direction once and he took the outside line then when CL went for the inside he chopped him so lowndes was committed and just touched him) then at the contact down the road it was a very similar clash that happened between Ambrose & Murph at Bathurst a couple of years ago. JC should of just backed off on the kink, Lowndes was past him and had to turn in. Now Wingnut’s passes on FPR on Saturday were touch & go. But the pass on Richo was more controversial than on Frosty but I think he was passed the B-pillar both times. I think JC should of maybe got pinged for the pass on murph but I think murph played his own part in cutting JC off thats why I think they let JC off.
JC should of won the round cos he obviously had the fastest car on the weekend but after that safety car he was obviously much slower hence why Lowndes made the move. But the end result I think cant be called anything but a racing incident. Its the 1st round back and everyone is keen to start the year well, even more so with HRT struggling and not scoreing many points. Lets hope the action isn’t stifled by knee jerk reactions.
BTW I’m no way a Lowndes supporter but support anyone driving a blue oval so I’m just saying how I saw the incidents. I was more pissed off at the drive through for Junior for over lapping, Coulthard obviously had a problem. Which was a shame cos Coulthard was doing an amazing job to have the PCR car in 5th on its own merit. Good on Cam Mc and BJR, too bad it was with Holden but they deserve results and congrats to Shane Van Gisbergan on an excellent 5th, he is a definate star of the future.
Now back on topic, with the control ECU’s on the V8’s you can’t customise the mapping that much to be able to do that so I think JC did that all himself.
Lol, Glen you don’t have a clue what your talking about mate. The ECU is completely reprogrammable, all the engineer has to do is run a series of spark cuts to drop cylinders, easy as mate.
How do you know Jason? You may be right but to my knowledge the mapping of the V8 Supercar ECU is severly limited compared to what you used to be able to do. I know you can do this with a freer ECU but I thought the V8 ECU was controlled
Glen, i agree with you mate.
1. JC deserved to win both races as all bar the session after the safety car he was easily the fastest out there.
2. JC did more than his fair share of barging through the field too so he cant whinge
3. frosty also squeezed CL up on the curb rather than giving him racing room.
4. if JC had thought about it a little more he would have stayed on the racing line and tried to cross back on lowndes.
5. yep the worst decision was to end Steve Johnsons good run by that terrible penalty for overlapping.
dont forget it was at the very same track last year where i think it may have been Mcconville (i think) was penalised for punting the Jack daniels commodore even though the LPR machine had stalled just around the blind corner and even the victim had pleaded that no penalty should be applied.
i think they need to issue such penalties with an open mind and actually consider feed back from teams.
i mean whats wrong with once both teams state their case and the standards observer saying “well sorry i got it wrong”
oh and in summary it wasnt only CL that was rubbing paint. just because it was a battle for 2nd and he is a popular man people seem to want to drill him.
what about the biff and barge from the HSV/DT guys and Paul morris? and also JC himself. and what about the poor welcoming Andrew Thompson got to the category?
It was a good race, and was good to see bjr get on the podium. first racing meeting in a holden and got 3rd and 13. pretty gud work. and hrt will be back next round.
sorry for being a fool i look back at what i wrote was completely stupid and yes holdenwoo is as very bit american as ford is.
How come I only saw this on the news today? It happened some time last year and it was weeks upon weeks ago when this video was recovered?
Tom The Tool you can tell you are not Tom the Ford Hater.