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?

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.

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.

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.

u better watch your mouth or you wont be winning the most liked title again this year

on the lap before the incident it was said that courtney was 1 sec slower