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Originally Posted by GTRMagic
I never quite understood the talking up of a sub 2m laptime.. when it was going to be very very difficult on firstly a dirty track, and with pilots who werent familiar with the place...
The video clip above seemed like that car ran out of revs a little on Conrod... would have been difficult to gear the car too.. a really long top gear to make the top speed would be nigh on useless anywhere else...
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Agree - not so much for your reasons (coz the track would have cleaned up over the weekend & the pilots should be able to work the track out through the course of the weekend too) but due to suitability of modern open wheel cars for a circuit like Bathurst.
With relatively little power, F3 cars would normally make a lot of time through corners and the long straights and climbs at the mountain clearly erode that benefit over the course of a lap relative to sports or touring cars.
Thing that I find interesting is that after the chest beating from those that talk prior to the meeting, only two F3 cars went under Alan's time and then only during one of the weekend's races.