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13 Nov 2006, 12:17 (Ref:1764906) | #1 | ||
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Aussie Racing Cars to race at Aussie F1 Round
Just heard on Channel 10 that the Aussie Racing Cars will be a supporting role for the Albert Park/Australia Round for the F1. I reckon it will be good to see the pocket rockets go aound the F1 Circut. What are you thoughts people?
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13 Nov 2006, 12:19 (Ref:1764908) | #2 | ||
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great news great cars great racing will be great to see them there.
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13 Nov 2006, 12:53 (Ref:1764942) | #3 | ||
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Maybe, but I doubt the F1 boys will be hanging over the pit wall to watch them go round....
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13 Nov 2006, 12:57 (Ref:1764947) | #4 | |
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not unless they get some very fancy grid girls.... ala why they used to look at the V8s on the grid
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14 Nov 2006, 04:56 (Ref:1765502) | #5 | ||
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The track is too long and straight. Won't be that entertaining for them (plus the long gearing sapping the nimbleness.) They are best suited for shorter tracks (like Baskerville where they rock.) But they have done Bathurst and survived...
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The V8's would draw spectators to the GP, I can't see the quirky little Aussie racers achieving that. Crowd figures for the event (if they aren't too rubbery) will be very interesting
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I'd much rather watch the real supercars go around Albert Park.
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Most sporting crowds are fabricated or exaggerated or just estimated. Crowd figures are part of the PR war the sports engage each other with. The AFL is only sport I am aware of that has their crowd figures auditted.
Nobody really treats the numbers seriously. Remember the old FIA TV audiences for Formula One? Something like three times the population of the planet? Well extrapolute that BS downwards to other sports of smaller scale. As long as they don't treat the public seriously with the numbers why should we treat them seriously? And hey its the Australian Grand Prix. The support act has never made any difference to my decision on whether to go or not. |
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I think they will put on a great show, you will have a very full grid, and it would be great to see if some big names can join the field, mixing it with the regulars made the Aussie cars the star of bimf.
As for crowd figures, A=gp bared This sweet little formula works on the premise that any motor sport event attendance (A) can be judged by the amount of grass patches (gp) seen in a spectator area devoid (bared) of spectators. In layman's terms, how many spots left to sit. This formula also explains why events with no grass, mostly street races, maybe desert races, are gaining favour with promoters. please note the gp-bared does NOT work on golf courses |
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The same reason a lot of sports stadiums have mutli coloured seats in each section instead of uniform colours. The break up in colour it creates makes it hard to see how many seats are really empty.
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17 Nov 2006, 02:01 (Ref:1768193) | #12 | ||
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I think they should play somewhere else.May as well back them up with HQ's and Formula V, entertaining but not on the F1 bill.
F5000, Aus GT, GT3, Porsche cup, Historic Group A and C tourers, Group N, Can am, Aust superbikes. Any of these are far more a spectical than Aussie racers. |
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What will be the allowed grid capacity for them?
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28 Nov 2006, 20:50 (Ref:1776942) | #16 | |
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Great, elsewhere in the world, the F1's are supported by other open wheeler classes, GT cars Etc. Here we get a bunch of wind-up noddy cars.
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Plus Id rather something that is entertaining than a boring one, and too many people call ARC boring. |
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I think it should be an open wheeler event ...historic F5000's and Formula Atlantic / Euro F2......
these guys get stuck in given the opportunity.. and not full of 16 year olds |
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welcome Backagain ... very incitefull first post ......
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Don't forget that the AGP people are in the business of entertaining people - they don't care about F5000 or historics.
The Aussie Racing Cars certainly fall into the entertainment category and appeal to a broad range of fans - I dare say they'll be the most exciting racing at the GP. |
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It's quite an embarassment really, I defy anyone outside the ARC community to name the first three to five placegetters in the championship last year.
Sure, there are a lot of funny little cars running around in bunches, but unless the driver is one of the the Creators "inner circle" I.E. able to bring in a sponsor to to further the empire, they have no chance of running near the front. Apart from which, how many drivers have progressed from ARC to the front of any other category? Drop this pointless "novelty" event, and bring on something of relevance, historic or whatever. |
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No offence, but naming the top 3-5?
I doubt whether you can do that for either of Formula Ford, Carrera Cup, GT Championship, Fujitsu or F3. Whats your point? |
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No offence taken Oaksnaf, but my point is that we will have a category running at the AUSTRALIAN F1 GP which is totally irrelevant to most Motorsports fans let alone the general public. This category is ok at local tracks to make up the numbers, but to run it at an international event is a huge embarassment to the Australian Motor Racing scene.
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