V8 Supercars 2017 Thread

[ZX10R NIN]

Well with Van Gisbergen winning the championship it's time to Focus on 2017.

I'm a Ford guy so would love to see Mostert up there.

I can see it being tighter than this season DJR will be a team to be reckoned with.

As a sidebar it was nice to see the Stone Brothers entered into the Hall of Fame.

[rubystone]

ZX10R NIN said:

Well with Van Gisbergen winning the championship it's time to Focus on 2017.

I'm a Ford guy so would love to see Mostert up there.

I can see it being tighter than this season DJR will be a team to be reckoned with.

As a sidebar it was nice to see the Stone Brothers entered into the Hall of Fame.

DJR have been hamstrung by some issues this year that they've been unable to fix. They'll be fixed for 2017. Also with Fabian on board development this year around tyres has been accelerated. Much as I like Scotty Pye, I really think that McLaughlin will push Fabian more. I'm interested to see whether the Penske influence is felt even more next year. Interesting dynamic in the garage this year; I almost felt that there was an element of 'shadowing' going on. Someone needs to take it to Roland and his merry band of men.

[ZX10R NIN]

I really hope a team can I do enjoy watching Dane lose his st when he starts losing.

Here's some light hearted fun.

http://www.supercars.com/videos/championship/virgi...

& a few other highlights to watch while killing some time.

http://www.supercars.com/videos/coates-hire-sydney...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbbrX2Zbrag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAFRS5r2g8E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRUXIyP2fio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T3Q4Ub9rhc

Dani Ric driving a V8 Supercar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k2CIMdHimg

Bathurst 2016 Crashes
https://youtu.be/wefTeM5VZmo

2015 finish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vKCRh-5WTs

For those with more time.

Clipsal 500 Race 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PayvakbZ3I

Race 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqt7l3a6zq0

Race 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljBhNCaRhfc

Edited by ZX10R NIN on Thursday 8th December 00:36

[SoliD]

Another great 2016.

Tander signed up to GRM in McLaughlins place! Really need to get out to Aus to get to a race. Missed out on some free accom as a mate of mine has just moved back to the uk from bathurst

[ZX10R NIN]

That's a big fail on your part even if you didn't get to the great race the 12 hour is something special.

[SoliD]

ZX10R NIN said:

That's a big fail on your part even if you didn't get to the great race the 12 hour is something special.

I know, unfortunately last few years money hasn't allowed even with cheap accom, if I did the 12hour I'd feel I was cheating on the great race :P

[rubystone]

ZX10R NIN said:

That's a big fail on your part even if you didn't get to the great race the 12 hour is something special.

Certainly is

[ZX10R NIN]

SoliD said:

I know, unfortunately last few years money hasn't allowed even with cheap accom, if I did the 12hour I'd feel I was cheating on the great race :P

I understand why it would have to be Supercars or bust, I'm aiming for 2018

[ZX10R NIN]

Forgot to say big kudos to Tekno Motorsports for doing the double 2016 at Bathurst with the 12hr & the Bathurst race JW is the Bathurst king & he's not even a Supercar regular.

[ZX10R NIN]

Just a quick one the V8 Supercar Review is on Motors TV today from 12.40 - 9.00pm so you can catch up with any races you missed.

Happy New Year everyone.

[ZX10R NIN]

Here's an update on the runners & riders for 2017:

A range of Virgin Australia Supercars Championship teams will have brand new hardware for the start of the 2017 championship at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide next March.

No less than 10 new chassis are being constructed by teams over summer across a range of teams, however it’s the reigning champions at Triple Eight Race Engineering that will be working the most with three brand new chassis to complete in time for next year.

The Queensland-based squad is building the new chassis for next season in the wake of recent sales to Dunlop Series teams and a collector that has left the Roland Dane-led squad light on chassis inventory.

It’s the biggest number of cars produced by the team since the end of 2012/start of 2013 when the New Generation chassis was introduced and the team produced a range of chassis for itself and various customers.

“We’re building three, so each of our drivers will be getting a new car,” says Triple Eight Team Principal Roland Dane.

“Jamie’s current race car will become the spare.”

The recent sale late last year of some of its fleet to Dunlop Series teams and collectors has left the Brisbane-based team with a need to build some new cars.

Melbourne-based Eggleston Motorsport has purchased a pair of the team’s 2016 Red Bull Commodore VFs, including the car driven to the championship by Shane van Gisbergen and the car driven earlier in the season by Jamie Whincup, while Craig Lowndes’ TeamVortex chassis has been secured by Matt Stone Racing for Todd Hazelwood to drive.

The team also sold its spare car last November – the 2015 Bathurst-winning Craig Lowndes/Steve Richards Red Bull #888 car – to GT competitor Scott Taylor for his growing Queensland car collection.

While the team that will carry the Red Bull HRT banner this year will be pressing ahead with plenty of new metal for the new season, the former carrier of the HRT flag, Walkinshaw Racing, is doing the opposite.

“We’ve got enough cars, so the short answer is no (to building new cars) at the moment,” Walkinshaw Racing MD Adrian Burgess told supercars.com.au.

“Both our drivers had new cars this year, so we’ll gather our basket up and see what’s going to roll out in 2018 before we make anymore.

“We’ve still got five cars, two racecars and three spares. Five is more than ample. We sold two (to Erebus Motorsport V8) and built two this year. We have another chassis in kit form with tube work and bar work going together but there’s no real need or rush; we might hold it back and use it for our 2018 car.”

Ford runners Prodrive Racing Australia and DJR Team Penske will each have a new Falcon FG X on the grid for the start of 2017, the new car at PRA taking its active fleet to eight race cars.

“We have a new one going together at the moment, it’s already out of the paint shop and ticking along,” says PRA Team Principal Tim Edwards.

“We haven’t gone through which driver will get it yet; we’ll worry about that in the New Year. When you run six cars (four in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship and two in the Dunlop Series) that necessitates having a reasonably sized fleet anyway.

“There’s another new shell on the jig but we’ll tinker along on that one (during 2017).”

Nissan Motorsport will have two brand new Altimas on the grid to start 2017, the first time it’s produced multiple new chassis for a season since the beginning of New Generation regulations nearly four years ago.

With two of its cars now with Matthew White’s team in the Supercars Dunlop Series, the factory Nissan squad has had to produce two more to ensure it begins this season with a spare chassis in case of dramas in the early part of the season.

Garry Rogers Motorsport has already confirmed it’s building two new Commodore chassis for 2017, however has already publicly stated they are slated for use in the Dunlop Series given the two VF Commodores it ran this year (originally built by GRM) were leased from Dragon’s Tony Klein and are headed to Image Racing for 2017.

After using a pair of Walkinshaw-sourced Commodores this year, Erebus Motorsport V8 has plans to build a new car for David Reynolds for 2017 in-house with the Clipsal 500 its planned debut.

Reynolds’ current #9 car is planned to become the #4 car of Dale Wood with the former #4 chassis – as driven in the second half of the season by Shae Davies – to become the team’s spare.

Of the other teams in the paddock, Brad Jones Racing has no plans to produce any new cars for the start of 2017 given it built two new chassis to start this season for Jason Bright and Tim Slade.

[KemP]

Redbull showing the new livery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrgO7VmeeA0&t=...

Looking forward to the J-dub and Cappy video

[ZX10R NIN]

It looks like Gary Rogers Motorsport won't be able to run the Volvo's in 2017 because Volvo/Cyan won't lease him the engines so he's now looking at building a pair of Commodores.

[ZX10R NIN]

For those that are craving some motorsport the Liqui Moly 12 hours will be streamed live.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaTxfj0BzL-MaCy-Y...

[Ex X Power]

Any ideas where it will be shown this season?... Im about to sack Sky off so ideally would like to go somewhere with V8 coverage

I saw on last years thread you could stream live for about £21 for the season.... I see on the Supercars website overseas pricing has yet to be announced

Anybody more enlightened than me?

Many Thanks

[ZX10R NIN]

Depending on where you are then as far I'm aware it's the same 40.00 AUS dollars just click onto the V8 Supercars site & it's a pretty simple process.

I will say the coverage is good the one bad point is that you don't get the full "Inside Supercars" coverage but apart from that the coverage is excellent.

[Andy-gozd1]

[quote=Ex X Power]Any ideas where it will be shown this season?... Im about to sack Sky off so ideally would like to go somewhere with V8 coverage

I saw on last years thread you could stream live for about £21 for the season.... I see on the Supercars website overseas pricing has yet to be announced

Anybody more enlightened than me?

Many Thanks

Try BT,Their Sports channel showed all the V8 races last year,I'm sure they are showing it again this season.

[ZX10R NIN]

Motors TV & BT Sport will be showing the races a week after they've run.

[ZX10R NIN]

Clipsal 500 this weekend or for those that don't have Superview take a look at Motors TV next weekend

[haggishunter]

Motors TV is showing it live at the weekend according to my virgin media planner. Can't see anything in BT sport though.