Adelaide 2024 - Spoliers

[muz]

Thomas is a very good driver, but his missing that X factor to go all the way. He definitely deserves to be there over quite alot of the rest of the field, but will never win a championship (Thomas, prove me wrong!!)

Anyway, another year done & dusted.. Well done Brown & T888. Thanks for the memories Frosty. Anton you've made a very big mistake. I think DJR might be serious championship contender next year. And 2025 is Cam's year

perhaps too much of the 'clean driver' mentality from his open wheel days? he does everything he can to not touch another driver's car while others are happy to just shove it in there...

having said that how he drove in the last laps today to get that podium were brilliant. hoping he rises a few more spots in the standings next year.

Did we watch the same year of racing? Every time Randle puts his nose in he spins someone, or he makes multiple blocking moves (Perth) and isn't fluent in the rules.

But, he drove well today and all weekend to be fair.

[Woodzy]

His defence in Perth musn't of been too bad considering Will Brown was the one that got a penalty. To be honest though he does need to develop his racecraft a bit.

I'm surprised Randle has been so competitive on street circuits considering his driving style. If there were more high downforce flowing circuits he would be even more competitive. At least Tailem Bend will be back next year but I'd love to see him at Phillip Island as well.

Also for years Waters could never match Mostert for pace over a whole race. I'm sure it's just a matter of time till he's matching Cam.

[Troy01505]

You have to admire both Broc and Mozzy, one going balls to the wall to pass and make up 15 seconds and Chaz defending as if there was $10 million for the win.

Both of them fought to the death and both lost out, no ploy just racers being racers for a change.

One of the better races of the season.

[skaifeman]

What was Mostert thinking? Let him go FFS.
Skaife said it, regardless of if he could've kept him behind, he's using tyre regardless. Race win goes begging.

100% Feeney's fault, but some racing smarts would've gone a long way.

Being a cynical old bloke, this was always a ploy by Red Bull, take out Chaz, Brown for the win and the Championship.  They would be thinking great, Brown has the win and the championship.  I put nothing past Red Bull

Feeney knew had a 15 second penalty, why take out Chaz?  Chaz had every right to race, he had led the race from lap one

I don't think it was anything near team tactics to take out Chaz. Feeney pulled out of every 50/50 move (until the last one). It would've been easy to drill him at the hairpin all locked up if that was the case.

You have to admire both Broc and Mozzy, one going balls to the wall to pass and make up 15 seconds and Chaz defending as if there was $10 million for the win.

Both of them fought to the death and both lost out, no ploy just racers being racers for a change.

One of the better races of the season.

Absolutely. It was highly entertaining.
You could see it has trouble written all over it, hence why I thought Chaz would've been better to let him through.

WTF happened? I had to go to feed my daughters dogs half way through the race, Fords 1 and 2 and, I fet home and I look at Natsoft and Fords 3, 4.

Triple 8 happened. Showed why they are the champion team this year.

I'd argue Tickford happened. Wrong tyres on the wrong corner, handed it to 888.
Randle isn't within that top 5-6 drivers of the field, he's proving very fast over one lap though. Just needs to improve his tyre management.

not within the 'top 5-6 drivers of the field'?

perhaps you should check the year standings? check out the name at P5.

I'm not having a go at Randle, in a sense of 'not good enough,' more so that most races he puts the thing up the pointy end in Qualy and then drives backwards in the race.
And I guess you have to compare him to Waters, who is one of the top 3-4 drivers.

[Sonic]

I'm not having a go at Randle, in a sense of 'not good enough,' more so that most races he puts the thing up the pointy end in Qualy and then drives backwards in the race.
And I guess you have to compare him to Waters, who is one of the top 3-4 drivers.

Agreed he has seemed to drop back in the few times I've seen the SC races... but in spite of that he only finished 1 spot behind his teammate over the entire year (4th and 5th) so would it be fair to argue that that makes him more consistant with Cam having more errors/dnf's over the year? (only 1 I can really think of was with Payne at the GP but I don't get to watch the series much so may have been more)... but when the car is right he fights well.

[muz]

I'm not having a go at Randle, in a sense of 'not good enough,' more so that most races he puts the thing up the pointy end in Qualy and then drives backwards in the race.
And I guess you have to compare him to Waters, who is one of the top 3-4 drivers.

There was an interesting stat on the weekend. from qualy to race on average waters went backwards 1.8 positions each race across the season. Sort of highlights what we know, race execution is a bit tough for Tickford...
Agreed he has seemed to drop back in the few times I've seen the SC races... but in spite of that he only finished 1 spot behind his teammate over the entire year (4th and 5th) so would it be fair to argue that that makes him more consistant with Cam having more errors/dnf's over the year? (only 1 I can really think of was with Payne at the GP but I don't get to watch the series much so may have been more)... but when the car is right he fights well.