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2012 endro drivers for team vodafone?

joshua hood — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:16:14 +0000

who will pair with whincup and lowndes in 2012?

Luff with Lowndes maybe. only because luff is out of a drive and they did the 12 hour at bathurst in 2011

Should the V8SC go international?

Thomas Wood — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:07:42 +0000

V8 supercars has by far grown and clearly shown more interest where international drivers drove at the GC600 and have been at Bathurst for many years; rated as one of the best circuits in the world. Besides all of this, apparently the Bathurst 1000 was also broadcasted in the USA in 2011. V8 supercars are now looking seriously at allowing more international car manufacturers into the title in 2013 with the cost efficient COTF and is clearly seeking growth into the future.
Besides the 2013 COTF, I believe to draw larger sponsors, more international manufacturers and more international drivers, the V8SC will have to look seriously at taking part in other international circuits such as Nurburgring Norschleife, Silverstone or becoming a support series of the ALMS to put the V8SC series into the noses of the race fans, manufacturers and team owners who typically would just stick to the British and European chain of motorsports and events. (Personally I just love Nurburgring Nordschleife. Haha)
The V8 supercars I think are great, but what are your thoughts on racing more overseas?

who will win next year

frank divito — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:26:35 +0000

holden(vodafone)

Fair Well Mate

Nathan Schick — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:13:05 +0000

Jason Richards was a great driver in every race that he participated in and was well respected, I believe that it one way a race of the 2012 season should be named after the Great driver, if anybody agrees with the comment then leave a post with your thought.

CONGRADULATIONS TEAM

shiloh gibson — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:31:15 +0000

just wanted to congradulate each member of your team. you all have worked incredibly well together all year and it has showed in the results you have achieved!
you should be all very proud of your efforts.

i wish you all a fabulous christmas and a happy new year
bring on 2012….
p.s thanks for a GR888 year

Telstra 500 Drivers parade

dee dang — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:43:12 +0000

My partner did the driver parade and had the privlelidge of driving Graig Lowndes around the track.Unfortunately no photos of Craig in his car, anyone have any suggestions where I could get a photo of this. Thanks

'Fluro' Championship Shirt

Adam Bonsall — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:13:01 +0000

Is Team Vodafone selling the championship shirts the crew were wearing today

Pit Lane Queuing

Greg Mackay — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:36:05 +0000

Having read most of the unfair comments posted on Team Vodafones Facebook page claiming that Craigs' championship hopes are being ruined by the team I would like to make the following comments.

While I agree that pit queuing has hurt Craig a lot this year, not just the last two events, it is the lesser of two evils and results in the least time lost when a safety car is deployed. It is not the teams fault, they are just operating as best they can within the rules.

The trick is to find a way to solve this problem not only for Team Vodafone but all teams in pit lane. I see three possible options, all with flaws.

1. Give every car their own pit bay. This is not feasible because the pit lanes are not long enough to accommodate the extra equipment and personnel safely.

2. Close pit lane when the safety car is deployed so that all pit stops must happen under green flag conditions. This reduces strategy options because everyone pits as early as they can so as not to lose time if and when the safety car comes out. (i.e. If you haven't pitted then you lose any lead you have and you still need to pit, probably a worse outcome than queuing).

3. If and when the safety car is deployed, the field is frozen, everyone pits, and then line up behind the safety car in the same order as when the safety car was deployed. The problem here is that teams that have a poor pit stop or take a little longer to fix something are not penalised, but I think that is better than having front runners lose miles of track position through no fault of there own or their pit crew. This is my preferred option.

What do people think.

Is there a mechanism to make suggestions to V8 Supercars about things such as this?

Brisbane Blast

Peter Doblo — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:04:05 +0000

That was TOTALLY awesome. Skids up Edward street at midday looks like a really cool thing to do and the boys looked like they were enjoying every minute of it. Loved the reaction of the locals. A good time had by all. Well done.

ladies merchandise

shiloh gibson — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:15:40 +0000

hey guys just wanted to put in a suggestion for the ladies merchandise range next year, all the mens clothes look really good and looks more "official" then the ladies range, it would be ok cause normally i would just buy the mens range cause its so much better but the mens size small is still huge so the ladies options are pretty limited. i hope this makes sense LOL liike the mens jackets have all the sponsors on them but the ladies dont so the ladies jackets just look plain and pretty boring to be honest. sorry.
but anything u guys make with 888 on it i will buy anyway..just thought i would put it out there…