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25 Oct 21:13

Still racing in the WEC as well, so:

Mexico Grand Prix This Weekend, WEC Shanghai next weekend, Brazilian Grand Prix the weekend after that, WEC Bahrain the following weekend then finishing off at the Abu Dhabi grand prix.

Because of all the commitments of a race weekend and practice for the WEC starting three days after each Grand Prix Hartley is literally going to have at most 24 hours to get from one continent to another and recover from his jetlag, etc.

It's a shame they couldn't just replace him in the WEC, one of the Porsche teams will win it either way, and let him concentrate on F1.

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26 Oct 01:08

Surge wrote:

Confirmed with the team for the rest of the F1 season. That's huge!

That's brilliant!

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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26 Oct 07:49

Ryan wrote:

Still racing in the WEC as well, so:

Mexico Grand Prix This Weekend, WEC Shanghai next weekend, Brazilian Grand Prix the weekend after that, WEC Bahrain the following weekend then finishing off at the Abu Dhabi grand prix.

Because of all the commitments of a race weekend and practice for the WEC starting three days after each Grand Prix Hartley is literally going to have at most 24 hours to get from one continent to another and recover from his jetlag, etc.

It's a shame they couldn't just replace him in the WEC, one of the Porsche teams will win it either way, and let him concentrate on F1.

I wouldn't be surprised if they win the WEC championship in Shanghai (basically all they have to do is finish ahead of their nearest competitor in the Toyota) then he could ask Porsche for a release for the WEC event in Bahrain to concentrate on the F1.  

Masters Grade aint no run in the park on a Saturday...

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17 Nov 01:40

So Hartley confirmed for 2018 season with Torro Rosso.

Awesome to have a Kiwi in F1.

Still though, after reading reports he was close to signing on for Chip Ganassi in IndyCar I can't help but feel a little bit disappointed.

At Chip Ganassi he would have genuinely had a car capable of winning whereas at Torro Rosso he'll be doing bloody well to finish in the top 10. Based on their car the last 2 weeks he'll be doing well just to finish.

As a huge motorsport fan its hard not to be excited at the prospect of a Kiwi in F1 though, regardless of the team.

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17 Nov 02:10

Indycar is always an option, it's one of the places where F1 rejects end up having long and succesful careers. F1 is not always an option, you get an F1 opportunity and you take it. I read somewhere that more living people have been to space than have raced an F1 car. It's a very very select group.

Plenty of people have gotten top team drives out of Torro Rosso and Torro Rosso is a works team next season as well!

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18 Nov 08:06

Ryan wrote:

Torro Rosso is a works team next season as well!

Sadly that hasn't gone as well as hoped for McLaren the last couple of seasons!

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12 Mar 00:21

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12 Mar 19:40 · edited 12 Mar 19:42 · History

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13 Mar 01:27

Risk to HIGH - All Albert Park Race activity cancelled

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22 Apr 07:43

8 pm  V8 Supercar drivers take on a Virtual Bathurst in the IRacing series Live.

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22 Apr 21:33

Blew.2 wrote:

8 pm  V8 Supercar drivers take on a Virtual Bathurst in the IRacing series Live.

That was some great racing last night. Did Kostecki get a penalty for the tap on McLaughlin in the last race? (last corner)

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22 Apr 21:48

Yes he got the pen and was reduced to 2nd.   Some dam expensive kit run by some drivers.

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23 Apr 03:01

Yes, Tom Randle has even set up a business using the simulators to train drivers.. His sim has motion platform. Pretty impressive.

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23 Apr 20:43

An interesting excerpt from an article on Raelene Castles resignation.  Football is not alone.

"Wiggs runs private equity firm Archer Capital and is chair of Supercars after Archer bought the business for a reported AU$180 million from SEL in 2011. It is now reportedly worth about half its purchase price and is in the middle of difficult broadcast negotiations to renew its deal with Fox Sports and Ten. "

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25 Apr 08:05 · edited 25 Apr 20:59 · History
EPISODE 1: INSIDE LINE: A SEASON WITH EREBUS MOTORSPORT    Betty K was the daughter (adopted) of the man who Started Frank Lowy in Malls.   

Klimenko inherited her fortune from her adoptive father, John Saunders, co-founder of the Westfield shopping centre empire. Possibly some of her chutzpah, too. Saunders, born Jeno Schwarcz, survived Nazi concentration camps, then fled the postwar Communist regime in his native Hungary before migrating to Australia with his wife, Eta, in 1950.

In Sydney, he opened a hole-in-the-wall delicatessen in the Town Hall railway station underpass. There he met another European immigrant, Frank Lowy, who delivered smallgoods to him. The two went into business together, opening a delicatessen and coffee shop in the western Sydney suburb of Blacktown in 1954. By the end of the decade, they had moved into property development and built their first shopping mall, Westfield Place, also in Blacktown.  

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/motorsport/betty-klimenko-the-unlikely-heiress-revving-up-motor-sport-20180320-p4z57p.html

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27 Apr 07:22

Just finished watching the series last week. Was brilliant.

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29 Apr 00:24

Supercar eseries 8pm tonight running on Montreal and Watkins glen circuits

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30 Jun 08:16

How good was the Supercars from Sydney last weekend. Brilliant racing.

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21 Oct 04:00 · edited 21 Oct 04:01 · History
Glad that Lawsons first race this season was at a time that I could watch it live. Last to point scoring on a track that he doesn't know and comfortably beating his team mate, can't ask for a better start than that.
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21 Oct 04:22
Didn’t know there was a thread for this. Great to watch him live and doing well. Poor guy didn’t get a break the first two days, abused by Alonso and even his bloody team mate when he was trying to help him.

Glad he beat them both 

Auckland will rise once more

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21 Oct 05:51 · edited 21 Oct 05:52 · History
The abuse by Alonso and then beating Alonso on track gave him a lot of exposure, which can only help. Everytime he dueled with Alonso it was played because of that, the directors wouldn't have given him so much airtime without it.
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19 Dec 16:32
Massive news.

Three for me, and two for them.

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19 Dec 19:39
How good is it going to be watching a kiwi in a competitive car in formula one!!

I mean if he wins a race or two next year, that would be sic!!

Auckland will rise once more

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19 Dec 20:58
At last something that is Kiwi to support in F1 after Mclaren has sold its soul a number of times and is know owned by UAE.


GET YOUR SHIRTS OFF FOR THE BOYS

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24 Dec 01:51
Liam Lawson to also making an appearance at the Historic GP at Taupo on the 12th of January. This is such a good event. I went last year and going again this year.
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