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​GOLD COAST SUPERCARS. 28-29TH OCTOBER 2023

15/11/2023

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The most exciting Motor Race ever. It’s a Carnival, it’s a great meeting of enthusiasts, it’s a fabulous get together of Classic Cars and grab you team shirt and cheer. My Father and Mother took me to my first Motor Race at Ardmore in 1954. I am not going to say I was hooked but I have now raced over 30 cars and am a life member of 2 Car Clubs in New Zealand. While all classes of racing enthuse me it is the Saloon Car Racing which really grabs me.

‘King of the crop’ has to be the Australasian Super Cars and there was plenty of excitement at Surfers Paradise this October with the “GEN3” Mustangs and Camaros. Let’s look forward to Supercars at Taupo in April. It will be a ‘gas’. If it’s one word that is more boring than ‘elections’ it has to be ‘parity’ and the talk was pretty much up there at this event. It not only involved the Supercars but also the other classes down to the Super Utes. These Toyota, Mazda, Ford, LDV, and Holden four door Utes are fast and furious with LS2 Chev V8 motors, “H” pattern manual gearboxes, and relatively small wheels and tyres. They squeal under braking and corner more sideways than straight.

FORD have been very outspoken about ‘parity’ in Gen3 Supercars and it would appear they finally got a bit of justice with the few aero changes for the Mustangs at Gold Coast. Anyone who has watched the series regularly has seen the black tyre marks out of corners from Mustangs at the tail end of races as they loose traction with bad rear downforce against the Chevs. At Gold Coast 500 Mustangs squeezed out a couple of victories and at least the racing seemed to be fairly even with the few modifications to give them ‘parity’. If you are thinking these cars are similar to the Mustangs we drive on the road then think again. With regulation space frame chassis, special rear gearboxes, dog clutches, finely matched engines etc there is nothing except the badge on the front that has anything to do with our road cars.

The Supercars organisation has spent $9 million on wind tunnels, parity, dynos, getting calendar right, policing regulations and that is hard to recoup when the number of races per year is falling. Down to 12 next year. Friday Practice threatened rain but a light drizzle didn’t do much more than dampen enthusiasm. Cam Waters in the black ‘Monster’ sponsored Mustang got down to it and showed that maybe the new updates were going to work. Pye, Reynolds, and our own NZer Matt Payne all showing good form but problems with power steering lines, Turn 1 chicane coming loose and high winds put paid to really quick times. Saturday Qualifying put Waters and Matt Payne on the front row but Shane Van Gisbergen placed his Camaro on 3rd, leaving Championship contender Brodie Kostecki in 10th at the top ten shootout. Of the two championship contenders, Shane worked his way up to trail Waters at the finish by a cars length to finish second while Brodie managed 5th. Pretty exciting.

An almost switch around the next day-Sunday as Kostecki got his 9th pole in Qualifying, 8th for the season while Shane was 9th. As the results show Brodie Kostecki was second by a car length again at the end as David Reynolds held him off but it was a mighty dice. The two seemed to be less than a tow rope apart after the last pit stop and for 25 laps it was ‘game on’. Reynolds had to use up one of his unused kerb-hops to short circuit the first chicane on the very last lap because Kostecki was guaranteed to try to outbreak him at turn three. Absolutely marvellous stuff. Wow.

Porsche Parts Sales would have done pretty well again when the PORSCHE GT3’s fought out the three days. NZer Callum Hedge has been the stand out for the series but a turn 2 straight line left him with a 5 second penalty in Saturdays race. After a series of safety cars left only 20 cars at the end and another Kiwi Fabian Coulthard ended up on the podium. The spectacular Sports Sedans put on a good show at Bathurst and Gold Coast was no exception. Our own Angus Fogg in the fabulous Black and shiny Gold flame throwing MUSTANG had a 3rd at Bathurst and repeated the success here. The leading Mustang of Cam McLeod did a 1minute 11.03 second lap, less that .3 of a second slower than the Supercars. These things are spectacular. North of 800 HP. The leading car for years has been an Alfa Romeo body on a space frame chasis which has been uprated and rebuilt several times and its straight line speed is astounding. They have the sort of roar that vibrates the stomach muscles.

Roll on next year. I’ll be there.                                                                                                                        RODGER ANDERSON.
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How close can you get after 2 hours of racing including 2 pit stops for fuel and tyres?
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Cars on show at drivers signings
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Every time this old Ford Truck with about a million horsepower came out doing skids sideways at 150 kph I just could not stop laughing
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Drivers signing on Brach Road Thursday
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Porsche GT3 race turmoil
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Motor Cross bikes putting on a show. Think its called a SUPERMAN
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The road trucks pulling out after the Races
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