wanneroo upgrades

[Hoddo]

hmmm... "soon to be demolished pitlane" eh?
AFAIK the old pits will remain, as the info I have received tells me the new facilities are off limits to all but the V8 mob. Hope to be proven wrong.

Might be wrong but I think they're saying they'll demollish the old pitlane, not old pit area. I would imagine they would still need the facility for support classes on race day.
Including us low life two wheel mob.

[GreenMeanie]

Lugshury!
when I was your age, we had to pit in a shoebox in middle o' road!

Ha! Your family was wealthy man. Wealthy! When I was your age we pitted in a matchbox. Aye! All fourteen of us.

[tim the pool man]

Might be wrong but I think they're saying they'll demollish the old pitlane, not old pit area. I would imagine they would still need the facility for support classes on race day.
Including us low life two wheel mob.

Actually that would make sense, and I must admit my links to the WASCC have become tenuous since I stopped spending my whole life up there.

Although, no, it still doesn't, if all local racing is coming from the existing paddock area, I can't see them crossing the track to use the new pit lane?

[tim the pool man]

Ha! Your family was wealthy man. Wealthy! When I was your age we pitted in a matchbox. Aye! All fourteen of us.

When I was racing the pit lane was very narrow, and the area between the pitlane and the wall was sand, I have video of me diving over the rail on fire from a refueling fire during the "300km" race one year. There were also about a third as many carports as there are now, and we used to get so many entries that most cars were on the grass area in the paddock.

[Rat750]

Officials confident Barbagallo Raceway will be ready for V8 Supercars | Perth Now

[Jacko]

“The pit lane area, the bridge over the track, the administration and media area… we are very confident it will be ready in time.”

Would mean we could use the new pits without having to cross over the track

[Rhino]

You know it's a pedestrian bridge right?

[Jacko]

sadly not

[pottz]

screw that ready for the v8 supercars crap, thats not till May 4-6th, I hope its ready for Apr 1st track day!

[Monty]

You know it's a pedestrian bridge right?

many a footbridge over the freeway have been used by bikes this one could too

[Rhino]

uh huh

[Catch #22]

From the MCRC website - "Barbagallo Track update:As of 8.2.12
Track development is well and truly underway. The tyre wall down and around the Basin area has now been moved back a considerable distance giving substantial more run off (thanks to SG Excavating). Safety barriers behind the new pits (infield) have been completed and they are currently pouring pit wall. Turns 5 (Skyline) and 7 (bottom of hill) have had earth works completed and safety walls will be put in within the next 4 weeks. New infield garages have form work erected and the new media centre panels have been poured and should be in a vertical position next week."

[tim the pool man]

A comment on the MCRC quote above, and I think I may have said it before... all of the corners at Barbagallo Raceway have names, most of which are of sponsors who contribute to the running costs of the circuit: Why does the motorcycle community refuse to use these names (and substitute with meaningless names like "Skyline" and "Basin")?

[Uni]

A comment on the MCRC quote above, and I think I may have said it before... all of the corners at Barbagallo Raceway have names, most of which are of sponsors who contribute to the running costs of the circuit: Why does the motorcycle community refuse to use these names (and substitute with meaningless names like "Skyline" and "Basin")?

Meaninless to me might be 'Westrack corner' - Coming over Skyline on a thousand wide open is something to remember though.

[96]

A comment on the MCRC quote above, and I think I may have said it before... all of the corners at Barbagallo Raceway have names, most of which are of sponsors who contribute to the running costs of the circuit: Why does the motorcycle community refuse to use these names (and substitute with meaningless names like "Skyline" and "Basin")?

i personally know of people in the car comunity using 'no name' in place of 'skyline'... seriously, a corner called 'no name'



how many international tracks have corners such as "ford fast brake' or is that 'man up corner' now? i didnt know the corner changed.

eau rouge...
curva parabolica...

[Creme]

I don't know about meaningless? Skyline seems meaningful and easily recognised to me?

Guessing MCRC not obligued to use the naming issued by WASCC(etc) .. maybe they like the colloquial names

[Catch #22]

Off topic! (Nomenclature of turn 1 through 7 is just fine with me)

[BenG]

Most of the turns change names as sponsors come and go... Turn 6 has been Kolb Corner for as long as I've been around there though....

I mostly stick to turns 1-7 though...

BTW, which corner is "Skyline" supposed to be?

[Old frt]

From hazy memory, Oulton Park in the UK had a turn called Knicker Brook. The name came from a demolition expert who was commissioned to remove a tree stump using explosives.
Shortly after the explosion a courting couple were seen running up the hill.
A pair of knickers were found close to the scene hence the name.
I could have the wrong track, it was a long time ago.
Citation needed.

[96]

BTW, which corner is "Skyline" supposed to be?

well its the one you first see cranked hard left, and there is a kurb on the right, and nothing but sky.... (turn 5)

for me:
turn 1
the esses
the left hander
skyline
the basin
turn 7