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• FCTTN EPISODE 38: This week on Full Credit to the Noise, the 2027 Supercar Silly Season kicks off at Premiere, the FIA destroys a Gold Coast tourist attraction, and we tell you how to win five grand cash. Welcome to Full Credit to the Noise. Well hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and welcome to full credit to the noise. You can find this podcast on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook at FCDTN Podcast. You can find me on Instagram, Twitter, Blue Sky, and Facebook at Former Underscore Legend. You can find the book who crossed me on Twitter at AVL underscore motorsport. He's on Instagram at AVL dot motorsport. He's a man who this week was named as Carl Stefanovic's next podcast guest. He has become the first Aussie to order a Tesla Roadster, and tonight he's wearing a retro Marlborough McLaren t shirt. Welcome to Speed Cafes. Andrew Van Lewen. Hello, former. I've barely got time to appear on my own podcast with the way these race meetings keep rolling around, so I'm not sure if I've got any any time for c for Carl. You're the Mia Friedman of Motorsport Podcasts. Yeah. There's a a bit going on, but I'm not complaining because this kind of rolling series of supercars race meetings beats heck out of The five week breaks that we had earlier in the season and all that sort of stuff. So Imagine if this was the norm, maybe or imagine if this was the norm. Yeah, it'd be kind of nice, I think. maybe the odd two week break between between meetings might be appreciated at some point. But it all just happens pretty thick and fast. By the time this episode's live, I will already be on a plane heading to the Gold Coast. So yeah, it is a good thing really. What do you think of a Tesla Roadster that's got that can do jumps? Well, let's come to that later. Let's go we'll get onto that later. Alright, let's go to the shift cut 'cause there's a bit rolling around. Yeah, and as revealed in the FC T T N Discord AVL about a week ago, the spectacular scenes of supercar four wheel jumping in the on the iconic beach of canes at the Gold Coast five hundred are no more. concerns over the safety of the extreme curb hopping were raised last year, leading to a review involving supercars and motorsport Australia. Supercars has now confirmed it will revert to a mixture of tyre bundles and electronic curb hop sensors in the chicane rather than simply relying on large ramp style inner curbs. Bundles will be replaced just over two meters from the lip of the curb, significantly further from the track edge than tyre bundles in previous years, read a note from Supercars. Supercar's Motorsport boss Tim Edwards said the final solution will still result in spectacular curb riding. He said we've worked closely with Motorsport Australia on a solution and believe we've struck a fair balance in Where there is a minimal compromise of entertainment for fans watching at track and on TV, the bundles will be replaced a full car width from the edge of the curb, meaning drivers will still be able to take plenty of curb, which will look spectacular as always. geez, it's like Boo and Santa Claus, isn't it? I don't really know what to say about this. Until you actually see it, you don't know how it's gonna kind of look. Like there's been eras of tire bundles where, particularly with the older generation cars, they used to climb over the top of them, and that was absolutely spectacular as well. Obviously these tire bundles aren't right on the track, so it's just so difficult to visualize how it's going to look until we actually see cars on track. So I I mean fundamentally I find it a I don't really know how what I find it, but it did create worldwide visibility for supercars last year. And it wasn't like a whole bunch of cars were written off. unless I'm forgetting something. I mean I think Will Brown hit the wall in qualifying at one point at that part of the track, getting loose through there, but it's not like it was nonstop carnage through there. So I don't necessarily fully understand this. I do get a bit frustrated by the constant hamster wheel of what you know, whether we're using sensors, curb strikes, tyre bundles, whatever. but let's wait and see how it actually plays out. Because like I say, it's very difficult to really understand that until cars are on track. And that happens we see that play out at the Gold Coast all the time where they come up with a new theory of how they should tackle that beach chicane. And sometimes it works, sometimes there's unintended consequences, sometimes they have to move the tie bundles back because Carrera Cup cars tear the radiators out of the front of the things. And it does seem to be a case of it's there's always an element of it constantly evolving based on what actually happens. When cars get on track. That's that's what will determine whether this is a good or a bad idea. Yeah, I mean, the thing is is that we all looked at last year and thought, my god, this is the greatest thing ever. I think Brock Feeney put up something on a on a reel that went absolutely bananas worldwide. so yeah, as you said, it was great for the sport. The sensible side of me, which is about a five percent share of of me AVL probably thinks Yeah, maybe there was gonna be a plane crash at some stage, with the way they were launching, but I don't know. It's it's just seems to be a bit of a shame to me. And I my understanding is that the FIA were the ones that sort of r raised it and said you've got to have a look at this. You do have deeper ties in Paris than I thought you did, to be perfectly honest. It's very surprising. my favourite joke's about a French French rifle, but we'll tell that another time. As we alluded to also on Full Credit of the Noise last week or the week before, just before Bathurst, Declan Fraser has been bumped from the Premier team in favour of Erebus's Cooper Murray, no relation to Paul that I understand, while Jared Hughes has been pulled off the reserves bench, the lucky duck, to fill the Murray void at Erebus. We sort of got wind of this and we didn't want to throw names at it until it became public and and everything else, but this has been on the boil for a while. From my understanding. Yeah, it definitely there was a lot of talk before Bathurst, so it's not necessarily the direct outcome of anything that happened during the Bathurne weekend. I think it was fairly maybe not necessarily set in stone, but the wheels were in motion by the time we got to Bathurst. I think it was around the Saturday of Bathurst that that Declan was told that he wouldn't be continuing with the team. Yeah, so and by the Tuesday morning was it? Yes, it was Tuesday morning. It was time for us to go with the story because we knew by then that it was going to be made official on the Tuesday afternoon. So that's what we did because that's what we do. It's it's big news. Stefan and I took a reasonably deep dive on the whole thing and the news. Yeah, last Friday. So for anyone that wants to listen to that, go back and have a listen. But just to run through the highlights, you know, I mean, yes, you have to feel for for Decca, obviously. At the same time you can see the merit of both Premier and Erebus wanting to make an early head start on next year effectively. If you remember Premier did a v a similar thing last year by subbing out Richie Stanaway for Jaden Ojada before the the season was over. Murray versus Ojada will be one of the really interesting storylines next season, once Murray has settled in at Premier. I don't think we, you know, c can necessarily heap too much expectation on him for the last three rounds of this year. And on the Erebus side, Hussey has done his time and he deserves this shot. Like the Gold Coast is a brutal place to make your solo main game debut though. So I hope Erebus has its expectations in check for this weekend and probably Adelaide as well. I think Sandown's a bit a bit easier for a new driver coming in, but for those street circuits, hopefully there's some expectations in check and it's seen as a great way to bet him into the team ahead of what we do expect to be a full time seat in twenty twenty seven. Let me ask you something, and I think you guys did cover off on this a little bit on the on the pod on Friday. What is Erebus now? What what are they? Are they a team that hunts for wins and championships, or are they a nursery for young drivers? And then if they are a nursery for young drivers, what is the value to them of being that? I do think that they're the way they operate is to kind of be both. They sort of see their role in the sport, almost like a footy team in terms of there's a cyc cyclical nature to it. So if you look at the fact that they've been through all these rebuild periods and the the first major rebuild was obviously coming out of the Mercedes era, bringing David Reynolds into that team, becoming Bathis winners and regular contenders, then having another full reset, bringing Brody Kastecki and Will Brown into that team, becoming Bathis winners and supercars champions. And then sort of looking for what the next reset is. And there was obviously hope that having Cooper and Job Stewart there was the next reset. It maybe hasn't necessarily played out exactly as they would have hoped this year. So the next move is to bring Jared Hughes into the team and and Cooper moves on to what he sees as a new challenge in the next step of his career. All of this has been heavily orchestrated. Clearly by general motors behind the scenes. So I think I think Erebus will always be that kind of ambitious team that is looking to develop talent internally and try and take them to the top rather than sitting there in the market trying to poach top talent. So but at the same time, I mean the reality is there is uncertainty around the future of that team. Yeah. You know, like exactly what is going to happen. I'm not talking super short term because they're making the sort of forward thinking moves about next season and so on. But there's been talk about what the future of that team is and I don't know exactly what it is right now. It's you know, Betty doesn't need to sell the team. She's not in a financial position where she has to do that. But if she does we're all in trouble. It's yeah yeah exactly. So but it is that is another interesting question that doesn't necessarily have an answer right now. So that's kind of how I see Erebus and I think that's the way Barry Ryan loves to operate with that team is that I think his greatest satisfaction comes from taking talent out of Super Two or the second ranks or the co driver lineup and trying to turn him into the best race car drivers they can be. And he's had some success with that as well. If we think about where Brody, particularly Brody and Will are right now. Yeah. the Blanchard racing team have confirmed a multi year contract extension for Aaron Cameron. Cameron has been part of the BRT lineup since 2025 when he took over from Aaron Love following the Sydney season opener and sits 20th in the championship right now. Cameron has shown flashes of speed with regular top ten performances and a breakthrough podium at Sydney Motorsport Park this year. He said, I'm really happy to have locked in the next few years with BRT. I love being part of this team. The guys and the girls work so hard, and you can see where it's heading. Having the same people around me means a lot, so a big thanks to Tim, JB, and everyone at BRT for backing me. If nothing else, The personality of Aaron Cameron is much needed in pit lane in supercars, so I say that's a great outcome. He brings a lot of swagger to the whole show. There's no doubt about that. He is a whole lot of fun camo. I really like him for that. I think we've seen more than enough natural outright speed from him to know the potential is there. The next step is putting the teachable things like tire management and more polished racecraft in place. And I think giving him some security and ensuring that he doesn't feel like he's racing for his career ever. every time he hops in the car could and should really help with that. So I can really see what John and Tim and the whole Blanchard outfit are thinking with giving him that bit of security. I think it's a really smart move. Yeah. F1 and Haas has signed Ferrari backed Formula 2 star Rafael Kamira to rip the Holden to replace Esteban Ock on in twenty twenty seven. Extinguishing Australia Jack Dood's hopes of returning to the grid next year. He'll race alongside incumbent Oliver Behrman, though the Englishman who is also online from Ferrari has yet to be announced. but that's a fate of complete. Ozzie Jack Dewan has been a harsh reserve driver this season, emerged late as a leading candidate, having impressed in private testing last month. But the Brazilian one for having much quicker been much quicker in his test and the more complete package and a good check to come along with him. the decision ends at Dewan's Formula One hopes you'd imagine, with the Australian facing a fourth season off the grid since Finishing third in the twenty twenty three Formula two championship. I don't know much about this guy, Kamara, except for the fact that everywhere he's raced, Kimi Antonelli has owned him when they've been in the same he has literally owned him. But I wonder now where to for Jack, because he's too good to be just going straight to sports cars. I'd love to someone suggested in our Discord about going to IndyCar. That would be a a phenomenal thing to see. But I don't even think there's many seats available for next year. I have absolutely no read on what Jack's thinking for the future or anything like that. Unfortunately, I'm not sure he was really seriously in the frame here, to be to be brutally honest about it. One of the things I do like about this signing is that, you know, we need to see the ladder system working and we need to see Formula Two producing Formula One drives. And we have seen that. Like we are seeing that recently, and I'm not sure the way things are playing out that getting owned by Kimmy Antonelli is necessarily a sign that you've doomed because I mean like it's going okay, the kid pretty highly rated drivers are getting owned by at the moment. So I don't think that's necessarily a massive a massive issue. So like I think if you objectively sit down and look at the list of candidates, this one does make sense. Like it does make sense that this is the guy you go for. He's got an interesting benchmark in Oli Behrman to go up against at that Haas team. They're both part of the Ferrari development program. That kind of creates I feel like that could be a fight, mate, where only one person survives. Well, I I was literally about to say it kinda has the Racing Bulls feel about it. You know, where it that team really du its place really is for for Ferrari to get a good read on on where its next factory Formula One driver is coming from. Well sorry, it knows where it's coming from, who it actually is. And yeah, Lewis Hamilton is in his forties and not going to keep doing this forever. So it is a pretty realistic goal for any young driver that's involved in the Ferrari Academy to be chasing. So it could be a fairly interesting sort of matchup there, to be honest. during the week there was an unveiling of the new African Grand Prix circuit after it was confirmed the sport we were returning to the continent for the first time since nineteen ninety three. The track will be located 40 kilometers south of Kigali in Rwanda, with F1 revealing it's set to join the calendar in the early 2030s on a 10-year deal. Designer Alexander Wirtz described it as a roller coaster, a reference to the 197 meters of elevation, which is never a bad thing on a racetrack, double that of the already up and down spa circuit. Rwanda is set to become the third African country to host an F1 race after Morocco and South Africa. Amnesty International have accused Rwanda, much like Malinaskis and Adelaide, of attempting to approve its international image through major sports sporting partnerships. The organization highlighted allegations of arbitrary detention, torture, and restrictions on freedom of expression, much like Adelaide, while expressing F one's decision to commit to the country. A ten year Grand Prix presented by Visit Rwanda is a sports washing prize for the Rwandan authorities. An F one spokesperson defended the agreement d maintaining that the championship could positively influence communities while reaching an estimated hundred million supporters across Africa. Your favourite Wand Rwanda attraction AVR, what do you got? I don't I don't have one of those, but come on. The sports washing horse as well and truly bolted in terms of Formula One. Like this is Yeah like yeah, I I get it. This is Teflon. It absolutely shouldn't be completely ignored, but That horse could win the Melbourne Cup at this point, like it's so far down the road. So I I and and we see plenty of it in other big international sports too. Let's really be honest about this. And, you know, Rwanda is already spending a lot in European football, for example. So it doesn't make it a good thing. But I do think there is genuine merit in taking a world championship to the African continent. It is a world championship. So if this is a way that does get that done, then Yeah, I I I mean, it then it's a way to get that done. And you've already said you're gonna be the first man on the ground there to see the I love Africa. I Africa is a an amazing place. I've I've made a couple of trips to Africa and I enjoy it greatly. So I would happily go to a Rwandan Grand Prix. But I yeah, anyway, like I say, it's a complicated issue. probably too complicated for either of us to be smart enough to properly understand, but it is not an isolated issue in Formula One or in world sports at all. So you know. That much is true, yeah. Yeah. Formula One superstar Max Verstappen was only able to put his Mercedes fifteenth on the grid for the GT World Challenge Europe in Portomille during the weekend. The four time world champ made his debut in the category joining Ben Barnecote and Chris Lalum. Max took over the steering wheel for the final forty five minutes stint of the three hour endurance. Is ri is a three hour endurance really an endurance? under lights. He unleashed a spectacular recovery drive, carving his way through the heavy sixty one car grid. He consistently cocked lap times faster than the race leaders, setting the team's best lap of one minute forty four in thick traffic to rescue a ninth place. There's a really good clip on YouTube of him just banging through the field in his stint. It's quite good to watch. Un it's in the dark. Jeez, I he becomes the Bathis, Aviel. Geez, I he becomes the Bathis. Would be good. Interesting story from our colleague Stefan Bartholomew, who has been in rare form recently, I should be said, where he compared average lap times between A and B drivers at Bathurst. Will Davison was fastest of all the non full timers, averaging a two hundred eighty four and eleventh amongst all drivers. Todd Hazelwood, Aaron Seaton and Lee Holdsworth, who are all at the top of the heap, and their results probably show the job that they did. Nash Morris was another to shine. His average was point one six three seconds quicker than his primary driver, Declan Fraser, who's lost his seat post Bathist. Elsewhere among co-drivers, Lockie Dalton and Harry Jones backed up strong performances in tricking conditions at the bend with impressive Bathist stints. Makes me wonder, ABL, are there any lessons we can learn about selecting co drivers moving forward after this year's event? I think both in Juros this year highlighted the importance of having a competitive co driver in your lineup for very different reasons. Because at the bend it was all about the co drivers needing to excel in incredibly difficult weather conditions. And at Bathus, the long stint of green flag running made speed and consistency from co-drivers super important. Yeah. If the TRC negotiations do go the way we all know they really need to go, and we end up with 14 rounds next year, we could have three in Juros, which puts an even bigger premium on having the right co driver. What I do always find weird when this analysis comes out, which it does from the B pillar every year, which is a and like it's it's quite a quite impressive bit of work that the B pillar does. There isn't some magic formula for a co driver because you have someone like Lee Holdsworth who spends all year negotiating commercial real estate deals, walking around the Melbourne C B D wearing a suit and tie, and then jumps in a supercar twice a year and gets the job done beautifully. Plus he's in his early forties now. Then you've got your Lockie Daltons and Nash Morris types that put competitive Super Two experience to fantastic use. And then someone like Aaron Seaton, who came in armed with two solo wildcar brands under his belt and surprised everyone the moment he had a really quick car under him. So there's just all these different approaches. So there's no magic formula. Let me ask you this. You're the boss of a team. You've got two competitive slash semi competitive cars. What are you looking for in a co driver for next year? Do you want someone that's racing In another series? Do you want someone that's racing super two? Do you want someone that's raced before but hasn't raced this year? W what do you think? I know it's a very subjective and it can come down to the person, but I I think outside of Lee, who seems to be an outlier and God love him for that, I think you need someone who's got the rust well and truly scraped off them by the time they get to Bathurst. I certainly don't think that hurts and that's something you would want to take into some consideration and maybe this year we saw some drivers that aren't racing as regularly not be as consistent or quick as we would expect them to to be based on on historical data. But again, like I just said, I think it is a it is a lot about the individual. And I guess the risk with a Holdsworth type, and I actually had this conversation with Lee at the Queensland Raceway. Enduro test where he did admit that like every time he hops in the car when he hasn't driven all year, there is a moment where he goes, boy, I hope this is gonna go alright. And then he was within like half a tenth of Anton on his third lap, and everyone including him had a collective sigh of relief and went, I think we'll be alright here. So it's it's like I say, it's a tricky thing. Like it's it's funny that there's all these different kind of meandering paths that can lead to a really successful co driver. And I just think that this year, if nothing else, it just it was a lesson in not underestimating people that would be easy to underestimate and trying to better understand what they're actually bringing to the table. Aaron Sedan's a perfect example of that. Like it's easy to say, well, is he really up to this? But ignore the fact that he's done two race or sorry, he's done a whole bunch of race starts through two solo wildcard rounds, built up all this experience in the current spec car. And put it all to just incredible use. Like incredible use. So in answer to your question, I don't know. I would literally have to sit down and and and factor in all of these things. But I think it's a case of I don't think you can get too mired down in well, I want my co driver to have this or that. I think you've just gotta be really rounded about how you go about it. I think you're right, mate, because when you look at the d the drives we just talked about, each one of them It's basically had a different year to the next. Yeah. You know, you've you've got Nash in Super Two, you've got Toddy in in Transams, you know, like you've got Jones in Porsche. So yeah, there is no sort of holus bolus rule, it's just an an interesting thing and Yeah, well, and you twelve months to figure it out again. So In NASCAR, Shane Van Gisbergen qualified twenty-fifth for the It's All Zelensky's Fault four hundred at Phoenix. SVG finished twenty-sixth in a pretty ordinary day in a race won by Tyler Reddick. And before we go to a break AVL, I want two stories I want to cover off on. A few weeks ago, this is not on your rundown by the way, a few weeks ago we spoke about a young man in Aussie racing cars, seventeen year old Matthew Basso, who won a couple of races in the bend. Well, he got in contact with me to share with us that he's been awarded the this year's Wolfbrook. Motorsport Foundation Scholarship to compete in the upcoming GR eighty six championship in New Zealand. he's going to receive free Toyota eighty six lease and fifty grand towards his campaign, which will be facilitated by James Marshall Motorsport. Matt's campaign will begin in November in Talpo, then before going to Hampton Downs in January, and then Taratonga and a c a couple of others and it'll finish in February. So good luck, young man. And as I said to him in email today, Keep us abreast of where where you're up to and how you're going, and we'll certainly let all our listeners know because there has been a bit of a reaction to us having a l a follow on this young kid. So go, Matt, and go well, son. And finally, AVL. A Ford Mustang road car wrapped in the colours of Supercar's team Red Bull Ampile Racing has been photographed parked in a ditch off the Gold Coast M1 motorway. it's understood the car does belong to Red Bull Racing and was crashed by Scott's Pie trying to do a burnout again. When told about the incident, Brock Feeney's dad threw his hat on the ground. Apparently Brody Kastecki was behind the car at the time flashing his high beams, which caused the crash. And the teen is said to be looking at the brakes as the sale rep complained about a soft brake pedal all weekend. So have I missed anything? I did I did actually see quite a entertaining v video about this posted on social media by a Go on. Another another podcast, another prominent podcast presence in the Australian motorsport space and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it a lot, and I went back to look at it again about an hour later and it was gone. So I don't really know what happened there. We'll have to contact our friends at Auto Action and find out. All right, let's go to a break and we'll come back and preview this weekend's Boost Mobile Gold Coast five hundred. Winter could spell bad news for your vehicle's battery. Here are three maintenance tips from the battery gurus at RNJ Batteries. 1. Avoid frequent short trips to keep your battery at a healthy state of charge. 2. Keep the battery terminals clean and corrosion free. 3. Avoid running your accessories with the engine off for too long. If your battery is three years or older, it might be time to get it tested for free. At your local R and J Batteries. R and J Batteries Power Like Nothing Else. Yeah, welcome back now. This weekend, I feel not gonna lie, did sneak up on me, but it's the Boost Mobile Gold Coast five hundred, from the Gold Coast obviously. Weather is going to be the topic of conversation because Friday they're expecting a top of twenty-four and up to thirty mils of rain. Saturday Twenty six and fifteen mils and then Sunday twenty seven and up to ten mils. For a round we around where you have to walk a lot to get anywhere. Warm temperatures and pouring rain, what a combo. I can't wait for that. I was almost a late call up to this round. I'm glad I when I seen this I was like, nah, maybe that's not so bad. Maybe T V might be the go anyway. Well, that's ruined one of my later jokes. But anyway. The track schedule, supercars hit the track for practice at twelve forty five on Friday. don't forget that if you are coming from other state, is is it is in Queensland, so you'd have to wind your clock back to 1979. Second practice is around three, then qualifying at 5 p.m. Saturday there's a top ten shootout at 1.30. Then there's an 85 lap race at 4 o'clock or thereabouts. Sunday, 12 o'clock qualifying straight away followed by top ten shootout, and then 85 laps at quarter two four. The supports of the Porsches, the Super Utes and the Aussie race cars. I think something that maybe some teams might want to remember this weekend is you can't win the title at Gold Coast AVL, but you certainly can lose it. Just ask poor old Brody from last year. So going into the round, Chaz, Ryan Wood and Jack LeBrock all arrive at the Gold Coast, needing to lift themselves out of the eliminate elimination zone to keep themselves alive for the final series, so that will be interesting. Let's start with your predicted podium for the weekend. Well, I do think that what works for the Camaros at Bathurst is potentially gonna be a bit of a disadvantage this weekend. So I've got all eyes on the Ford Mustang Cruise and I'm thinking Payne, Feeney, Allen is my top three. I'm gonna go Payne, Brody, Chaz. Shoot out polls for both, please. Payne? Yeah. For both? Yeah. Yeah, I'll go Brody and Payne to get one each. Your best Ruffy, I've got a good Ruffy here. Well, I'm thinking camo. Yeah. If the Mustangs are gonna go all right and he might have you know, that bit of swagger that we talked about, he might it might be a little bit more aggressive given the fact he's signed a new deal, so I'm gonna put camo in the mix. I'm going DJ Jazzy Jimmy Golding next door. Yep. I think bit of pace in those cars. So yeah. How many safety co or G's? bit of rain. How many safety cars over the weekend. Good luck. Yeah, I'll I've got five, but it could be anywhere from one five a day. Five hundred, so we'll see. Yeah. Especially after Bath Setplug needs to be starting earning his paycheck. What's your unlikely headline from the weekend? former legend defies defies odds by making zero appearances at Southport Magistrates Court in Gold Coast five hundred aftermath. Well you're safe because I'm not coming. Well that's what yeah no. But it it says a lot about the Gold Coast that everyone knows what the What the court is called there. Like it's like everyone in the whole country knows it's Southport Magistrates Court. I think I know what the outside of it looks like T V. I'm pretty sure it's sandstone front. Modern sandstone. my unlikely headline is no tow trucks required for the entire weekend. if this is the answer, what's the question? The answer is Mark Larkam. What's your question? I was I was tempted to make some sort of joke about strategy consultanty certain team, but I'm not sure we've quite hit joking about it stage yet, so I'm gonna sit this one out. Who will use the term schoolies for adults first on the broadcast this weekend? is that one does he roll that out? No, it's it's scapes, but I'm pretty sure Larka's to step up. If this is the answer, what's the question? The answer is twelve nineteen PM on Sunday afternoon. Well, I've got no idea where you're going with this one. So what time will AVL leave Showgirls to head to the track? if you are going Have a have a ball, stay dry. If you're going in your GA, best of luck, that's all I can say. I knew I knew I knew that was gonna be a bad one. I knew it. All right, let's go to a break. We'll come back and we'll talk about how you can win five grand on us. Full credit to the noise. All right, let's start. Rear of grid. Now, before we do anything, AVL, it was remiss of me last week, but I do want to say thank you very much to Ford Performance for the use of the Raptor. For the Bathist week. Yep. It was fantastic. You couldn't miss it for the life of you. If you see it parked anywhere, it was as bright as it could possibly be. Well, you could miss it if it was if it was parked behind our F one fifty that Ford also very generously gave us because that thing is an absolute weapon. I love it. And a monster. that's the thing. I was getting out of that raptor thing, geez, this is a big car, and then I'll got I'll park next to you guys a couple of times and went, holy. Ben Nightingale has promised me a long term and I want to put it on the record that he's done that so he can't get out of it 'cause I want a long term F one fifty. I can probably reveal that Ford we're very lucky to get the Raptor back because I was witness to a pretty decent stack on the way home and I just missed everything. You did tell me that, yep. Yeah. Let's talk about full credit of the noise membership because on Thursday this week we're giving five grand away just because Maybe because you want to spend it at Christmas time or maybe you want to get to Adelaide and we're gonna help you by giving you five grand. Mm-hmm. The catch is well there is no real catch, is you have to be full credit to the Noise member and you must be obviously in the Discord before Thursday. but we already given we've already given one five grand prize away. This will be the second one. Yeah, Johnny Baikoff was there on the ground at the live show to receive his five thousand dollar. Drove up from Melbourne, by the way, just to see the live show, so that was Absolutely amazing. Yeah, I hope he's gone back via Brisbane to put that AU back together. 'Cause he owes me a drive and I'm going I said to him I said to him the moment we knew it was him that was one, I said, mate, you will not hear the end of this. this will somehow you're gonna work walk out of this backwards. Yeah, so if you are if you aren't a member, join. If you are you're already eligible for the prize. You have until Thursday before the Gold Coast starts. I think we're gonna do it around midday. Is that about right? I think that was That was the deal. so yeah, join up to give yourself a chance to win five grand and then come in to the Discord on the weekend and just chat Motorsport because there's gonna be a bit on on the weekend and it is a good place to be if you're not at the track and it'll probably be drier than the track, I'd imagine. So that's that's something. So yeah, join up this Thursday, five grand. Don't miss it. Now I'm gonna do some credit or shredits. AVL, I'm gonna make a statement. You just tell me if you agree or disagree with a credit or a shredded, and then we'll come back after we've done all six. Number one. The FIA should keep their noses out of the business of supercars getting airborne over chicanes. I'll go with credit. That's the fun answer. Credit. Number two, with the addition of Philip Island, Supercars appears to have at least thirteen tracks under contract for twenty twenty six. If the teams vote to reduce the calendar to twelve rounds in twenty twenty seven, Supercars themselves could be out of pocket. Credit. Credit. Number three, special edition F one drivers' helmets are now so common they are actually meaningless. Credit. Credit. Number four, if the supercar's calendar drops to twelve rounds, the only way that can be partly palatable is to compress the season into eight months, not eleven. I hate this one. Credit. Credit. Number five, with Rwanda getting an F one Grand Prix, the time is right for North Korea, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to give Herman Tilk a call. Shredd. Credit. I'd love to see the crowd at the North Korean street race. number six. Tesla released footage of a car that can jump. Elon Musk is the biggest man child on the face of the earth. shredd it. Credit, we'll come back to that. FIA could just sta stay out of our business, don't you think? Yeah, I I I sort of hesitate on this because I haven't really had a chance to have proper conversations with people about how and why this happened. But as I said, the fun answer is to be upset about it, so let's just go with that. Well, Scafy said they'll jump in the length of an Olympic pool, which is astonishing when we actually overlaid an Olympic pool over that beach chicane last year. They were hitting the first one and landed on the back end of the last one. so yeah, go away. We is Phillip Island now getting the go green light. It seems like we've got thirteen tracks for possibly twelve rounds. That could get very messy for supercars. Yeah, well, as far as we understand, the broadcast agreement is actually now built around fourteen rounds. So there's two factors to this because if there's not fourteen rounds, supercars will have to pay some money back to the primary broadcaster, which is DZone slash Fox Sports slash KO or whatever the current branding is. I don't mind if they do that as long as they put it into their KO app because that is absolutely dog poo at the moment. I'm just gonna tell you. Yeah, that's a bit of a topic in the Discord fairly regularly I have noticed. But But then beyond that, you're right, QR and Sandown seem to be the only two rounds that can be easily dumped from the current schedule. So by the time you add Phillip Island in the mix, there's thirteen. So because if you really run through it, it's very difficult to see what else can kind of you know, like this the Sydney openers tied into the new destination New South Wales deal. You can't not be at the Grand Prix. It's a deal in place with Tasmania. Do you really want to piss off The West Australian government, when you're really pushing them to invest all this money and promote this street race, let alone the WA fan base. You've got Darwin that's locked in as a night race now, big deal made about that. You've got Townsville, which is an important part of the Queensland agreement. You can't dump Gold Coast. The Shahins wouldn't be too happy if you didn't show up at the bend. They've tipped a fair bit of money into getting that whole thing done. Bathus has to exist. Then you need a final system series. Tasmania's locked in too, I think. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So it's remarkably complicated and unpicking this back to twelve rounds is not only externally a massive disaster in terms of the optics for the sport, but it's a complete internal mess. So I guess the one option and and I I do very much feel like we're going to learn a lot more about this in the next few days. So I won't go on about it forever, but I I guess there is an option where we end up back with another band aid yeah of thirteen rounds. I was thinking we might end up with two thirteens and that way they give a little bit of cash back to D Zone for those both those years and it's kind of meeting everyone halfway. I got a feeling that's where we might end up. I hope not. I hope we just end up at fourteen. I hope we just get to where we need to go. That's what I'd be at sixteen, not gonna lie, but anyway That's where I still really hope happens. Especially just an F one driver's helmets. I mean I just couldn't give a rat's anymore. The era of iconic helmet design is gone. So who cares? Yep. supercar's calendar drops to twelve. The calendar should be over eight months, not ten or eleven. Yeah, I say I say credit because it's probably right, but I also really hate like a short season. Like IndyCars season annoys me, even though I don't really follow it much. That's that's Simon's job. But like I miss the AFL already. And I think short seasons can work for your really high frequency sports, like the BBL's an a fantastic example of a sporting product that needs to be compact. Because of its complete saturation in terms of daily games, but my preference is for a supercar season with enough rounds that it can support a late February to late November schedule. There's still room for a summer series for someone somewhere, but anyway. Well it's called Speedway. Yeah, I know. It's pretty good. If you've I don't know if you've heard about Sydney Speedway, it's isn't it's problematic at best. Rwanda brings into brings North Korea, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan into the game. I don't know if you've watched Thirty Rock before, but all I could think about was Kim Jong un winning the NBA championship by scoring two hundred points on his own. And it's some excellent TV writing and it made me wonder how many F one titles he might have won as Yeah. He had eight holes in one in one round of golf. He's amazing. Just what a great man. Or as you call him the supreme leader. Tell me about Elon Musk. I Well you don't want a flying car? No. What the f's wrong with you? Have you Mate, have you been onto the five in Sydney? Have you seen the standard of driving? The last thing we need's cars that can jump. No, I got no. You're out of your mind if you think that's a good idea. I'm all about this guy. The Whisper of the Week, well, basically we've covered off on there is a bit of words around what what Erebus is going to be moving forward, so we won't talk about that any longer. Our letter of the week comes from Innes Price on Facebook. He says, Surely Kastek and Hazelwood going to all enduros as number one seeds. For a while, it's three years together and they've won fifty percent of the enduro's they've started and fifty percent of the polls. It's a stunning record for the modern era. He said, I'm a massive fan of finals, I can't wait for the for this year's. It will be epic. But it doesn't really seem right that the bloke that just won Bathis drops down a place in the standings to start the finals. Just seems wrong somehow. Yeah, there's a bit going on here, so I'll break it down sort of point by point, but to the first point, that is a formidable combo. And and the point about the modern era is a very, very important one because so many Bathus records are effectively unbreakable because they were achieved in eras of semi professionalism. So it's double editing. It's not something it's not this is not to take anything away from Peter Brock, but the reality is that he wasn't racing against a full field of professional race car drivers or even a full field of proper racing cars. So And he was handed into two or three cars. Let's not forget. You can say what you like about modern pay drivers, but one of them put his car on pole this year. So that's how good the pay drivers are these days. Like that's the sort of where we're at. so if Brody had broken the consecutive polls record this year and moved ahead of Brock and Alan Moffat, that would have been something truly remarkable in an era of full professionalism. In top level motorsport in Australia. And geezy went pretty close as well, just quietly. So that was a pretty good effort. Even so even though he didn't quite make it. But as for the finals portion of this, firstly I like thanks Inus for being a believer of the finals. I I love that. but to be honest, I don't mind the seeding system that that that we use, and it was obviously tweaked for this year a little bit as well. There was a sense that consistency wasn't rewarded quite enough last year. We've seen NASCAR move away from the win and you're in approach to its postseason. So Realistically, I think it just kinda has to be the way that it is because ultimately a driver could win the Bathurst one thousand and not make not make finals at all. So I think there needs to be some separation between success at Bathurst and its relevance to where you are in the finals. I think that's just how it kind of needs to be to ensure that we don't go too far down the path of of people being able to excel at the very end of the season and walk away with too many big trophies. Yeah. I I think I I see Innes' point, but to be honest with you, I mean in footy, both AFL and rugby league, there's long stories of teams that somehow made the finals that didn't deserve it and vice versa. And then some that made the top four and got two bytes to the cherry that you'd almost Well they lost their last five games. How can this be possible? So it's just the way it is. Correct. And if Brody's gonna win, he's gonna win anyway. So I I've got no doubt about that whatsoever or so and winning Bathurst can only put you in the in a good frame of mind to go to and finish these last few rounds off and see where we end up by Sunday at Adelaide. 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