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Bottom post of the previous page:

Everso Biggyballies wrote: 4 years ago ....but no explanation over the purpose or duration of the two qualifying races.
Presumably qualifying will set the starting grid for the qualifying race on Saturday....
Maybe Sundays qualy race starts on the finishing order of Saturdays qualy race and finalises the Main Race grid???? :dunno:
No it's more complicated then that. I can't even be bothered trying to explain it, it's some stupid format that is intended to artificially make the racing more interesting.
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It's raining very hard at the track right now for the Super3 race.
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And now it's totally cleared up for the TCR race, classic Melbourne.
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Tim Macrow won the first qualifying race from John Martin.

It was great, they sound brutal and it seems like you can follow other cars and pass them fairly easily as well. The field did get pretty spread out but that's to be expected given most of the drivers haven't had race experience in anything like them.
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Rubens and Mawer had a bit of a get together after the start which delayed them both. Seems like it was a normal lap 1 type incident with a bit of a nudge.
Reflecting on the incident the former Formula 1 star felt his rival missed his braking mark, while admitting he was lucky not to spin his Team BRM entry.

“It’s been quite a thing for everyone as everyone had to learn how to start,” said Barrichello post-race.

“I had a good jump but stayed back a bit and went into the first corner and I knew the cars were close by.

“I tried to give a little bit of space and I think he missed the braking point and he hit my rear wheel. I was lucky not to spin and kept on the grass.

“After that the steering wheel was a little bit to the left so I think it was a bit bent, but I still had a good experience trying to fight the other guys.

“I was a little down on acceleration so we are looking into that but I was getting closer and closer to the fastest lap, my car is not the fastest but it is getting there.

“I’m pretty sure that, because my steering wheel was a little bit to the left, it might have something to do with my straight-line speed. I hope it gets fixed, the team is working on that.”

Meanwhile, experienced Australian single-seater racer, Mawer, felt he had left enough room for the former Ferrari F1 great going into Turn 1.

“I got a good start, so I wanted to make use of that,” said Mawer.

“I was inside Rubens, he must have known I was there. It got tight at the apex and we touched.

“Obviously it was the last thing I wanted. I haven’t actually spoken to Rubens, he’s probably not too happy about it. But there’s going to be plenty more wild moments like that in S5000.

“Look, I’ll have a talk to him. It takes two to tango, I didn’t have any more room on the inside. I couldn’t do much. There might have been a bit more room on the outside.”

The pair will return to action on Sunday morning for the second Qualifying Race, with Barrichello set to start eighth behind Mawer in sixth.
It was quite close up front from what I can tell. (Still in Spain so no live TV) and the two leaders were never that far apart. Only one DNF and that was a mechanical issue.

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Results: S5000 Qualifying Race, Sandown

Pos Num Driver Team Car Laps Time
1 23 Tim Macrow MTEC Motorsport S5000 16 17:41.4160
2 24 John Martin AGI Sport S5000 16 17:41.8671
3 31 James Golding Garry Rogers Motorsport S5000 16 17:46.5619
4 83 Matthew Brabham MTEC Motorsport S5000 16 17:48.2286
5 38 Will Brown Eggleston Motorsport S5000 16 17:52.4817
6 8 Alex Davison Team BRM S5000 16 17:53.9244
7 111 Rubens Barrichello Team BRM S5000 16 17:56.5360
8 34 Ricky Capo Modena Engineering S5000 16 18:05.3495
9 27 Barton Mawer Milldun Motorsport S5000 16 18:13.9251
10 33 Tim Berryman Team BRM S5000 16 18:17.1131
11 97 Taylor Cockerton MTEC Motorsport S5000 16 18:27.7924
12 11 Michael Gibson AMC Finance S5000 16 18:39.4766
DNF 22 Tom Alexander AGI Sport S5000 2 2:32.9546

So we have another qualifying race tomorrow followed by a 30 minute main race.

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@Everso Biggyballies - this link worked for me https://motorsport.tv/motorsporttv/vide ... at-1/27601

As for the first corner incident between Mawer and Barrichello, I disagree with Mawer’s point. Looks like he has a little understeer or he just goes into turn one too deep, Rubens doesn’t just turn in on him.
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kals wrote: 4 years ago @Everso Biggyballies - this link worked for me https://motorsport.tv/motorsporttv/vide ... at-1/27601

As for the first corner incident between Mawer and Barrichello, I disagree with Mawer’s point. Looks like he has a little understeer or he just goes into turn one too deep, Rubens doesn’t just turn in on him.
Thanks for the link....works for me too. :thumbsup:

Agreed on the incident. As Rubens identified, Mawer was too hot into the turn / missed his braking point and ran into the rear wheel of RB.

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Live stream for the Sandown meeting. (includes TCR, S5000 Qualifying race 2 and main race)

http://www.thenationals.com.au/live/


10:05–10:25: S5000 Series – Qualifying Race 2 (5 mins from post time)
10:35–11:35: Endurance Championship – Leg 2
12:15–12:45: TCR Australia – Race 2
1:20–1:50: TCR Australia – Race 3
2:15–2:45: S5000 Series – Feature Race
3:05–3:35: Super3 Series – Race 3
3:40–4:40: Production Car Series – Race 4
4:50–5:50: Endurance Championship – Leg 3

All times listed in AEST It is now 10am in Melbourne.

It works in Europe cos im watching in Spain

Weather there is dry atm.

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Whoops. Brabham was leading the second qualifying race till he locked up and slid into the armco.
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Golding wins the second qualifier from Macrow and Martin.
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Pretty good racing I thought. Sound good.

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Main race is on right now.

Macrow was leading but he locked up and spun into the gravel on a restart. Golding now leads from Rubens.
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Big crash for Davison on the backstraight. He's OK but the car and the armco he hit are wrecked. Unfortunately he got the armco right where it's at a bad angle to the track.
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Golding wins from Barichello under a SC finish, which is a shame. Was a good start otherwise though.
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Think the cars need stronger wheel tethers or something, Mawer's car lost a wheel when it crashed at PI as well.
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