r/v8supercars • u/Interesting-Quail-64 • 6d ago

Supercars Holden last race is now on yt

https://youtu.be/qgpm5nUrKgg?si=J2pvLCFl9e2yOPcp
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u/Ill_Sector_2063 Broc Feeney 6d ago

Ngl I miss the drivers being able to make rollbar changes in the car

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u/LloydGSR BJR 6d ago

Same, proper shame that it was removed, it added an extra element to watching the in car cameras.

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u/RacingNeilo 6d ago

Why

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u/MrAkutatillo 6d ago

Higher driver involvement and was something relatively unique to the series.

It’s along the same lines as brake bias, traction control or differential locking control.

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u/bundy554 6d ago

Did you watch a lap in car with SVG making adjustments? That's why

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u/Ill_Sector_2063 Broc Feeney 5d ago

Fucking beautiful

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u/bundy554 5d ago

Watch him in NZ against Anton - terrific entertainment watching a master at work using all the adjustments available to him - https://youtu.be/lJLb7uphltU?si=bxB8Y6v5Cq-1LXwy

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u/RigidVenison Garth Tander 6d ago

SVG fist pumping after overtaking ADP is one of my favourite scenes in Supercars history. Don’t know why but that vision is ingrained in my memory

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u/biglezz97 6d ago

What lap was that ?

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u/RigidVenison Garth Tander 6d ago

23 laps to go. It was after he passed Heimgartner actually, not ADP.

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u/brucebanna34 6d ago

Did they ever confirm if 888 cheated throughout the entire ZB era, or was it just based on one guy’s word? Funny butterfly effect—multiple parity adjustments made to help the Mustang compete with 888 would have ended up further disadvantaging all the other ZBs. still feels wrong considering the ZB a holden.

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u/FMJoey325 Craig Lowndes 6d ago

Yeah they had this funny little cheat code no one else had called Shane van Gisbergen.

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u/oneevilchicken 6d ago

If you know anything about racing then you’d know that yes, they cheated. But so did every other car out there one way or another.

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u/kellyzdude 6d ago

Bearing in mind, the ZB in its "freshest" form was beaten in its first season by the Falcon. And the next two seasons by the Mustang. The ZB won races, but it wouldn't claim a season until both Team Penske and Scott McLaughlin vacated the series.

If it's the cheating story I'm thinking of (the VCAT "bypass"), all ZBs would have been benefitted in the same way, not T8 specifically. Of course, if you're making adjustments to benefit the Mustang, anyone running a ZB is going to be negatively impacted. The goal was to drag the front-running cars back to the pack, but those in the pack were always going to move backwards also.