Casey Stoner, who will he drive for???

[05_ENFORCER]

Originally Posted by TC200six

Troy Bayliss is another motorcyclist who has given V8 Supercars a go. He crashed out at Bathurst from a passing shower if I remember right. Can't find what I'm looking for on YouTube

If you have ever been involved directly (and I mean competition driving/riding) with bikes or cars at motor sport level, you will know the difference in coming to terms with tin tops from bikes/open wheelers.

It is not an easy task.


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[davenl5l]

what about the late great gregg hansford.now there was a great motorcycle racer who made the transition into cars with great success !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Uwish]

LOL @ the hate for CS.
He is a better steerer than anyone on this forum.
FFS he bettered CL's time albeit on new tires, but that is still a great achievement.
He will race in the feeder series. Then go to which ever team decides they want a good driver that can deliver BIG DOLLARS.
He is a WORLD CHAMPION........ and he is quick in a car.

[gumbi_18]

Originally Posted by mickbundy

What team does Red Bull have in the V8's (please excuse my ignorance if they have a team) I like watching the races but am not a follower with shift work

Vodafone no longer having naming rights on the 888 cars. Red Bull have the new naming rights in 2013 onwards.

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/champi...0/default.aspx

[FTE217]

Originally Posted by Uwish

LOL @ the hate for CS.
He is a better steerer than anyone on this forum.
FFS he bettered CL's time albeit on new tires, but that is still a great achievement.
He will race in the feeder series. Then go to which ever team decides they want a good driver that can deliver BIG DOLLARS.
He is a WORLD CHAMPION........ and he is quick in a car.

yer I find it funny the tall poppy symdrome to an aussie who has done so well OS on 2wheels but gets bagged out because one he speaks his mind and 2 but sadly will be driving for the bogans - some here behave just as them bogans.
He may not do anything great in 4wheels and there's a long way to go as yet but the kid is shot down with no competitve races under his belt to date give it a break.
If he was linked to a Ford team the fapping would be the opposite

[351capri]

Originally Posted by TC200six

He appears to belong to Triple Eight already, so it's pretty obvious as to where he's likely to go.

yeah, pretty sure he'll be with 888, they seem to have brainwashed him against ford already , judging by his twitter comments bagging frosty!!!!

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by Uwish

LOL @ the hate for CS.
He is a better steerer than anyone on this forum.
FFS he bettered CL's time albeit on new tires, but that is still a great achievement.
He will race in the feeder series. Then go to which ever team decides they want a good driver that can deliver BIG DOLLARS.
He is a WORLD CHAMPION........ and he is quick in a car.

Being reasonably quick over one lap does not make a race winner. I'd say consistency is probably the hardest thing to achieve as a top line driver, running quick times lap after lap after lap.

Given enough lap time I think there are probably thousands of people that could go quick over one lap in a V8SC. But doing it lap after lap is a whole 'nother story.

[gtxb67]

the car cannot be that hard to drive if dumbass, thompson, luff, stoner etc. can all look so good in it
wasn't button within 1 second of lowndes at bathurst too

any driver out there could do fast laps in that car, doesn't mean they are the 2nd coming

[gtxb67]

Originally Posted by Riksta

Wait wait wait.

There's going to be a stoner driving in the V8s?

How many bongs is said stoner gonna have before each race? This could make things interesting. "Chill man, just pass me if you wanna, why don't these race cars have ashtrays and lighters man, and why can't I smoke a joint through my helmet".

i think you might be on to something
that's why he didn't like frosty being on the grass at abu dabi - he was jealous

[b2tf]

I dont care who he drives for as long as we see more of mrs stoner...

[LeadFoot81]

Originally Posted by gtxb67

the car cannot be that hard to drive if dumbass, thompson, luff, stoner etc. can all look so good in it
wasn't button within 1 second of lowndes at bathurst too

any driver out there could do fast laps in that car, doesn't mean they are the 2nd coming

Don't forget Paul Dumbrell, Bathurst winner. (Has the world gone mad?!)

[gtxb67]

Originally Posted by LeadFoot81

Don't forget Paul Dumbrell, Bathurst winner. (Has the world gone mad?!)

he was the first one in my post - now he is back in a holden, he goes back to his holden name

winning bathurst as a co driver cannot be that hard - ask the sisters

[05_ENFORCER]

Originally Posted by LeadFoot81

Don't forget Paul Dumbrell, Bathurst winner. (Has the world gone mad?!)

Paul WHO ????


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[Bucknaked]

Dumbass and Kelly sisters?

Geeze, I remember the other stoner thread on frosty when it was said that most people show respect around here and if Stoner didn't open his gob about a well respected driver then that thread wouldn't have started..

Is well respected referring to a driver respected amongst his peers or amongst ford fans. I am sure the Kelly brothers and dumbrell are respected drivers. Both on and off the track. But yet people on this forum don't show them respect. Or is it one rule for ford drivers and one rule for Holden drivers?

[gtxb67]

Originally Posted by Bucknaked

Or is it one rule for ford drivers and one rule for Holden drivers?

in general yes - because . . . surprise, surprise this is a ford forum. the dumbass part was a bit of a joke but was obviously in bad taste, but being a ford forum, the sisters, murphy and skaife are obvious targets. even tander too, but i try and hold back on him due to having respect for ryan. i said try, it doesn't always work

and casey being in a holden has nothing to do with the sudden dislike for him - it has to do with stuff that that you referred to, not car choice


and one of the sisters is/was not respected by his peers
and the other one won a title by pushing his rival off (not deliberately in my view), so is not respected by many too

[FPV+fteT3]

Could not vote on the poll because there was no "Dominos Pizza delivery in Sydneys West" and that about sums up my interest in Stoner and driving anything.

[Trevor 57]

[Uwish]

Originally Posted by gtxb67

the car cannot be that hard to drive if dumbass, thompson, luff, stoner etc. can all look so good in it
wasn't button within 1 second of lowndes at bathurst too

any driver out there could do fast laps in that car, doesn't mean they are the 2nd coming

Firstly Luff has never bettered CL time.
Secondly F1 cars must be easy to drive as well. As CL was only a second off Buttons time!!

[sbutler]

He could well supprise most here, & I can see a lot of egg on peoples faces..
As far as the 888 deal goes, its pretty much done, Dane has been sucking Caseys @rse trying to get red bull money from Casey as RB are his sponsor.

[gtxb67]

Originally Posted by Uwish

Firstly Luff has never bettered CL time.
Secondly F1 cars must be easy to drive as well. As CL was only a second off Buttons time!!

try around 13 seconds
and one of them knew one of the most difficult track in the world backwards - the other didn't

[4DBOSS]

Originally Posted by gtxb67

try around 13 seconds
and one of them knew one of the most difficult track in the world backwards - the other didn't

plus they didnt let them take it to the extreme and push the limits.

they are f1 drivers for a reason. 2secs a lap in f1 is the difference between 1st and 15th

[flappist]

Ok settle down.

Posts about previous drivers' personal lives are off topic and inappropriate.

[pursuit57]

Originally Posted by b2tf

I dont care who he drives for as long as we see more of mrs stoner...

Yep, agree with b2tf...
And my 2 bob's worth...whoever he drives for will throw him into development series to run amuck & test him out, like Gardner he was fantastic on 2W but won't be good in the tintops.

[sbutler]

He put his Coke commondoor on poll at Bathurst, & won the Japan sprotscar championship a couple of times!! so he wasnt that bad.. He didnt just get off the bike & jump straight into V8 supertaxi's. As far as him being a crasher, go back into the vast dark emptyness of your minds, I cant really remember him directly causing a crash.[ He did have a few. The old gaurd just didnt like the fact that he had good sponsors & a was pretty good driver, so they set about causing him as much greef as they could. Perkins, Johnson, & even Lowndes all crashed him out of races. His engine dropped its lunch while being in a great position at Bathurst one year, & [supprise supprise it was a Perkins motor.]

[WMD351]

Originally Posted by sbutler

He put his Coke commondoor on poll at Bathurst,

But no one ever mentions him putting the FTR AU on pole in 2000.

[gtxb67]

Originally Posted by WMD351

But no one ever mentions him putting the FTR AU on pole in 2000.

i did in the other thread he was discussed - and he dominated the first stint with a cactus clutch

but he never qualified a commode dore on pole for the great race. not sure about the atcc round there, but i doubt it

[sbutler]

If Casey puts his mind to it he'll go great! & I can tell you one thing, he wont toe the V8 supercar line like a beaten dog, like these other sooks. He will fight like no one has ever seen in this series since the group C days. If he dont like something or someone we'll know about it.

[wombatG6ET]

Sesoned professionals that drive all types of cars overseas come and drive v8 supercars, events like Bathurst, the Gold Coast circuit, and they struggle to compete just look at premat the French driver for GRM this year, he was ment to be the best of the euro drivers in touring cars and he did nothing this year
So I think casey will struggle big time being quick at test session and being quick on race day are 2 different things