For many a year now In the Pits has been pushing to make the Bathurst 1000 the final round of the Virgin Australia Australian Supercars Championship and as such the grand final, which is what it is unofficially called now. It is the only sport anywhere in the world that has their grand final mid season.
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A beaut new website theracetorque.com run by long time motor racing personality Richard Craill has made its way onto the world wide web, and includes 'The Big Picture’ column written by highly respected journalist David Segal, and it contains a very well written story entitled 'THE BIG PICTURE: THE GRAND FINAL.. OR IS IT?
Segal starts off by saying "Just like in the AFL, NRL or A-League the Grand Final is the pinnacle of that sporting code’s competition, the one match everyone wants to win, the culmination of the season.
"So why isn’t the Bathurst 1000 the actual Supercars Grand Final?
"Of course, it once was the final event of the year back when we called them Touring Cars.
"But it hasn’t been that way for decades, yet the perception persists still among the wider populace that the motor racing season is all over at Bathurst.
Take a look at what is a very professional website, and please let the Western Advocate know what your view is on the grand finale.
Following the Winton round of the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship on the weekend, it's interesting to note that the Kiwi's are dominating, having won nine of the ten races conducted thus far, with Shane van Gisbergen having won four, Scott McLaughlin 3 and Fabian Coulthard 2. Making it look even better, there are only three Kiwis in the championship. The one Australian victor is Chaz Mostert having won Race 6 at the WD-40 Phillip Island 500.
What a weekend it was for the drivers from the land of the 'Great White Cloud,' for pole position for the 101st Indianapolis 500 at the Old Brickyard was taken by self declared Kiwi Scott Dixon after he was in fact born in Brisbane.
Will Power flew the flag for Australia on Pole Day, but he could only manage ninth in the Team Penske Chevrolet. There has never been an Aussie win the 500, but New Zealand has again courtesy of Dixon who won from pole in 2008.
Dixon is the only Kiwi in this year's race, while Australia now has two, with 30 year old two time Indy 500 starter James Davison now joining the field as a replacement for Sebastien Bourdais.
This year's 500 may have the fairy tale ending many have been hoping for, as two time F1 world champion Fernando Alonso a Indy rookie will start the big event from the second row in fifth place.