Championship factor is wildcard in Bathurst pack

Popular opinion has it that only three cars can win this year’s Great Race on Mount Panorama at Bathurst.
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Greg Russell said | October 7th 2008 @ 10:17am | Report comment

To paraphrase Peter FitzSimons, all that I know about motor racing could be written on the back of a postage stamp and there would still be room left over. But even I can see that it’s idiocy to opine that only three cars can win this year’s Great Race! The history of the race proves this. 1000 km is such a long distance for something to go wrong. Let’s say Lowndes gets into a bumper-to-bumper battle with one of the other favored cars – that could result in the two of them tacking each other out. And then all it takes is a mechanical problem in the third favored car, and hey presto, someone else is going to win it. In fact if I were a betting man I’d almost be tempted to …