Supercars Racer Displays Bonkers Commitment In Bathurst Qualifying
The Australian Supercars series took to Mount Panorama for the Bathurst 1000 at the weekend, which means we’re busy looking at videos like this with mouths agape.
The above clip shows James Courtney put in an incredibly committed performance during qualifying, coming perilously close to striking a wall in the process. Consider us rather impressed.
Courtney ended the session 5th fastest, going through to the Top 10 Shootout, in which he finished 8th. Unfortunately, he and Jack Perkins weren’t able to get to the chequered flag in the race, with the number 25 Walkinshaw Andretti United Holden Commodore retiring on lap 33 due to a mechanical issue.
Want more Bathurst driving mastery? We highly recommend watching David Reynolds’ qualifying lap too - he snatched pole from Jamie Whincup by just 0.0094sec - and the incredible save from Scotty McLaughlin you can see above.
Reynolds and co-driver Luke Youlden could only manage 13th in the race, however, while Craig Lowndes and Steven Richards took to the top step of the podium after 161 laps, ahead of Scott Pye and Warren Luff.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
You missed Scotty McLaughlin’s big save in practice:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1048379926284402689
Beautiful! Better get that in there…
Sh4t myself and I’m not even in the car
Only a small portion of why the Aussie Supercars is more entertaining than F1
And all this from a relatively uneventful 1000Kms (by Bathurst standards, anyway)
BTCC for life!
Nearly every motorsport is more entertaining than F1.
imagine how much crap ended up in his pants after dat getting dat close….
sum godly af driving…
That’s pretty normal in qualifying at the mountain. Probably not very much
Best. Motorsport category. EVER!! #VASC
Where can you watch Aussie SC whole races?
There’s a guy who posts race replays on Dailymotion
I don’t even watch v8 super are because I’m an American and that dude nearly brought me to tears
Sorry but Brock’s still got the mic drop when it comes to Bathurst laps… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWOq94g2HB0
how come straya get the fast exciting insignia cousin whilst we get the grandad-mobile