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Post by Bundy on Jun 24, 2012 20:41:20 GMT 10
I thought this would be an interesting thread to start where we could post videos and then discuss how significant they were to your following of the sport or what you actually thought about what occured.
I'll start it off with the infamous Skaife v Ingall incident at EC in 2003.
I have to say Rusty, as much as I am a fan of him, was in the wrong. Firstly, getting sideways of the corner and running wide into Skaife which speared him off track into the wall. Then, him coming across in the direction of Skaife after the incident...RI would probably think back and believe he could have acted in a more controlled way.
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Post by HDT05 on Jun 24, 2012 21:11:38 GMT 10
Bundy you wrote Ambrose accidentally, it's on the second paragraph
This was very controversial and I must say I really hated Rusty over this.
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Post by Bundy on Jun 24, 2012 21:20:44 GMT 10
Bundy you wrote Ambrose accidentally, it's on the second paragraph This was very controversial and I must say I really hated Rusty over this. Yeah cheers HDT...yeah he didn't really lend himself too well to Holden fans after that.
Haha...I know this one isn't ATCC but sure is a beaut with Big Darryl Eastlake's commentary...""OH NO!! He's put the biffo back into the bingle!!" too funny ;D |
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Post by donk on Jun 25, 2012 18:45:52 GMT 10
Basically, how dumb is Longhurst to punch into someone wearing a helmut!  |
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Post by crikey on Jun 25, 2012 19:13:00 GMT 10
That Longhurst moment was the Funniest thing I can remember watching in Aussie Motorsport, As Donk said how stupid was he hitting his hand against a Helmet.
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Post by clubsportr8 on Jun 25, 2012 23:19:00 GMT 10
R Kelly "punting" Lowndes at P.I in 2006 takes the cake. I remember for weeks and even months after that's all Ford fans would talk about.
Even as a Holden fan I was disgusted by the whole ordeal and didn't like how the championship was won that year. Thankfully Tander rectified it in 2007.
I'd say for championship deciders nothing has come as close to that for causing a **** storm.
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Post by Bundy on Jun 25, 2012 23:37:11 GMT 10
R Kelly "punting" Lowndes at P.I in 2006 takes the cake. I remember for weeks and even months after that's all Ford fans would talk about. Even as a Holden fan I was disgusted by the whole ordeal and didn't like how the championship was won that year. Thankfully Tander rectified it in 2007. I'd say for championship deciders nothing has come as close to that for causing a **** storm. That was a huge moment too...one that we still don't hear the end of from the fordies...and yes GT put the controversy to bed in 2007 when he won it in style  |
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Post by Bundy on Jun 26, 2012 15:08:46 GMT 10
This one is unforgettable if you're a V8 fan. And just shows how much an ego he built up after winning the championship a year prior...I mean the gall of him to say that because he was 'fighting for a championship' that everyone should just fall into line to want he wanted, so that R Kelly couldn't follow or even race Ambrose is just completely unreasonable. Murph was absolutely on his game that day...cross-examining him like a pro and putting him in his place |
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Post by STP01 on Jun 26, 2012 19:14:36 GMT 10
R Kelly "punting" Lowndes at P.I in 2006 takes the cake. I remember for weeks and even months after that's all Ford fans would talk about. Even as a Holden fan I was disgusted by the whole ordeal and didn't like how the championship was won that year. Thankfully Tander rectified it in 2007. I didn't really have a problem with Kelly's win, he had a run on Lowndes and CL moved over when Kelly was committed. Tander's go slow tactics in an earlier race that weekend were wrong though, not very sporting (although I'm sure others would have done the same thing). Kelly copped a BS jump start penalty at the start of that year, and Courtney took him out in Bahrain, so it was justice that he won the title. Murphy owned Ambrose at that Indy press conference. It was poor form by Ambrose to brake test Kelly, and then have the hide to deny it afterwards! |
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Post by Bundy on Jun 26, 2012 19:24:16 GMT 10
R Kelly "punting" Lowndes at P.I in 2006 takes the cake. I remember for weeks and even months after that's all Ford fans would talk about. Even as a Holden fan I was disgusted by the whole ordeal and didn't like how the championship was won that year. Thankfully Tander rectified it in 2007. I didn't really have a problem with Kelly's win, he had a run on Lowndes and CL moved over when Kelly was committed. Tander's go slow tactics in an earlier race that weekend were wrong though, not very sporting (although I'm sure others would have done the same thing). Kelly copped a BS jump start penalty at the start of that year, and Courtney took him out in Bahrain, so it was justice that he won the title. Good point...many have to remember that the championship isn't completely won or loss as a consequence of a single race's result even though that race may be the last of the championship! Murphy owned Ambrose at that Indy press conference. It was poor form by Ambrose to brake test Kelly, and then have the hide to deny it afterwards! See him resort to using really formal language (at 1:25) when Murphy started to attack him for why he braked so much at the end of the race 'I don't dispute that'; 'I totally refute the allegation' [of brake testing]; 'I refute the claim [from the words I had with Rick]...he was totally on the defensive and was caught out that he was in the wrong...backed up by the fact he didn't appeal his penalty for doing it. |
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Post by clubsportr8 on Jun 27, 2012 14:16:31 GMT 10
This one is unforgettable if you're a V8 fan. And just shows how much an ego he built up after winning the championship a year prior...I mean the gall of him to say that because he was 'fighting for a championship' that everyone should just fall into line to want he wanted, so that R Kelly couldn't follow or even race Ambrose is just completely unreasonable. Murph was absolutely on his game that day...cross-examining him like a pro and putting him in his place lol. Ambrose was lost for words wasn't he? Just makes the Bathurst 2005 crash even sweeter. Shows how much of an ego maniac Ambrose was to claim people should move over for him because he was fighting for a championship. I've never heard Tander, Whincup, Courtney etc say anything like that when they were fighting for their respective titles. Post this up on V8 C and of course the Ford bunch would find any way to defend Ambrose even when though Ambrose knew he was in the wrong. Go Murph. |
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Post by wrighty05 on Jun 27, 2012 21:06:17 GMT 10
People always said that when Bond went from the HDT to the Moffat Ford Dealer Team for the start of the 1977 season, that it was HUGE news.
People didn't jump manufacturer lines back then. Or move straight from one factory team to the other.
It was a huge story. It paid dividends for Bondy for the first year and perhaps for his rallying, but looking back now his circuit racing career never really recovered results wise.
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Post by Bundy on Jul 1, 2012 20:47:48 GMT 10
In this time of great difficulty for Murph, I think it is appropriate to look back on some moments involving him that really typify why we like him as a driver and as a personality. And of course one of them that rates a mention would have to include Ambrose his great rival at the height of Murph's powers  ;D |
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Post by donk on Jul 2, 2012 16:32:11 GMT 10
People always said that when Bond went from the HDT to the Moffat Ford Dealer Team for the start of the 1977 season, that it was HUGE news. People didn't jump manufacturer lines back then. Or move straight from one factory team to the other. It was a huge story. It paid dividends for Bondy for the first year and perhaps for his rallying, but looking back now his circuit racing career never really recovered results wise. Still to this day wonder if Bondy had his time over again he would defy team orders and say screw you Moffat and just cruise past the finish line 1st! |
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Post by Raptorman on Sept 17, 2012 20:13:39 GMT 10
I seem to recall reading that Tony Longhurst got put on a behaviour bond for punching The Dude.
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Post by Bundy on Sept 17, 2012 21:01:23 GMT 10
I seem to recall reading that Tony Longhurst got put on a behaviour bond for punching The Dude. I'm not surprised... Although these days you might get away with it! ;D |
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Post by wrighty05 on Sept 17, 2012 21:42:11 GMT 10
I seem to recall reading that Tony Longhurst got put on a behaviour bond for punching The Dude. I'm not surprised... Although these days you might get away with it! ;D He'd have to jump to the back of a very long queue. |
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Post by commodore30s on Sept 18, 2012 15:58:33 GMT 10
Ironically it was Longhurst making the humble apology to Morris after that, as he had wrongly blamed Morris for the crash.
Longhurst had been find $5000 two years before at Winton as well for shovelling John Bowe off the track too
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Post by Bundy on Sept 18, 2012 21:49:55 GMT 10
Ironically it was Longhurst making the humble apology to Morris after that, as he had wrongly blamed Morris for the crash. Longhurst had been find $5000 two years before at Winton as well for shovelling John Bowe off the track too Seems like Longhurst was quite the trouble-maker back in the day... |
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Post by Raptorman on Sept 18, 2012 21:58:19 GMT 10
Maybe a whole championship could be controversial, such as 1982.
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;D 