News Power Rankings Richard Craill May 29, 2020 (Comments off) (963)

POWER RANKINGS: ESERIES ROUND 8

ONCE AGAIN there was plenty to take in from the eighth round of the BP Supercars All Stars ESeries, with plenty to like and plenty of things to make you go ‘hmm…’. All that in the TRT Power Rankings, powered by Yellow Cover!

WORDS: Richard Craill, Mark Walker, Dale Rodgers, Tony Schibeci, Social Contributors
IMAGES: Supercars

Just two weeks to go now and then we go back to some real racing.. which will be fun. In the meantime.. start with Hot and read on!

HOT

1. SVG v SCOTT

Race 3 battle for the win was an absolute beauty.

McLaughlin posted ‘This is how you race for the lead… good times, well done SVG!’ It was fantastic to watch, but even better was Fabian Coulthard’s response ‘They don’t race like that down the back!!’

2. GT IN COMMENTARY

Seems Gather Tander did not mind jumping on a jet to go to Sydney while old mate Skaifey stays in Melbourne and bemoans the pubs are not open. Garth is cementing himself as a real media star. He is insightful on commentary and is developing a really quick turn of phrase. More, please.

3. IMPROVEMENT

A back-to-back trip to Phillip Island offered up a chance to see the relative improvement from drivers in eight weeks of sim racing. The result? Some, like Jamie Whincup, were a full 1.5 seconds quicker than they were back in April.. Impressive.

Plus, how good are Lee Holdsworth and Dave Reynolds going now? Very nicely.

4. TWEEKS TO MACHINE… AND MAN

The simulator improvements have been a big story of the Eseries – but how about the drivers tuning themselves up. Scotty’s blue screen glasses a good move to fight off headaches caused from excess screen time..

5. PHILLIP ISLAND

IT’S a great track and much better the second time around in Eseries.

6. RACE 1 FINISH

7. INTERLAGOS

GREAT track and love that they can take the mickey with track limits and get on with it.

8. BELIEBER

James Golding. Good to see Bieber back and he did a ripper job. Great strategy call in Race 3 played him right in to contention. This is the sort of Wildcard that makes sense. 

NOT

1. HORROR FOR GAZ

Garry Jacobson has been, and this has not been said very often, an absolute star of the Eseries to date, with a series of outstanding performances in his Yellow Cover Commodore.

Wednesday night, however, did not go well. At all.

2. NO PODIUMS FOR TEAM SYDNEY / 18 YET

Though ring-in James Golding did a good job at Interlagos. As for Team Sydney, we wrote this item before the race expecting it to continue. They’re trying hard..

3. WINNING FRIENDS

If you’re the new guy, racing your heroes, probably don’t take said heroes out.

4. KELLY RACING BLOWS IT

NOT the right strategy call, here..

5. FABS CHANNELING FRENCHY & COURTNEY

Honda crashes are realistic in iRacing. *Cue bowling ball hitting skittles sound*

6. REVERSE GRID START

To be fair, they are getting better. Although..

7. PHILLIP ISLAND WASN’T AN OVAL

More ovals are coming, but we don’t want to wait a week. Charlotte was just too bloody good.

8. WE NEED ANOTHER GUN WILDCARD

With the greatest respect in the world to Fawzan El-Nabi, the series hasn’t quite nailed the wildcard lately in the same way that Verstappen, especially, and Lando initially moved the proverbial needle. Lets hope that a Nascar star (Dale Jr, surely, has to be a chance) can jump in for the oval next week.

9. THIS GUY HAS A POINT

10. AND SO DOES THIS GUY

WHAT

CONSPIRACY THEORY

SVG ring in? Why is he never on the video stream? Is it really his cat driving?

PI PIT LANE

How come they can use the MotoGP (i.e. safe) pit exit in iRacing but in the real world they use the normal exit that bleeds right into the racing line (i.e. Unsafe)?

GRAHAM

Would have been Hot, but Chad noted that it was probably ‘What’ worthy. Didn’t make ‘Not’ because the broadcast is most certainly not going to the proverbial dogs.

The ‘Dog a Thon’ continues and Graham the new star according to Crompo. “Carpet with eyes……”

THIS GUY ALSO MAKES A REASONABLE POINT

TWEETS

PRECIOUS MEMORIES

I sleep in a racing car, do you?

Shunt

Funny Race

It Can W8 M8

More Graham by popular request.

MEME

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