~*Smiles Magical Land*~: ~*Bathurst 1000 V8 Raceing

WOW what a race it was at Bathurst. In the first three hours the Saftey car had come out 5-6 times due to accidents. Near the end Greg Murphy had to at some point come into pits to top up on fuel which would make him loose a few seconds from where he was placed, which might cause him not to be able to catch up. The saftey car had to come out once more, so Greg Murphy took this chance to pit for fuel.

Race was back on for the last few laps, when suddenly there was a big pile up on the Mountion inluding Marcos Ambrose and Greg Murphy and some other cars. This ended Marcos Ambrose race and also ended Greg Murphys who was able to carry on but came over the line in 17th place by memory. On the crash scene Marcos Ambrose and Greg Murphy got down into a yelling match face to face, helmets off etc.

The officals say it wasn't either of there fault, but I don't know, someone has to take the blame really. From what I read in the paper was, that Greg Murphy says that he thinks Marcose Ambrose purposley slammed on his brakes and Greg Murphy nicked the side of his car creating it to flip around into the wall. From the News and the picture car map in the Herald it was showing that Ambrose was wide on the turn, Murphy was attempting to pass on the inside when Ambrose cut him short and came in on Murphy creating Murphy to nick the back of Ambrose car.

Marcos Ambrose was already in an angrey state before this crash due to his co-driver not wearing his 'Saftey' balaclava and had to come into the pits for a stop start. Yet Marcos Ambrose was asked to come into pit lane too later on if he wasn't wearing a balaclava, if he was then he can continue racing. In came Ambros to get his balaclava put on!! To me these driver's should know to wear these, they are 'Saftey Gear' and are to be worn!! So having this crash just added a cherry to the top of his anger.

The winner of Bathurst 1000 2005 was Mark Scaife & Todd Kelly in there HOLDEN Racing Team car, yea!! Holden did it again. Mark Scaife took his 5th win at Bathurst too. It was also Todd Kelly's Birthday too. Second place was Jason Richards (a NZer!!) & Jamie Whincup in the Dodo Racing Team and in third place came Steve Ellery in a Ford, his team mate Greg Lowndes crashed out.