Oh ! So crap Abbie that was your race for the taking after all that hard work great on board i bet you had a few words after that !! You did brilliantly throughout that whole race ! Until the big bang and that was your line you had every bit of right of way, that line was yours and yours only !!
Gear changes looking relaxed and smooth, some of those passes seemed to be those in front not being able to keep the car low in the banked turns, while you had the grip to drive under them. Any chance we'll see the whole race?
@@PiDsPagePrototypes it’s a 30 minute race so probably not but I’ll post a 15 min clip if you’d like. With the banking it’s actually not a bad thing going up high but they have smaller engines than I hence it was easy to pass :-)
I can watch u all day driving g the commodore you are such an amazing peddler can’t wait to be out in the rover in the thunders with u I’ll wave as you.come by 👋 lol 😂
People race these poor handling American things to live life on the edge and have a ball. I never used to understand it but lots of power and useless chassis means lots of fun
Um...you were so aggressive in the first minute!!!! - very exciting and in the top four!!!. I don't quite understand after that ....why are you not changing down a gear a Druids? That orange Commodore smoked you there at 3:07 and you appear to be in 4th, or too high a gear anyway At Druids you seem to be giving everyone an extra 1/2 second due to too high a gear?? Anyway just my thoughts. Not sure you can run this circuit using just two gears even with the 5 litre's grunt. All the best anyway. I will keep following you. I note you're doing around 51.90's and Greg Murphy in his 2009 Commodore was doing 50 flat in another YT video although he had a lot of traffic there !! So credit to you! Is this an actual ex-Aussie touring car or an amateur build?
@@AbbieEaton I see!! Thank you. Working my way through your uploads - really great content. When will you upload again? Also is your car a professional ex-Aus touring car or a home-build/amateur build? I love the car - sounds awesome.
Abigail, I love you and your content. Very glad to see you back from your injury. I think you and Ben should race each other and donate the proceeds to your favorite charities. I would buy a pay per view, unless of course you would do one here in the states, then I would just attend.
wow Abbie what an inspiration you are to us H1 Thundersaloon's showing how the older cars dont give up the fight. Love the out brake maneuver at the end of the straight i almost fell of my seat at work trying to miss the back of andys car lol. well done excellent end to the year roll on paul in the garage finding a few more tweaks and look forward to seeing you show us your amazing skills in 2024
Absolutely awesome Abbie, also thinking that some of those Monaro's were built with an 8L V8 (for the 2002/03 Bathurst 24Hr) so giving them a run would have been fantastic. Great to hear and see them running especially at Donnington. Sorry you had technical issues, you looked pretty relaxed driving it even with shaky brakes
TBH, it looks like it's not aero, power, and certainly not braking skill, but the gearbox that makes the real difference, with the newer car having 6 ratio's ready for anything while IIRC your car only has the four speed, the top gear of which I don't think you used a single time in this vision, suggesting the diff ratio is also to tall for this track. Edit: kept watching, you did use top later in the vision.
Yes the Monaro is nearly 30 years newer than the Commodore. Where the Monaro is stronger is Sector 1 & 2, which is where aero and the grip of the Monaro allow it to pull away (not mentioning the fact it has another 100bhp than us too! lol!) But what I’m saying is that with some decent brakes on the car we are only 1 tenth a lap down on the Monaro lap time as it is, so the brakes will close that time up too. Gearbox wise at the start when the tyres are cold you don’t reach 4th gear. The Monaro should be a good 5-7 seconds down the road with a decent peddler at the wheel anyway.
@@AbbieEaton - There's more then a few folks that underestimate those '80's cars - they were light, nimble, and rocketships of the time, and having filmed interviews too many times with the drivers and chatted behind scenes with the engineers, there was a heck of a lot of smart thinking went in to them. You're spot on, a full time driver should be further down the road in the Monaro, but any little mistake, that Commodore of yours is right on it's tail.
Full time driver ??? As soon as I passed her pulled the gap !! I went into cruise mode !!! Know one pays for my car but me .. I ain’t killing it ever lap to win by 20 seconds.. if not driven the car for a year it has had no testing and was on old old tyres .. where back there in March let’s see what the monaro can do then !
Ummmm … I pay for my cars love . Next time I won’t go into Cruise mode I’ll keep on it and it will be more than 5/7 seconds a decent drive would pull . 😂
@@whitemetro99 Hi Andy, apologies - no offence was intended, I’m talking about a professional driver. Good to hear there was more in the car if you were in cruise mode!!
Absolutely brilliant watching you in an old Aussie race car giving it heaps on the track, looks and sounds awesome. Memories of when they at the top of the game here in Aus.
