Part of the reason Greg Murphy's lap was called lap of the gods and has been so revered is because at the time there was very little between competitors in quite an even competition, yet he took over a second (1.09 seconds to be exact) off the previous record. The lap of the gods record stood for 7 years, a testament to just how good it really was.
Supercars engines are being limited rather than getting faster tho, next gen supercars wont have the hp/torque current ones do although obviously handling only improves over time..
As much as I hate Greg Murphy, his lap was absolute perfection and probably will never be matched. The reaction from John Bowe and fact the whole pit lane (Ford and Holden) gave him a standing ovation says it all
Ian, you have to find a way to watch Bathurst live this year. It would be at some ridiculous time for you. Here it starts 10am and finishes late in the afternoon.
No I think it'll start around 6pm for him (US Central time?) so it wouldn't be at a ridiculous time. Just need to find what channel. Not sure if they show the Supercars in America anymore. Unless he can get Canadian channels.
@@michael49777 I just did some quick google searches, Sean Seamer has confirmed that the race will start at 12pm this year. Channel 10 has agreed to hold back the news until the race finishes
The thing that made Greg Murphy's lap in 2003 special was the dominance he had over the field. In the shootout, positions 2 to 10 were spread by about 1 second, which just shows how close the cars were. Murphy's lap was another 1 second faster than 2nd place. That's why all of the other teams in pit lane came out to applaud him, he had just done what was considered impossible. Not trying to take anything away from the laps of McLaughlin or waters, they were also great laps, just explaining what made Murhpy's lap unforgettable.
Having been in several 1000+HP street cars and a couple of V8 supercars over the years, I found the most impressive part is the braking and turn in. Its ridiculous how hard they pull up and the steering angle into tight corners is unbelievable. Had a few laps around Winton and it was great fun
Lets just say that things appear so much steeper when you're driving from the top of the mountain down to the top of Conrod Straight - I did it 35 years ago in a road car at low speed, and I was still crapping myself!
Love watching your videos mate! The cars are setup differently for the shoot-out compared to the actual race. Basically to go faster in the shoot-out. I've had a drive on the track (as it's a public road) even at 60k's it is an incredibly tight track with a tonne of blind corners. It's a real credit to the blokes on the field 💪
Watching this live with no idea of the outcome was pure magic, I don't really watch the Supercars series anymore but I always make sure to watch Bathurst
One the most memorable moments for me, apart from famous victories, is Jamie Whincup running out of fuel on the last lap, his team failed big time, he was the fastest driver all day but he and the team messed it up, pretty sure it was 2015
What everyone seems to overlook about that is that the reason Whincup was so low on fuel was because Paul Dumbrell beached the car at the chase, and they had worked their way back up to 3rd or 4th or something, from around 23rd. I think the plan was to short shift till the end to try and pick up a podium place, but a few cars got taken out in front of him and suddenly he was in the box seat for a win. The team never failed him at all, he still finished 5th. Had they pitted him earlier he wouldn't have been in the top 10
@@arkhsm and Morris putting it in the tire wall haha, I met chaz on the Friday night in pits after he was DQ and I said tough luck mate he said “anything can happen on the mountain” what a bloke what a race
You need to visit Bathurst to truly see how steep the climb is up the mountain, the speed across the top, the twisty run down the other side. Even if you are not a racing fan it's a spectacular experience.
Love your channel. For relatively few subscribers (no disrespect) you connect so well with your viewers because you are humble!.... I know your channel is gonna be huge soon :) PS hello from a Kiwi stranded in Oz right now!
Obviously there was the Formula 1 record by Jenson Button, but for V8 Supercars standards, I believe it was set by Scotty McLaughlin, 2019. It was definitely close for Cam, but Scotty’s lap will always stand for me
@@nickycrea6075 I never understood the whole situation fully. I knew there was speculation about them cheating with engine power I believe, but wasn’t entirely sure about the shootout time, if it was kept or not.
@@GoSoFly basically there was a minuscule amount of valve lift in the engine, with no overall power gain. Supercars disqualified them from the shootout because of the valve lift. But when the Supercars did a dyno test for the engine it showed it was not over the horsepower limit. Only 3 of 8 valves.
@@ZachRattray Ahh I see, so the shootout time wasn’t kept, and I believe the victory wasn’t kept for them either? I only saw bits of the controversy so I’m not 100% sure, but I’d like to think the race result wasn’t kept
Christopher Mies holds the official lap record in an Audi R8 Ultra GT3 with a time of 1:59.2910 Jensen Button holds the unofficial lap record in a Maclaren-Mercedes MP4-23 with a time of 1:48.8
Cam, One of the nicest guys you will ever meet and as an an ENZED owner I have been lucky enough to meet him several times. Cam will be the man in 2022.
McLaughlin still technically has the 2019 pole. Though most people will say they cheated with the engine, but it was found that it had no overall advantage. 2019 lap time was a 2:03.37. And that’s still technically the fastest lap in a Supercar.
@@nickycrea6075 the disqualification was pretty much bullshit… a few millimetres of valve lift proven to have no advantage shouldn’t merit a DQ. Just the way I see it. And the fact that there was no gain with the engine shows that the lap Scotty did was just perfect. Although that lap may never be counted in the record books, to me and to many people that lap is the fastest in a Supercar.
@@ZachRattray the way you see it and the supercars engineer see it is completely different. I'll take the word of someone who is qualified and works with these engines daily over a whinging fan
@@nickycrea6075 I understand what you’re saying. And get that you think I’m whinging, but I’m not. All I’ve heard is that there was no gain or advantage from that engine. And the dyno the Supercars did proved the engine did not breach the permitted horsepower
This lap was even quicker than Scotty McLaughlin's this is a fantastic lap. But my favourite is still Greg Murphy's lap of the gods then Scotty McLaughlin's and you could put this right at the top too.
@@Dylang01 Except it no longer is the single best V8 lap around Bathurst. It's disappointing that Murphy's lap gets some sort of legendary status but those who have bettered it don't.
@@dnag247 that's beautiful. I've always said Oz is like our big brother. You're kind of better than us at everything, but we got rugby. It the one thing we do well consistently. And, the occasional time we beat you in cricket, is awesome, but, I, we, love the rivalry.
Holy crap, that's an absurd time! I've played the Bathurst track quite a few times in a few racing games, this track ain't a joke. Major props to him! Also, please consider doing more reactions to other motorsports as well. Goodwood FOS, Rally Legend stuff or even Nurburgring moments.
To truly appreciate this race track and the skill it takes to wrestle a car around it at race pace, you have to drive it! The climb up pit straight is something else. The esses and Forrest’s elbow are insane. Then Conrod straight is flat out! They’re not just race car drivers, they’re magicians! To drive it at the legal speed limit is obviously no real task but you have to have your wits about you or you can come undone. The average speed they do is 160-165km/ph which is just under 3 times the legal speed limit. Keep in mind that that’s the AVERAGE speed they travel at.
in 2019 scott mclaughlin went faster then cam, it was the fastest lap ever being a 2:03.3sec, but deleted to some kind of problem which supercars stripped him of, def worth a watch
1971 Hardie fedora 500 Bathurst , brought to you by Sydney wins , will give you a idea of what the Bathurst 1000 was like in early days , was called production car racing ( which is racing cars how you could buy them from the dealers )
Even thou Greg Murphy’s lap was such a great lap no one comes close to Alan Moffat’s 1971 qualifying lap who lowered the lap record by from 2min 48.9.to 2min 38.9 and was 3 seconds quicker than the next car
Too many variables in the 70s times. The cars, even within teams, were often a fair amount different. It was an awesome lap time for sure, but even right through to the early 90s guys are now open to admitting how they cheated.
A few years ago at the Bathurst 12hr, back when it was a production and invitational race, there were some Fiat 500 Abarths that were lapping Bathurst quicker than Moffatt’s Falcon.
@@pokinacha Yes - amazing how tire, brake and suspension technology has progressed since Alan Moffat's days. But comparing 'apples to oranges' between the modern technology Arbarths and Alan Moffat's somewhat of a 'dinosaur' race vehicle can only ever be for a 'look how far things have progressed' type scenario.
They have straight cut gears, that’s where the whine comes from, same as when they ran the gearbox at the front, I think it was a Holinger 6 speed back then.
Yeah, in fact not a diff. But as micnstacetube points out, its the straight cut gears that make most of the noise, which is why you don't get them in your road car, even though they're better.
Lap of the gods driven buy Greg Murphy will forever be the best lap in my eyes due to the fact it was a car you had to drive ie Manuel h pattern gear box less computer controls lest computer tech all together
There’s no such thing as the perfect lap, always more time to find even if he hadn’t made that small mistake. Absolutely awesome lap and it was jaw dropping watching it happen live!
These run a transaxle, so diff and gearbox in 1 all at the rear. They run a torque tube from the clutch at the back of the engine all the way to the rear end.
like a snipper shooting dead centre at 1+ mile. I dare say, when your trying to shave time off to that degree the air temperature, windspeed and direction, humidity, barometric pressure, track temprature, tyre temperature...
I believe Scotty's lap from last year is the actual fastest lap, but it got stripped from him due to a problem found with engine. Which they believed gave him an advantage, but was proven by multiple mechanics and engineers that it would gave him a disadvantage, but yeah
Repco Bathurst 1000: Event schedule All times AEDT Tuesday, November 30 Time Category Session 08:55-09:15 V8 SuperUtes Practice 09:25-09:45 Touring Car Masters Practice 10:00-10:40 Australian GT Practice 1 10:55-11:25 TCR Practice 1 11:35-11:55 Trans Am Practice 1 12:05-12:25 V8 SuperUtes Qualifying 12:35-12:55 Touring Car Masters Qualifying 13:10-13:50 Australian GT Practice 2 14:00-14:30 S5000 Practice 1 14:45-15:15 TCR Practice 2 15:25-15:45 Trans Am Practice 2 15:55-16:15 V8 SuperUtes Race 1 16:25-16:50 Touring Car Masters Trophy Race Wednesday, December 1 Time Category Session 08:30-08:50 TGRA86 Practice 1 09:00-09:30 S5000 Practice 2 09:40-10:10 Porsche Carrera Cup Practice 1 10:25-11:05 Dunlop Series Practice 1 11:20-11:45 Touring Car Masters Trophy Race 11:55-12:15 Australian GT Qualifying 1 12:20-12:40 Australian GT Qualifying 2 12:50-13:10 V8 SuperUtes Race 2 13:20-13:40 Trans Am Qualifying 13:50-14:10 TGRA86 Practice 2 14:20-14:40 S5000 Qualifying 14:50-15:20 Porsche Carrera Cup Practice 2 15:30-15:50 TCR Qualifying 1 15:55-16:05 TCR Qualifying 2 16:15-16:55 Dunlop Series Practice 2 17:10-17:50 Trans Am Race 1 Thursday, December 2 Time Category Session 08:25-08:45 V8 SuperUtes Race 3 08:55-09:20 Touring Car Masters Race 2 09:30-09:50 Dunlop Series Qualifying Race 1 10:00-11:00 Supercars Practice 1 11:15-12:15 Australian GT Race 1 12:25-12:50 Trans Am Race 2 13:00-13:25 S5000 Race 1 13:35-14:25 TCR Race 1 14:35-14:55 TGRA86 Qualifying 15:05-15:25 Dunlop Series Qualifying Race 2 15:40-16:00 Porsche Carrera Cup Qualifying 16:15-17:15 Supercars Practice 2 (Add. Drivers) Friday, December 3 Time Category Session 08:20-08:45 Touring Car Masters Race 3 08:55-9:55 Australian GT Race 2 10:05-10:30 S5000 Race 2 10:45-11:45 Supercars Practice 3 (Add. Drivers) 12:00-12:20 TGRA86 Race 1 12:30-13:20 TCR Race 2 13:35-14:35 Supercars Practice 4 14:50-15:15 Porsche Carrera Cup Race 1 15:30-16:15 Dunlop Series Race 1 16:35-17:15 Supercars Qualifying Saturday, December 4 Time Category Session 09:05-09:30 Trans Am Race 3 09:40-10:00 V8 SuperUtes Race 4 10:15-11:15 Supercars Practice 5 (Add. Drivers) 11:35-12:00 S5000 Race 3 12:15-13:15 Supercars Practice 6 13:30-13:50 TGRA86 Race 2 14:00-14:50 TCR Race 3 15:05-15:45 Porsche Carrera Cup Race 2 16:00-16:45 Dunlop Series Race 2 17:05 Supercars Top Ten Shootout Sunday, December 5 Time Category Session 08:40-09:00 TGRA86 Race 3 09:15-09:35 Supercars Warm Up 10:15-10:40 S5000 Race 4 10:50-11:15 Porsche Carrera Cup Race 3 12:15 Supercars Race 31 (161 laps). I hope you can understand this
Peter brocks lap in the rain is still the best in horrible conditions he had comete control of the car snd was giveing it every thing it had and was sliding into the corners snd lit of the corners cause of the wet it was an amazing display of driving
Fun fact; in the off season, the track at Bathurst is open to the public. A few years ago I did a lap in my little hatchback with my elderly in-laws in the back seat. Good times.
Cam certainly had it on a string that day. That monster mustang is a beast. But the lap of the gods is my favourite. Murphy wore his heart on his sleeve and that lap was a classic.
Did you know that the Caltex Chase at the bottom of Conrod Straight was put in to slow the cars down before the 90 degree left hander into the straight? In the days before they put that in, drivers who over-cooked it into the last turn (brake failure or over-enthusiasm) ploughed stright ahead into the wall. Now the big sand traps at the Chase catch most of them.
Each generation has its own lap of the gods.. my favourite was Murphy in 03 and that's from a Ford fan.. plus I was there I could tell he was balls to the wall
The whining you hear coming from the car is actually both the differential and the transmission as they are both combined together at the rear of the car which is called a transaxle
1:53 that whining in the gearbox. Supercars have a sequential dogbox transaxle with straight cut gears in them. Straight cuts make a ton of noise but man are they awesome things
Australian Supercars is the best Motorsports in the WORLD - Far more exciting than F1. As a race team owner with a husband who races at Bathurst I can tell you that, no matter how many times he goes to Bathurst, the aura and gravity of this super circuit always overwhelms him. Rock on Australian Supercars and Australian Motorsports 🏁🤘💀🤘🏁
I think the noise is the gearbox straight cut gears they are a US made transaxle before that they run a Hollinger gearbox then a Albins transaxle both made in Australia then a US made transaxle these are Beautiful Cars full on bits off kit cheers Mick.
Well done Cam. Congradulations Mate. Dont forget to check out Scott McLaughlin in America, IndyCar. Alongside Scott Dickson, and Will Power. They're 3 more races to go , to end the season. ( iz 3 or 2 ? )
One of the best laps I think I vote for caz m driving a BMW In the 12 hour shouldn't haven't been in the top ten and put on pole against top sport cars
This is a thing right. People rave on about Scotty Mac's fastest lap, which was fantastic - however 12 months later Cam beats it and it almost goes under the radar.
Transmission, sequential transmission rear differential gearbox, not the tranditional sequential or gearbox that located at the mid piont of the car. Nascar is using the same transmission setup for 2022 for the new nascar as v8 supercars.
I'm sure someone has already told you in the comments section. That whine you hear are the 'straight cuts gears' of the gearbox. Most road cars have 'helical cut gears' which makes them quieter, but no where near as strong as straight cut gears. The SC gears lose full contact when you back the throttle off.
I have seen a crash at every corner of this track… a bullet proof drive. You can camp on the mountain for 5 nights. We walked 1 night and I pulled a hammy… took a 6 pack and walked the 9klm track but the hill felt like 20 flat. Great experience.
