Bathurst is one of those circuits you hate at first because it's blind and merciless but once you get your head around it it's magic. You really have to gamble for every tenth and it's so rewarding when you get that perfect lap together
I would love to see this done again in the Nascar Xfinity car. It's the feeder series to the Cup Series like F2. It's much more similar to what stock car racing has been through the years and is a huge challenge. They have 20 less hp, less tire, less brakes, and a solid rear axle. If you haven't driven it before it's huge fun on road courses.
@@doylerudolph7965 No way. The current Xfinity Series car is way more fun to watch than the Gen 4 Cup car at road courses, hell I think the Gen 5 Cup car at road courses was way more fun than the Gen 4 Cup car. You can give the Gen 4 its flowers on the ovals but the Gen 5 was way better than the Gen 4 at making road courses exciting to watch.
@@jeffgordonfan2462 Only because the bumpers lined up so they were able to run into each other. The gen 4 would lift the leading car and spin them out.
so jimmy. Nascar actually did race at Bathurst. With the nascar australia series back in the 90', they even did surfers paradise! it was back when calder park still used its oval layout!
I was gunna say this! A relo of mine actually use to race in auscar and according to my mum i did a lap in one when i was 4 or 5! Dont remember shit about it somehow but there ya go.
@@Smokeyr67 Yeah Bob Jane was involved. he owned Calder Park. the Thunderdome is still a legend here in Melbourne. His newphew Kim Jane raced and won a few races if im correct
@@Tyler-dm9jw They take mad skill even on the ovals, i know nascar is boring to watch but the science behind nascar racing is something else and the ovals are wayy steeper than your average person thinks.
@ThaNiceMeme It’s boring if you just take it at face value of "cars going in circles". But every single track has its own strategy for tires, fuel, etc, so even the ovals that look the same are vastly different. It's kinda like a mini endurance race.
I used to hate Mount Panorama too but once I really spent some time and put in the laps I gained a new appreciation for it. The first time I got the mountain just right it was extremely satisfying.
@@coolguy10060 Monaco is the one track I can’t get there with for whatever reason. All the others mentioned I love and get that feeling of balancing risk/reward and getting in the flow. Anytime I try to push or drive close to my limit I can’t link more than a couple laps when it comes to Monaco.
While not being Bathurst, NASCAR officials held talks with local authorities to have the Clash at Interlagos, possibly in 2026. NFL held a season opened this year at São Paulo, so at least the market is considered worth a visit. Plus, the rest of country would watch it for free NASCAR races in Brazil are live streamed on the RUclips account of the rights holder.
Love Bathurst. Many cars and categories are fun around here. But something about taking Supercar around there is such a joy. Personally wish NASCAR came back here. Would be real fun to watch.
1:55 I love the editing detail where the mic changes quality when he's coming through the radio, and it switches back to regular Jimmo when we're onboard with him.
Yeah NASCAR could use some out-of-US exhibitions again for sure, but you’re definitely right about people being just a bit too obsessed with the realism in sims.
@@lukeracer252would be good for the local versions of the series they’ve rebranded to being NASCAR down there to get cup/xfinity exhibition races to help promote them.
I love Bathurst... as half australian and with a great grandfather who helped build the track it has a special place for me! Always love seeing your love for the track!
I wish NASCAR would do more exhibition things like Suzuka. My first introduction to Suzuka I ever had was EA including the track in NASCAR 98 and also the VHS tape I had of the 2nd race they did there in 1997
With Supercars champion Shane Van Gisbergen in NASCAR now I guess if it's going to happen this is the best chance we've probably ever had for this to happen in real life!
@@dewbee7985 Giles Villeneuve is a perfect circuit for NASCAR- enough long straights to draft and overtake, enough technical sections to punish you for not being smart, and not enough runoff for you to recover from a severe mistake.
Absolutely NASCAR should go to Bathurst and race. Maybe with the tire from the Garage 56 NASCAR entry at the 2023 Le Mans, as that was designed for cornering and longer life.
Definitely helps that the newer NASCAR cars are designed with road corses in mind. It'd be interesting to see some generation of the older, more powerful Oval spec cars try to survive around here. If you're looking for another super fun silly combo, TCR cars at an oval like Charlotte is great fun Also, the radio effect on the cinematic cam was a nice touch
They actually did have a nascar race in the early 90s it was amazing i stood on the bridge as they went past it, shook like mad thought it was going to fall down
The whole point of the Gen7 is to bring NASCAR to the 21st century. It's got a sequential shifter, 5 gears, independent rear suspension, a transaxle, a massive flat floor, a diffuser. All of those changes also completely chamged NASCAR's identity with how the cars race and how they're built
@@Ramonatho Rather than killing their brand with horrid officiating? I get you need to make progress, but this car has been nothing but issues since they announced it
One of my favourite races ever in iRacing was here in the FR500 Mustang. I hit the walls approximately 67 million times in practice in the week leading up to it but when I got it hooked up in the race I felt like an absolute hero, even though I was in the midfield the whole time. It's just one of those tracks that feels so satisfying to drive, especially in a car that moves around all over the place.
cant imagine how much it would cost to fly over 40 cars or 80 with backups, be really cool to see NASCAR here again tho, gold coast, adelaide and bathurst would put on some good racing
@@johannesgutsmiedl366 Radio volume needs to be higher, I think. Should be same volume as the facecam. Easy mixing mistake to make depending on the audio equipment used.
Not good for non maybe English speakers, too much effect. Need to be tuned down a lot to enjoy the video, i can't hear the cars because I really have to concentrate on Jimmy speaking with the radio effect.
suggestion for the editor - at 11:37 - you should have gone back to the external view. that would have been awesome with the radio effect during that lockup.
Couple things. 1st.. week 13 they should absolutely run this combo, think it would highlight both the car and track, and like you said the ability to just have fun and hang on. 2nd. The radio comms when view was out of car was brilliant. Cheers
I would love to see an international nascar cup series. My favorite nascar events are the road courses, and short tracks. An IRacing series for this would be great fun to watch.
Jimmy, we actually had Nascars at Bathurst for probably 3 seasons as a support race, I think it was the mid 90s and Kevin Schwantz held the top speed down conrod in Tony Southwell’s thunderbird at 304kp/h until we got the first gt3 race about 10 years ago.
One of my favourite AI mashups is Arca, Brazilian Stock Cars, and GT4. Sandown was my favourite venue, the long back straight suits the high horsepower cars, but the GT4 lap times weren't miles off the pace. The legacy Carrera Cup car was also fun to combine with Nascar trucks, similar lap times at a lot of places, but how they achieve the speed is totally different
Jimmy, they used to race Australian NASCAR and AUSCAR at Bathurst in the 90s. There's a few clips floating around on the internet if you wanna check it out.
Id support seeing them hit up mount panorama, from what I’ve noticed it seems like they actually made the newer models of nascar for the possible times they do road courses rather than an oval or rounded triangle thing.
Sim-racing's advantage over real world racing is that you can do things that doesn't happen in real life. Why give up that advantage by restricting yourself to only mimicing real life? Coming up with stuff like this is what makes it awesome.
My 2 test tracks for cars are Spa and the legendary Mount Panarama, i feel they are the best tracks to test a car cause unlike Nordschleife theyre short enough to visibly see your improvement and still they have a little bit of everything, big straights, elevation changes varied corners, theyre just masterpieces of tarmac draped on the earth 😊
Bob Jane brought nascar to Australia and called it Auscar , built a track at Calder raceway . I think they also tried these cars at Bathurst . They were Holdens and Fords modified to suit and imports .
There were a few races with actual imported cup cars. Might’ve been the ones the US teams had flown over and sold them while they were here for their last calder race.
Well ole jimmer I got some news for you mate in 1988 some NASCAR legends of the time raced some local racing legends at the Calder park thunderdome (the Calder park thunderdome is a oval track in the Calder park race complex bought by bob Jane in circa late 1970s) and there’s also AUSCAR (Australian NASCAR that ran from 1988 to 1998)
I've always said Nascar should do more road courses, even before Garage 56 went to Le Mans. Would force the cars to evolve and really focus on more on handling, braking, and tire efficiency. I think they'd be incredible. You should take the Camry to the Nurburgring, bet it'll surprise you.
Cool vid. Coincidentaly I just raced at Bathurst against AI in a grid of Brazilian Stock Cars in AMS 2 recently. They are considerably slower but good fun too. I know AMS 2 hasn't the best physics, but still, good fun.
I mean with how surprisingly experimental NASCAR has been, you never know. SVG being in NASCAR (after his mentor Ambrose was) and Brodie having had a go as well as the likes of Habul having had appearances, its not like they HAVEN'T noticed the extra attention from the Oceania Region.
Nascar needs to do a cross-over race with Australian Supercars like what DTM and Super-GT use to do. That would be awesome, especially at Bathurst, Melbourne, or even Adelaide.
The problem is that SuperGT and DTM were at similar pace, and I am pretty sure NASCAR current gen would still be considerably slower than SV8 in a track like this
@@lukeracer252 If NASCAR bumped the power to say 750 or 800 and added a bit more downforce then they'd keep up. NASCAR and V8s have always been around the same speed.
About Jimmy saying "there's no reason why they shouldn't race here", well... I agree it would be fun, but also think there are a number of reasons for not doing so. The cost of moving a 40-ish cars circus to Austraila being the first one that comes to my mind. Not saying it's impossible, but there are reasons why it hasn't happened yet.
AUSCAR existed in aussie back in the day, and there were a few support races run here. Basically a stock car formula with aussie holden and ford bodies.
It's quite simple really just as our football players play AFL and Rugby without pads and helmets, we enjoy motor sports that is faster and more exciting than going in circles.
I'd love to see them go to the thunderdome if it still exists, but this would be my second choice. Imagine a nascar/supercars double header here. That'd be so sick.
jimmer you would need more than 8 laps on what I assume you're running as the fixed baseline set for the car to feel good to drive. the cup car tends to be a boat early run but turns into a decent road racer after like 10 laps or so as far as how it works on iRacing, another thing is the car isn't as forgiving as it is irl too from what I can tell. I hope to see you run these at the ring meister race later in the season too.
Would love to see it but its the logistics of shipping all the cars and tools and crews to do it…..you would have to do it on the off season but most crews are busy getting ready for the next season (the nascar off season really is insanely short)
@7:45 at least now we know what Jimmy is buying next - a used Falcon or Commodore V8 Supercar makes complete sense. Bonkers, a unique thing to have and it's RHD so why not?
NASCAR is going to Mexico City next season and there's rumors of going to Brazil for the opening exhibition race in 2026. It's not clear if it would be a street circuit or Interlagos. They also want to race in Montreal at Circuit Gilles Villenueve. They have race at Mexico City and Montreal in the Xfinity series (B Car) division, but not Cup (A Car).
I remember when Marcos Ambrose took Darrel Waltrip around the course in a V8 Supercar. When they went over the top and dropped into the esses DW was grabbing anything he could hold on to.
@@TurboWheeler Thanks Turbo, I stand corrected. It's been a few years and I think the video I saw they were already on track. I always assumed it was Ambrose. Either way DW was hilarious.
I remember a couple of years ago the Bathurst 1000 had to be yellow-flagged for a couple of laps because there was an echidna on the track. If that's not the most Aussie thing ever I don't know what is lol.
With SVG now in cup/ XFINITY i would love to see NASCAR come down under to the Thunderdome if the Thunderdome was to be restored and brought up to scratch
The NASCAR NextGen car is actually based on a V8 Supercar, it’s got independent rear suspension not a solid rear axle.
Honestly ruined nascar for me. Early 2000s was peak “modern” nascar
It's also why SVG has transitioned so well into Nascar or road courses... He just quali 1st at Charlotte by like .300.
@@xperimentalracing4081 just slow😏
@@nickyrossi46 wym?
So much for stock-car-racing...
Bathurst is one of those circuits you hate at first because it's blind and merciless but once you get your head around it it's magic. You really have to gamble for every tenth and it's so rewarding when you get that perfect lap together
Also physically and mentally punishing to go hard race speed for over 100 laps(share driving)
I would love to see this done again in the Nascar Xfinity car. It's the feeder series to the Cup Series like F2. It's much more similar to what stock car racing has been through the years and is a huge challenge. They have 20 less hp, less tire, less brakes, and a solid rear axle. If you haven't driven it before it's huge fun on road courses.
In terms of NASCAR cars on road courses, nothing beats the Gen 4, though the 1980s car is close.
@@doylerudolph7965 The Gen 4 is awesome too! I haven’t had the chance to do a road course with the 87s yet but I expect it to be difficult lol
Iirc depending on the package the Xfinity car can have 30 more hp than cup cars... And don't forget they have manual transmissions too!!
@@doylerudolph7965 No way. The current Xfinity Series car is way more fun to watch than the Gen 4 Cup car at road courses, hell I think the Gen 5 Cup car at road courses was way more fun than the Gen 4 Cup car.
You can give the Gen 4 its flowers on the ovals but the Gen 5 was way better than the Gen 4 at making road courses exciting to watch.
@@jeffgordonfan2462 Only because the bumpers lined up so they were able to run into each other. The gen 4 would lift the leading car and spin them out.
so jimmy. Nascar actually did race at Bathurst. With the nascar australia series back in the 90', they even did surfers paradise! it was back when calder park still used its oval layout!
Was Bob Jane involved in that?
good old auscar
@@clearvortex5120 my dad still races a holder auscar in the stock car Australia seris
I was gunna say this! A relo of mine actually use to race in auscar and according to my mum i did a lap in one when i was 4 or 5! Dont remember shit about it somehow but there ya go.
@@Smokeyr67 Yeah Bob Jane was involved. he owned Calder Park. the Thunderdome is still a legend here in Melbourne. His newphew Kim Jane raced and won a few races if im correct
A lot of people don't realize just how hardcore NASCAR cars are and how much skill they take. Nice racing!
On a circuit 100% they take a lot of skill they are a handful by the looks of it
@@Tyler-dm9jw They take mad skill even on the ovals, i know nascar is boring to watch but the science behind nascar racing is something else and the ovals are wayy steeper than your
average person thinks.
@@Tyler-dm9jwOn some ovals they’re on the limit in slip for like 10 seconds through the corner… Trust me they’re hard to drive everywhere
@@lazerrhino Why is Nascar boring to watch?
@ThaNiceMeme It’s boring if you just take it at face value of "cars going in circles". But every single track has its own strategy for tires, fuel, etc, so even the ovals that look the same are vastly different. It's kinda like a mini endurance race.
I used to hate Mount Panorama too but once I really spent some time and put in the laps I gained a new appreciation for it. The first time I got the mountain just right it was extremely satisfying.
I had that with this track Nordschleife and monaco it makes you appriciate how technical it is and how rewarding the risks can be
@@coolguy10060 Monaco is the one track I can’t get there with for whatever reason. All the others mentioned I love and get that feeling of balancing risk/reward and getting in the flow. Anytime I try to push or drive close to my limit I can’t link more than a couple laps when it comes to Monaco.
Its one of those “slow is fast but fast is also fast” tracks. So many different ways to run it
Funny enough in the 90s Australia's own NASCAR style Series based on the then current cup rules DID race at Bathurst, so it's not unheard of.
While not being Bathurst, NASCAR officials held talks with local authorities to have the Clash at Interlagos, possibly in 2026. NFL held a season opened this year at São Paulo, so at least the market is considered worth a visit. Plus, the rest of country would watch it for free NASCAR races in Brazil are live streamed on the RUclips account of the rights holder.
The radio-voice on the chase cam is super fun as a bit, but personally i would rather listen to your high quality audio for those parts
Honestly, its a fun idea, i think Jimmy should keep it.
I like it but maybe tone it down slightly, it was slightly hard to understand at some points. I think keep it but dial it back half a notch.
Maybe make the effect a bit less, but it does add heaps of character.
I like the idea, but sometimes I had trouble understanding what he was saying.
@@ZoomerPay Yeah agreed
Love Bathurst. Many cars and categories are fun around here. But something about taking Supercar around there is such a joy. Personally wish NASCAR came back here. Would be real fun to watch.
1:55 I love the editing detail where the mic changes quality when he's coming through the radio, and it switches back to regular Jimmo when we're onboard with him.
Yeah NASCAR could use some out-of-US exhibitions again for sure, but you’re definitely right about people being just a bit too obsessed with the realism in sims.
I heard they are about to go race at Mexico and considering Brazil in near future.
@@lukeracer252would be good for the local versions of the series they’ve rebranded to being NASCAR down there to get cup/xfinity exhibition races to help promote them.
Mosport Mosport Mosport Mosport
@@lukeracer252 Interlagos plz
@@MathRaven1910 That's the idea as it was said
I can't almost see Corey Lajoie doing a blowover right before the chase.
He will find a way.
he can do one at martinsville
I love Bathurst... as half australian and with a great grandfather who helped build the track it has a special place for me! Always love seeing your love for the track!
I wish NASCAR would do more exhibition things like Suzuka. My first introduction to Suzuka I ever had was EA including the track in NASCAR 98 and also the VHS tape I had of the 2nd race they did there in 1997
With Supercars champion Shane Van Gisbergen in NASCAR now I guess if it's going to happen this is the best chance we've probably ever had for this to happen in real life!
Aussie Racing Cars (ARC) is so fun around mount panorama
Hands down the best racing I've ever watched. The BOP system is absolutely mint
Id love to see ARC be introduced to iracing. Theyre bloody awesome cars and the mods on AC are mega fun to drive
That gran turismo movie clip for I racing @0:49 😂
The NASCAR races at Montreal were pretty good too. I dont think the Cup series went, but the Busch series put some pretty good shows there.
There are talks of the cup series coming to Montreal
@dewbee7985 I hope so! I'm excited to watch the race in Mexico next year! Hopefully the next gen by itself doesn't ruin it
@@dewbee7985 Giles Villeneuve is a perfect circuit for NASCAR- enough long straights to draft and overtake, enough technical sections to punish you for not being smart, and not enough runoff for you to recover from a severe mistake.
Absolutely NASCAR should go to Bathurst and race. Maybe with the tire from the Garage 56 NASCAR entry at the 2023 Le Mans, as that was designed for cornering and longer life.
Definitely helps that the newer NASCAR cars are designed with road corses in mind. It'd be interesting to see some generation of the older, more powerful Oval spec cars try to survive around here.
If you're looking for another super fun silly combo, TCR cars at an oval like Charlotte is great fun
Also, the radio effect on the cinematic cam was a nice touch
A Xfinity Leauge I used to race in has done Bathurst twice and it was always a blast. Glad Jimmy’s showing off how fun this is!
They actually did have a nascar race in the early 90s it was amazing i stood on the bridge as they went past it, shook like mad thought it was going to fall down
The whole point of the Gen7 is to bring NASCAR to the 21st century. It's got a sequential shifter, 5 gears, independent rear suspension, a transaxle, a massive flat floor, a diffuser.
All of those changes also completely chamged NASCAR's identity with how the cars race and how they're built
Sorry but NASCAR is supposed to be OLD SCHOOL.
@tyleracimovic823 yeah so old school that they can't attract fans from a younger generation, effectively killing their brand. That's a good idea.
@@Ramonatho Well the attraction IS the old school cars. I'm 24 and lots of kids have been going to NASCAR races for years.
@@Ramonatho Rather than killing their brand with horrid officiating? I get you need to make progress, but this car has been nothing but issues since they announced it
@@Ramonatho What makes you think these new cars attract a younger audience? Do you have any evidence for that?
One of my favourite races ever in iRacing was here in the FR500 Mustang. I hit the walls approximately 67 million times in practice in the week leading up to it but when I got it hooked up in the race I felt like an absolute hero, even though I was in the midfield the whole time. It's just one of those tracks that feels so satisfying to drive, especially in a car that moves around all over the place.
6:40 The current NASCAR Cup car isn't a solid rear axle, it is independent rear suspension.
I love the Gen 7 Cup Car. The league I'm in is thinking about running this combination during our next season.
NASCAR have raced at Bathurst. It was a regular support race in the 90s. They were awesome.
cant imagine how much it would cost to fly over 40 cars or 80 with backups, be really cool to see NASCAR here again tho, gold coast, adelaide and bathurst would put on some good racing
I reckon jimmy had planned the release of this video for the day after the Bathurst 1000
On an editing note, LOVE the radio effect on the external shots!
Sadly really not doing it for me... like, cool idea, but it feels really jarring to me
@@johannesgutsmiedl366 Radio volume needs to be higher, I think. Should be same volume as the facecam. Easy mixing mistake to make depending on the audio equipment used.
Not a fan. Prefer the old style. Feels more like a Jimmy video
Not good for non maybe English speakers, too much effect.
Need to be tuned down a lot to enjoy the video, i can't hear the cars because I really have to concentrate on Jimmy speaking with the radio effect.
Yeee I like it too, just needs to raise up the volume a bit.
I appreciate the extra effort in editing Jimmer. Good job.
ITS AVALABARABRADDABTR Abruzzi everyone.
suggestion for the editor - at 11:37 - you should have gone back to the external view. that would have been awesome with the radio effect during that lockup.
Couple things.
1st.. week 13 they should absolutely run this combo, think it would highlight both the car and track, and like you said the ability to just have fun and hang on.
2nd. The radio comms when view was out of car was brilliant. Cheers
I would love to see an international nascar cup series. My favorite nascar events are the road courses, and short tracks. An IRacing series for this would be great fun to watch.
The best racing series ever
When your editor finds the audio manipulation in the editing software. LOL
Yeah I wish he’d not do that every time, it’s funny as a bit but gets old as it does make the audio harder to understand
These cars are so damn hard to drive I applaud you for that first lap alone
Jimmy, we actually had Nascars at Bathurst for probably 3 seasons as a support race, I think it was the mid 90s and Kevin Schwantz held the top speed down conrod in Tony Southwell’s thunderbird at 304kp/h until we got the first gt3 race about 10 years ago.
Jimmy is on a roll lately and I am HERE for it
One of my favourite AI mashups is Arca, Brazilian Stock Cars, and GT4. Sandown was my favourite venue, the long back straight suits the high horsepower cars, but the GT4 lap times weren't miles off the pace. The legacy Carrera Cup car was also fun to combine with Nascar trucks, similar lap times at a lot of places, but how they achieve the speed is totally different
Jimmy, they used to race Australian NASCAR and AUSCAR at Bathurst in the 90s. There's a few clips floating around on the internet if you wanna check it out.
I was introduced to Bathurst from Forza, I loved driving old race cars on it, Auto-Union Type-D, GT40, V12 F1 cars, just crazy stuff lol.
I detailed the official nascar Toyota Camry trd pace car today, quite fitting that your thumbnail is the Camry nascar.
As amazing as NASCAR at Bathurst sounds, we NEED to see them go to the Nurburgring!
Id support seeing them hit up mount panorama, from what I’ve noticed it seems like they actually made the newer models of nascar for the possible times they do road courses rather than an oval or rounded triangle thing.
Shane Van Gisbergen in a NASCAR at Bathurst? Hell yes!!
NASCAR car*
When will we see jimmy run a nascar cup race??
Sim-racing's advantage over real world racing is that you can do things that doesn't happen in real life. Why give up that advantage by restricting yourself to only mimicing real life? Coming up with stuff like this is what makes it awesome.
I would love to see a reaction to Scott McLaughlin and his 2017 qualifying lap record on Mount Panorama. That was one hell of a lap he put down
My 2 test tracks for cars are Spa and the legendary Mount Panarama, i feel they are the best tracks to test a car cause unlike Nordschleife theyre short enough to visibly see your improvement and still they have a little bit of everything, big straights, elevation changes varied corners, theyre just masterpieces of tarmac draped on the earth 😊
NASCAR has long had road races too. Sonoma has hosted a lot of them over the years.
Love to see Jimmy come here n do a lap of the mountain!! One day hopefully
Watching Keichi Tsuchiya drive a gen 4 cup car at Suzuka is something special.
The last corner reminds me of the last corner on Laguna Seca ... stand it on it's nose, hard 90 left on to a straight (or a "straight").
I LOVE The editing with the audio :)
I dont now what he did but his Videos have goten so much better over the years
Bob Jane brought nascar to Australia and called it Auscar , built a track at Calder raceway . I think they also tried these cars at Bathurst . They were Holdens and Fords modified to suit and imports .
There were a few races with actual imported cup cars.
Might’ve been the ones the US teams had flown over and sold them while they were here for their last calder race.
I hear all the time it isn't easy to pass on this circuit, but I tend to not have an issue passing up top the mountain. It's ballsy, but can be done.
You're wrong. This car has an independent rear suspension.
Well ole jimmer I got some news for you mate in 1988 some NASCAR legends of the time raced some local racing legends at the Calder park thunderdome (the Calder park thunderdome is a oval track in the Calder park race complex bought by bob Jane in circa late 1970s) and there’s also AUSCAR (Australian NASCAR that ran from 1988 to 1998)
I've always said Nascar should do more road courses, even before Garage 56 went to Le Mans. Would force the cars to evolve and really focus on more on handling, braking, and tire efficiency. I think they'd be incredible. You should take the Camry to the Nurburgring, bet it'll surprise you.
Cool vid. Coincidentaly I just raced at Bathurst against AI in a grid of Brazilian Stock Cars in AMS 2 recently. They are considerably slower but good fun too. I know AMS 2 hasn't the best physics, but still, good fun.
I mean with how surprisingly experimental NASCAR has been, you never know. SVG being in NASCAR (after his mentor Ambrose was) and Brodie having had a go as well as the likes of Habul having had appearances, its not like they HAVEN'T noticed the extra attention from the Oceania Region.
Would love to see it, what i'd also like to see is Calder park added to Iracing.
Watching this and the Cup race at the ROVAL and SVG said that the Cup car is very similar to the Supercar.
love the respect that bathurst seems to have with iracing and sim racing.
Radio effects on the exterior cams 👌 Jimmer voice for crew chief when?? 😂
7:02 gotta love finding that wall
Nascar needs to do a cross-over race with Australian Supercars like what DTM and Super-GT use to do. That would be awesome, especially at Bathurst, Melbourne, or even Adelaide.
The problem is that SuperGT and DTM were at similar pace, and I am pretty sure NASCAR current gen would still be considerably slower than SV8 in a track like this
@lukeracer252 Perhaps🤔
if the thunderdome is repaved i would love for NASCAR to come back to calder park
@@Thefunnyaussie-1 Absolutely
@@lukeracer252 If NASCAR bumped the power to say 750 or 800 and added a bit more downforce then they'd keep up. NASCAR and V8s have always been around the same speed.
NASCAR on all tracks in sim racing. It's fun.
Editor-chan earning their keep.
About Jimmy saying "there's no reason why they shouldn't race here", well... I agree it would be fun, but also think there are a number of reasons for not doing so. The cost of moving a 40-ish cars circus to Austraila being the first one that comes to my mind. Not saying it's impossible, but there are reasons why it hasn't happened yet.
Also the track isn't really up to the safety standards that NASCAR is accustomed to. NASCAR has a rocky history with concrete walls.
I love how a lot of people overlook the fact that NASCAR runs on more than just ovals
I hope NASCAR starts going to some more road courses, because they are so fun to drive and can produce some awesome racing.
Mhm
They already to go to quite a few, including a street circuit, as a nascar fan I don’t really think I need to see more.
They're working on it. Going to Mexico City next year and there are talks about Montreal.
I like the idea of using the radio sound when doing outside pov, but sometimes it’s kinda hard to understand
With how crazy NASCAR gets and ambitious, I wouldn't be surprised if we have this track on the schedule by 2028
The first track I learned when I got into simracing around '07/08 was Bathurst.
AUSCAR existed in aussie back in the day, and there were a few support races run here. Basically a stock car formula with aussie holden and ford bodies.
It was weird seeing them do ovals going clockwise
It's quite simple really just as our football players play AFL and Rugby without pads and helmets, we enjoy motor sports that is faster and more exciting than going in circles.
I'd love to see them go to the thunderdome if it still exists, but this would be my second choice. Imagine a nascar/supercars double header here. That'd be so sick.
Not a "first" in sight, absolutely beautiful
jimmer you would need more than 8 laps on what I assume you're running as the fixed baseline set for the car to feel good to drive. the cup car tends to be a boat early run but turns into a decent road racer after like 10 laps or so as far as how it works on iRacing, another thing is the car isn't as forgiving as it is irl too from what I can tell. I hope to see you run these at the ring meister race later in the season too.
Just a quick FYI, the Next Gen NASCAR Cup Cars have independent rear suspension.
The Australian NASCAR series (now defunct) did race at Bathurst in the 90s.
i would love to see you do more stuff with the NASCAR on iRacing
Would love to see it but its the logistics of shipping all the cars and tools and crews to do it…..you would have to do it on the off season but most crews are busy getting ready for the next season (the nascar off season really is insanely short)
There is a way through before forest elbow, and after skyline, just look up Jordan Cox in his civic. Words cant describe the brass nuts.
@7:45 at least now we know what Jimmy is buying next - a used Falcon or Commodore V8 Supercar makes complete sense. Bonkers, a unique thing to have and it's RHD so why not?
Half-expected the traditional "This is where during a fight between GM and Ford Enthusiasts, a Race breaks out!" description of Bathurst
NASCAR is going to Mexico City next season and there's rumors of going to Brazil for the opening exhibition race in 2026. It's not clear if it would be a street circuit or Interlagos. They also want to race in Montreal at Circuit Gilles Villenueve. They have race at Mexico City and Montreal in the Xfinity series (B Car) division, but not Cup (A Car).
Would be really cool to see Shane Van Gisbergen take one around here even for a demo run in the future
The next gen cars should go and do a bunch of circuits around the World cause they are pretty sick
You need to set up an iracing event with 80s stock cars at Bathurst.
There's only a set number of weekends that can be used for events at Mount Panorama
The TRD paint scheme was so cool
I remember when Marcos Ambrose took Darrel Waltrip around the course in a V8 Supercar. When they went over the top and dropped into the esses DW was grabbing anything he could hold on to.
It was actually Jason Bright
@@TurboWheeler Thanks Turbo, I stand corrected. It's been a few years and I think the video I saw they were already on track. I always assumed it was Ambrose. Either way DW was hilarious.
@@lear1980 Ambrose was my favorite driver while he was here, and the 2011 1000 was the one that got me to start watching it every year
I remember a couple of years ago the Bathurst 1000 had to be yellow-flagged for a couple of laps because there was an echidna on the track. If that's not the most Aussie thing ever I don't know what is lol.
With SVG now in cup/ XFINITY i would love to see NASCAR come down under to the Thunderdome if the Thunderdome was to be restored and brought up to scratch
I like the new editing style