Cape, don't forget that HRT's tactics were the very same as those used by Triple Eight: stick your best drivers in one car, especially if they're championship contenders. It's high risk but high reward because if it goes pear shaped you lose everything but if you do well, the results are worth it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Mind you, even if Perkins Jnr. hadn't have hit Skaife, the man would be in trouble all day long. Fixing the clutch would take a lot of time and that would put them down a few laps and after that they'd only recover after a supreme effort just to finish and a rare driver error from Jim Richards dusted HRT's chances. Anyone else notice that Jason Richards not only jumped over the entire track, but cleared the grassy verge on the other side of the Chase?
It hasn't been a good week for accidents; one of the two Development drivers is now breathing on his own but there's been little in the way of improvement for the other and now Paul Radisich has been hospitalised (though I think it was wrong to give Nathan Pretty that drive-through as Radisich was in his blind spot and there was nothing Pretty could have done).
I've also noticed there's a lot of bad sports about (not sure who was booing who when the Kellys mounted the podium); a lot of Holden fans I know were up in arms saying Ford never should have won because Brocky was a Holden driver and therefore it was Holden's right to occupy all thre eplaces of the podium, ignoring that Lowndes was Brock's friend and protege or writing him off as a traitor. I think that if Brock were alive, he'd be disgusted at their attitude; I know I would be.
I think that the award for Passing Move of the Year should go to Lowndes for taking Davidson like that out of Brock's Skyline. That' not a place you pass anyone without a copious splash of audacity and a pair of very large cojones ...
