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In 2003, Holden’s Mark Skaife and Ford’s Russell Ingall came to
blows during a V8 Supercars race at Eastern Creek. Thirteen years on
we’ve brought these two Bathurst champs back, but this time they’re
brawling for eternal racetrack glory for Falcon and Commodore.
ES, there’s no
doubt about it. We
are going to spin.
My brain accepts
reality as I stare out
through the Falcon XR8
Sprint’s windscreen at the
grassy infield at Eastern Creek
raceway. Now I’m looking
back at Turn Two. That’s where
we’ve just come from. And
now it’s Turn Three visiblethrough a cloud of tyre smoke.
In the driver’s seat, former touring
car champion Russell Ingall is variously
swearing, laughing, shaking his head,
sawing at the steering wheel and snatching
at the auto shifter.
Incongruously, somewhere in the
background I can hear a warning chime
going off. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Which of
many automotive crimes currently being
committed is it identifying, I wonder.
“Holy hell, dude, what have you done tome?” Ingall shouts over the whine of the
supercharger and shredding Pirelli
P Zero tyres as we blast forward again, this
time in approximately the right direction. I
should ask him the same question.
This isn’t my fault. If Ingall hadn’t spun
Mark Skaife and his Holden Commodore
into a concrete wall at the 2003 V8
Supercars title-decider at this same
track... if the Holden Racing Team star
hadn’t then stood by the track swearing
and shaking his fist at Ingall the next timeFORD XR8 SPRINT v HOLDEN SS-V REDLINE