Just saw the promo during F1 qualifying. Looks like Speed will also be covering some other Aussie V8 races live as well. A rare example of quality race programming amid the ever-expanding pool of loosely car-based reality shows.
http://www.crash.net/v8+supercars/news/173044/1/waltrip_joins_us_tv_coverage_of_bathurst_1000.html
whoa what the hell, are pigs flying? did hell freeze over? did something happen twice in a blue moon?
Darrell Waltrip
Mr. NASCRAP announcing Bathurst oh well, I guess I can turn the volume down and put on some other car sound track instead 
Check Radio Le Mans they may have an audio stream.
i saw that too, why those two are commentating on it are beyond me.
where the hell is Leigh Diffey when you need him who is THE voice for V8 Supercars
ah, SPEED.. continues to disappoint.
If you look at the link I posted, it indicates that Diffey will be one of the announcers for the race.
Sooooo...
I couldn't find a start time for the race. Since Austrailia is about 12 hours ahead of us and the race is supposed to be live....
Will we be watching at 2:00 AM on 10/8/11?
(Just asking.)
In any case it oughta be great!
Rog
I hope Mike Joy puts something suspicious in Darrell's luggage to get him hung up in customs for a few days. Thankfully they aren't dragging DW's sidekick Larry Mac with them so he can 'splain how they are able to drive on the wrong side of the car and such.
From Speed.com
Three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion and recent NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee Darrell Waltrip headlines the SPEED broadcast team heading to Australia next month to cover the famed Bathurst 1000 from Mount Panorama in New South Wales, Australia on Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. ET.
Waltrip is joined by NASCAR on FOX boothmate Mike Joy and SPEED announcer Leigh Diffey, a native of Brisbane. Former racer Calvin Fish will work the pits on the 3.9-mile road course as racers compete for the Peter Brock Trophy
ah ok i missed that. Still though Darrell Waltrip 'headlines' the broadcast team.
ugh.
Having actually been to the race and never missed watching it until I moved here a few viewing points. You need to understand that the hill off Skyline is so steep you have trouble standing on it, the elevation changes are enormous,
Conrod straight is one of the fastest section on any track in the world.
Kangaroos do run onto the track often enough for them to have a flag signal if they are in the vicinity and another when they are on track.
Rain makes huge changes to the race. More than most due to the track becoming a river on the mountain.
It could be worse: We could have to listen to Michael Waltrip.
Of course, it would only be fractionally worse.
Darrell best be letting Leigh Diffey do most of the talking.
He should just be sticking to hollering boogity-boogity-boogity on restarts and then every now and again explaining how this differs from NASCAR for errant fans who stumbled in to the broadcast looking for three or four fat guys arguing over how to assemble a chopper with even taller ape-hangers than last week.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Darrell best be letting Leigh Diffey do most of the talking.
I can't imagine DW letting anyone else do most of the talking.
OH. HELL. YES.
I fell in love with Bathurst in the first Forza Motorsport (we all gotta start somewhere?). I can't wait to watch this.
Watching it now... Awesome!!
V8 fans face slab limit at Bathurst 1000 October 6, 2009
V8 fans will again be limited to one slab of beer a day at this year's Bathurst 1000 car race.
Police will be focusing on reducing alcohol-related crime when petrol heads descend upon Mount Panorama, Bathurst, in NSW's central west, this week.
For the third year running, adult race-goers will be limited to bringing one case (24 cans) of full-strength beer or one block (36 cans) of light or mid-strength beer each day. Advertisement: Story continues below
Restrictions also apply to one case (24 cans) of pre-mixed drinks a day or one cask of wine up to four litres.
Combinations of the options will not be allowed.
Assistant Commissioner Alan Clarke said police will not tolerate alcohol-fuelled violence.
"This is one of the greatest motorsport events in Australia and for some it is a pilgrimage that they make every year," Mr Clarke said in a statement on Tuesday.
"Police respect people's rights to enjoy the race weekend, but will promptly act when the law is broken."
Police are also urging people travelling to Bathurst to drive safely and closely monitor their speed and fatigue.
The Bathurst 1000 runs from Thursday to Sunday.
© 2011 AAP
Meanwhile, ol' DW is doing a bang up job, mate. Keep your NASCAR prejudices to yourself.
Waltrip looked visibly uncomfortable during that ride along. At first I though he was just hamming it up, but I think age/only driving on ovals left him a little unprepared for that track.
Also, apparently Americans only understand NASCAR, so of course everything was comparing the Falcons and Commodores to Cup Cars.
Drewsifer wrote: OH. HELL. YES. I fell in love with Bathurst in the first Forza Motorsport (we all gotta start somewhere?). I can't wait to watch this.
Bathurst wasn't in Forza. Codemasters had exclusive rights to Aussie V8 Supercar tracks at the time. If I remember right, it was a track called Blue Mountain, and it was kinda similar to Bathurst.
LainfordExpress wrote: Waltrip looked visibly uncomfortable during that ride along. At first I though he was just hamming it up, but I think age/only driving on ovals left him a little unprepared for that track.
I think any American driver would be unprepared for that track. We don't have any track in this country that I know of that has that much elevation change. And it looks to be a lot steeper than going into the boot at WG or down the corkscrew at VIR.
this is way better than watching a replay/tape delay.
I hope this is a sign of things to come from SpeedTV.. more live racing. Heck, more racing would be fine with me.
Hell, he's 64 years old. I'm sure that took a lot out of him.
Yeah, Speed will be getting a GOOD e-mail from me for this.
I didn't mean it as a slam against Waltrip. More of "This just shows what racing is really like that a guy that spent his whole life in race cars is very uncomfortable."
I'm just saying that it's a pretty demanding track for someone who hasn't really been in a race car for 7 years, let alone someone who is 64 as well.
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