Hear The Lion Roar

Ford fans will probably not understand where I’m coming from in this letter. ‘Big bloody deal!’ they’ll say to themselves, after reading this.

I’m a Holden freak and have invested in three Holdens over the short time I’ve had my licence and nothing is better (as I know other Holden owners will agree) than spending a

little of your time now and again just having a look at that chrome-plated Lion badge planted on the front of your pride and joy!

Now to the point! While reading about the V8 Supercars 2 game (V8X #20) they crap on about all the new developments, the now more realistic graphics and how they even go to the venues to capture the real atmosphere.

Now a line from page 94: Codemasters takes the realism on its games very seriously! Now take a look at the pictures of the Commodores on page 92 and the centrefold, that’s right, the bloody Holden badge is friggin’ back to front.

Well and truly realistic, hey! What other unreal features have the people at Codemasters overlooked or messed up?

C’mon people, get your shit together. Get the cars right first before advancing to the great looking asphalt!

What do youz reckon??

Stephen

I reckon that what you saw was what they call in the games developer world ’early coding’ and the end product was yet to be finished – Ed.

Weird text message dept Please help My boyfriend of six years I feel is going to leave me because of the V8 Supercars and the pit chicks. I was wondering how I could go about winning a tight OzEmail or Holden outfit to make him want to stay home instead of going to the V8 Supercars or buying your mags constantly. Please help me! Person unknown.

The new V8 Supercar 2 game

This game edition awaits my purchase. I have  been following up on the release dates of the V8 Supercar 2 game through the V8 Supercar site, V8X and Atari (thank you) and viewing current downloads of the Supercars 2 game recently.

And I tell you this much, it looks ’fan-bloody tastic’. There’s one of Barthurst, and just watching the game gets your adrenalin going. So I say sorry to Sony, hello to Xbox. Though Xbox needs to get some nice steering wheels going, so we can truly bring it to our lounge rooms, and thanks to Codemasters.

This may have been resolved by the time this goes to press, but what was Dumbrell thinking? Adelaide! He almost killed four drivers, and knowing Turn 8’s casualties, only a day before!

“VIP”, “You’re lucky”, “Couldn’t lift the foot?” – come on, I’d hope Larry would chew you a new ear. 

Kim Jones – calm down, although I don’t back the team. I do enjoy the Series, from home and at events close to home, and seeing and meeting you guys, I think your team is up to the competition, although Bowe could’ve bow’d defeat A few bumps OK, not carnage, agreed.

Dick Johnson! No words can be said for luck for the team. Fair dinkum I watch your face and laugh at how calm you looked, but well done in the Konicas! Same goes to Garry Rogers, and team. Adelaide ’surprised’ but hey well done on the comeback, to Eastern Creek, and good luck!

But well done SBR. Stand to be counted #1. I would’ve thought some teams would consider using some dummy pit-in call, to cover a team’s plans. From the open broadcasts, raise the bar a bit more.

Channel Ten gets my big thumbs up, for coverage this year! And Telstra, for an affordable service, and their association to the Aussie V8s. So now I’m all set for the new season, BigPonded and all, cable that’s affordable, coverage I want. Now all I need is the Xbox, and Supercars 2 game, a simple connection and hopefully the release date in April is good, and I’ll meet you on-line!

XITABLE#1 Alex

Rusty-ed off

Hi my name is Tamara and I’m 14. I am absolutely disgusted in the people who voted that Rick Kelly should be fined for making a complaint about Russell Ingall.

I seems to me that Russell Ingall is out to destroy every Holden. Starting with Holden Racing Team driver Mark Skaife, next it was Kmart Racing Team Driver Rick Kelly and now I am thinking who’s next on his hit list?

I think that Russell Ingall should be banned from racing for his dirty driving.

Thanks,Tamara

We love youse

A short note to say ’congratulations’ on producing such a informative magazine as this one. My son (Edward) of six years and my boyfriend (Wayne) are massive V8 Supercar fans, they sit together and watch each and every race without fail.

Edward loves your magazine as he can look through to find Craig Lowndes his favourite driver and all the great pictures of cars. Wayne loves to read all the articles to learn more about cars, drivers and the whole Supercar world.

Thank you for your magazine.

Sharon L

Hear, hear

After reading the pick of the mailbag from Peter of Shepparton, (V8X #19), he has said what I would have like to have said and I wholeheartedly agree with him, he hit the nail on the head.

I would like to add that the Channel 10 commentary team or for that matter, the whole motor racing business should be run by Neil Crompton, as he is a true Pro. He knows his motor racing and he is good to listen to (Bill Woods is so boring).

Anyway gang, that’s about it, except I must say thanks for V8X mag to ever hit the news stands (but I have a subscription), I can hardly wait for the next issue. (Gee that ought to be worth a T-shirt, ha ha). Keep up the good work. Maybe catch up with ya at the track.

Your devoted reader, Norm H

Thanks for the kinds words and nice try on the T-shirt –Ed.

C’mon Skaifey

What was wrong with Mark Skaife at the first round at Adelaide? He wasn’t quite with it from my point of view. I am a huge Skaife fan and I am huge supporter of the HRT. I hope this isn’t going to happen all season. I don’t want to hear from my father the same old rubbish about Fords are better than Holdens. I was quite impressed with the performance of Castrol Perkins at the first round. Go the Holdens

Andrew

Bugger off, then

What is the fixation that you people have with Skaife and HRT? There are other people and teams in the V8 Supercars group. Since your magazine’s disgusting performance in the previous issue, when Marcos Ambrose won the championship you people chose to promote Skaife, and Ambrose wasn’t mentioned until further into the magazine.

Ambrose won the championship and on the front cover is a picture of Marcos no bigger than a postage stamp and Skaife all over the rest of the cover. It is fairly obvious whose payroll your company is on.

Marcos Ambrose won the 2003 championship, just in case you hadn’t heard. As a protest to your poor performance I have made a conscious decision not to purchase your magazine any more.

Regards Ian

We had Marcos all over the cover two issues before, but still, we had stories on him winning the championship plus the column personally written by Marcos so it seems pretty hard for you to accuse us as being on ‘someone’s’ payroll. Oh, and we had Marcos all over the cover two issues before –Ed.

Pick of the mailbag V8X Reality TV! Craig wins a Xbox game from our mates at Atari Would V8X and Channel 10 look for a team of mechanics, engineers and a couple of drivers on TV just like My Restaurant Rules and Australian Idol and put a team into the V8 Supercar championships? Maybe get Ford, Holden or even Toyota to sponsor the team and do a three month or so documentary just like the shows above and see what sort of talent Australia may have and give these people a great chance to start a career in motorsport. I know that it may be too late for this season but think about it in the future. Cheers Craig Interesting idea, but I think that TV is a bit reality TVed out at the moment.