Luke Youlden and David Reynolds
David Reynolds and Luke Youlden
Bathurst this year, working on limited resources 2015 Bathurst champion Mark Winterbottom crash
and a race crew, a fraction of the size of the much heavily on the final lap while pushing hard for a
more vaunted major teams of the sport. The top five result.
outstanding race pit stop strategy and gaining the Luckily, the Bathurst 1000 is held every year and
absolute best from their two extremely talented the Supercar teams, drivers and co-drivers will be
and experienced drivers was a treatment to the back to tame Australia’s most famous mountain
supurb teamwork. once again from 4 to 7 October 2018.
The post-race press conference at Bathurst saw Below are just some of the demands that Bathurst
a completely exhausted Reynolds and a clearly co-drivers need to be able to demonstrate:
elated Youlden celebrate their magnificent
milestone performance. The Penrite Erebus
Commodore beat the might of HSV Racing’s duo
Scott Pye and Warren Luff and the championship
leading DJR Team Penske duo of Fabian Coulthard
and Tony D’Alberto.
With the Erebus team’s sister car piloted by Dale
Wood and Chris Pither finishing in 4th place, this
could only be described as an incredible team
result at the most challenging race of the year.
In one of the crueller could-have-beens of the race
(there are always so many), Nissan Motorsport’s
Simona de Silvestro and highly experienced co-
driver David Russell were on track to be the first
• Race at an average speed of 161.5km/h and
reach a top speed of just on 300km/h at the
end of the Conrod Straight, lap after lap.
• Cope with an average heart rate of 170 beats
per minute during the race.
• Deal with cabin temperatures of up to 60
degrees Celsius and usually always double the
ambient temperature at least.
• Handle your core body temperature rising up
to 39 degrees Celsius - fever level.
• Have strong average reaction times of around
0.15 seconds - this is as fast as an elite
sprinter.
male and female Bathurst driver combination in • Equivalent of 1200 x 120kg single leg presses
history to finish in the top ten. That was, until in to exert the required brake pedal pressure.
the final stages, when de Silvestro crashed heavily
• Bring the car home in one piece!
on the main straight. The end of the race also saw
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