Wow - you drove the shit out of that thing here!! Incredible!! Monaro never really got more than 3 secs on you. Outstanding work.

There was a massive cheer as you out braked him into the first corner! 👌🏻

I like these longer clips

Abigail, I love you and your content. Very glad to see you back from your injury. I think you and Ben should race each other and donate the proceeds to your favorite charities. I would buy a pay per view, unless of course you would do one here in the states, then I would just attend.

Simply awesome 💪

absolutely wicked that is

Absolutely brilliant watching you in an old Aussie race car giving it heaps on the track, looks and sounds awesome. Memories of when they at the top of the game here in Aus.

wow Abbie what an inspiration you are to us H1 Thundersaloon's showing how the older cars dont give up the fight. Love the out brake maneuver at the end of the straight i almost fell of my seat at work trying to miss the back of andys car lol. well done excellent end to the year roll on paul in the garage finding a few more tweaks and look forward to seeing you show us your amazing skills in 2024

Probably the fastest and most well driven that car has ever been 🤣 nice to see you back!

Man I love these! Glad to see the notification of a post!!

Thanks for dropping little nuggets like this ❤

Oh yes!! Would love to have been trackside for this. Absolutely epic 👍

Absolutely awesome Abbie, also thinking that some of those Monaro's were built with an 8L V8 (for the 2002/03 Bathurst 24Hr) so giving them a run would have been fantastic. Great to hear and see them running especially at Donnington. Sorry you had technical issues, you looked pretty relaxed driving it even with shaky brakes

F1 could do with someone like you

TBH, it looks like it's not aero, power, and certainly not braking skill, but the gearbox that makes the real difference, with the newer car having 6 ratio's ready for anything while IIRC your car only has the four speed, the top gear of which I don't think you used a single time in this vision, suggesting the diff ratio is also to tall for this track. Edit: kept watching, you did use top later in the vision.

@AbbieEaton

9 ай бұрын

Yes the Monaro is nearly 30 years newer than the Commodore. Where the Monaro is stronger is Sector 1 & 2, which is where aero and the grip of the Monaro allow it to pull away (not mentioning the fact it has another 100bhp than us too! lol!) But what I’m saying is that with some decent brakes on the car we are only 1 tenth a lap down on the Monaro lap time as it is, so the brakes will close that time up too. Gearbox wise at the start when the tyres are cold you don’t reach 4th gear. The Monaro should be a good 5-7 seconds down the road with a decent peddler at the wheel anyway.

@PiDsPagePrototypes

9 ай бұрын

@@AbbieEaton - There's more then a few folks that underestimate those '80's cars - they were light, nimble, and rocketships of the time, and having filmed interviews too many times with the drivers and chatted behind scenes with the engineers, there was a heck of a lot of smart thinking went in to them. You're spot on, a full time driver should be further down the road in the Monaro, but any little mistake, that Commodore of yours is right on it's tail.

@whitemetro99

9 ай бұрын

Full time driver ??? As soon as I passed her pulled the gap !! I went into cruise mode !!! Know one pays for my car but me .. I ain’t killing it ever lap to win by 20 seconds.. if not driven the car for a year it has had no testing and was on old old tyres .. where back there in March let’s see what the monaro can do then !

@whitemetro99

9 ай бұрын

Ummmm … I pay for my cars love . Next time I won’t go into Cruise mode I’ll keep on it and it will be more than 5/7 seconds a decent drive would pull . 😂

@AbbieEaton

9 ай бұрын

@@whitemetro99 Hi Andy, apologies - no offence was intended, I’m talking about a professional driver. Good to hear there was more in the car if you were in cruise mode!!

Pontiac and Holden was dead but Vauxhall still save Monaro