Scott Sinclair

I think manipulation is something you want to stay away from.

I was in the comms box and Scott Sinclair on Sunday said that Jared Hughes was in the pot, which means he's out of fuel, and Cooper Murray was in the pot and he was out of fuel.

Ironically, they messed up and they genuinely were in the pot.

I was standing next to Scott Sinclair.

It's pretty good that all three manufacturers are still in it.

I think that's the coolest part about this whole thing.

Fascinating insights coming from all around the motorsport industry, and we'll touch on a few more in a second.

But the one that stands out for me right now is Scott Sinclair, our supercars data analyst.

He's been in garages before.

He's seen all these things play out, and he was very, very firm.

So it was a good positive for the weekend from my point of view.

Our supercars analyst, Scotty Sinclair, had been running the numbers and told us that both those cars that pitted later in the race were definitely going to run out of fuel.

There is absolutely no question about that.

He's the same man that could see the drummer playing out in the background at Bathurst as well.

And honestly, if Anton was eliminated, you've got to say it was probably the team's own fault from this morning because... of how poorly Anton qualified, but coincidence, irony, whatnot, he's in to Sandown, and they've got to take that.

But in the same breath, unfortunately for Team 18 and for Anton, they're now seventh, and so they're already on the way, they're looking in, on the way out of looking in.

So just to clarify, the numbers from Scott Sinclair, our supercars analyst, were that Cooper Murray was six litres short, so...

That meant that he was never going to make it.

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when you do look at it as well, like Mark Larkham has always covered himself in glory with the way he tracked that fuel situation, and, uh, I believe he had some help from Scott Sinclair, who works in the box, um, off mic.

But, uh, those guys were well and truly onto it before Team 18 were.

Before we do move on, and this is a question without notice, so apologies for that, but can you remember a Bathurst finish gaining the general zeitgeist traction of this one? Like last year was an epic race and an epic finish, right? But there's something about the relatability of, like, running out of fuel and it just ...