There's a question which I know
thousands of people out there will be asking, car drivers mainly.
Are motorcycle racers basically insane?
You know, I think to a certain degree, we are.
Half the thing that's difficult to overcome with bikes is actually the fear.
You know, you start to crash when you start to push limits, you know.
You lock a front on a car, you run wide.
You lock a front of the bike, you go down.
Casey's comparison about racing a car and the bike was most timely
because that was exactly what we plan to do next,
specifically a shootout between his bike...
a V8 supercar...
and this.
And the drivers weren't too shabby either.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome on to the track
as they make their way around, Mark Webber,
Jamie Whincup, and Casey Stoner!
Jamie, I hate to illustrate your sort of weakness here at the moment,
but you do have an advantage in some ways because you weigh nearly one ton more
than these two guys combined, don't you?
So you can use your car as a bit of a battering ram.
They get in your way, just feed them a wheel and set them off the track.
I won't be looking at... I'll just be making sure I don't run over the public.
Mate, you can not only shut the gate, you can give them a wall.
Now, how long can you stay still on the track in this kind of heat
before it's a problem for the car? It's what, 30 seconds?
They're not designed to be sit in around too long, so...
-I am. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
With all three guys saddled up, they took their places on the start line.
Ten-second board out, revving up.
Casey Stoner, Jamie Whincup, Mark Webber.
Australian champions on a track together.
With three weapons.
Lights out! And we're away!
At the turn, Casey Stoner is on the money.
Webber quickly pulled away,
with his challenge being to lap the other two by the end
of the five-lap race.
Jamie and Casey, meanwhile, got stuck into giving each other a good fight
And now back to our commentary box.
Have a look at the difference between the bike and the car
as they come around that corner there in the view.
And Casey is actually making that rear end of that bike very wide for Jamie.
He is indeed. I'm surprised with just how quickly Webb has got away.
But then again, we shouldn't, really. They have such powerful machines
and a very, very light body.
A lot of aero being put into these cars nowadays, a maximum amount of grip
as he goes through the back end of the circuit.
And it will be a little bit of a tussle between Whincup and Stoner, I suspect,
as we see Webber here. Have a listen to this car, folks.
There is nothing like an engine for that. But over five laps,
it's going to be so interesting to see what have we got
as far as a lap time difference between them.
And what have we got here as far as lap time?
We're looking at, what, a 50.57.
Fifty-point-five for Webber on the short circuit.
Stoner goes across the line now with a 1:07.14.
So 17 seconds difference between the two
And Whincup is right on him, though. Look as they go around into turn one.
Whincup is not letting him get away all that easy.
And he's still saying the bike is a little bit hard to pass.
So obviously, Casey is taking those lines
And here we come, Mark Webber again across the line.
And one-hundredth-of-a-second difference between those two left,
so Webber's got that one tailed in well and truly.
The battle on between these two,
as we said, Whincup finally, a little bit hard to get past Stoner
on these tighter turns
And we can see starting to look in his mirrors just going, "Where is he?
"He's right behind me. He's in my draft, not that there's much of it.
And he's having an absolute harder time to try and get through."
This is just sensational stuff.
It is sensational stuff, and now, obviously,
you were right with Mark Weber coming across the line
as we see Casey Stoner and Jamie Whincup heading down the Brabham Straight.
But will Mark catch them?
There is no doubt. Have a look at this.
You reckon he is gonna put them a lap down on the final lap?
Well, I just don't think
it's gonna be long
before he's right on the back of Jamie Whincup.
And let's just see how long it takes.
This is the final lap now, ladies and gentlemen.
So it is now two cars. Of course, the Formula One car, the V8 supercar,
and it's now... What's that? Casey Stoner is in front.
Oh, that's interesting. He comes back,
he's saying, "Can I find a way through these two?"
It's Red Bull, Red Bull and motorbike at the moment in reverse order.
We're looking to see if Webber can find his way through,
And I reckon he'll take him out at the top end of the circuit here, John,
as we see a little bit of the tires as Whincup finally got through...
on Stoner as they come around the back end of the circuit.
But have a look at the acceleration difference and the similarity
between the V8 supercar and the Formula One.
Check this out as they come to the Brabham Straight, ladies and gentlemen.
Look at this and raise your arms up as we see history
with Mark Webber, Jamie Whincup, and of course, Casey Stoner.
It's about to get loud, folks. It's about to get smoking.
Casey Stoner is letting it loose.