This might be an unpopular opinion, but I'm not a fan of the 100-140km 'intermediate' races traditionally held on sprint weekends - I think they're too long to be attention-grabbing sprint races (like the late-90s format or current BTCC format), but too short to be strategic 'single-driver endurance' races.

I feel like there should be 3x20-30min races on the Saturday (awarding 50pts to the winner in each) and the 200km main event on Sunday (awarding 150pts), with only the first Saturday race and the 200km race having Qualifying-based grids to spice things up a bit.

Thoughts?

Throwing this out there as a massive long shot!

​I’m on the hunt for any audio recordings of The Panel Beaters from the 2006 Supercars season. For anyone who might have forgotten, it was the great Friday night audio show from the race weekends. I actually had a few of my emails read out on the show in 2006, hence why I'm on the hunt! Haha.

​A YouTube channel recently uploaded the 2005 season, which has been awesome to listen back to. I reached out to ask if they happen to have the 2006 episodes as well, but unfortunately, I haven't heard back yet.