With the 2010 championship for V8 Supercars Australia nearing the endurance races, and the business end of the season, I thought it might be worth having a look at this summary of the 1990 championship – 20 years ago. Interesting to see old names like Colin Bond, the late Peter Brock, Dick Johnson, and Win [...]
Just stumbled on this classic McAvaney moment in an old Channel Seven Sportsworld promo from 1991 in my old video collection: The only thing that can be said is “speeeeeeeeeeeeeeshul!”
Delving back again into my archive of video, I’ve stumbled across a great piece about the return of Peter Brock to Holden in 1991, after a year with BMW and two with Ford between 1988 and 1990. After losing engineering support with Andy Rouse moving to Toyota in the British series in 1991, Brock needed [...]
In my continuing efforts to restore and digitise as much Bathurst 500/1000 footage that I can get my hands onto, I have been working lately on footage from the 1991 Tooheys 1000, won by Jim Richards and Mark Skaife in a Nissan GT-R. Going through my old tapes, when I reached the presentation ceremony at [...]
Time for another trip down memory lane! There have been many changes at Mount Panorama in recent years. A new pit complex. A massive hotel/convention centre at the bottom of Conrod Straight. A new bridge over Pit Straight. Regular track resurfacing. However, the year the biggest changes occurred was 1987, when the Bathurst 1000 became [...]
History channel time again, and a flashback to AFL Round 3, 2004. After publicly slamming the performance of a particular umpire in the media the previous week, superstar James Hird was under the spotlight from all corners of the football world. But champions know how to respond, and in an astoundingly intense game of football, [...]
Jumping back into the archives for a bit – here’s the famous (and some say controversial) finish to the 1992 Tooheys 1000. It was a sad day for me – one of my racing heroes, Denny Hulme died on live television before my eyes that day – of a heart-attack at the wheel early in [...]
Although pretty corny (really), here’s another classic snippet I’ve recovered out of my old video collection. On the Wednesday evening after the 1993 AFL Premiership win, here is captain Mark Thompson becoming the “Mayor of Essendon” for the day. Also included is some great footage of the boys lining up for the official team portrait. [...]
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been digging through my old video collection, and found this little gem. I used to snap up the Seven Nightly News sports reports from Wednesday through Sunday of each year’s Bathurst week for posterity – knowing that there’s always little bits of footage and information you don’t get [...]
Stepping back in time once again, the late 1980′s were a tough time for Holden supporters in Australian touring car racing. From the moment Allan Grice won the 1986 James Hardie 1000 in a VK Commodore, a Holden did not lead a single race lap at the Bathurst until lap 32 of the 1990 race, [...]
