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 [...]
I have often heard it argued that motor racing is not a sport, that it can’t be difficult to sit in a car and just drive. Of course, just about any form of motor sport is hard work – anyone who thinks otherwise should take the chance to have a go at their local go-kart [...]
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 [...]
In the latest installment of car testing and track analysis for Channel Seven’s V8 Supercar coverage, Mark Skaife takes a run in Lee Holdsworth’s #33 GRM Fujitsu Racing Commodore at the Hidden Valley circut near Darwin. After a lap, Skaife brings the car in to make a roll centre change, and discusses the differences the [...]
A few weeks back, I posted a video of Neil Crompton having a go in Mark Winterbottom’s FPR Falcon at the Clipsal 500. These little segments by the Channel Seven commentators are for use in the coverage of the 2010 V8 Supercar season. Last weekend it was Mark Larkham’s turn in Greg Murphy’s PMM Commodore [...]
In what would turn out – (eventually) – to be Peter Brock’s ninth and last Bathurst win, here is some simply amazing footage of the man himself, displaying the absolutely superlative car control we always knew he had. After coming home third on the day, the “winning” and “second place” Eggenberger Texaco Ford Sierra’s were [...]
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 [...]
Channel Seven commentator, and one-time full-time racer, Neil Crompton – (of my hometown of Ballarat) – stepped back aboard a V8 Supercar for a television demonstration run at last weekend’s Clipsal 500 in Adelaide. Apart from taking it really really easy through the dangerous turn number eight, I think Neil showed that he’s still got [...]
Great piece of footage from last weekend’s V8 Supercar event at the Bahrain International Circuit. Russell Ingall seemingly forgets to change down gears until the very last moment in the midst of this passing attempt on Will Davison. Just love the quick downshifts when he suddenly arrives at the first corner, and realises that he’s [...]
