Tag Archives: v8supercars

Bathurst 1987: The Big Facelift

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 [...]

Neil Crompton Back in the Saddle

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 [...]