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In the beginning...
... the real beginning...
Amaroo Park 1993 Race 1 Rnd 1 Here Isnt the #17 car sideways for a lot of the lap... while the HRT car of Mr Mezera looked very composed... 2 wheeling up the hill... |
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Amaroo Park 1993 Race 2 Rnd 1 Here
Terry Finnigan was very quick that weekend... while Mr Pearson smacked his VP into the wall.. causing a red flag... cant see if he was in the car a the time though |
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Thanks for that GTR, i had tears and a stiffy at the same time.
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Bring on the Endurance season, and some big name DNF's... (I'd love to see the V8 Chumpionship decided @ Winton, thus making the El Grande Finale the flop it deserves to be...) |
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Skaife approaches Jones... AJ - I thought you were doing the same thing you did in the chase (I think AJ means the Dash). You chucked the thing sideways. I wasn't going to hit you. MS - Where? AJ - At the hairpin. MS - Bull....bleep. I was straight as a die. You drove straight in the back of the F...bleep car and turned me around. AJ - Bull....bleep MS - Your are f.....bleep AJ - Hey don't let your aspirations exceed you ability. MS - Yeah, really, what are you going to do about it? Skaife walks off then approaches AJ again. MS - The next time I am f.....bleep behind you I am going to turn you around. AJ - Is that right pal? MS - F....bleep oath I will AJ - You'll do a good job pal. I have been around longer than you. MS - Well that might be f...bleep why. |
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Any supporters with Nissan flags at these rounds perchance?
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Nissans were long gone by then... abolished from the main class for building a better mousetrap... and spending more than the other 2 car makers on making these cars winners.... [/rant]
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Yeah, it's such a shame that multi-million dollar 4WD Japanese sports cars aren't allowed in touring car racing anymore.
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Why does nobody ever point out that when Group A was at lowest ebb in 91/92 were we in the grips of the 'recession we had to have'? Just like in 1980 when the Group C grids were actually smaller than the Group A grids? |
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The winner will be the best saloon car whether they be Minis, Jaguars, Nissans, Mitsubishis, Camaros, Falcons, Volvos or Mustangs? Such a tussle could continue right up until the rules are changed to a controlled class tailored to the local fans 'taste' like Nascar, DTM, Japan GT, Super Touring, V8 Supercars etc surely? Then the German fans get their modestly powered cars made of carbon fibre that go around corners quickly, Japanese fans get cars with big downforce and huge turbos, American fans get big horsepower and close racing in ill-handling cars, British fans get the push and shove repmobile cup spectacular, and Aussies get some sort of mixture of less-tech than Super Touring cars with not the full Nascar bravado under the bonnet.. and all the fans are chuffed. |
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Was only watching my videos of the 93 season around Xmas. The Winton round was a cracker as well!
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Ummm. I'm confused.
"In the real beginning" suggests that this shows footage of the new all-V8 Supercar series beginning. But it has BMW's and other class cars in it. |
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You probably werent around back then. The then all new 5.0L formula was put together to replace the Grp A's, which by then were completely stuffed cos everyone was sick of the techno-mobile Nissans winning everything. Cams sort to dumb things down a bit and go a little retro and evoke some passion of old and re introduce the whole Holden V Ford that was massive in the 70's and early 80's. The BMW's were included as an uinder 2.0l class basically to fill out the grid if anything, it was very unlikely that they were ever going to contend for outright honours however if memory serves, Tony Longhurst came close a few times on the tight and twisty tracks and may even have won something or rather at somestage but hey, it was only a BMW buzz box and therefore not many real men got excited by that. (Sorry BMW people). I think it stayed more or less like this for a year or two until they decided (or maybe Tony Longhurst decided, because he was sick of being hosed in a straight line all the time) that the 4 bangers had to go, and so they did. And thats when V8 Supercar was born.
In all honesty thats the way the main series is going to go in the future. It wont stay Holden V Ford forever, times are changing, peoples tastes evolve (and devolve) and I reckon that somewhere along the line Cocko is going to realise that the V8's just dont have the same pull as they used to. Bathurst will always be ruled by the V8 as to me thats its spiritual home in Australia, but sooner or later their just going to have to mix it up a bit and chuck those spare GT3 Porches and the exotics in together with the V8's with a 44 car grid. Id pay to go see that. |
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I was around back then and understand all that.
I was just pointing out that it wasn't really the start of the new single-category V8 supercars, that's all, when it also contained non-V8's competing. |
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Also included were the grandfathered BMW M3's.. which got a mega commitment from Amatil (as it was then) for 4 cars, for Mr Morris & Mr Full (Diet Coke) and for Mr Longhurst & Mr Blanchard (B&H) No GT-R's, No Sierras, No Supras... Holden Vs Ford... plus some buzzing hornets... that were eliminated from competition at that season's end. It is the beginning... |
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The death of group A had nothing to do with Ford, Holden, CAMS or anyone else in Australia, the category was already dead overseas & Australia couldn't go it alone & they could only keep going with the same old cars for so long so a change of rules was necessary.
The original idea was for the V8s to run to a parity style formula with the 2 litres so Australia could still have it's own race cars as we had nothing that suited but for various reasons they didn't want to play so the V8s got left out & had to go it alone. |
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