1979 ATCC Finale from AIR

[racer69]

Considered one of the best ATCC deciders in series history.

Can anyone confirm the date it was held. RCN says 28 July which was a Saturday, is this correct? Not the Sunday July 29?

[chavez]

According to the TV guide in the Saturday Age the race was telecast live on the ABC on the Sunday.

[E.B]

Originally Posted by racer69

Considered one of the best ATCC deciders in series history.

Can anyone confirm the date it was held. RCN says 28 July which was a Saturday, is this correct? Not the Sunday July 29?

Further confirmation re it being Sunday as Chavez suggested, comes from an "On this Day" article from 2016 on the Supercars website:

Today, 37 years ago, on Sunday July 29, 1979, the Australian Touring Car Championship was decided in favour of Sydney privateer Bob Morris after a classic ‘winner take all’ fight with defending champion, the late Peter Brock, at Adelaide International Raceway.

The two went lap-for-lap, move-for-move, in a classic finish to the 1979 championship that had been dominated by Holden Torana drivers in the wake of Allan Moffat’s Ford Dealer team losing its backing from the ‘blue oval’ at the end of the previous year.

The Adelaide championship finale of that season remains in the history books of the ATCC and Virgin Australia Supercars Championship as one of the finest final races in the history of touring car racing in Australia.

To try and create a parallel with the achievement in today’s modern world, it would be similar to Brad Jones Racing beating Triple Eight for the championship in the last race of the season.

On the one hand back then sat Morris, a privateer driving for Sydney Holden dealer Ron Hodgson. His green #7 Torana A9X had proven more than a match for Brock’s familiar #05 Holden Dealer Team entry throughout the course of the season..... (article continues, link below)

https://www.supercars.com/news/on-th...s-title-winner

[racer69]

Thank you very much to you both.

Hopefully that live coverage from ABC can be lifted from a vault someday.

[chavez]

Originally Posted by racer69

Thank you very much to you both.

Hopefully that live coverage from ABC can be lifted from a vault someday.

We know V8 Sleuth has a copy.