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Who do you think are the best touring car drivers in australia (past&present).I rate Pete Geoghegan as the best
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Moffat G Fury Present Jim Richards best driver in OZ Marcos Ambrose Mark Skaife On another topic I feel Glen Seton is the best driver never to win Bathurst (yet I hope of him) |
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Moffat Seton Bowe Skaife And Seton pinched that title from Allan Grice I reckon MW |
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Jim Richards would have to rate as one of the greats. Still fast after all these years,driving anything and everything.
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I forgot Richo Sr... Oops
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1.Pete Geoghegan
2.Allan Moffatt 3.John Bowe 4.Jim Richards 5.Glen Seton Of the newer drivers Marcos Ambrose is the absolute stand out.Mark Skaife failed to make my list, as has been proven without the best equipment he fails to make his prescence felt |
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Past: Peter Brock, Dick Johnson, Allan Moffat, Colin Bond, Allan Grice, Pete Geoghegan, Bob Morris, Bruce McPhee, Frank Gardner, Norm Beechey and there are probably a few that I've forgotten.
Present: Mark Skaife, Craig Lowndes, father and son Richards, Marcus Ambrose, Glenn Seton, John Bowe and again, there are probably a few that I've forgotten. Last edited by William Dale Jr; 5 Jan 2003 at 09:39. |
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In no particualar order my top 10 would include Brock, Skaife, Moffat, Johnson, Grice, Jim Richards, Pete Geoghegan, Lowdnes, Ambrose & Glenn Seton. John Bowe should rate a mention, as should Colin Bond and George Fury, for there sucess in both circuit racing and rallying.
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Pete Geoghegan, Bruce McPhee, Allan Moffat, Peter Brock, Jim Richards, Colin Bond, Glenn Seton, Craig Lowndes.
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there is only two i rate above all the others and they are frank gardner and jimmy richards. (If you want to count bathurst 1000's you could put black jack in there aswell)
it is more for what they have done in other series aswell. |
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New to the list but but my 2 c worth
George (rock and roll bluebird wrestler) Fury Gricy Johnson Richards sr and jr Bondy Perkins |
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Frank Gardener are you serious, he won a British saloon car championship racing a 427 against 4 cylinders
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moffman Frank Gardener is one person that people love to forget about in motorsport history.
raced the original 917 and gt40's let alone everything else. |
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7 Jan 2003, 07:27 (Ref:466025) | #15 | ||
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I was not belittling Franks achievements in motorsport :
2 times british champion racing driver 3 times british saloon car champion european formula 5000 champion " " " " " 2 champion " " " touring car champion " " " saloon car champion 1977 Australian Sports Sedan Champ. The point i was making is Frank has done absolutely stuff all over here driving touring cars which was my original question |
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bondy, richards snr, johnson snr, moffat, Geoghegan, grice, bowe, seton, ambrose. like moffman i didnt include skaife for the same reason & i also put brock in the same field, they havent done anything except in the best cars/teams
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Had he won the 1983 Hardie with Jim Richards in the BMW - and had aluminium filings not made their way into the fuel tank, they may well have done - he may have received greater recognition over here. |
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Also, on his return to Australia in 1975, he set pole at his race, at Calder i think.
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Had he won the 1983 Hardie with Jim Richards in the BMW - and had aluminium filings not made their way into the fuel tank, they may well have done - he may have received greater recognition over here. and had my auntie had balls she would be my uncle... |
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Moffman, I sense an obvious bias in your ranking of P.G.
Why is he at the top of the tree? |
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leo, brocky, jimmy, gellinite jack,
no particular order they are all legends and charactors |
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Car control Pure GT Big Pete had it in spadefuls
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8 Jan 2003, 15:40 (Ref:467423) | #25 | ||
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Leo and Pete are both top blokes I worked for Leo for a while
the one that got me Leo won the 69 Japanese F1 race in the previous years lotus that he ran as a privateer and Pete I heard a story that Brocky was just a punter at Oran Park when Pete brought the Mustang complettly crossed up under the bridge in a power slide which Brock said he could not believe now thats high praise |
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