Le Mans 83 wasn't plain sailing IIRC... the #3 956 lost a door, which was apparently fairly crucial to the air flow to the radiators, or caused damage to the cooling system or something, and she just got home. Vern did a line in road-registerable (in some parts anyway) Porsche 962's for a while...
He didn't have many complimentary things to say about the Byrt Falcons, especially in comparison with Moffat's car from 1976.
But back to Doug's article... a beauty, about my favourite decade (and honestly, it's not cos of the bell-bottoms and sideburns either...)