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Bathurst Trivia
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Hardies Hero
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There were no pace cars that year either which would have cut the race time down by a fair margin
Hardies Hero
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There were no pace cars that year either which would have cut the race time down by a fair margin
If you're talking about Katayama barrel rolling the Craven Mild RX3, that was '77. Vern Schuppan was co-driving the DJR XB and had put it into the sand trap. In his column in Chequered Flag he wrote how it happened right in front of him.
But a couple of years earlier, a pair of Mazda RX2s were having a ding-dong battle right up to the end of the race. Some pushig and shoving saw one of them roll in the same place on the last lap. Some not very happy campers at the end. [B)] I'll have to dig up the names.
But a couple of years earlier, a pair of Mazda RX2s were having a ding-dong battle right up to the end of the race. Some pushig and shoving saw one of them roll in the same place on the last lap. Some not very happy campers at the end. [B)] I'll have to dig up the names.
For the interested, I dug up what I had in mind:
From 1973 Bathurst: "On the second last lap, arriving at the bottom of Conrod both delayed their braking until they could see the whites of each other's eyes. (Bernie) Haehnle got onto the dirt virge, hit the Armco, and bounced back onto Cooke. this crushed his right front guard onto the tyre, and Haehnle's leftrear ontothe rubber, and the two stormed on, with smoke blossoming from under their wheel arches. But it was Cooke in front, and he wouldn't lift his foot. The inevitable came on tha dreaded corner, McPhillamy, when the tortured front tyre finally let go and the Mazda flipped.."
My mistake, I knew there was a rolled Mazda somewhere.
From 1973 Bathurst: "On the second last lap, arriving at the bottom of Conrod both delayed their braking until they could see the whites of each other's eyes. (Bernie) Haehnle got onto the dirt virge, hit the Armco, and bounced back onto Cooke. this crushed his right front guard onto the tyre, and Haehnle's leftrear ontothe rubber, and the two stormed on, with smoke blossoming from under their wheel arches. But it was Cooke in front, and he wouldn't lift his foot. The inevitable came on tha dreaded corner, McPhillamy, when the tortured front tyre finally let go and the Mazda flipped.."
My mistake, I knew there was a rolled Mazda somewhere.