1987 NISSAN MOBIL 500 Wellington 

The Jaguars; somehow had Cosworth high lift valves which helped engine reliability and good for an extra 40 to 50 hp. That’s why the Bathurst organisers in 1986 did not want the Jaguars to compete again .

Wasnt it a V12 engine in those ?

@@christineayres7199 yeah V12. They used a big bore version for Le Mans.

@@hungrysurfer9471 😎👍

It's a pleasure, cheers

Yep is was a shared telecast, produced by the NZ crew who did a brilliant job, we must remember how much harder it was back in those days with things like cables etc etc... not like today's portable wireless world. Thanks for the comment Darren

@@Super100MPH This is my favourite race of all time. I know the commentary backwards. On the VHS tape I have where I taped it off the TV when the race was live., it was Mike, Compton and Garry Wilkinson doing the commentary. Totally confused never seen this version of the commentary before. See here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iiT9JMEluqg.html Best I could find, Well, the only I could find and my tape is the same commentary.

@@janreznak881 So for 1985-88 TVNZ broadcast the race live on TV ONE in New Zealand, while Channel 7 had highlights with commentary redubbed by Mike and Neil.

Cheers Captain!

The Europeans fell to bits in this race for sure and the VK showed it's excellence but it's Interesting to see Steve Soper in an early model Sierra running pretty strongly for a while. An ominous sign of what was to come. The Sierra was largely disregarded at this point in time but as we now know these cars were to become all conquering in touring cars the world over, a reign which was only ended by the mighty Godzilla GTRs. Great to see the variety in the cars and teams during this era too, whilst the V8 Supercar racing today is exciting in a different way it lacks the variety of the older formats. Closest thing today is probably the GT3 racing, lots of different makes all with different strengths and weaknesses, it's pretty good racing, especially in the endurance events.

yes fair call andy but the sierras needed loads of money time and effort to get them to be reliable, blowing turbos in a regular basis and were a hand grenade ready to explode if not treated with respect. That said you rite in regards to the field of cars, just Excellent. v8 super cars lost me years back. Gone are the days when I'd get up at 6 after being out all nite misbehaving and sink my teeth into a whole day of Bathurst with Mike Raymond Gary wilkinson and Evan green. Last weekend I went to sandown historics in Victoria and enjoyed the smells and sounds we all love, it was great stuff. All the best to you

Well you'd probably look like a ghost too after Larry gave you an ear-bashing!

304, not 308

ah, from memory, there was two races in 1987.

@@datsunsss5456 yes one early in the season and one WTCC round.

@@datsunsss5456 The second one was Labour Weekend in late October. I remember it well.