1989 ATCC R7 Winton Raceway

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This is an amazing (rain soaked) race, truly action packed, never a dull moment, one of our favourite races of all time with special guest commentator Allan Moffat. Special thanks to Fred Gibson for making it available again in good quality. All credit Channel 7 sport, free to air television at its best! Kudos
1989 also saw the last ATCC round win for long time Nissan driver George Fury when he took victory in Round 7 at the tight Winton circuit in rural Victoria in what proved to be the most competitive race of the championship. Fury was joined in the Nissan team by 1985 and 1987 champion Jim Richards, and the teams 1987 recruit Mark Skaife, each driving a turbocharged Skyline HR31 GTS-R. Skaife made his first appearance of the series at the Mallala circuit in South Australia for Round 5, and avoided the first lap carnage (caused by an out of control Brock) to finish a fine fifth.
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@giacatollo Год назад

This should be required viewing in all Australian schools. It covers sports, history, drama, science and geography.

@granulatedsugars577 Месяц назад

exactly yes

@Holden308 9 лет назад

Probably the best ATCC race of the Group A era.

@markhobson5769 Год назад

This was the fifth year of Channel 7's coverage of the ATCC in 1989.

@lexy1729 8 лет назад

Great race! watching Brocky in the wet is brilliant. and the commentary...

@barryphillips7327 4 года назад

1987?? think Peter Brock went into a BMW M3, then back to the commodore.

@zanemurcha2675 5 лет назад

On the last lap everything that could have gone wrong. Did go wrong.

@barryphillips7327 4 года назад

Richards taking out Seton did not impress me, Jim is meant to be a gentleman.

@cbj063 2 года назад

Wrong way around. Seton understeered into Richards.

@hamishsouter8461 10 лет назад

Were many sierras ever sold in Australia?, I don't really remember seeing them on the roads back then and unlike commodres and skylines never see them nowdays either?

@Super100MPH 10 лет назад

Hi Hamish, I'm not sure how many were sold in Australia, many of the Group A Sierra's in those days where race prepared in Europe, I too don't remember seeing too many on the roads here in Oz.. a bit of a rare beast these days...

@hamishsouter8461 10 лет назад

Super100MPH Cheers for the Info , when you say Europe did you mean Great Britain? Because I knew the sierra cosworth was big hit there And Dominiated rallying for years

@Super100MPH 10 лет назад

Hamish Souter Hi Hamish, the Sierra was big in both the UK and Europe, but limited in production. The Ford Sierra RS Cosworth was first presented to the public at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1985, with plans to release it for sale in September and closing production of the 5,000 cars in the summer of 1986. In practice, it was launched in July 1986, and 5545 were manufactured in total of which 500 were sent to Tickford for conversion to the Sierra three-door RS500 Cosworth. The vehicles were manufactured in right hand drive (RHD) only, and were made in Ford's Genk factory in Belgium. The following number of vehicles were registered in the UK: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth

@Holden308 9 лет назад

Hamish Souter The Sierra RS500 was never actually sold in Australia as a road car, hence the reason many (especially Holden fans and some notable drivers) felt they should not have been allowed to race here. Of course that ignored the fact that Group A was an international formula and the cars didn't actually need to be sold here as a road car. Dick Johnson is the only one in Australia that I know of who had a road going RS500. Most of the Sierra's here generally started out as Rouse kit cars, though DJR did build their own cars but initially (1987) used Rouse components and Allan Moffat managed to convince Reudi Eggenberger to build him a couple of customer cars (the only customer cars Reudi ever built). Then I believe Dencar in Melbourne started producing Sierra body shells for the Aussie scene in about 1989. Brock's Bathurst pole winning Sierra in 1989 was a Dencar shell.

@TassieLorenzo 6 лет назад

Zero, it was never sold by Ford in Australia. For a mid-sized car, I think Ford Australia had a range of other offerings via Mazda (Telstar?).

@markmark5269 6 лет назад

Shocking lack of action taken by officials for the blocking throughout the race by people being lapped. Miedecke's act was one of an asshole, but what do you expect from the driver who wrote off more race cars than even Thomas Mezera did.

@markmark5269 Год назад

Well said. Johnson and Bowe deserved penalties for what they did, Miedecke is allowed to unlap himself, sure, but not to then block the race leader, a penalty as well.

@jeffwilliams742 4 года назад

They would call if these days to scared to drive in the wet

@adarshkeswani2319 4 года назад

19:00

@cbj063 2 года назад

Bit of an arsehole act on the Johnson team holding up the leader at the end. Dick would heave been the first to maon if it were the other way around.

@Holden308 2 года назад

In the pits after the race, Frank Gardner allegedly approached his old "mate" Allan Grice who was talking to a group of people, prodded him with the point of his umbrella and said (growled??) "You never change do you" referring to Longhurst ending up in the pool. And allegedly Grice's reaction was to simply throw the orange juice he was drinking in Franks face and just walk away. True story or not, it is safe to say that neither was on the others Christmas card list. Point of fact, Frank Gardner and Allan Grice simply did not like each other.

@giacatollo Год назад

I would love to have read Grices mind the first time he saw Gardner after he won in Bathurst in 1986.

@michaelconnors4248 Год назад

I think you will find it goes back to gardner taking grices cigarette sponsorship

@markmark5269 Год назад

One of the ATCC races at Sandown, can't remember which year, VB or VC Commodore era, Grice had a bit of a grab of another racer's wife late on Saturday after a few beers. Grice didn't race on the Sunday ........