Listening to Doug Mulray's commentary is a bit of a shock to the system. For such an outrageous radio personality, his motor sport commentary is the very definition of professional!
I'd rather lower my nuts into a live toaster than watch today's sanitised shitshow. It's not just Bathurst, motorsport in general has totally lost its way. It's lost the fun, edgy characters that made it culturally relevant. Grid Girls gone. The desire not to offend anyone has left it cucked, neutered and culturally irrelevant.
These are the best-sounding V8 engines on the planet. Really wish British Touring Cars used this format. BTCC like most of the others around the world are tame and lame now.
It was said that Larry Perkins could not qualify in 1st place or could he win the race because Larry was the using the stock Holden V8 all others were running the Chevy V8, No one thought Larry could make the stock Holden V8 fast enough or last the 1000kms at race speed, well they were WRONG car 11 Larry Perkins Commodore won the top ten shootout and won the race!!!!
@pete smyth to the best of my knowledge Larry used the'stock' Holden V8 but i would be not surprised if they were strengthened blocks to stand extra HP and running flat out for 1000kms, all the Holdens used 304 Chev engine, good on Larry he stuck to his guns and it payed off!
The Thing that got me, should all Been about How great a Engineering Job he did , instead they made so much Of a deal about it they banned the Holden Motor , they new Larry would get more Out of the motor , so much for the Aussie Have a go , I should seen the writing on The wall end of Holden 39 years later !!! Man was Larry a great competitor !
@@markjones464 Yes LP was a great brilliant engineer but also a very very good driver, i have been watching ATCC/V8 Supercars 30++ years i do not think i ever seen LP nudge someone off the track!! To me they were the Glory Days of the racing Brock VS Johnson Holden VS Ford, LP was as good as ANY of them better Jim Richards was another good driver, today i do not even bother watching, ALL the cars look EXACTLY the SAME ALL the drivers are names i will not remember even by next year let alone 20 years away!!
You would hardly think the pit wall and exit road were installed in the late 70s and the pit entrance road added in 1984. Nevertheless Bathurst always provides some great racing.
Unfortunate it owes me too much. The vehicle is impeccable. 440 HP at the rear wheels. The motor has just been finished. ROH three piece 18" wheels. All the original parts are boxed. Brambo brakes. Etc. It owes me $150,000.00.
Ford teams were furious the Holden teams were allowed a new aero package that made sure they couldn’t win . Again in 1995 before bathurst the falcons had aero taken off the front under trays.
Watching this again! It's funny, the EB Falcon was a really crap road car but it was definitely the best looking of this era touring cars. Especially in '94 with the dive planes on the front. No. 18 was definite testament to how tough the old falcons were. Especially that 9'' diff!!!
Everything after the 90's motorsport-wise was on the down escalator. Only the Isle of Man TT remains true to the spirit of its birth. F1 broke their own rules as written when they made sure Hamilton didn't win. It's also been captured by the woke brigade. Rallying is a shadow of its former self. And post 2000 V8...don't even get me started.
If you want to search for Bathurst 1000 races I'd recommend you to search for "Bathurst 1000, long" or "Bathurst 1000 part". I'm sure you'll find all the Bathurst 1000 races that are on RU-vid that way :-)
At 2:32:50 they said the Winfield team took the option of putting the GTR front breaks on the commodore. How the hell can that even remotely be allowed?
If there's no regulation addressing it, or expressly forbidding it, usually its allowed . Knowing what the Regs address, and what they don't, is the part where innovation lives.
This is the year holden and ford can win since they destroyed what made Australian racing. Corruption. What made Bathurst so good was all the different every day models you could buy and seeing them racing..
