Amazing footage! Bathurst was a "rural" race tracck back then! The average person is unaware of Mt Panorama's rich motorsport history before the "500" & the "1000" saloon car races, so it's great to see this shown here.
In 1960 & for quite a few years motorbikes raced on the track on Easter Saturday with the cars having the track on Sunday for practice on Sunday and racing on Easter Monday. I know this ascI raced bikes there in 60, 61 & 62. It's really great to see the track as it was then compared to today. I'm sure the dipper in the esses has been modified to suit the cars as I can remember it being very prononced when I rode. My Norton used to max out at 128 mph down Conrod Straight & I can tell you thr road surface was much rougher then than todays billiard smooth surface. Great video bring back lots of memories of my younger days. Now 81.
This is so cool. Everything from the 60's commentary ot hte 60's music, to the fact that Bathurst is almost unrecognisable due to the lack of barriers. These cars are awesome and I love the history of Bathurst.
Amazing how Mount Panorama has changed in the last 60 years. It was almost like an amateur "club" race, with a scrappy surface and almost the complete absence of advertising hoardings, billboards - hardly even little promotional signs anywhere apart from a few on pit straight. There was clearly very little money involved in the race. In fact, other than pit straight, it doesn't actually even look like a race track - just a country road that is scenic at one part and pretty ugly everywhere else. Obviously, this was a race for "pure" racing cars - open wheelers - but the name "Bathurst 100" also tells us this event was the premier car race of the year at "the mountain" and thus the forerunner of the saloon car 500 and 1000. Did you see the driver wearing a T-shirt! Things seem to have changed very quickly in just the next 10 years after this video. A lot of hoopla and live coverage came along in the very early 70s - and neck to ankle fire resistant racing suits were routine just those few years later. Full-face helmets crept in during the mid-70s if memory serves. I wonder how much the spectators paid back then for admission?? Two shillings?? Nothing at all??
Hell's teeth but that course was dangerous back then. Wooden "safety" rails and not many of them either. I remember when such a fuss was made when the first 100 MPH average lap was made in a touring car. The open wheelers had done that years before when the circuit was a true road circuit.
I'm not sure if somebody has asked you or not, but could you please upload what you have of the '59 race. That would be really exciting to watch as well. Thanks for the uploads!
Can you please find the 1970 Australian Rowing Championships on the Nepian River, Penrith? The race in particular is the Light Weight Eight which was won by the Sydney Rowing Club and Mosman Rowing Club came in second. I was in the Sydney Rowing Club Light Weight Eight. My cousin, Nick Padol was in the Mosman Rowing Club Eight. Nick passed away in December 2018.
🤔 Should I ask 'track and field' sports historians, to find videos of certain Group 2 horse races from the '70s? Would an enthusiast of Australian golf half a century ago, seek tournament film footage, on a historic rugby league channel...? 🤯
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