FRANCEVIC VOLVO 1986 ATCC R2 Symmons Plains 

Fantastic and very interesting race. Wonderful work Guys!

Thanks very much for this upload. I could be wrong but my guess is Fury was balked by Gary Rogers in the BMW 325 and that's how Francevic passed him. Also John Harvey has a race cam in his car but no footage is shown from it, must have been a technical glitch. I hope Chevron release this race with the missing footage from the ad breaks in the future. I think ch 7 had too many ad breaks in this race. We taped the late night replay of this race in 1986.

Intratable Francevic con el Volvo . Y Dick Johnson un maestro , dando notas en plena carrera y peleando por posiciones 😀👍

BMWs were quick ( they did not have outright power, but were very good handling and braking as was the Mustang ) DJs Mustang was down a little on HP, Volvo and the Nissans were quick turbo power, John Bowe also was driving a Volvo race car ( around this time ) same team 1 was LHD the other was RHD. Volvo has the aerodynamics of a brick! Amusing funny commercial 23m. Both DJ and PB ( if he was still alive ) they would be 77 years of age PB is no longer with us ( around 2000, ) Targa Tasmania accident TVR car?? he hit a tree?? game over!

This race saw the writing on the wall with Group A in Australia. Symmons is a power track which should have suited the higher horsepower Commodore's down to the ground, but it was the lighter turbo cars which were easier on their tyres that showed the way in qualifying and the race. It was a sign of things to come with the lighter (especially turbo) cars dominating over the heavy V8's. It was only when the 4WD, twin turbo GT-R arrived in 1990 that the heavier cars started to come to the fore....but again it wasn't a V8 but a turbo.

Water injection working overtime???? I do miss the Group A era.