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Conference terri::cars_uk

Title:	Cars in the UK
Notice:	Please read new conference charter 1.70
Moderator:	COMICS::SHELLEYELD

Created:	Sun Mar 06 1994
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2584
Total number of notes:	63384

2317.0. "BATHURST, The BIG one" by WARNUT::ALLEN (It works better if you screw it in..) Thu Sep 29 1994 13:27

    Calling all Oz readers.
    
    Can anyone post info on this weekends BIG race. In the last couple of
    years info has been sparse at best, yet this for me is still the
    biggest saloon car race in the world. 
    
    I guess if the Brock Mezera car lasts it must be favourite, though I'd
    love to see the old man Dick Johnson up there spraying the Champagne.
    
    Mike
    
    p.s. anyone know if any of the satellite channels are going to show
    more than 10 mins this year??

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2317.1		WARNUT::ALLEN	It works better if you screw it in..	`Mon Oct 03 1994 17:08`	6
	So...... Does anyone know what happened?? I scanned all the teletexts I could find and todays papers....nothing, absolutely zip. Pathetic. Mike
2317.2	FIRST FALCON WIN SINCE 81!	VEGMIT::LAXTON		`Tue Oct 04 1994 05:53`	30
	Dick Johnson and John Bowe took the honours in a Ford Falcon. The last 30 laps were like a sprint with John Bowe dicing with Brocks 2nd car driven by rookie David Lowndes (sp?) and Brad Jones. Great stuff! Lowndes passed Bowe around the OUTSIDE at GTX but then lost the lead after almost being hit by a slower car at the end of conrod. Perkins came in third. Brock had a massive lose at the top of the mountain about an hour from the end, (about the same place where Bartlett rolled in the comaro a few years back if you remember) he clipped a white line and spun into the wall at about 200K, no injuries. Seton and Jones falcons both retired with engine problems. Wayne Gardner ran into the wall coming into the cutting after spinning on somebodies oil (maybe his own). The first 2 hours were wet but with no major incidents, scary watching these big falcons and commodores sliding across the top of skyline passing slower cars at over 200k! The in-car camera shots were spectacular again including Dick Johnson telling the audience a joke while screaming down conrod. Some of you may not be aware but the in-car camera technology which is used in todays F1, Indycar, NASCAR etc was developed by the channel 7 boys here in OZ particularly for Bathurst. The race was marred by the death of privateer Don Watson in Fridays practice on only his second lap. He went straight ahead at Caltex chase at approx 260k after blowing a tyre when a disk shattered, hit a tyre wall and flipped onto his roof. I must admit I missed some of the action during the race as I was drinking beer and playing with the Scalextric all day. Only a month before the Adelaide GP! Maybe I wont put the Scalextric away just yet, Phil.
2317.3		WARNUT::ALLEN	It works better if you screw it in..	`Tue Oct 04 1994 12:47`	10
	YES!! Dick Johnson wins! I bet his smile went right across the state! Phil, thanks for the report. I can only hope that some satellite channel or other will have picked it up and show us some of the footage. The last couple of years have seemed bare without the annual pilgramage to the small screen. A few years back I used to have a mate in OZ who used to ship the Channel 7 telecast to me, stupid idiot emigrated to the US! Mike