RE: Bathurst 12-Hour highlights: Time for Coffee

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angelicupstarts said:

rtz62 said:

I must be getting old, but this isn't a patch on the racing between the likes of Peter 'How good is this!' Brick and Allan Moffat in the 70's onwards.
The days of Holden vs Ford, and later on with the RS500 / M3 rivalries were just about perfect for any petrolhead IMHO.
Ok, so I'm not comparing apples with apples, but somehow a Ferrari 488 battling with a Mclaren just doesn't make my yeast rise like the brasso profundo of mighty V8 saloons (or even a V6 in Brocks earlier Holden days...) slugging it out wheel to wheel...

yep id agree with you . the Torana , the Monaro ,valiant charger , ford falcon shakers ..were great days of Bathurst .
But got to hate the ford vs holden battles of the 1990's .. cars with little difference and not much appeal outside holden and ford fans . worst of all ,all but closed competition to keep out faster and better cars .

Let's not get too misty eyed. In those days Bathurst was often won by many laps with a very high rate of attrition and only about 15% of the field even in with a shout. The bottom half of field made of Toyota corollas etc who were nothing more than mobile chicanes. The actual racing wasn't great but there was plenty of drama.

Improved production is a good watch. Where else can you see XYGT Falcon racing an E46 M3!

https://youtu.be/gCeF-bZK684

[GrahamG]

ZX10R NIN said:

Not a single GT3 race car is a production car they're purpose built race cars that have to conform to certain part of the production car but in essence they're silhouettes (the GT3 991 is now mid engined rather than rear engined like the production car) which I have no problem with personally.

Sorry not true - Just back from a trip to Prodrive where they are building GT3 Aston Martins from chassis which come from the Gaydon production line - The Lambos and Audis have drivetrains built on the line with the road csrs etc etc.

The GT3 Porsche is not mid-engined - that's the GTE version - The GT3 car (GT3-R) is still very much rear engined