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Originally Posted by racer69
With Grice i think it was more he didn't really see the need to drop Group C. Also in early 1985 he was heavily involved in the running of the ARDC, had opened up a new business on the Central Coast, and also had a minor fishing accident.
He was just mainly hanging back and waiting to see the lie of the land with Group A before deciding what to do. With the chance to go to Europe, i think his interest was raised.
His team, Roadways, also adopted a wait and see approach, they helped out with the Mark Petch Volvo during the season as well as converting and building some Group A VK's, the Bathurst effort was done in conjunction with Warren Cullen's team as well. His main 1985 racing amounted to just the Nissan-backed Pulsar ET series (won by Jim Richards)
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Thank you for sheading some more light into the dealings of Grice in 1985 and the other recent contributions, racer69. I was thinking along the lines that a Group C Commodore would make it hard for a Group A Commodore to compare favorable, for a racer like Grice.
Roadways has always puzzled me a bit regarding ownership. It was/is a tarmac industry? sponsoring a race team where the son of the company, Steve Harrington, was the driver, cars being prepared by Les Small and with Allan Grice doing a lot of testing and driving. At some point I think Roadways was used to describe the Small/Grice partnership - ca. 1986/1987 - without really getting into details of who was leading who. Only one thing seemed to be consistent and that was where Grice raced, Small was managing.
Jesper