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Obviously Perkins Engineering knew of the existence of the TWR built VL, it had appeared on Channel 7's review of the Silverstone TT where DJR were in attendance. But the airfreighting of the car to Australia was not what they were expecting. Both cars were very different in build and so it effectively became 2 teams.
Larry was not particularly keen on letting Tom drive, but he was the boss. Despite being briefed on the rev limit, Walkinshaw chose to ignore, but still circulated 2 seconds a lap slower than Denny Hulme had in his stint. When the car expired in the last stint it was in a race winning position, running second behind Tony Longhurst who was about to make a long stop for pads and with Tomas Mezera having to do the final stint.
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