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Originally Posted by anthony81901
DJR had a bit of inside information courtesy of team manager Neal Lowe's previous HDT involvement.
The whole protest saga kicked off when Walkinshaw lodged protests against the DJR, Longhurst and Colin Bond Sierras on the Friday, (turbo chargers specifically IIRC) but not Allan Moffat's with conspiracy theories that Rudi Eggenberger may have advised Walkinshaw on what to go for. In turn DJR protested the HSV Commodores. As there were no road going RS500s in the country, a ruling was not able to be reached, so the relevant cars started under a cloud.
At some stage on raceday, not sure if it was after HSV were out of the running, Walkinshaw announced that he would withdraw the protest against the race winning car to allow the result to stand. Think it later came out that the protest would have been thrown out, because it could only be lodged by an entrant. TWR had lodged the protest, but the entrant for the HSV entries was Perkins Engineering.
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Didn't Walkinshaw pull the protest, from whichever Sierra would win the race, on the Saturday night? I recall it being mentioned on the pre-race coverage, but could be mistaken?
Neal Lowe left HDT before the February 20 meltdown in 1987, would he really have had much inside connections on the goings-on of an SV Racing Commodore in October 1988?