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Old 20 Jan 2017, 10:31 (Ref:3703760)   #40
peckstar
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Originally Posted by one five five View Post
1981 featured official factory efforts from Mazda (run by Allan Moffat), BMW (run by Frank Gardner & Allan Grice) and Nissan (run by Nissan themselves)

Ford gave Dick Johnson over $35,000 for his 1981 campaign, how is that not factory support?

Then you had the Toyota Dealer Team for Peter Williamson, and HDT with Brock.... but apparently these don't count (we aren't naive enough to think that the Holden effort was confined to Dealer interests only are we....?)
Neither Nissan or moff ran in the championship that year, but i will conceded BMW, I had worked that out but was giving the other boys to stop with the technicalities and work it out (thus my sleuth comment, who just posted a pic of a JPS BMW)

No way was the gift from Ford manufacturer considered to be support and no way was the HDT thing considred manufacturer support. both had announced they were no longer supporting the series
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