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In the Apple Island, Bathurst and Sandown(500 or Hang Ten 400) were always live.
Touring car rounds were a different story, Symmons Plains was always replayed on the Monday night for whatever reason. The other rounds were always delayed and shown late on the Sunday night, but if the Grand Prixs were on, they got moved to Monday or even Tuesday night! The only round shown live might have been the opening round at Calder because it didn't interfere with the footy!
Keep in mind those days TNT 9 was the only commercial station in the north and they received product from both Channel 7 and 9.
VFL football ruled the network, Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon, after South Melbourne became The Sydney Swans.
However we used to get the Better Brakes AMSCAR series from Amaroo Park on a regular basis on Sunday afternoon, from the late 1970's. Also their was a package put to air of sports sedan racing shown as well, I remember seeing Alan Grace and Frank Gardiner- but only black and white not colour.
The Australian Grand Prix, when it was run at Calder in November was always shown live on the Sunday afternoon, remember some of the F1 stars would come out and race against the likes of John Bowe, Alfie Constanzo, Andrew Miedeke etc.
The only racing on TV in the early 90's was the BTCC package.
Like Average Punter, I spent time in Jabiru-the only motor racing was Bathurst but fortunately in 1989 it was the live coverage. Didn't see any Grand Prix, or ATCC races that year, Darwin TV and Imparja was all football, the NT news rarely had any Motorsport news, unless it involved a crocodile in the story line!
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