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Originally Posted by William Dale Jr
Castrol Clash
Oran Park South Circuit, NSW (15/2/1987)
Circuit Length: 1.96 km
Race Distance: 25 laps
Weather: Rain clearing
Oran Park was celebrating its 25th anniversary, and on the programme was the first Group A race for 1987 in Australia.
Laurie Hazelton backed his Volvo into the pit wall late in the race, injuring a TV cameraman. Magazine sources disagree over whether the crash caused the race to be stopped, something I suspect the TV coverage would solve.
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After the race the car was pushed into the back corner of Hazelton's shed, a sheet was thrown over it and it sat there bent & broken for 20 years!
Then ImProd racer and Volvo nut Richard Prince bought the car, repaired it and it now runs regularly in historic Group A. Amazingly it only did two race meetings in the first 20 years of its life!