[Kingair]

In RPM on Sunday, they had a segment on the history, along with some home movies of the racetrack.

It was certainly was very basic in its early days- pretty rugged for drivers, machinery and spectators to say the least.

They mentioned that track was not used much in the 1980’s and basically it was revived and upgraded for the motorbikes in the later part of that decade.

I have a Holden Torana DVD that shows some footage of Torana’s racing in the Mancar(not part of the ATTC) series at Phillip Island in the mid 70’s.

I flew a charter group into Phillip Island for Castrol in 1995, and fortunately spent the day in the Castrol VIP tent watching the gentle south westerly breeze bring some lovely moisture to the parched earth- basically blowing like a banshee, driving rain and freezing cold!

So did they run the ATTC at Phillip Island?

When did the V8 Supercars make there debut at the Island?