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Old 5 Feb 2008, 15:40 (Ref:2121706)   #25
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racer69 should be qualifying in the top 10 on the gridracer69 should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
He did....though that may have had something to do with the 1987 AGP support race being a round of the South Pacific Touring Car Championship (no idea if that series was sanctioned by FISA though).....there were alot of mini-championships for Group A floating around at the end of the 1987, there had been a plan for an 'International Touring Car Championship' to run at the end of the year in this part of the world.....


Still interested to find out why Brock could run #05 at Bathurst and Calder, but couldn't at Wellington......i'll have to have a look at an RCN from that period, i vaguely recall the answer in there.

Now what would have happened if one of the 'registered' WTCC teams in 1987 had gone for #5. Would we have had uproar, as Brock wouldn't have been able to use it on a Holden? As it was the Moffat/Harvey car had run #5 in their limited WTCC appearances that year, but as they hadn't paid up and registered, they couldn't lay claim to things like numbers (nor trophies even )

Allan Grice also had a switch, running #3 at Wellington rather than his usual #2.
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