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Originally Posted by Mike Harte
Watching that clip a few times , it would appear that Plato was actually pulling over to the right at the moment that he was hit.
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ISTR that Plato was not flavour of the month with the local Holden fans.... he was co driving with Peter Brock himself and had arrived at Bathurst with all the fanfare of "BTCC champion flown across the globe and imported to co drive with Brock in his final Bathurst 1000" .
Plato started the race and it was in his first stint he clouted the wall at Murrays Corner and bent / broke something in the steering, which was why he was limping the car back to pitlane. So as a result of Plato damaging the car initially and then tangling with Cleland, resulting in a DNF, Brockie never even got to turn a wheel in his final Bathurst.
Plato came under a fair bit of flack from all the Brock fans and had to be escorted from the circuit with a security cordon. I think Plato got the official blame although Cleland got a rap on the knuckles for something to do with yellows.
Edit: Apologies to Malcolm for diverting comment from the main topic of Scottish Classic Sports and Saloons.