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Originally Posted by Jesper OH
Quotet from William Dale Jr. A few numbers, change of class for Minear and six entries supposedly never made it to Winton. I'm wondering why Winton would have to wait till 1988, before being allocated a round of the ATCC again - or was it the organizers that decided to miss the ATCC?
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Winton hosted the penultimate round of the 1986 ATCC, won by Jim Richards (after Gary Scott was disqualified)
Winton wanted a round for 1987, but CAMS reduced the number of rounds and Wintom missed out. They did get the opening round of the 2-Litre ATCC though that year.
They got their round back in 1988 after Surfers Paradise was closed at the end of 1987.
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Originally Posted by Jesper OH
From my notes 17 drivers started this round of the AMSCAR series
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Interesting to hear there were 17 starters... that would be the biggest AMSCAR grid since 1982
Why was there only 2 standalone AMSCAR rounds in 1985. In previous years the AMSCAR Series had been a standalone 4 round series.. In 1985 they obviously got an ATCC race for the first time since 1978 which took up one date. The Better Brakes 300 was run as rd4 (and doubled as the AEC opener), but in previous the years the 300 didn't count for the AMSCAR series.
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Originally Posted by Jesper OH
Forgotten that name, but sure he was still around with Colin Bond when he graduated to the Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth later in the decade. Actually found him as Enrico Zanarini.
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I think Zanarini left the Australian motorsport scene when Bond left for the Sierra, as Enrico was an Alfa Romeo employee. He was quite involved in motorsport, he'd been behind the Alfasud one-make PRO/Am series that had been run in 1983 and (infamously) 1984
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Originally Posted by Jesper OH
AMRY 1985/86 seems to have messed the results for this race completely. They have Peter Brock as the race winner after a 25 lap distance, but if you read the race report, Jim Richards was the winner by 1.9 seconds from Robbie Francevic with Brock third.
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Richards definatly wins from Francevic, the tape doesn't lie ;-) Run in cloudy conditions with rain threatening throughout.
Also as a matter of interest, $25,000 was put up for who got pole.
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Originally Posted by chunterer
Shame that Rover deal never materialised, it would've been a very competitive proposition against what was generally speaking quite a weak entry, in terms of depth, if not quality
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According the "The Chequered Flag" magazine in early 1985, Dickson talks of running the two Bathurst cars in a full ATCC & AMSCAR campaign, complete with a rotation of works TWR drivers!
He also says that Mobil leaving to go to Brock wouldn't change any of their plans
As you say a big shame they didn't run
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Originally Posted by Jesper OH
I also have Alan Jones (Alfa Romeo) and Kevin Bartlett (Mitsubishi) as DNSs at this race, but neither mentioned in the AMRY race report as to why they failed to start or how they qualified. Were they present at Lakeside at all?
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Neither driver would have turned up.
Jones had his last ATCC race for Alfa at Surfers as intended, as after that he was on his way back to Europe to run F1 with Haas/Beatrice/Lola (whichever
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Mitsubishi had withdrawn from the series due to poor results and wanting to do some development for the enduro's