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4 Feb 2008, 21:18 (Ref:2121059) | #1 | ||
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Question about Brock & Bathurst 1988?
G'day, This is bothering me and I am wanting an answer to this.
In 1988 Peter Brock drove Mobil BMW M3's, Looking at www.autopics.com.au, it shows during the ATCC season of '88 that Brockie was driving his famous '05'. BUT, in the 1988 Toohey's 1000, he is not in '05', but in #56, and the sister car is #57. Can somone please give me the definitive answer to this, b/c it's bugging the crap outta me lol Also, its a long shot, but I have done countless google & yahoo image searches of his 1988 BMW, if anyone has any good large pics of Brockies 1988 Bimmer, in either '05' or '56' guise, post em PLEASE cheers |
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4 Feb 2008, 22:07 (Ref:2121110) | #2 | ||
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I seem to recall around those years, that Bathurst was part of an international touring car championship. You'd probably find that '05' was either referring to a number 5 who was already registered for that international championship. Or possibly the international rules didnt allow for the '0'.
I also seem to recall the different classes at bathurst. The main level cars (V8's turbo sierras etc) had low-ish numbers. The Second grade cars (like the naturally aspirated bimmers and smaller beasts) all started from 50 onwards. Maybe that was it. |
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Yep, it's the class number system from memory. For the 'Asia Pacific Championship' which Bathurst was a part of that year, you could not run a car from the class the BMW was in with a number <50.
Hence Brock running 56 and gthe 2nd car running #57 |
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Cool, thanks for the info
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Just a little side track, the 1988 Tooheys 1000 was the only Bathurst to have a rolling start.
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5 Feb 2008, 03:25 (Ref:2121289) | #7 | ||
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I think it was an FIA regulation that the numbers had to be divided by classes, the M3 having to take a number over 50. More proof, besides the 1987 Bathurst, that the whole Group A era was a disaster for fans.
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Why was it a disaster for fans??
Bathurst had had class based numbering systems for many many years previously. Even in the Group C days the over 3-Litre class had the lower numbers, the 2-3 litre class had the next lot of numbers etc etc... the numbering rules were not different for Bathurst 1988, it was just that no one with a 'famous' number had had to change prior to Bathurst 1988..... Probably the first year Bathurst numbers weren't based around classes would have been 1992. Last edited by racer69; 5 Feb 2008 at 03:39. |
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The Group A comment wasn't so much a comment on the numbering system, but on the move from Group C and giving the FIA too much influence around our leading motor race |
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Group C had little or no future beyond 1984, the only manufacturers with any real committment beyond then were Holden & Nissan. Group A was the only way forward.
1986 seems to be an anomally (which i'll admit i overlooked), as the Martin's Mercedes ran #14 & Colin Bond's Alfa ran #75, but there were other number changes in the field to fall into line with 'class numbers' in 1986. In 1985 for example Robbie Francevic changed from his #21 in the ATCC to #55 for the enduro's, due to his class. Same with Colin Bond that same year, having run #26 in the ATCC, he had to run #47 at Bathurst. |
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Anyone remember if Brock briefly ran 08 before 05 became the new blood alcohol limit? --perhaps some may not know this was why he ran 05.
When I go to my old esky I see a sticker of Brock's BMW from 1988 to remind me.....of something ??? |
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Brocky was the beneficiary of 05 - the architect was a Don Gibb. Know Don was at Le Mans in the BMW 3.0CSL days, maybe someone can fill in the details around 05.
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In 1988 when it was an Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship round, neither dispensations were approved, meaning it had to be a rolling start, and the Top Ten didn't count for the grid (hence it became a Top 12 that year) |
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I think sizzle is correct although he's has to revert to just plain 5 at several international events when 05 wasn't allowed (Bathurst is one example).
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From memory his first run as #05 was the 1975 Sandown 250.
He ran the 'plain #5' at Bathurst in 1975 & 1976, and ran #25 at Bathurst in 1977. In 1987 he was allowed to run as #05 at the Bathurst and Calder WTCC rounds, but across the Tasman at the Wellington round he was only allowed to run #5. |
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Wasn't it #5 at Spa in the VL as well?
Other interesting numbers games, Ray and Graham Gulson used LPs #11 on their 635CSi one year as they hat sponsorship from AT&T or someone and used the 0011 dial code as their gimmick. IIRC Larry used #10 Didn't HRT start using #1 for the enduro's the same year that CL won the championship too (prior to them being part of the championship). |
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Brock ran #5 on the VK in the four ETCC rounds he did in 1986 (Monza, Donnington, Hockenheim & Spa). In 1987 at the WTCC round at Spa he ran the Mobil VL with #3
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There seem to have been more than a few tie-ins between sponsorship and racing numbers over the years. HRT (#015) and TKR (#021) for telecommunications companies; Brock and Terri Sawyer with #05 and Bryan Sala with #00 for TAC blood-alcohol limits; Tim Slako (#96) and Steve Masterton (#2) for radio stations. But isn't this sort of thing prohibited in the CAMS NCRs? Quote:
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Starting from 96 until 99 when the championship was decided before the enduros, the policy changed and #1 would go to the new holder at the first race after the series, ie the Sandown or Ipswich 500. At the end of 96 when 2 non championship races were held in New Zealand, Greg Murphy was allowed to keep the #1 plates that had been on the car for the enduros, even though it was Lowndes who had earnt them. Running #1 tied in nicely with series and team sponsor's Mobil 1 branding and in the eyes of the crowd I guess Murphy was #1... and he did win the series. |
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I remember Brock running #5 at the AGP in 1987 too.
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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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