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24 Apr 2018, 00:40 (Ref:3817093) | #1 | |
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Phillip Island Race Track
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? |
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http://racing-reference.info/tracks/...d_Prix_Circuit
Regarding the ATCC at Phillip Island, the '76 and '77 endurance races were part of the title, there was then a race in 1990 that attracted the biggest field of the year (I would guess that there would have been a lot of interest with racing going back to Phillip Island). |
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I guess that was about when the bike GP moved there so must have had some infrastructure spend Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit wiki Quote:
1985: Phillip Island Circuit purchased by Placetac Pty Ltd, with the view to re-introducing racing to the famous facility. |
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24 Apr 2018, 04:04 (Ref:3817106) | #5 | |
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Wasn't Barnard and some of the locals (Fergus Cameron) instrumental into rebuilding the track and updating the facilities ie tunnel before the GP Bikes ?
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The track did play host to some motorcycle racing club meetings as late as 1985 before the track was re-built, a number of pictures of a 1985 event have popped up a few times on the "Motorcycle Racing in Australia 1980-2000" Facebook page
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It got an ATCC round in 1990 because Sandown lost their round, then for 1991 Sandown got their race back so Phillip Island lost it (and the track was in money trouble by 1991 IIRC) It next got a round in 1993 under new ownership (from memory), and has been a regular fixture ever since. |
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Unsolved murder & a disappearance - all covered in a book.
For the Bob Barnard story on the rebuild of Philip Island look here Chapter 6 http://www.bobbarnardtrackengineerin...book-excerpts/ |
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