Bonus Episode: Absolute Faith in the Dunlops featuring Perkins, Hansford, Neal Bates & Coral Taylor
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- Опубликовано: 2 апр 2024
- We've dug into the VHS archives to find this cool little Dunlop video from 1993/94 titled "Absolute Faith". This came from Larry Perkins' podium speech after winning the 1993 Bathurst 1000 stating "Absolute Faith in the Dunlops" referring to the top quality tyres that just helped he, his co-driver and team win the 1993 Great Race.
The second clip is a cool clip of Australian Rally Champion Neal Bates with co-driver Coral Taylor in their Toyota Rally Car, also on Dunlops.
God, as a 43yr old family man, I miss these days of racing; Group A, Group C, V8 Supercars from 1990's until the B series Falcons (always a Ford man, but the Iron Lion was my favourite sound)
LP is part the reason why I have always stuck with Dunlop tires
How good! Cheers!
Everyone else: Tin Tops in Oz and a Chev Engine. Larry: Ex Formula One and a beautifully engineered Holden V8. Hold my beer.
Hahaha Cheers!
Thank you for another trip down memory lane for this old fella ❤🍻🍻🍻👊🇦🇺🤝🇦🇺🏁🏁
You're welcome, cheers!!
WOW, my favourite all time car n driver. Great footage and great to relive past glories!
Glad you enjoyed it, Cheers!
Larry wasn't interested in ATCC results for himself but his diehard fans knew that come Bathurst he would have everything dialled in and he would be absolutely flying. Loved watching it. Happy as Larry no doubt.
That's it! Cheers
awesome!
Thank you! Cheers!
Awesome, you're posting some great stuff Jack. Great to see Larry going for it. Cheers!
Glad you enjoy it! Cheers!
Absolutely brilliant stuff ... seat of the pants racing. I get goose bumps watching Perkins & Co and Bates & Taylor in their special areas of racing.
Absolutely!!! Cheers!!
Neil Bates' footwork of all 3 pedals pretty much simultaneously is very impressive. Old school competitors (like me in the 70s and 80s) and a lot of competition drivers back then take that sort of thing almost for granted - although Bates is good on the pedals by any standard - but I see increasing numbers of "gen Y", "Gen Z", and "Millennial" drivers competing on the racetrack who just jam the gearstick into whatever gear they want next and basically have the manual gearbox skills of a weekday commuter. This is especially the case in America, where there wasn't the culture of "stick shift" road cars that we had in Australia. As a consequence, a lot of American track-day drivers and even race drivers never had anyone to teach them and "model" the complete set of manual gearbox skills.
And it's not just a "style" thing, and it's not even about reducing strain and wear on the driveline; if you're trying to balance a car on the limit coming into a corner and you just jam the stick back a couple of gears without matching the revs you'll actually unsettle the car with a stab of engine braking and even break traction when you just come off the clutch with a closed throttle. I can't even bring myself to keep watching in-car footage when I've worked out they really don't know how to "drive a stick". OK, I'm an old grump; but that's my twopence worth and now it's off my chest.
Very cool isn't it! Cheers!!
Dialled In!
Absolutely!!
@@perkinsengineering Any idea where the Jenkins/Perkins A9X SS Torana is these days? I believe that racer got to P2 during the 79 Bathurst.
Your totally killing it right now Jack, top stuff 🎉
Cheers!!!
Don't care who says what, Larry is one of the greatest mechanical engineers ever. Take a look at what he built to go on holidays in?
Thanks for being you sir.
Truck on.
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Haha cheers!!
Such as beautiful car to watch and hear!! Thanks For posting this one!
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers!!
Fantastic stuff right there, old L.P. out for a Sunday drive. Thanks for posting Jack 👍.
You're welcome, cheers!!
Dunlop Japan making their competition tires always appeared to deliver. Earlier on in the piece I have heard stories about sets of tires overnighted for big events with new custom compounds just for a particular event. What a great era. Also a great era for ARC. Nice vision of the Perth Rally. Bates and Taylor really were in a class of their own.
Yep 100% Cheers!!
Some great memories.
Thanks for sharing.
✌️ Peace.
Cheers!!
Not only was the Commodore quick, it looked like it was ' handling on rails. '
Was very well handled, when it got back from the race the PE team measured and recorded the entire setup of the car!
Wonderful. Larry at his best. Neil Bates and Coral Taylor were a force to be reckoned with too. Rallying is the purest form of motor sport in my view, controlling a car to that level of precision on ball bearings at huge speed requires true mastery.
100%! Cheers!!
Nice post ! The good old tin top days ! Mr Bates is pretty handy behind the wheel.
Isn't he!! Cheers!!
High quality stuff. Great work Jack! All the best for the rest of the year.
Cheers!
Great to see little Jack in the garage. 👍
Hahaha doesn’t seem that long ago, cheers
That’s gold. Thanks Jack 👍🏻🇦🇺
You’re welcome, cheers!
The word legend in sport gets used many times it shouldn't be ..
Personally,id say LP's input into Australian Motorsport, his achievements overseas & locally make him deserving of such recognition .. I imagine hed say I was simply being me.
Thanks for the kind words, cheers!
Great as always Jack. Love LP
Cheers!!
Great Archival material Jack, 😊👍
Thanks 👍
The day's of the Tyre wars. Did make the racing interesting back in the day. Would anyone want multiple tyre brands in todays modern supercars?. Great content Jack thanks for the upload, brings back great memories.
I mean control tyres creates a level playing field for sure, arguments either way!
Good stuff! Thanks heaps!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
No problem 👍 Cheers!
I was at that race, was fantastic. I was at the top though so didn't see him rip it off the start, great stuff 👍
Cheers!!
Awesome video Jack! The music drowning out the mighty Holden V8 sucks though!
Hahaha cheers!
Coral Taylor is Australia's version of Michèle Mouton. An unsung hero that deserves an entire episode to herself.
100% very successful in Rally and a great person to match
L fucking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! P I'll never forget this race for as long as I live love this bloke the last man to win in a Holden 304ci 5.0 and didn't that lion roar at Bathurst 93🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁
How good! Cheers!!
How good was 1993!
The best!!!
cool
Cheers!
I may have missed it in one of the videos, so if there is one can you please direct me, but I remember reading in Auto action along time after Bathurst what Larry had actually done to the engine, and now he had circumvented the rules to allow the old Holden engine to produce as much horsepower as the chefssomething to do with wedges in the top of the Head inlet port or manifold or something I just can’t remember
Episode 27 is what you would need to watch!!
@@perkinsengineering I just had a look that one’s about the slide injection. I’m talking more about the wedges that Larry made. There was a rule a time you weren’t allowed to add metal I believe, but because Larry had screwed these pieces in, though was considered temporary, and so that gave betterflow of the fuel air mix into the cylinder heads. I can’t remember exactly how it worked, but maybe you can explain it better.
@@obiemichaels9675 This still mightn't be quite what you want, but Larry explains how he legally modified the heads and blocks before the Chev introduction. ruclips.net/video/eLO93f_m22w/видео.html (50:25) In fact, if you haven't seen it, the whole vid's pretty interesting.
@@geoffsingleton9248 thanks I’ll watch it
The auto action article had diagrams and pictures
Do I recall correctly this was when the Winfield Commodores seemed to always be on 3 wheels, even driving around the carpark?
Dunno why they did that, apart from getting the best possible photo for the sponsor
Must've ran soft suspension!!
@@perkinsengineering especially at Winton and Symmons Plains
Ripper ... love to make the first comment! 🤣
Well done!! P1! Cheers!
Who is the lady at 0:26? I soooo recognise the face and time but her name eludes me.
Not sure, something to do with Castrol at a guess
!Remember this like it was yesterday, Jack 🕚goes 🖤fast!
Not wrong! Cheers!!