Was there at Oran park just before they turned to go up over the bridge. Was going for a Ricky where my mate was going for the GTRs. Win Percy was revving the hell out of that HRT after his bingle. Also remember seeing dick Johnson’s wingless Sierra circulating. Sterling effort by Brocky against the GTR and Sierras. The sounds of so many different cars and engine configurations really made group A special. On a side note the race fuel they were using smelt awesome! Great memories and a great year to get hooked on motor racing!
What a great memory mate! Thank you for sharing and hope this brought some of the wonderful memories back. Those VNs sure did rev in the later end of 1991 and we agree all the unique sounds and cars made it a fantastic time to get into racing. What did the fuel smell like?
@@TouringCarsofAus No worries mate! A pleasure! Really appreciate the race footage! I actually had video taped it on a mini VHS only to have it accidentally thrown out during a house move! Was gutted so seeing this brought great memories. Other races I visited that year were Amaroo Park and Bathurst. The fuel itself just smelt "racy" had a sweet smell to it so might have been some toluene as part of the mix. I know many race teams including the F1 turbos of the '80s were using it and the tell tale sign is black smoke out the exhaust as they richen it up and turn the boost up on the turbos or jack the compression ratio up on the N/A engines.
What a shame mate! Glad that we've been able to bring those memories back for you! Wow must've been somewhat similar to E85 smells by the sounds of it. We've recently found out they used quite a high octane of fuel as well as been leaded.
I went to as many races I could at Lakeside Raceway (travelling from Bundaberg)...strangely I now live down the road from Lakeside...I can hear racing when the wind is blowing the right way...the GT-R/Richards was just awesome to watch...I still do the odd track day at Lakeside...AWESOME TRACK...Weird seeing footage of Lakeside WITH an actual Lake/Water...it's all dried up now
Brock was on fire here. Holden also did a pretty solid job to make what was always a family car first and foremost at least semi-competitive against the purpose-built GT-Rs and Sierras.
The sierra was also a family car..turned in to an holmogation special....I'm amazed it actually lasted so long as a group A touring car....they just couldn't get the big rubber under those rear arches...I have a standard 2dr with a modded pinto lump...I can say those rear inner wheelhouse are not very big...
@@feydespiel. The Commodore was a bigger, heavier family car than the Sierra. The Sierra was smaller and lighter to start with. It was also homologated with a turbo. All of these are inbuilt advantages.
@@Sidewinder1999 Sure, but moving the Torana to front wheel drive with the Camira was General Motors' own decision. GM could have continued with a Torana-sized car if they wanted to. The Lotus Carlton had a turbo engine, the VL Calais had a turbo engine. Turbo engines were certainly available to General Motors.
@@feydespiel.😂😂😂😂 the sierra a FAMILY car 😂😂😂 WTF are you on champ. It was a pommie 💩heap and never sold in Australia therefore should’ve never been eligible to race. Secondly the commodore was a FOUR DOOR so it WAS a family car and sold hundreds of thousands as a FAMILY CAR.
Was there at Oran park just before they turned to go up over the bridge. Was going for a Ricky where my mate was going for the GTRs. Win Percy was revving the hell out of that HRT after his bingle. Also remember seeing dick Johnson’s wingless Sierra circulating.
Sterling effort by Brocky against the GTR and Sierras. The sounds of so many different cars and engine configurations really made group A special.
On a side note the race fuel they were using smelt awesome!
Great memories and a great year to get hooked on motor racing!
What a great memory mate! Thank you for sharing and hope this brought some of the wonderful memories back.
Those VNs sure did rev in the later end of 1991 and we agree all the unique sounds and cars made it a fantastic time to get into racing.
What did the fuel smell like?
@@TouringCarsofAus No worries mate! A pleasure!
Really appreciate the race footage! I actually had video taped it on a mini VHS only to have it accidentally thrown out during a house move! Was gutted so seeing this brought great memories. Other races I visited that year were Amaroo Park and Bathurst.
The fuel itself just smelt "racy" had a sweet smell to it so might have been some toluene as part of the mix. I know many race teams including the F1 turbos of the '80s were using it and the tell tale sign is black smoke out the exhaust as they richen it up and turn the boost up on the turbos or jack the compression ratio up on the N/A engines.
What a shame mate! Glad that we've been able to bring those memories back for you!
Wow must've been somewhat similar to E85 smells by the sounds of it. We've recently found out they used quite a high octane of fuel as well as been leaded.
I went to as many races I could at Lakeside Raceway (travelling from Bundaberg)...strangely I now live down the road from Lakeside...I can hear racing when the wind is blowing the right way...the GT-R/Richards was just awesome to watch...I still do the odd track day at Lakeside...AWESOME TRACK...Weird seeing footage of Lakeside WITH an actual Lake/Water...it's all dried up now
Definatly smelt better plus orange flames out of exaust@@TouringCarsofAus
Brock was on fire here. Holden also did a pretty solid job to make what was always a family car first and foremost at least semi-competitive against the purpose-built GT-Rs and Sierras.
The sierra was also a family car..turned in to an holmogation special....I'm amazed it actually lasted so long as a group A touring car....they just couldn't get the big rubber under those rear arches...I have a standard 2dr with a modded pinto lump...I can say those rear inner wheelhouse are not very big...
@@feydespiel. The Commodore was a bigger, heavier family car than the Sierra. The Sierra was smaller and lighter to start with. It was also homologated with a turbo. All of these are inbuilt advantages.
@@Sidewinder1999 Sure, but moving the Torana to front wheel drive with the Camira was General Motors' own decision. GM could have continued with a Torana-sized car if they wanted to. The Lotus Carlton had a turbo engine, the VL Calais had a turbo engine. Turbo engines were certainly available to General Motors.
@@feydespiel.😂😂😂😂 the sierra a FAMILY car 😂😂😂 WTF are you on champ. It was a pommie 💩heap and never sold in Australia therefore should’ve never been eligible to race. Secondly the commodore was a FOUR DOOR so it WAS a family car and sold hundreds of thousands as a FAMILY CAR.
Amazing footage. Grew up in Camden. Really miss Oran Park. All McMansions now, sadly.
Oran Park and Amaroo Park, both greatly missed.
Great video btw and brought back so many memories of the true titans of touring cars.
Brock on fire
Sure was in the late end of 91, especially when the VN became somewhat more developed.
Don't forget the DTM M3 and 190E are Godzilla killers in Macau both 1991 and 1992.
R.I.P Oran Park 😢
Loved Oran Park,
Johnson missing the back of his car didn't make the edit?
Lo Ed going to Oran Park, great day out , now it's drug town
The mighty holden 5 liter V8 with the king at the wheel. 2 wheel drive 8.500 plus rpm up against turbo shit that never should’ve been eligible