George Fury - 1986 James Hardie 1000 - Bathurst Top 10 Shootout
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2021
- George Fury's Hardies Hero's top 10 shootout lap for the 1986 Great Race. Despite the considerable success of the DR30 Nissan Skyline Turbo, this would be the only year the model would make in a top 10 shootout.
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Grew up in talmalmo and was in the bus with George for years and got to talk to him loads of times. Whenever you talk to someone who is truly great you can tell they aren't cut from the same block as the rest of us.
There is no way in hell that the handing issues are "just about sorted out"
what an absolute handful
Amazing skill from george and commitment 🤙🤙
In 1986 at Sandown two weeks prior to Bathurst George Fury boldly predicted his new Skyline built for him would break the existing qualifying record (2:13.850, set by him in the Group C Bluebird), which caused a bit of panic because the best Holden runners knew their cars would struggle to get into the 18s in qualifying. As you can see, George came nowhere near it. The car was troubled by over responsive twitchy and unpredictable steering, seen at Bridgestone corner, and a tail happy rear end. In the race it was plagued by excessive wear on all four tyres, blistering their hardest compound in less than twenty laps. The cause for the car being slower than the older Skyline that Scott qualified and its appetite for tyres was explained as a mismatch between the new much stiffer roll cage that was now fully connected to the suspension uprights and the suspension, which had far too stiff spring rates and roll bar settings. By the time Bathurst rolled around in 1987 they had sorted the suspension to match the roll cage's stiffness and it never troubled them in 1987
It was a real shame the DR30 didn't have the Bathurst success after strong years in the ATCC season. Can only wonder if they didn't run the new cage setup if they could've won or made it to the podium.
@@TouringCarsofAus Tony Scott got the sack from Fred Gibson for saying on camera "we just werent good enough, the Holdens were too fast". Pre the 87 chase the Commodore had the perfect gearing for Bathurst and the Evo version's aero aids did help across the top and down the chute, JB said the DR30 was frightening across the top without any aero aids and stiff suspension and it was getting airborne over the last hump so they had to back off and hence couldnt match the Commodores times
@Joe Shabidu its well documented that Farmer George liked tail happy and loose handling, came from his rallying days
Mike Raymond never failed to remind people where exactly in NSW George Fury came from!!
Not wrong mate!
one Bathurst coverage Mike did a short story on Farmer George showing his farm and him driving the local school bus!
Glad I got to live in talmalmo and meet the man himself. He and all of us are rightly very proud