I went to Bathurst every year between 1980 and 1990. I always camped up at McPhillamy Park and it was awesome. It then started to get much regulated and I stopped going. I still watch bits of it on TV every year but it isn't the same.
Dad drove up from Melbourne every year from the late 60s to...I'm not quite sure when, sometime a little after this l imagine. I was lucky enough to tag along in 75, 77 and 82. We'd stay in a Pub in either Bathurst or Orange and it was such an adventure for a kid, especially the siggts and sounds of the mountain. What happened? What did these bastards do? What "regulations" are you speaking of?
Was the one race I was lucky to be at. Watched from the bottom of the mountain for a bit before we made it easy up to the top. Just arrived and Bartlet rolled right in front of us. Thanks for the video of the race, I never got to see the TV coverage until now...
The 70's were probably better except for that very disapointing staged Ford 1 - 2 finish, that was such a disapointing finish to what was a great race.
Very grateful for the upload. This is the first car race I can remember watching as a kid of ten. Been a fan of the Great Race ever since. My Da was telling us how Brock was the greatest. Da'd just bought a Commodore, which everyone in the parish had decided was a 'sports car'. All I knew was that those lines were very nice to look at, and the sound of those Group Cs were better than a rocket launch. Still my goal to own a Malboro Holden Dealer Team Torana A9X or VC V1 Commodore. I think this was the first Aussie telecast of an in-car camera in a race. Watch the first two laps of this for old school touring car racing. Evan Green was a great commentator. Like the Dennis Cometti of touring car commentary.
I’m very grateful for this video! I wasn’t even a thought or a twinkle in the eye, I was born in 89’ I grew up watching NASCAR, So to have Bill France Jr give the command is something special to me. I could only imagine being at this race in person!! Iv always imagined a NASCAR race car turning laps around the mountain. & I kid you not I have put Bathurst on my bucket list of tracks that I MUST visit. I put the Mountain over the Nurburgring, Easily.
Bring back this real Bathurst. Different classes of cars in the same race that anyone could buy in Australia and besides the slicks and lack of muffler were roadworthy. Bring back the 1982 rules (not group A) and scrap the circus v8 super crap (Mockup passenger cars that don't exist ) aren't available to the common man. The wining car means nothing if you can't buy that car and drive it on a public road. In today's market not just motorsports fans would take an interest if the team had to make 2000 of the cars raced available to the public. Back in 1982 I think they had to offer 500 of the same race car.
Michael Irish I agree.....I don't even bother watching the shit boxes of today. There all the same car now with a different badge stuck on the front. And if you don't have foxtel either you get the rubbish ch10 broadcast of Bathurst. Which is typical ch10 shithouse. The good old days, real cars, 60 of them, with real men not the puncey tinker bells we have today steering them.....and don't get me started on the commentators, crompo, skaife and larks could take a leaf out of Wilkinson, Evan Green and mike Raymond. Good memories. Brock, Johnson , gricey, Hansford, bond, Harvey, Bartlett, fury, Richards and the rest or the real Aussie motor legends. All we got now really is lowndesy..... Now we stuck with, chad in his commoford, whine-cup in his falcondorre, and Rick in his V8 patrol powered Nissan (not so) Altima.
So true Michael. I started watching the 1000 back in '76 when it was multi class homologated road cars, not the silhouette nonsense they race today. These days "The Great Race" is the 12 hour, not the 1000. It's a far more entertaining spectacle.
Group C was political nightmare. But folks like yourself wear the rose tinted glasses and can't acknowledge this fact. Group A was just as bad. The V8 formula has been the best and most stable, but is currently showing some cracks.
Now that we've lost Holden, Commodores and Falcons, it would probably be a good thing to go back to slower, more road-going cars. I lost interest when I could no longer tell what the cars were, and I have even less interest now they are mostly American. Would love to see mixed class, but the trouble is Group C became obstacles, and it got dangerous as the Group A cars got faster. There would need to be lower caps on HP, and modifications. I'm more excited now by SuperUtes. Something more of us own, and we can recognise.
This 14yo was so excited when KB flipped over, that was the moment that I found my Bathurst addiction, every year since, I have prepared everything near the Tele, and don't miss anything unless necessary ...
i'm a bit surprised that they were no safety cars in 1982 it was only with the introduction of Gr A in 1985 and the WTCC in 1987 that pace/safety cars were introduced given that the race organisers were keeping races going despite cars lying in dangerous areas with cars having to avoid the recovery trucks and it was the trucks that caused Dick Johnson' collision with the rock in 1980 2 years before
Fukn awesome footage...godd car racing know ..almost boring...computer this that...tells uwhen u skidded urself lol...loove the lost years lol Thats living....i tell ya...
Evan Green. "I don't know what the alternative is" re the flatbed trucks on the track at the same as the cars. The same superbrain that kicked off the supercar scare
the alternative turned out to be safety cars, which killed racing altogether and made bathurst a boring joke, his "supercar scare" ushered in the group c banger era, which wasnt topped before or since, evan was mr bathurst
The only Sunday of the year I was ready a couple of hours before church time so i could watch the start of the race uninterrupted. The '82 start has to be up there with one of my favourite Bathurst memories.. Gricey and Brock just going for it.
Oops, that was the 1983 Bathurst where Brocky Broke His Car Going Too Fast from the Start and then Jumped-In John Harvey's Car (The Back-Up Commodore No. 25)..... Here, Brocky Amazingly Circulated Very Quickly the Whole Race, with Tremendous Reliability. Factory Support just sooo essential in those days, with Privateers having Very Little Chance to Win.
1:34:20 Is that competition still going ?? The old ford of mines getting a bit long in the tooth. Great racing, into the era of race cam, various makes of cars and still no safety cars to gamble on. I'm really enjoying this.
Gotta love these cars compared to now. Only minor modifications done. Can anyone imagine today's V8 Supercars with an ashtray and lighter like Brocks at 45:25 ?
I miss these days when men were men, and racing was raw and exciting. I miss having the slower cars in the mix, and leaving broken cars on the track, it sorted the men from the boys. Nowadays they call out the pace car if someone gets a splinter. How did we let racing get so sterile?
Bill France tainted this racing with his visit there , just like him and his son have done to Nascrap .The same thing has happened to racing down under ....... all clone car racing .......Badge stickers on the same car , just not represent different car companies ..........
I went to Bathurst every year between 1980 and 1990. I always camped up at McPhillamy Park and it was awesome. It then started to get much regulated and I stopped going. I still watch bits of it on TV every year but it isn't the same.
Dad drove up from Melbourne every year from the late 60s to...I'm not quite sure when, sometime a little after this l imagine. I was lucky enough to tag along in 75, 77 and 82. We'd stay in a Pub in either Bathurst or Orange and it was such an adventure for a kid, especially the siggts and sounds of the mountain. What happened? What did these bastards do? What "regulations" are you speaking of?
My first and only Bathurst. A wide eyed young 12yo, camping with my dad at the top with Smarty’s circus crew. A weekend I will never forget.
Awesome mate.
What year was that weekend
Back in the day before one of worlds most famous straightaway, (Conrod Straight) was vandalised.
Was the one race I was lucky to be at. Watched from the bottom of the mountain for a bit before we made it easy up to the top. Just arrived and Bartlet rolled right in front of us. Thanks for the video of the race, I never got to see the TV coverage until now...
The absolute best years of Bathurst
The 70's were probably better except for that very disapointing staged Ford 1 - 2 finish, that was such a disapointing finish to what was a great race.
Very grateful for the upload. This is the first car race I can remember watching as a kid of ten. Been
a fan of the Great Race ever since. My Da was telling us how Brock was
the greatest. Da'd just bought a Commodore, which everyone in the parish
had decided was a 'sports car'. All I knew was that those lines were
very nice to look at, and the sound of those Group Cs were better than a
rocket launch. Still my goal to own a Malboro Holden Dealer Team Torana
A9X or VC V1 Commodore. I think this was the first Aussie telecast of
an in-car camera in a race. Watch the first two laps of this for old
school touring car racing. Evan Green was a great commentator. Like the
Dennis Cometti of touring car commentary.
I’m very grateful for this video! I wasn’t even a thought or a twinkle in the eye, I was born in 89’ I grew up watching NASCAR, So to have Bill France Jr give the command is something special to me. I could only imagine being at this race in person!!
Iv always imagined a NASCAR race car turning laps around the mountain. & I kid you not I have put Bathurst on my bucket list of tracks that I MUST visit. I put the Mountain over the Nurburgring, Easily.
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First in car was 1979 in one of the Toyotas
Here June 2023.. that turbocharged Bluebird!! 🥵 collectors item these days ❤
Bring back this real Bathurst. Different classes of cars in the same race that anyone could buy in Australia and besides the slicks and lack of muffler were roadworthy.
Bring back the 1982 rules (not group A) and scrap the circus v8 super crap (Mockup passenger cars that don't exist ) aren't available to the common man. The wining car means nothing if you can't buy that car and drive it on a public road.
In today's market not just motorsports fans would take an interest if the team had to make 2000 of the cars raced available to the public. Back in 1982 I think they had to offer 500 of the same race car.
Michael Irish I agree.....I don't even bother watching the shit boxes of today. There all the same car now with a different badge stuck on the front. And if you don't have foxtel either you get the rubbish ch10 broadcast of Bathurst. Which is typical ch10 shithouse.
The good old days, real cars, 60 of them, with real men not the puncey tinker bells we have today steering them.....and don't get me started on the commentators, crompo, skaife and larks could take a leaf out of Wilkinson, Evan Green and mike Raymond. Good memories.
Brock, Johnson , gricey, Hansford, bond, Harvey, Bartlett, fury, Richards and the rest or the real Aussie motor legends. All we got now really is lowndesy.....
Now we stuck with, chad in his commoford, whine-cup in his falcondorre, and Rick in his V8 patrol powered Nissan (not so) Altima.
So true Michael. I started watching the 1000 back in '76 when it was multi class homologated road cars, not the silhouette nonsense they race today. These days "The Great Race" is the 12 hour, not the 1000. It's a far more entertaining spectacle.
Its what everyone says...but nobody listens
Group C was political nightmare. But folks like yourself wear the rose tinted glasses and can't acknowledge this fact. Group A was just as bad. The V8 formula has been the best and most stable, but is currently showing some cracks.
Now that we've lost Holden, Commodores and Falcons, it would probably be a good thing to go back to slower, more road-going cars. I lost interest when I could no longer tell what the cars were, and I have even less interest now they are mostly American. Would love to see mixed class, but the trouble is Group C became obstacles, and it got dangerous as the Group A cars got faster. There would need to be lower caps on HP, and modifications. I'm more excited now by SuperUtes. Something more of us own, and we can recognise.
My favourite decade of Bathurst races. Love the cigarette advertising.
how awesome is this? I can't believe this exists My childhood
How could you not enjoy this??
11.19 a Marshall is trying to prevent an engine from over heating by fanning his hands up and down. What a guy
A fantastic era of Australian Motor Sport I was at Bathurst that year right where Bartlett put big Camaro on it's roof took some great photos.
Sad we won't see racing like this again.
1982 no internet, no social media , no bullshit reality tv shows, but you had real music , leaded petrol and tobacco sponsored race teams
Big Rev Kev with a tinny and a cig after rolling the car (1:02:10) - bloody classic.
fantastic stuff. wish there were more past races available to watch. thank you for this.
Grice & Brock were flying , in those cars that were growling fantastic sound .
And Ron Wanless, great driver. Loved watching him at the ekka on dirt. Another legend of aussie motor sport/
06:17 Alan Grice nerves of steel. Australian Legend.
But then Brock swearing at him
Yep absolutely, then unfortunately he spins it. Classic Grice, all or nothing. He would have won a lot more races if he was a bot more measured.
Awesome video thanks
This 14yo was so excited when KB flipped over, that was the moment that I found my Bathurst addiction, every year since, I have prepared everything near the Tele, and don't miss anything unless necessary ...
God that 308 in Brocks car sounds so sweet.
thanks for posting, my 1st Bathurst, awesome
i'm a bit surprised that they were no safety cars in 1982 it was only with the introduction of Gr A in 1985 and the WTCC in 1987 that pace/safety cars were introduced given that the race organisers were keeping races going despite cars lying in dangerous areas with cars having to avoid the recovery trucks and it was the trucks that caused Dick Johnson' collision with the rock in 1980 2 years before
Very dangerous aswell , they should of been introduced or earlier than 82 considering the pace of the cars at that stage .
Yes, that was the way to do it, just keep the action going! Now it seems half the race is behind a pace car ‘boring’
Fukn awesome footage...godd car racing know ..almost boring...computer this that...tells uwhen u skidded urself lol...loove the lost years lol
Thats living....i tell ya...
Evan Green. "I don't know what the alternative is" re the flatbed trucks on the track at the same as the cars. The same superbrain that kicked off the supercar scare
the alternative turned out to be safety cars, which killed racing altogether and made bathurst a boring joke, his "supercar scare" ushered in the group c banger era, which wasnt topped before or since, evan was mr bathurst
the Great Classic Aussie Race the golden days of racing
great to see back then ,hard to believe it was 35 years ago ,where have the years gone i rally dont know myself .
Me t I'm hearing you brother.
Gricey’s retake of the lead 2nd lap into cutting 👍👍
was evan green the best commentator weve seen and heard? if only there were more like him
Crompton does a good job always ha s The problem is Skaife talking over him & everybody else.
No. No it my opinion.
Mike Raymond and Garry Wilkinson were both much, much better.
No. No it my opinion.
Mike Raymond and Garry Wilkinson were both much, much better.
Unfortunately Evan Green nailed the lid on the coffin of the phase 4 Ford Falcon GTHO (and subsequent GTHO Falcons)
evan green, will hagon, howard marsden, best combination
Great driving !!!
The only Sunday of the year I was ready a couple of hours before church time so i could watch the start of the race uninterrupted. The '82 start has to be up there with one of my favourite Bathurst memories.. Gricey and Brock just going for it.
Bathurst used to test the car and sort the real from the shit and the Holden was world class
Dumb question, on the first stint for Peter Brock, does it sound like he had the radio on?
56:27 "what speed are you pulling dick?"
I would love to see Nascar involved in this race under these regulations. Kyle Busch would loose his mind! It would be great.
Ambrose would kill him on the mountain
Oops, that was the 1983 Bathurst where Brocky Broke His Car Going Too Fast from the Start and then Jumped-In John Harvey's Car (The Back-Up Commodore No. 25)..... Here, Brocky Amazingly Circulated Very Quickly the Whole Race, with Tremendous Reliability. Factory Support just sooo essential in those days, with Privateers having Very Little Chance to Win.
thank you very much!
1:34:20 Is that competition still going ?? The old ford of mines getting a bit long in the tooth. Great racing, into the era of race cam, various makes of cars and still no safety cars to gamble on. I'm really enjoying this.
Now they race car badges around..
Wow!! The man!! The myth!! Bill Jr. giving the command to fire engines?! 😮😎 Hell Yea!!
This is driving..some of our guys needs to take some. Notes
In 2023, may every gen3 Camaro also end up on their roof.
Bill France Jr ?
Group C big bangers! Enough said 😁✌
Cool
Bartlett’s roll one of those memorable moments from any Bathurst 1000. The Supercars of 2022 are just not the same as these cars. They are so fake.
" its gonna be EXTREAMLY DIFFICULT to move those cars with safety " the wild west
Peter is too early on the brakes, he can carry more speed if he broke later into the corners
Gotta love these cars compared to now. Only minor modifications done. Can anyone imagine today's V8 Supercars with an ashtray and lighter like Brocks at 45:25 ?
Lol listen at 6.27 or s you can Brock giving it to Grice
+Michael Larkin "Fkun Grice cut it out !" Brocky doesn't like the Brake test from Gricey LOL I
Absolute gold haha
I miss these days when men were men, and racing was raw and exciting. I miss having the slower cars in the mix, and leaving broken cars on the track, it sorted the men from the boys. Nowadays they call out the pace car if someone gets a splinter. How did we let racing get so sterile?
No exit road, sand at the end of the straight. Who was designing these tracks......daffy duck.
Gricey around the outside into the cutting... that will do me 6:20
Lol I guess the safety of the track crew or the drivers wasn’t the best
Back when a thousand was a lot of money..
That funny shaped tree on the right a the Esses 16:41 the same as it does today😀
back when cars were real cars, the Camaro,would have won it I reckon if he hadn't of crashed. takes me back lol.
Gricey and Brocky Broke their Cars going too fast from the start, eh Guys.
Talk about commentators’ curse at 26:40!
6.00 the sound tho
just to say i was 12
56:27
56:54
Bill France tainted this racing with his visit there , just like him and his son have done to Nascrap .The same thing has happened to racing down under ....... all clone car racing .......Badge stickers on the same car , just not represent different car companies ..........
I call them robots
how? Bill France Jr. was there during the Nascar golden years of 1981-1998
Earth moving ithcy brotgerd
The continuous "errr..."s were infuriating!
They should be sacked.
Be fucked if the Do Gooders would even let one balloon go theses days hahhahahah