Larry Perkins - 1991 Tooheys 1000 - Bathurst Top 10 Shootout
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2021
- Larry Perkins' top 10 shootout lap for the 1991 Tooheys 1000.
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For historic and educational purposes only.
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Unfortunately due to copyright we are unable to upload the laps of Win Percy, Peter Brock & Glenn Seton. They are however available to view on RUclips as part of the complete top 10 runoff here from RacingVolt: • 1991 Bathurst 1000 - T... 
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This car, Brock's VN 05, and Larry's 1992 VL were the best sounding touring cars I have ever heard. Australian fans lost a lot when the Chevrolet V8 was forced on Holden runners in 1994
Yeah they had a sook about the holden 8s after larry won bathurst in 93 with one and forced him to switch.. they let him keep using them until just before the enduros as he still had around 12 of them lying around but yeah it was a real shame
Agreed. Sounds absolutely fantastic. Downshift rasp is gorgeous 🤘🤘🤘
Iron lion 5ltr dusk til dawn
Long live the iron lion 5ltr
That was a beautiful lap it deserved to be quicker. His performance in the VL the following year is the stuff of legend.
The crown jewel of the Holden 308, great sound!!
304 V8 just not enough power.
Chassis PE012 from memory, Brock's ATCC car. Will double check my Perkins book.
Delayed response but yes this is PE012
Love it, brilliant
WHY can,t V8 Supercars be this good nowadays???? Instead of the CRAP racing today!!!!!!!!!!!
I am a Ford guy and Always will be!!!! But RESPECT for LARRY PERKINS both as an engineer and a driver!!!!!!!!! One of the BEST if not the BEST on both counts!!!!!!!!!!
Gnarly snaffle sounds on downshift. Gorgeous 🤜💥🤛
I think this car was running close to 8000-8500 rpm from reading larry's book!
Fantastic. One of the great quotes is "There is a lot more to engine technology than the position of the camshaft within the engine." Larry was the king of screwing big HP out of the Holden V8 over race distance.
@@matthewdouglas4791 His "slide valve" manifold was a work of engineering art, and made the Holden 304 out perform the much more expensive and designed for racing Chevrolet V8 adopted by V8 Supercars, which was sadly forced on LP by TEGA in 1994. TEGA couldnt continue to allow LP embarrass their choice of engine like he did in 1993
yeah I heard they would sometimes rev them up to 8200 but they couldn't keep that up for too long. For 1992 and onwards they introduced a 7500 rpm limit.
Initially experimented up to 9000, but were cracking blocks, so dropped back to 8500 max
so neat.
Holden v8 then sounded better than modern v8 supercars !
" They are a racing car not a touring car." You could dismiss that as sour grapes from just about anyone EXCEPT a former F1 driver.
thing is he was right, Godzilla and the BMW M3 were specifically designed as race cars first then adapted as touring cars to meet the regulations, unlike every other car in Group A
@@davidewhite69 Nissan built the ultimate car by designing it around the rulebook....and then some (Lancia basically did the same with the Delta in Gr.A rally). Problem is this along other questionable product choices during the market downturn almost doomed them in the mid-late 90s. The halo car approach cost them a lot for a few years of touring car success.
@@IASEAGLE5 kudos to Nissan for the risk they took, When FISA penned Group A, the entire world car market was in a huge slump, makers were not taking risks and making mostly boring cars. Fisa made it easy as possible for makers to enter their products without having to make expensive short run specials like what happened with rallying but allowed certain freedoms if they produced 500 cars, aka sporting evolutions. At the time most turbos were the equivalent to the Garret T3 so they didnt forsee rocketships like the Sierra RS500 and Godzilla. When the RS500 came on to the scene, Fisa did too little too late by merely changing the eight formula factor from 1.4 to 1.7, not nearly enough! But they didnt care, they wanted to be rid of Group A by then and wanted everyone to race silhouettes. Ford, Holden, Nissan, even Volvo took a huge gamble when making their sporting evolutions considering the state of the market. Holden actually went against GM head office making sporting evolutions, but their out was initially they were made by a third party. But Nissan (and BMW) went all out by designing a race car then adapating it to the road, something the other manufacturers couldnt afford to do or wouldnt risk it. Ford's Sierra Cosworth almost didnt make it, it very nearly got axed on the drawing board but the head of Ford UK decided to take the risk against Ford USA's advice
The MOST SELF EMBARRASSING Comment ever made in ATCC HISTORY..."On paper, the Nissan is quicker...its a Race car not a Touring Car"...WTF do you think you were sitting in Perkins if nothing but a RACE CAR?...An insult to his team as well that built his RACE CAR...Absolute Definition of a BAD LOOSER and Bad Sportsmanship
Politics mate, he was a Holden man and they knew they were getting their arse handed to them by Ford with the RS500, BMW with the M3, and the Japs joined in with the GTR. Australian touring cars were never going to sit by and watch the Holden get flogged, along came V8 supercars and that's what we have been served up ever since. Cracking lap by Larry though, the bloke certainly knew how to build a car and drive one.