Comments by "Tim John Un" (@timjohnun4297) on "American Reacts to Bathurst - Brocky in the Wet (1987)" video.
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More fun facts - the car he was driving in that video wasn't the one he started the race in. The 05 car blew an engine early on, Brock jumped into the number 10 car, which was only put together out of spare parts, to fulfil a sponsorship commitment of having 2 cars at Bathurst. It was never expected to even finish the race, let alone win it. I really think you should have a look at Larry Perkins next, Brock was a legend, but LP was just as much so, plus he built a lot of cars, Brock's, his own and a lot of others. There's video of him in the wet around Bathurst, too
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@reddog5378 To be fair, the current supercars don't have ABS or traction control, and power steering is there as a necessity because of the front end geometry required for running a spool diff, but I do get your point. The cars today have no relevance to road cars, and they are driven by career drivers, who do nothing but drive, there's no personalities any more, people who engineer their own cars, etc. Anyone who (Like me) grew up watching the old school group C and group A cars, and even the early days of the current formula, are very lucky to have witnessed it
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@michaelcrane2475 yeah, that was common, cheaper to facelift an existing car than build a new one. In fact, Larry Perkins got caught out with that, the VK had variable ratio steering rack homologated, because it was an option on the VK Calais, I think, when he face lifted the VK to VL he left it in there, and got pinged for having it, because it wasn’t homologated, despite being standard equipment in all road going VL’s
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