Comments by "Tim John Un" (@timjohnun4297) on "American Reacts to Peter Brock describes a lap of Bathurst (1986)" video.

  1. Yeah, Dick Johnson was great on in-car, had some of the best one-liners ever
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  2.  @jackmarstaeller7663  Both those cars were owned by him and both times the number 2 car was further back in the field, so those victories were even more impressive I think. In 1987 the number 10 car that he drove to victory was made up out of spare parts and only even entered to fulfil a contractual obligation, they didn't even expect it to finish the race, let alone win it
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  3. It was done to bring the track up to FIA specs for the World touring car Championship round in 1987, they didn't allow a straight to be longer than 1.2 m
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  4. I grew up as a Brock fan, and he was a legend, but in hindsight, an even bigger legend was Larry Perkins. He built all his own cars, and won Bathurst from last place back in 1995. There's also a great video of him in the wet at Bathurst in 1994
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  5. The engine in that car was an Aussie built 5 litre V8 (304 ci) that used a 4 barrel Rochester Quadrajet carby. Australia only went to Group A in 1985, and they lost a lot of engine freedoms, this engine was surprisingly stock, compared to the Group C engines that they used up until 1984. Peter Williamson was the first driver to have racecam in his car, a Toyota Celica, back in 1979. He was allowed to remove the front passenger's seat to fit the camera in, it was that big :D The best looking cars of all time in my opinion were the 05 and 25 cars of Brock and John Harvey, in 1984
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