Jack
<<Your conversations are interesting to say the least. Could you list a
short
definition of your various categories, such as what a Group C saloon car
is?
=46rom your talk, it doesn't seem that you follow the FIA regs in total. =
I
would
be great if you guys could load up a container and come over here. Your
Holdens, etc. against our Camaros and Mustangs. =
BTW, another stupid yank question; what is a "sheep station"?>>
You're correct in that the Group C was a purely Australian formula. It w=
as
production based and the manufacturer could 'homologate' special bits whi=
ch
were accepted depending upon who you were. The real race was to get the
special bits homoilgated before Bathurst every year which is our equivale=
nt
of the Indy 500 in that it is the biggest event on the calender.
Group A followed Group C in 1985 (the first race was at Winton on Feb 10t=
h
and I was there). This was the category that was eventually dominated by=
the Ford RS500 Sierra. However in the first year of the new FIA Category=
Holden homologated the V8 Commodore and Peter Brock, Alan Moffat and Alan=
Grice took a couple of cars over to Europe to teach the Poms a thing or
two. They performed pretty well.
A sheep station is a sheep farming property that is of reasonable size -
say 10,000 square miles or more. Something worth racing for!
regards
Jeremy Braithwaite
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