Over the past couple of months, I’ve been digging through my old video collection, and found this little gem. I used to snap up the Seven Nightly News sports reports from Wednesday through Sunday of each year’s Bathurst week for posterity – knowing that there’s always little bits of footage and information you don’t get to see during the live broadcasts over the weekend.
Rare stuff in this video includes the in-car footage from a smoking Allan Moffat Falcon (driven by Charlie O’Brien), with no footage from this car used during the race at all, and Larry Perkins blowing an engine and spinning in his own oil at The Chase on Thursday – this the only place I ever saw this particular footage. The same is true of the #T23 car driven by Joachim Winklehock – the spare fifth car from the Frank Gardner Benson and Hedges/Diet Coca-Cola stable. This car is seen spinning exiting The Dipper, and appears in the standard BMW Motorsport livery, rather than either of the race liveries used by the team at the time.
Hard to comprehend that this was over 16 years ago now – just doesn’t seem that long!