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From The Vault: Last to First!

One more from the video collection, the last lap of the fabulous 1995 Tooheys 1000, on the first lap of which Larry Perkins collided with Craig Lowndes. The contact tore the tyre valve from the front left wheel of Perkins’ car, and after pitting for a new wheel and tyre and ending up more than […]

Age Versus Fitness in Motor Racing

I have often heard it argued that motor racing is not a sport, that it can’t be difficult to sit in a car and just drive. Of course, just about any form of motor sport is hard work – anyone who thinks otherwise should take the chance to have a go at their local go-kart […]

1991: Brock Returns to Holden

Delving back again into my archive of video, I’ve stumbled across a great piece about the return of Peter Brock to Holden in 1991, after a year with BMW and two with Ford between 1988 and 1990. After losing engineering support with Andy Rouse moving to Toyota in the British series in 1991, Brock needed […]