{"id":3853,"date":"2011-09-24T12:17:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T02:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2011-09-24T12:17:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T02:17:53","slug":"the-very-very-last-of-the-big-bangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2011\/09\/the-very-very-last-of-the-big-bangers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Very Very Last of the Big Bangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is often recorded that the 1984 James Hardie 1000<\/a> was the final race for the old Group C<\/a> racing cars in Australia, before we switched to International Group A<\/a> regulations for 1985.<\/p>\n

It was promoted as “The Last of the Big Bangers”.<\/p>\n

What most people either forget – (or are completely unaware of) – is that the old cars did one more race after Bathurst<\/a>, as a support race to the 1984 Australian Grand Prix<\/a> at Calder Park<\/a> in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

It was held on the old Calder Park short course – and in fact, the lengthened version of the circuit wouldn’t exist for another three years.<\/p>\n

This was the last non-Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix – with the race switching to Formula One in Adelaide in 1985<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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