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From the FIA archives in the Jaguar XJS homologation papers. They show the details when ol Tom pulled the scam of the decade homologating the pre-may type heads despite them being long out of...

I remember that roll over! I find this interesting because DJR1 and DJR2 were both built from shells bought from Don Smith. DJR1 was RHD and DJR2 LHD. Wonder if one of these was a converted XR4Ti? ...

It wasn't a top ten car like Robbie boldly predicted a couple of days before the race. Though it would have just missed out scraping into the top ten in 1985 by three hundredths of a second. The...

more on how the rules were being "INTERPRETATED" (flaunted!). The FIA Group A regs stated that aerodynamic aids and body panels were not to be "adjustable". In 1989 Allan Moffat turned up at Sandown...

One part of the history of Group A was it was supposed to be by the book and no special favours or considerations granted, aka what was destroying Group C. Group A in Europe was a dogs dinner, all...

millions Oldfart! Like CAMS, the founders of V8Supercars promised it was going to be cheaper and simpler than what Group A had become. That sooned turned into a farce when they started issuing...

An interesting piece of the history of Group A is how the cost quickly escalated. In 1984 when CAMS announced Australia would be adopting Group A for 1985, part of their reasoning was the cost would...

You must be reading it wrong, those are Car numbers not positions. Across is no of laps, down is position on the track. For instance, Car 2, The Chickadee Commodore, led until lap 37 where Alan Grice...

Ok, I'm picking at straws here but Mark Petch is wrong, Car 44 never got to the dizzy heights of position 2. It did reach position 3 on lap 42 and then pitted falling to position 7, worked it's way...

Nice to see a reply from the person who knows for sure the history of the car. One can guess whose delicate ego was bruised :D

On a different topic, look how small the falcons discs are! Obviously...

It wasnt only the flares, that was just the visible bit, Frank also protested the size and shape of the inner guards. Most Sierra's had difficulty on "bumpy" tracks like Bathurst when fitted with 17"...

what a shame that is marked private because it looks to be good quality. The posts following it are of the latter race. This one was at the start of the year whereas the others are the world touring...

to be fair to Volvo Robbie had a fall out with the team manager, not the maker. Team manager John Sheppard was notorious for being a "my way or the highway" bloke and butted heads with Robbie on the...

There sure are some variations in same car engine capacities in that entry list! Did the person entering the car state the capacity instead of what it was supposed to be under group a regs?

I'm stunned this track every passed international safety rules

This is a stunning race time. To put it into perspective, in the 87 WTTC event Ludwig got pole on 1.29.42, on very sticky qualifiers in an RS500, and the fastest cars lap times in the race were in...

it will buff out

It arrived at Wanneroo Western Australia on a trailer, but I dont know if it crossed the Nullarbor like that or in a transporter, I can't remember :(

The first outing of Allan Moffat's brand new Rudi Eggenberger built Sierra RS500. Surprised everyone when he appeared, not many knew he had one!

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Murray Carter's gorgeous black road registered (NSW Australia) Sierra. I offered to test it for him as his race car was lacking speed, but strangely he declined my offer :rolleyes:
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Longhursts spare was raced by him the following year, I think Alan Jones? might have piloted the old car at Bathurst in 89

Dont know what happened to Carter's Sierra, but do I have a couple of...

Depending on who/what/where really. In Europe the teams saw intercoolers as part of the cooling system as you suggest, and hence ran them, but in Australia it was seen different. Australia saw it as...

the two pics above are perfect to highlight the difference in the aero package between the M3 EVO2 and the M3 EVO3. I never did like the look of the EVO3's rear spoiler.

At the start of the 88 season FISA announced they would be clamping down on what they called "irregularities" (they didnt call it cheating). First up was turbo cars must run the intercooler...