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The is the last race for the 1987 ATCC championship going down to the wire between Jim Richards and Glenn Seton, action a plenty with some great race cam footage from the Allan Grice VL Commodore, enjoy! Sorry for a few bumps in the tape quality at the start, auto record started a bit late all those years ago, oh well, great to see this race again! :-) All Credit Channel 7 Sport.
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The 1987 Australian Touring Car Championship was a motor racing competition which was open to Touring Cars complying with regulations as defined by CAMS and based on FIA Group A rules. The championship, which was the 28th Australian Touring Car Championship, began on 1 March 1987 at Calder Park Raceway and ended on 5 July at Oran Park Raceway after nine rounds. The Calder round saw the world debut of the racing versions of the BMW M3, the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth and the Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo.
After years of racing for very little in prize money which brought numerous complaints from the leading competitors (in 1984, Dick Johnson Racing (DJR) had travelled an estmated 20,000 km to races around the country from their Brisbane base, often for as little as A$1,200 in prize money, far less money that was on offer at the time for the lower ranked Group E "Super Series"), CAMS signed a A$200,000 sponsorship package with Shell which brought the championship an overall sponsor for the first time and saw the series promoted as the Shell Ultra Australian Touring Car Championship