1991 ATCC - Round 9 - Oran Park

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1991 ATCC - Round 9 - Oran Park - Highlights

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The final round, Round 9 of the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) held at Oran Park Raceway on August 11 1991. The championship winner was determined at the previous round with Jim Richards taking the crown for 1991 making it a double for himself with Nissan.
The race went like many in the 1991 season with Mark Skaife taking a dominant win over the 2nd and 3rd place team mates Alan Jones and Tony Longhurst in the Benson & Hedges E30 BMW M3 Evolutions.
To wrap up the 1991 ATCC highlights, we were mainly inspired by user "hadlou" as they had uploaded the same footage well over 10 years ago, some races split into 2 parts, and with the maximum quality being 240p. We thought it would great to upload them with higher definition available. After managing to obtain the footage used by sheer luck, we have been able to make this available.
All rights and credit goes to Channel 7 Sport, Australia.
For historic and educational purposes only.
Full Results:
1 2 Nissan Motor Sport Mark Skaife Nissan Skyline GT-R R32 1 49m32.67s 1m11.54s 1m10.60s 1
2 20 Benson & Hedges Racing Alan Jones BMW M3 Evolution 2 49m55.69s 1m12.01s 1m11.40s 7
3 25 Benson & Hedges Racing Tony Longhurst BMW M3 Evolution 2 49m55.90s 1m11.30s 1m11.26s 5
4 30 Peter Jackson Racing Glenn Seton Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 1 50m18.26s 1m12.57s 1m11.40s 8
5 4 Bob Jones Corporation Mark Gibbs Nissan Skyline GT-R R32 1 50m33.18s 1m12.83s 1m11.45s 9
6 11 Mobil 1 Racing Larry Perkins Holden Commodore VN 1 50m39.67s 1m12.61s 1m11.29s 6
7 05 Mobil 1 Racing Peter Brock Holden Commodore VN 1 40 laps 1m11.53s 1m10.78s 2
8 16 Holden Racing Team Win Percy Holden Commodore VN 1 40 laps 1m12.58s 1m11.66s 10
9 27 Foodtown Supermarkets Terry Finnigan Holden Commodore VN 1 40 laps 1m14.52s 1m12.36s 11
10 52 M3 Motorsport John Cotter BMW M3 2 39 laps 1m16.89s 1m17.36s 16
11 17 Shell Racing Dick Johnson Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 1 38 laps 1m13.07s 1m11.76s 12
12 48 Stahlwille Motor Sport John Vernon Toyota Corolla AE86 3 37 laps 1m20.89s 1m20.70s 17
13 76 Bob Holden Motors Mike Conway Toyota Corolla AE86 3 36 laps 1m20.96s 1m22.33s 20
14 3 Lansvale Smash Repairs Trevor Ashby Holden Commodore VN 1 36 laps 1m14.34s 1m13.45s 13
15 53 M3 Motorsport Peter Doulman BMW M3 2 35 laps 1m16.93s 1m16.13s 15
16 74 Bob Holden Motors David Thomas Toyota Corolla AE82 3 27 laps 1m21.70s 1m21.42s 18
DNF 18 Shell Racing John Bowe Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 1 12 laps engine 1m12.67s 1m11.11s 4
DNF 1 Nissan Motor Sport Jim Richards Nissan Skyline GT-R R32 1 8 laps engine 1m11.13s 1m10.81s 3
DNF 8 Caltex CXT Racing Colin Bond Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 1 4 laps rear shock arm 1m14.00s 1m11.68s 11
DNS 13 Bob Holden Motors Dennis Rogers Toyota Corolla AE86 3 1m21.49s 19
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@weofnjieofing 3 жыл бұрын

Was there at Oran park just before they turned to go up over the bridge. Was going for a Ricky where my mate was going for the GTRs. Win Percy was revving the hell out of that HRT after his bingle. Also remember seeing dick Johnson’s wingless Sierra circulating. Sterling effort by Brocky against the GTR and Sierras. The sounds of so many different cars and engine configurations really made group A special. On a side note the race fuel they were using smelt awesome! Great memories and a great year to get hooked on motor racing!

@TouringCarsofAus 3 жыл бұрын

What a great memory mate! Thank you for sharing and hope this brought some of the wonderful memories back. Those VNs sure did rev in the later end of 1991 and we agree all the unique sounds and cars made it a fantastic time to get into racing. What did the fuel smell like?

@weofnjieofing 3 жыл бұрын

@@TouringCarsofAus No worries mate! A pleasure! Really appreciate the race footage! I actually had video taped it on a mini VHS only to have it accidentally thrown out during a house move! Was gutted so seeing this brought great memories. Other races I visited that year were Amaroo Park and Bathurst. The fuel itself just smelt "racy" had a sweet smell to it so might have been some toluene as part of the mix. I know many race teams including the F1 turbos of the '80s were using it and the tell tale sign is black smoke out the exhaust as they richen it up and turn the boost up on the turbos or jack the compression ratio up on the N/A engines.

@TouringCarsofAus 3 жыл бұрын

What a shame mate! Glad that we've been able to bring those memories back for you! Wow must've been somewhat similar to E85 smells by the sounds of it. We've recently found out they used quite a high octane of fuel as well as been leaded.

@justaname1862 2 жыл бұрын

I went to as many races I could at Lakeside Raceway (travelling from Bundaberg)...strangely I now live down the road from Lakeside...I can hear racing when the wind is blowing the right way...the GT-R/Richards was just awesome to watch...I still do the odd track day at Lakeside...AWESOME TRACK...Weird seeing footage of Lakeside WITH an actual Lake/Water...it's all dried up now

@MAte925 6 ай бұрын

Definatly smelt better plus orange flames out of exaust@@TouringCarsofAus

@Sidewinder1999 3 жыл бұрын

Brock was on fire here. Holden also did a pretty solid job to make what was always a family car first and foremost at least semi-competitive against the purpose-built GT-Rs and Sierras.

@feydespiel. Жыл бұрын

The sierra was also a family car..turned in to an holmogation special....I'm amazed it actually lasted so long as a group A touring car....they just couldn't get the big rubber under those rear arches...I have a standard 2dr with a modded pinto lump...I can say those rear inner wheelhouse are not very big...

@Sidewinder1999 Жыл бұрын

@@feydespiel. The Commodore was a bigger, heavier family car than the Sierra. The Sierra was smaller and lighter to start with. It was also homologated with a turbo. All of these are inbuilt advantages.

@TassieLorenzo 3 ай бұрын

@@Sidewinder1999 Sure, but moving the Torana to front wheel drive with the Camira was General Motors' own decision. GM could have continued with a Torana-sized car if they wanted to. The Lotus Carlton had a turbo engine, the VL Calais had a turbo engine. Turbo engines were certainly available to General Motors.