MONEY & MOTOR RACING (ABC TV 1971)

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This special report from ABC TV in 1971 investigates the growing professionalism of Australian touring car racing and the commercial problems confronting the sport at the time. It also features interviews with Allan Moffat, Bob Jane, Harry Firth, Mike Gore and others. Filmed at Sandown Park, Melbourne.
All credit to ABC Australia, Will Hagon and Chevron Marketing Services.
Clip from Classic Australian Touring Car Races Vol. 2 DVD.
Motor sport is an international language.

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@YouCantSawSawdust 9 жыл бұрын

Donald Thompson came across as a very intelligent gentleman.

@XLR82TheMAX 10 жыл бұрын

I really loved your video.

@Holden308 10 жыл бұрын

Harry Firth pulling the company line claiming the money for the HDT came from the Dealer's Council. Fact was that it came through the back door from Holden, the dealer's didn't have squat to do with it, not until Brock took over ownership of the team in 1980.

@stevebeauy 5 жыл бұрын

Harry Dirt was a liar, hypocrite and an ASSWIPE !!!

@captainkaos754 5 жыл бұрын

What the fuck would you know Charlie ya little fuckwit. You weren’t even around when Firth was so go back to your ford forums dipshit.

@captainkaos754 5 жыл бұрын

Stevebuey. He was certainly more successful than you pal. Firth owned multiple properties and was loaded, as well as a Nice little asian to take CARE of him.

@Holden308 3 жыл бұрын

@@stevebeauy ... Harry was a liar, but then who has never lied? Harry was a hypocrite, but then who hasn't been in their life? But he was no asswipe. What Harry Firth was, was a very successful driver, mechanic, engineer and team owner/manager. Firth was probably Australia's first true road racing and rallying team boss who wasn't the lead driver, and by boss I mean it was Harry's way or the highway. You listened to him, you did what he wanted, and more often than not, you won. It was as simple as that.

@thomasraftery409 2 жыл бұрын

@@Holden308 Holden's and Fords cheated their heads off in 1970/72 meaning Chivas in his Valiant was the winner in those years.

@garymarquett7989 3 жыл бұрын

16000 people at Bathurst....now 100,000+ at $160 a head 😜

@BruceLee-sw4ms 2 жыл бұрын

Ford should have kept Al Turner in Australia- Ford would never have lost the races they did in the mid to late 1970’s

@beagle7622 6 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable Thompson's interview that that was how they felt about car racing then. Yes open wheelers were tradional racing but in any one year you would be lucky to have 3 or 4 competitive cars. Mainly In the late 60's No 6 Bib Stillwell, Matich if he wasn't driving sports cars and maybe Geogehan , a Bob Jane car, Alex Mildren (Kevin Bartlett) then the rest. Sports Cars in the late sixties was Frank Matich then daylight, I remember Jane having a crack at it but the entertainment was tin tops and sports Sedans, that got the crowds in.Brock's little A30 was probably one of the top crowd pleasers of the day, gees that was a great little car and he was a hell of a driver, it had no right to win the races it did. The only really entertaining open wheelers then (discounting the Tasman series in the mid 60's to around 69) were Formula Vees . Crowds would build up at Peters corner at Sandown to watch the big first corner accident which always happened because the cars were equal, the fields big and the drivers inexperienced.I remember also watching Pete Geoghan running bumper to bumper behind Moffat on the main straight at Sandown in GT HO's (he would have been fined so much today he would be broke) of the same team. Pete was just showing Moffat who was best then crashed it near Dunlop bridge (no brakes).I don't think he was the most popular person at Ford that day. That guy could really drive a car, but he was a big guy, doubt whether he would fit in his brothers Brabham. Really touring car races then were the top part of the field against Moffat often with some pretty colourful language in the paddock after races and rumours of a couple of near punch ups. I saw Thompson once and when asked about this said we have warned them.

@michaelgrogan5343 10 жыл бұрын

Well it is very true what they are saying it seem that its happening to us."Motorsport is not a privilege for the privileged".

@tomnewham1269 2 жыл бұрын

So nothing has really changed then. It cost a small fortune back then and it costs a small fortune now. The only difference is that the main tin top drivers get payed solely to drive.

@YouCantSawSawdust 9 жыл бұрын

Can anyone enlighten us to the whereabouts of Mike Gore.Is he still alive? If so,I can imagine him now as a cranky old cumudgeon telling young kids to get off his lawn.Seems like a nice bloke,though.

@redgeranium2755 10 жыл бұрын

well, isn't that a look back to what it was all about. 1971. Mike Gore was misguided in his belief that the tracks made all the money. He didn't understand what it took to maintain a race track. It was the foresight of Tony Cochrane in 1995 who realized that neither the competitors nor the track owners were ever going rise higher. For years before though, the ABC subsided motor sport via the tax payer, with motorsport telecasts. That was indeed a fine investment, as it bequithed what we have now. The 7 network also invested in the early days from the early 70s onwards. We can never though, go back to the halcion days of when the car dealers raced, with series production cars. This was the way it started. In 2014 we have professional teams doing what those in this doco said was what was needed.

@ayrproductions 7 жыл бұрын

Mike Gore was nothing more than a selfish prick. If there wasn't a dollar in it for him, then the track promoters had to be pocketing it, in his own eyes. The only track promoter at the time who had any real cash was Bob Jane, and that had nothing to do with his ownership of Calder.

@Deevo037 7 жыл бұрын

And yet Tony Cockwomble was responsible for the bland mess that we have today. V8s had such promise in the early to mid 90s before the regulators homogenized the cars to a silhouette formula with the underpinnings being identical. Variety was what made touring car racing great, where a six cylinder commuter car could realistically beat a V8 bruiser on the right track on the right day.

@Holden308 6 жыл бұрын

Sadly Deevo037, the person responsible for the silhouette formula (Project Blueprint) was Mark Skaife, the same brain that designed the Canberra Street Circuit. Skaife was a good driver and is a decent mechanic, but has next to no business sense.

@johnd8892 3 жыл бұрын

In the sixties and seventies channel 0 in Melbourne was the coverage I remember most. Saw Phillip island races with a bearded Peter Brock in the A30 doing so well. RD350 Yamaha motorcycles beating the 500s then. Hill climbs and speedway covered too, all on ATV 0.