Toyota’s Bathurst sports car
Just like Mazda, Japanese rival Toyota dedicated a model to Australia’s prestigious circuit Bathurst in naming its base MR2 variant after the legendary circuit
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Just like Mazda, Japanese rival Toyota dedicated a model to Australia’s prestigious circuit Bathurst in naming its base MR2 variant after the legendary circuit
Celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, the Repco Bathurst 1000 has welcomed some of New Zealand’s greatest drivers and the forerunner to this success was a top contender in the Tasman Series, a Holden factory driver and podium winner on his first attempt
Broc Feeney and Jamie Whincup’s victory in the Penrite Sandown 500 wasn’t the first touring car round at the historic venue to be won by a Chevrolet Camaro, as 40 years earlier Kevin Bartlett did likewise in his Channel Nine version
Just as Peter Brock knew his way around the Mountain in October, it was the same around the horse racing track in September
The next era for Sandown welcomed a new style of Australian touring car following the ‘Supercar Scare’ and at 250 miles became the form guide for the Hardie-Ferodo 500
These days Sandown is known as the Home of Horsepower, but back in the 1960s another circuit situated in Sydney paired both types of racing together
Following a two-year sabbatical, Sandown’s traditional endurance race for production cars returned as this time a new era begun as a three-hour event
Imagine losing your licence due to speeding on a public highway, then building a racetrack on your sprawling farm. Well, this is just what Dean Wills did
How did a manufacturer of cement mixers and washing machines construct Australia’s own economy car?