Greg Crick was an underrated driver and one of the most versatile outside the full-time Supercars grid during the bustling days of big field at the turn of the millennium.
A member fo the Tasmanian Motorsport Hall of Fame, the Launceston car dealer proved ultra-successful in GT racing, Sports Cars, Targa Tasmanian and Touring Car Masters across a more than 40-year career.
Starting in Sports Sedans on the Apple Isle, Crick debuted in 1971 driving a Holden 48-215 and 15-years later won the Tasmanian Sports Sedan Championship in a masterful display driving a non-turbo Torana GTR XU-1 in the wet, on slick tyres at Baskerville.
Crick made the step up to competing on the mainland in 1990 when he engaged Elfin Sports Cars to build a Chevrolet-powered Honda Prelude, which he raced to great success against a crack field of Sports sedans at this time.
Going onto win the Australian Sports Sedan Championship back-to-back in 1991 and 1992, while also he took out the inaugural Targa Tasmania event in a Honda NSX navigated by Greg Preece in that latter year.
The next progression for Crick was to step up into the Australian Touring Car Championship and made his debut in 1994 after the purchase of an ex-Perkins Engineering Holden VP Commodore.
Crick was a leading privateer during the late-1990s and a gun for hire as a co-driver into the 2000s.
He made 14 starts in The Great Race, finishing a best of seventh partnering Bob Jones in 1993.
After his stint in touring cars, it was GT racing coming to the fore as Crick contested the Australian GT Championship in a Dodge Viper ACR.
This culminated in another championship win, before importing a Dodge Viper Coupe Competition GT3 in 2009 and becoming an ambassador for the Chrysler-Jeep brands.
Jumping out of the elderly Viper, Crick built up an even older Chrysler Valiant Charger R/T using the V8 rather than the six used during its competition days of the early 1970s.
Crick was a frontrunner in the Touring Car Masters series bringing success to the Mopar fans to miss out on success during the Charger’s heyday.
The 2014 Bathurst 12 Hour provided mixed emotions for Crick as he finished third, but suffered severe carbon monoxide poisoning after an errant kangaroo damaged the front-end.
Winning the Phillip Island 101 Endurance Race with Chris Mies and a TCM Feature event in the Charger ensured Crick ended his career on a high.
Due to the health struggles from Bathurst, Crick was forced to end his driving career and still remains involved as a driving standards observer for many categories.