I've found a really good way to lose time, but much more entertaining than 'The Block' or 'Masterchef' or whatever it is you folk watch on the television.
ICMR (It's Called Motor Racing) is a YouTube channel filled with motorsport videos transferred from old VHS. Lots of old touring car stuff mostly, and I've watched some great early Armstrong / Gallagher 500 footage.
look here => https://www.youtube.com/user/Super100MPH/videos
Examples:
Evan Green talks through the first 3-4 years of the 500, including footage from Phillip Island and Bathurst: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlqFiPA6XXU
I think I posted this another time - the Alec Mildren film about the Alfas at the '65 Sandown 500: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9vUhzTFGCo
Peter Williamson's first racecam broadcast at Bathurst: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUqN1xsZymc
Kev Bartlett driving the Alfa TZ at Warwick Farm in 1966: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4njtgQyjgU
Heaps more in there to watch. Enjoy!
I love the footage of Sandown in 1965, it appears to be surrounded by paddocks? This footage of the track for the Australian Grand Prix in 1976 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps2MEP5Iu14) is more like now, although the track layout was even more dull than it is now?
Very cool :) I remember seeing that Peter Williamson racecam broadcast live as a kid...
And some obscure Italian car on pole position....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyJ0r_FLvx0
Finished 3rd behind Jane & Goeghegan's V8s.
(fixed that URL for you Vin)
The guys who are publishing this footage must have a thing for Alfas?
(Thanks Evan)
Just to make it confusing, they use a static shot of Foley's '73 Lightweight GTA (Ex-Mildren, now owned by Steve Byrnes) on the intro face page. The race footage from '71 is the GTAm, not GTA.
This channel is superb. But damn you Evan, I haven't got anything done today, too busy watching....
This race is great..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hk8t2OqF3c&list=UUtbHZdM_9O-BcXOwLRkqMiw&index=21 1984 Production Cars, with Colin Bond in a GTV6 up against a gaggle of clearly quicker Starions.
The paint job on that Bond GTV6 is hideous. But such fantastic close racing, and testing the limits of those radial tyres. I love the idea of class racing based on purchase price, I wonder what that would look like in 2014?
(I also saw an Alfasud. Very briefly)
I really enjoyed this 1981 Sports Sedans race with Tony Edmondsen in the Alfa/Holden. Such close racing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJyRwBobnUg
Quote from: vin sharp on September 04, 2014, 09:52:39 PM
And some obscure Italian car on pole position....
I love this quote "...partly why Foley is so well placed on the grid, he didn't have quite so much 'embarrassment of power', and he could get around a little faster on a slightly damp track...".
Quote from: vin sharp on September 04, 2014, 09:52:39 PM
And some obscure Italian car on pole position....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyJ0r_FLvx0
Finished 3rd behind Jane & Goeghegan's V8s.
Yes it is great to watch that brilliant Alfa handling versus the V8 "buses". I have the dvd Aust Touring Car Races Vol.1 that features this race as well as the 1970 and 1973 at Warwick Farm.
PS After watching these races is it any wonder why today they call those V8 Touring Car Masters and not Historic or Classic...they didn't ever handle like todays super modified clones.