1982 Bathurst 1000 - The First Two Laps
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Aside from Dick Johnson’s victory in 1981, Peter Brock and the Holden Dealer Team had owned the Bathurst 1000 since 1978. In 1982, however, Allan Grice and Alan Browne’s Re-Car team really took the fight to Brock. Grice snared pole position, and recorded the first ever 100-mph lap of Mount Panorama. The first two laps were intense, with Grice and Brock swapping the lead several times, and gapping the rest of the pack. Some of the action was caught on early in-car camera footage inside the HDT Commodore.
There will never be racing like this again. Glad I grew up with it. Lost my interest in V8 Supercars now we have no Aussie made saloons. RIP great Aussie racing.
same here , used to live near Sandown as a kid, grew up in the A9X era , loved the racing but havent followed it for about 10 yrs now. Real shame
I started watching it every year since 1995, Now i don't even know half the drivers nor do i even care. Sad times mate
me too
Same, I’m so glad I was privileged enough to watch Brock vs Johnson, Allen Grice, Moffat etc. I used to love the “Chickadee chicken” Commodore and of course that old favourite the Everlast VL Commodore. I used to love you built your car you raced your car. These days it’s control tyres, control this control that.
Agreed mate. Once it stopped being Ford V Holden it has lost so much. The drivers are boring a couple of good ones. Mostert Waters are good but no one is tuning in to see anton race feeney. They have a few years to build an exciting category or its going to fade away pretty quick.
Just got more adrenaline watching these 2 laps than in the last 2 decades of any motorsport.
👏 yep.
touring cars, not everything-has-to-be-identical modern crap.
I agree
You clearly haven't watched much motorsport these past 2 decades then.
Hyperbole is a hell of a drug, i guess. since July 2004 there's been heaps of great racing, in many top-level race series.
The golden years of motor sport in Australia. The 70s and early 80s were just amazing.
Afraid i missed the golden age of our sport. Watching the Falcons race the toranas then the commadores would have been great. I caught the end of the 80's the Brock legend was all but over. Did you get to any races. My first Bathurst was 2004 it was pretty crazy on the mountain after on saturday night. Made me think what it was like in the 90's let alone the 70's and 80's.
@@paulholmes8398 Only been the cars once in person but went to watch the bikes more often. Always made a day of it watching Bathurst on TV. I never bother with it these days.
The golden years for everything when everything made sense.
@@gone547 I agree mate. We never could have imagined how it all turned out. Inch by inch crazy took over.
It made the sport. The top legends had to deal with the other classes on the track and overtook where possible. I really miss that
Back when motor racing was actually entertaining.
I agree. Like rugby league and Australian rules football, it was a good sport in 1982. Now they are all just commercial products.
how to say "I'm a boomer" without saying those 3 words.
...and attending Bathurst back then was actually fun, until the political correctness made its way in. It used to be a hell of great weekend on the mountain
@@tewaewae Really? Great range of different cars, battling on crappy rubber with minimal safety on a track that took no prisoners. Not to mention characters with actual personality. Kind of the real thing compared with the video game like stuff of today. Hard to judge whether things were better or worse when you weren't there...
@@NotAnAudiophilePodcast agree on the great range. Once the Nissans beat everything they changed the rules. Faster is always better mate.
That was brilliant, play it again Sam
I could be wrong, but as I recall this was the first Bathurst race that we saw in full on New Zealand tv , if it was before that I'm sure I would have noticed.
a can't get enough of this channel its great love the cars and history thanks dude 😊
+1
@@barrycuda3769 I think it was the first race shown in NZ tv as I would have remembered the 81 race not going the distance. I was glued to the TV. The best part was ads were not allowed on TV on Sunday back then.
@@sureshnanu2682 And you couldn't buy alcohol on a Sunday, and it was about the time of carless days, I even remember not being able to buy petrol after mid day Saturday, including sunday.
The commentary is spectacular. And as a young 10 year old back in the day bathurst was just huge.
I was 16 and glued to the screen. Bartlett, Harvey, Johnson, Brock, Moffat, Grice. Falcons, Commodores, Toranas, great times and great drivers.
Don't forget Jim Richards
Interesting how the view from in-car camera more than 40yrs ago, is better than it is today.
Australia led the world in this field at the time. Still punching above its weight in racing car mods.
@@edwardhewer8530 Australia invented it.
Early Chanel 7 ground breaking all around the world
I watched Bathurst every year with my dad until he passed in 2014.
The 80s and early 90s were an incredible time for group a racing.
Brick, Perkins, Johnson and Moffat were just breathtaking to watch.
It is a core memory of my childhood.
Nah, the Brick was Johnson, wasn't it?😜
@@mikespearwood3914 haha, autocorrect strikes again, appreciate you bro!
@@mikespearwood3914 Nah...the real Brick was the one that filled the first nine places in 1966.
Good onya, Mate ...and good on your Dad.
You and me both mate. Dad was a Holden mechanic and we loved watching Bathurst every year. I was 14 at the time of this race and still remember it. In my late 20s, I did some motorsport photography and got to know some of the drivers a bit. Brocky was always our hero and in my handful of conversations with him, he was always gracious. One night around 9pm at Bathurst, I was walking to my car in the carpark near the media room after processing my images. There was noone else around but I could hear footsteps behind me. I looked around, and there was Peter Brock, walking towards me, hand outstretched. He shook my hand and thanked me for my efforts. We talked for a bit and I got into the car and drove back to Sydney, a silly smile on my face all the way. That was the last time I met the man and I'll never forget it.
We lost my dad last year and I miss the old fella every day. Watching these clips gives me goosebumps and some very happy memories. As you say - a core memory of our childhoods. Cheers - Dave
This is one of the best Bathurst there ever was. The commodore, falcon, Rx-7 and the camaro, turbo bluebird and all the other classes of REAL cars.
@@colinmiddleton2941 oh yeah the turbo bluebird (iconic)
Far better to watch today than any other racing. Basic technology by comparison.Amazing drivers
Back when it was all about the driver's ability and not about just having the most money or the best technology.
You forget they added the chase. But fuck a duck the speed and the balls those blokes had to pull those up from 180mph and for the cars to be able to do that, just so great. Thank you for uploading all these, really keeps this racing alive. Love it
"as long as the paper-works clean, You boys can do what you want out there!!!"...this is Racing!
Best sports coverage in the world at this stage. Ch7 congratulations
And that Mike Raymond knew his stuff and knew the mechanical side very well from sprintcars to touring cars..
The wheelspin over the the last crest of conrod before braking! 😳🍻
Todays racing is more luck than driver or car. The cars are “evened out” and multiple pace car interventions ensure the fields close up every few laps. I love this older racing. I was early teens when i fell in love with watching Bathurst in the late 70s. Also a great mix of car makes back in these days.
Pity it's a dead duck now. Clone drivers and cars.
I was 13 and in my first year of high school in 1982. 56 years old now and this race still gives me chills. Don't forgot you Brocky! Peter Perfect!!
Wow so good. Brings back memories watching Bathurst in NZ when i was a kid. You can really see them fighting car control on those days.
On lap two, the deive that Grice got out of turn two to beat Brock to the Cutting was extraordinary. To do that against the economic and engineering might of HDT is so impressive.
Grice was no mug. As a privateer with way less budget his cars were generally quicker than the HDT's, and yeah, that was one of the best moves ever on the mountain.
The perfect long running era of race on Sunday, In the show room on Monday. Todays racing is nothing like it.
That was an awesome trip down memory lane, grew up as a child in that era and watched many of these JH 1000 races live. Thanks for the video.
These were the days , so much better than the crap we watch today , we were so lucky to be around when the cars were more like a car you could buy from the showroom great video.
Where I used to live in Victoria in the early 80’s, the local cops loved Bathurst Sunday. Was their busiest afternoon of the year. All the local rev heads in their V8’s tear arsing about😂
I remember every year as a young lad , watching the Hardie Ferodo 10000 with my dad from start to finish , vividly remember the Ford 1 & 2 finish like it was yesterday ...
This was the first Bathurst i attended. I remember collecting aluminium cans later in the day and filling the boot of my mum's Cortina with them. Smelled like beer for weeks.
Wow that took me back 😪 take me back to the 70s and 80s, i recall so fondly watching this race all day on a sunday, and what about Brock's A9X's. Thanks for putting this up..life travels way too fast
I was at Bathurst 1979-83 - 1982 was a special year. Great memories. How privileged were we.
Those really were the days, so much better than the same cars with different badges that they try to kid us is racing today.
This sort of camera work goves a real feel for the speed and intensity.
Today, non stop ultra close ups, no real perspective to gauge speed on.
Exactly what I was thinking ... it was like actually being in the car
Such a shame, that the great three are here no longer, One is so glad to have seen something that ain't ever coming back
You all know the Golden Years Of Hollywood, well these were the golden years of Bathurst in the late 60's 70's early 80's
Thank God there is still vision on UA-cam, for the young one to see
I would always miss a pre-season cricket training to watch Bathurst.
Fantastic era of Australian motorsport 68-84.
Back in the late 70s I snuck in a couple of racing runs in my v8 Bolwell Nagari around Bathurst - huge buzz, fantastic race track! It was a great era of motor racing. 😎🇦🇺
Back in the 1960's a mate and I took his dad's Valiant wagon to Bathurst. We did a top speed run down Conrod, hitting 90mph and had to take the road to Bathurst coz the brakes faded as soon as Neil stood on the brakes. A vivid memory from 50 odd years ago....
The track is so brutal when you are actually driving on it. On TV it looks tough but in real life it's just a monster. I did some laps in my Mazda RX4 Coupe and it was scary tight and full of the most wicked elevation changes you don't notice on TV (0-0)
@@GM-fh5jp Sure is brutal. Going through the "Esses" there's a left turn and the track immediately _drops down out of view_ with the next right just metres away. That's "The Dipper". You have to take those left-right turns from memory alone. Scariest track I've ever been on - and that's driving nowhere near the speeds of the V8 guys.
👍👍 Heck Yeah, Thanks for posting.
From 1:22 - Hear that chook cooker getting prepped for launch.
Excellent racing back when the cars sounded great, and over / understeer was normal.
This was the heyday
This was pretty entertaining stuff, then and now.
Nothing will ever surpass Peter Perfect in the HDT A9X Hatchback.
The greatest race car in Australia, ever.
Peter Brock was so great, because the competition around him was so great. For so many of us they were the good old days. UA-cam is great for preserving this time in our lives, so we can revisit the glory days of our youth and for today's youth to see where we come from.
Great stuff. Was watching as a kid. Its cool how stock the interiors are and drivers window down.
Crazily hard charging from the get go .
4:47 Brock: "FFS cut it out" hahahaha fantastic stuff.
hahahaha i thought he said something like that....
I love the old races, great mix of cars and drivers. Also love the footage from the start, not much to be heard except Moffat’s rotary, amazing!
Please bring back the touring cars!!!
The new cars are a debacle. What are they? That chev is a joke. Not things I see on the road. I actually don’t think this thing atm will last much longer, it’s too artificial, you can’t relate to it, and they might bring back touring cars somehow
I wish you could buy/hire full length replays. It’d be great to get up on a Sunday morning, gather a few mates around and relive the whole day.
These days are gone. Very sad
Grew up watching this. More please!
You can hear Brock say "Alan grice cut it out", when Grice passed him around the outside up that hill.
I was wondering what he said. Sounded like he wasn’t impressed by Gricey’s outside move on him. Two great drivers playing for keeps, no quarter given, door handle to door handle stuff…….. you don’t see much of that in today’s NASCAR format of so-called ‘Australian’ supercars.
Real cars on a real track. Not a Nascar in sight.
That was fantastic. What diversity. Such good sounds too.
You would swear it’s a 3 lap race - love it
far out! and love the commentary thing were so much more personalised in those days
Grice was a class act. There was a Grice smash repairs on the Sydney western train line and I always wondered if it was Alan’s. Probably not I thought.
I remember this race - and the 1984 race where the Walkinshaw jag stalled on the line, after being seen as the most threatening to the Commodores.
My favourite is the E30 BMW M3 that Gentleman Jim and Denny Hulme drove....the agility of these cars was next level
Loved the good old days of racing in the 80's and 90's 🏖🏖🏖
Love the days without the chase. Also love the Camaro on its roof, such good memories
How good.is this !! Thanks for posting
Bathurst was awesome when all the different off the showroom floor cars raced together with drivers like Moffat doing the entire race.
Amazing I can watch something from 1982 and recognise the commentators voices!
Long Live ConRod 💪💪👌 Epic part of an Epic circuit
I was at Bathurst for the Winterfest last week. We went for a lap and a walk at the mountain. So different now but still so much the same.
i was there for that race and got a lap around it the day before. great times
The dicing between Brock and Grice was crazy, considering that it was the first two laps. One should have been happy to sit behind the other for a while, but obviously their competitive streaks wouldn't allow it.
Unbelievable that "the 80s" are FORTY years ago...
I was 11 and no doubt watched this with my dad, my brother and my mum while we did a bbq by the side of the pool and I was on beer patrol suck'n the froth of the top of every can I took to them. Made me the piss head I am today!
I can't believe that's 42 years ago 😮. I was there ................ somewhere 😂
Great footage from a golden era
Grice was possessed, I'm sure. Outstanding opening few laps.
Pure racing!!!!😮
I was there in the pits as an 11 year old kid remember the Camaro coming in the pits in a truck after it had rolled.
Wow! I was at home watching as a 12 year old, and right into it. Can remember it like yesterday
Love it. I was there.
The race was won by Peter Brock and Larry Perkins of the Holden Dealer Team driving a Holden Commodore. It was Brock's sixth victory, a record, the Holden Dealer Team's sixth win and the first win in the race for a car carrying a Racecam unit. Holden Commodores filled the top four positions, but only after Dick Johnson was disqualified after originally finishing in fourth spot. Brock and Perkins finished a lap ahead of Allan Grice and Alan Browne. It was the second time Grice had finished second but had yet to win. The second Holden Dealer Team Commodore of John Harvey and Gary Scott finished third, equalling the best previous performance of the HDT
Look at the size of the crowds, sheer number of cars lined up to race. What happened to Australia..?
Rich kids wanted better cars than the street versions fucking hate v8 supercars
That’s was awesome
Two of Holden's best. No one will ever match PB. But Grice, when eventually called upon by the Holden factory team did them well. I recall him saying 'chokingly' on his final winning lap in 1990 that the VN "is the finest racing car I have ever driven".
the good old days gricey was no slouch.liked the craven a torana.
I always watched for Grice, the craven a Torana caught my eye as a young kid.
thanks good times
Back when Conrod Straight was straight.
I went for a drive to Bathhurst when I was 17 or 18, probably 82, took my HQ 253 around the track. Wow Conrod was scary, the third bump (eliminated by Caltex Chase), my god, my speed just jumped to 200 KMH, whether the back wheels were in the air or it just went that fast, scared the crap out of me. Had to brake straight away, drums on the back.
Awesome action
Legendary stuff
Loved this motor racing and by reading everyone’s comments others did as well 🚘💪👏
Those vh look awesome
4:42 Grice overtaking Brocky in to The Cutting! Awesome move. You'll never see that these days!
Brock would go through in third gear. Grice was using second. Brock commented that he could not believe how hard Grice was revving it.
@@michaelconnors4248 doesn’t really matter. Fastest car is faster lol
Grice would repeat the move on Perkins in the '84 race.
CLASSIC.
people forget that not only did Brock do two 3-peats, he did them with only 1 year inbetween, he won every year aside from 1981 between 78 and 84. Had he won in 1981 he would have won 7 times in a row.
That was my childhood watching proper touring car racing. Stopped watching when the Supercars took over.
What does Brock say from about 4:44 to 4:49? at the end he says "cut it out" but can't quite make out everything before that except the F word.
Good listening. I didn't notice that.
I’ve watched this race at least 50 times including live. I can tell you 100 percent brock says ITS NOT THE TIME CUT IT OUT
@@cameronelliott9709 grice loved a punch on
Look how many entrants back then! Now its just the elites☹️,
Just superb
I'm not a ciggie smoker but the good ole Winfield sign 😂
amazing to watch.
Got to give credit to Griceys driving..that was awesome!
I wasn't even born at this time but some of my first memories of supercars was hrt vs djr. It's a shame that it's not Holden v Ford anymore but the racing is still fookn great.maybe if the stewards rained it in a bit it could get back close to the day's were you can nudge a slower driver blocking without everyone loosing there shit
before the extra corners on the rear straight
how fast are these cars really
still 300?
0 to 100 in 5?
Yes close to 300 he says 180 mph
This is beautiful racing as racing was meant to be. Fantastic drivers in real genuine muscle cars. Not this cookie cutter shit that’s circling the tracks today.
Gricy was running a hand built special engine from a workshop in Winton
Such great action !!! However no way those cars are equal. Grice seems rougher, and does not quite hit the racing lines, yet through sheer power he muscles ahead of Brock who is clearly smoother and perfect in his lines. ... Would be interesting to see if there is historical Dyno test data on Grice's car
I was 12 back then and still remember it today 300kph down conrod was pretty cool. Funny how all the signage never made me want to start smoking redbull is so much healthier wtf .
The good ol days of Aussie racing, when they didn't BAN overseas manufacturers when they won (Nissan Skylines).
Instead of making Aussie cars better, they just banned the opposition that was mopping the floor with them.
Where else in motorsport would you see a 1.5 tonne Camaro race down a mountain .... on its roof? Ah memories.
It’s amazing how hard they drove those cars with no extra help just them and machine with no electronic help bar a radio and maybe some engine management with electronic ignition
Back when Bathurst had real cars and was worth watching.
It's complete crp now!
I still remember the days when the in-car video feed was beamed out to the helicopters so we could see the race from inside the cars. The helicopters were struggling to keep up the with cars going up and down the moutain.
Does anyone know what Brock says when he's approaching the cutting on the second lap?