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  Ford Mustang Coupe (Pete Geoghegan 1966 Australian Touring Car Series Champion) by Classic Carlectables
Australian racing driver Ian "Pete" Geoghegan (who died aged 64 on the 15th of November 2003) decided the new Ford Mustang would be just the car he needed to win in the Australian Touring car series.
The car immediately proved competitive and was the class of the field in the 1966 Australian Touring Car Championship, with Geoghegan taking that years Championship title.
CC are an Australian firm who specialise in models of Australian cars, including a range of Mustangs which raced in Australia.
www.1-18scalecars.com /0Ford_Mustang_Coupe_Pete_Geoghean.htm   (277 words)

  
  Touring car racing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Touring car racing is a general term for a number of distinct automobile racing competitions in heavily-modified street cars.
In general, however, touring cars are based upon 4-door 'family' sedans or, more rarely, 2-door coupe cars, while GT racing cars are based upon more exotic vehicles, such as Ferrari 's or Lamborghini 's.
Underneath the bodywork, a Touring Car is often more closely related to its road-going origins, using many original components and mountings, while a top-flight GT car is often a purpose-built tube-frame racing chassis underneath a cosmetic bodyshell.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Touring_car_racing   (950 words)

  
 V8 Supercar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To the disappointment of a majority of fans who had watched a long history of Ford-Holden battles in Australian touring car categories since the 1960s, international touring car regulations (which moved from Group A to Supertouring) seemed destined to preclude the Australian-built Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon in the early 90s.
The first Australian Touring Car Championship under the V8 Supercar rules was won by Glenn Seton with his team-mate former Formula 1 world champion Alan Jones taking second in the championship.
The championship has run to Appendix J, Group C and Group A regulations before the V8 Touring Car rules.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/V8_Supercar   (1745 words)

  
 Australia Post - Motor Racing
It was won by one of the smallest cars in the race, a 747cc supercharged Austin 7 (a Brooklands prototype) driven by Arthur Waite.
Bob Jane's distinctive, modified white Jaguar Mark II won the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1962 and 1963.
Australian Mark Webber is currently the highest profile Australian in international formula racing and was official reserve and test driver for the Renault-owned Benetton team in 2001.
www.auspost.com.au /philatelic/stamps/motorracing/about_stamps.htm   (523 words)

  
 HRT - Australian Touring Car Championship 1997.
Round One of the 1997 Australian Touring Car Championship was held at Melbourne's Calder Park Raceway last Saturday night (March 15th) and it wasn't quite the result the Mobil Holden Racing Team was looking for in defending it's Champion's title.
Despite neither Murphy or Brock being happy with their cars' set up, Murphy grabbed the start in race one and was never headed for the 20 laps, winning by 11 seconds from Gardner, Seton, Skaife, Jones and Brock.
Brock was 8th in a car which was still not handling well, as the crew worked to find an ideal set-up.
www.hsv.com.au /racing/97results/satcc1_97.htm   (467 words)

  
 About Winton Motor Raceway
Shell Australian Touring Car Championship The running of the 1999 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship on August 22nd will once again be an exciting event and one which is looked foward to with such anticipation by spectators.
The 1999 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship will be one of the most open rounds of competition for the past few years with a number of drivers moving from one team to another.
BOC Gases Australian Super Touring Championship Every year the Winton Motor Raceway round of the Super Touring Championship has proved to be one of the most action packed of the championship.
www.minerva.com.au /winton/About.htm   (714 words)

  
 V8 Supercar Racing Links
There is a photo gallery of the team and their cars and sponsors links.
There is a section that highlights the cost of running a car in the series.
A non championship meeting for the V8's, but one of the bigger audiences of the year.
www.suite101.com /links.cfm/australian_v8_supercar_racing   (469 words)

  
 Larry Perkins : The Formula One DataBase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Australian Touring Car Championship, 10th overall in a Holden Commodore VK.
Australian V8 Supercar Championship, 4th overall, 722 points in a Holden Commodore VT. Bathurst 1000, 2nd place in a Holden Commodore VT with Ingall.
Australian V8 Supercar Championship, 9th overall, 1232 points in a Holden Commodore VT. Queensland 500, 1st place in a Holden Commodore VT with Ingall.
www.f1db.com /driver/id/10465   (784 words)

  
 Ford Mustang Coupe (Pete Geoghegan 1966 Australian Touring Car Series Champion) by Classic Carlectables   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Australian racing driver Ian "Pete" Geoghegan (who died aged 64 on the 15th of November 2003) decided the new Ford Mustang would be just the car he needed to win in the Australian Touring car series.
The car immediately proved competitive and was the class of the field in the 1966 Australian Touring Car Championship, with Geoghegan taking that years Championship title.
CC are an Australian firm who specialise in models of Australian cars, including a range of Mustangs which raced in Australia.
www.iol.ie /~donohoer/0Ford_Mustang_Coupe_Pete_Geoghean.htm   (274 words)

  
 Results: Round 4 of the Australian Touring Car Championship
It was a red letter day for the General as Lownde's team mate veteran Peter "Dorian Grey" Brock made it a Holden one-two finishing second to his younger teammate in all three heats.
The series organisers and the television networks dream of class parity has created cars now so even that passing is becoming almost non existent.
The teams now head north to support the Indy cars on The Gold Coast on March 30/31 before returning south for Round 5 at the spectacular Phillip Island circuit in Victoria on April 14th.
www.theautochannel.com /sports/a.html   (278 words)

  
 Ultimatecarpage.com forums - Australia's 50 greatest racing drivers - as rated by Wheels Magazine
The others I noted outside the top 10 are either current V8 Supercar drivers or famous former Australian touring car drivers.
Well some of those points make me wonder how Ambrose and Dick Johnson were ranked so low, DJ has afterall 5 championships to his name, and IMO that speaks spades more than 5 Bathurst wins as theres consistency involved in winning the championship.
As fpv_gtho stated, consistency counts for a lot more when winning a championship, then there was the time he lost /broke down before the finish, then got public funding to win the next year, now that is inspirational.
www.ultimatecarpage.com /forum/showthread.php?t=10247   (1525 words)

  
 British Touring Car Championship - Review: "Woah, that’s a beast init"
The British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) is one of the premier events in the British racing season.
The Touring class (Custom built racing machines but now with standard BTCC components (eg Brakes) as opposed to the glorious (And expensive) Super Touring days) and the Production class, consisting of slower modified showroom cars (This class now incorporates last years National Saloon Car Championship and so has a large number of entries).
The other interesting battle was between a train of FOUR cars who seemed determined to occupy the same section of road as they pushed and shoved their way up the hill after Old Hairpin, lap after lap.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /discussion/british-touring-car-championship/315873   (3407 words)

  
 V8 News - News - The Official Website of V8 Supercars Australia
Championship contender Russell Ingall believes some battle scars with his rivals have been mended with some old fashioned banter during the historic and immensely successful debut of the V8 Supercar Championship Series in China.
But time may tell this weekend when the Championship returns to Darwin, the venue where last year it became a war of attrition as things got heated on the track.
The SkyCity V8 Supercar weekend at Hidden Valley in Darwin is the 350th round of the Australian Touring Car Championship since 1960.
www.v8supercar.com.au /news/latestnews/newsdisplay.asp?Ind=M&gid=17276   (972 words)

  
 Diabetes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Australia's all-new V8 Touring Car era, introduced in 1993, could not have begun better for Johnson, when back aboard one of his beloved Falcon V8's, he won the opening heat of the Shell Championship.
Johnson was a factor again throughout the 1995 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship, taking a dominant heat win at the Bathurst round of the series, and supporting team mate, John Bowe in his successful quest for the title.
After their brilliant victory in the 1995 Eastern Creek 12-Hour Production Car race, the pair won the Sandown 500 for the second year in a row, but were crashed out of the lead at Bathurst.
www.lionsmedical.asn.au /dick.html   (4398 words)

  
 How BMW Motorsport made an M3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It means that the e30 M3 has won more touring car races than any other touring car (I believe the definition of a touring car is a front engined passenger car).
The claim is true, and here is a list of the touring car championships won by the e30 M3, compiled from the BMW Motorsport website:
Ravaglia's M3 won the '89 German Touring Car Championship (DTM) before venturing to his homeland to clinch the Italian series in 1990 and '91.
www4.ncsu.edu /~mjjackso/touringcar.html   (305 words)

  
 Definition of V8 Supercar
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www.wordiq.com /search/V8_Supercar.html   (457 words)

  
 Volvo GpA Race Cars
Fom May 86, Bowe, the teams 2nd driver, drove the car for the rest of the 86 championship, except enduance events where a new car was used.
The 3 Australian cars (the LH plus 2 RH drives) were ordered back to Sweden departing in a giant Antonov Russian transport plane.
The car is in very good condition and lives on, being used for historic racing in Germany.
wwwrsphysse.anu.edu.au /~amh110/240T_GpA_racing.htm   (954 words)

  
 Larry Perkins - Career Summary
He has since become a living legend on the Australian touring car scene, with six wins at Bathurst.
Australian Touring Car Championship, 10th overall in a Holden Commodore VK.
Australian V8 Supercar Championship, 14th overall, 1856 points in a Holden Commodore VX, including 2nd place at the Queensland 500 and 8th place at Bathurst with Ingall.
www.f1rejects.com /drivers/perkins   (850 words)

  
 News - January 1998
BMW Motorsport New Zealand team intend completing this year's New Zealand Touring Car Championship before deciding upon their direction next year.
Team manager Lyall Williamson returns to New Zealand for the second half of the season after stunning successes managing the BMW Australia team during the Australian Super Touring Car Championship and the AMP Bathurst 1000.
The BMW Australia Super Tourer driven by Craig Baird during the 1997 Australian Touring Car Championship was on show at the Manfeild and Pukekohe rounds of the Street Skills Motor Racing Series.
www.nztouringcars.co.nz /Touring_Car_News/News_1_98.html   (644 words)

  
 Motorsport People
She had her son (Chuck Egger) in the passenger seat of her car, when she spun around on the last lap of the race, crashing into the outer wall hard broadside on the drivers side of the car.
The cars had to be built in the country which entered them, using components manufactured in that country.
It was during practice for the GP that his car left the circuit, flinging the driver and riding mechanic (Scudelari) into an adjacent field.
www.teamdan.com /people/b.html   (6643 words)

  
 Brock car fetches $500,000 - National - smh.com.au
The car in which motor racing legend Peter Brock drove to victory in the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1974 has sold for a record price.
The mystery owner said he saw the car in storage and had to buy it.
Brock drove the car to victory in the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1974.
www.smh.com.au /news/national/brock-car-fetches-500000/2006/11/29/1164476241823.html   (342 words)

  
 Highlights Of The Australian Touring Car Championship 1997 @ EzyDVD
Australian touring car racing has always been seen at home and overseas as among the very best in the world.
Over the years the classes have changed to suit the vehicles, newer technology and Australian enthusiast's perception of the sort of racing they want.
Follow the teams through each season, chart your favourite drivers' progress and be in awe of the talent and dedication needed in modern times just to be competitive.
www.ezydvd.com.au /item.zml/787615   (240 words)

  
 Buy 2002 Highlights of Australian Touring Car Championship DVD
With some of the closest and hardest-fought racing in the world, and some of the biggest crashes, the 2002 V8 Supercar Championship Series was another vintage season of Australian touring car racing.
In what was arguably the most competitive V8 Supercar field ever, Holden driver Mark Skaife put in a record-breaking performance to take his fifth championship crown and fourth Bathurst win.
This four-hour video presentation captures all the action of the V8 Supercar Championhship Series, the classic Holden-vs-Ford V8 Supercar battles and all the thrills and spills from what many say is now the best touring car series in the world.
www.chevron.com.au /motorsport/mstc_austtourcar_02.html   (119 words)

  
 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The reigning Australian Formula Ford Champion, Garth Tander, would be joining Garry Rogers Motorsport, replacing Steven Richards who had left for the bright lights of Nissan and the British Touring Car Championship.
Steven Johnson was racing his father's old car from the start of this year, in the dark blue colours of the Racing For Life road trauma initiative, backed by the Royal College of Surgeons.
The HRT cars on the front row both hung on wheelspin allowing Ingall to power round the outside to lead, while Seton got squeezed between the HRT cars and forced back.
www.ecn.net.au /~amib/satcc04.htm   (1596 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL - Duke Video
Mid-Eighties saloon car racing Aussie-style in the days when the cars were big, powerful thunderous brutes and the drivers went at their sport like bu...more
The Australian Touring Car Championship has more than its fair share of characters, people who are household names in their own country whilst general...more
The 1991 German Touring Car Championship season was a spectacular battle between Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Opel.
www.dukevideo.com /Products/deptVCO.htm   (1125 words)

  
 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
HRT's Craig Lowndes regained his championship lead over Russell Ingall but the margin is just as slim.
The traditionally strong number of local V8 touring car racers has dwindled in recent years.
In Level 2 Paul Romano was 5 cars clear of his competitors Finnigan, Hossack and Pate all running as a bunch.
www.ecn.com.au /~amib/satcc07.htm   (1459 words)

  
 italiaspeed.com: 2003 European Touring Car Championship
Australian Nations Cup Rd 1: Clipsal 500, Adelaide
Alfa Romeo's planned two day touring car test session in Germany at Hockenheim was abandoned after the opening day due to dreadful weather conditions
Alfa Romeo's new 2004-specification 156GTA European Touring Car Championship contender hits the track for the first time at the two day Imola test
www.italiaspeed.com /2004/motorsport/touring_cars/index_01.html   (525 words)

  
 Classic Australian Touring Car Crashes-Volume 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In motorsport it was the decade of the turbo, and the new technology drove horsepower figures through the roof.
Drivers often had more grunt under their right feet than they or their cars could cope with - and often they didn.t cope, ending up out of control and in the concrete wall.
Relive the crash-and-bash action of the Group A years, from the demolition derby-style.85 championship right up until the.92 series which featured Nissan.s incredible twin turbo GT-R up against the Ford Sierra Turbos and Holden.s Commodore V8s.
www.michaeldvd.com.au /Discs/Disc.asp?ID=9057   (129 words)

  
 Driver Database - keeping track of race results and statistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The driver from Rome was brought by Team Italy behind the wheel in the first seasonal tests scheduled for August 28 and 29.
The host of the series' cars will be the very long and incredibly fascinating historical circuit of Nurburgring, located in the northern western part of Germany in the famous...
British Formula 3 driver Jonathan Kennard proved once again that he is one of the top Formula Three drivers by setting the fastest ever F3 lap around Hampshire's Thruxton circuit last weekend and racing from sixth on the grid to second in race one.
www.driverdb.com   (415 words)

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