Wasnt this the Benson & Hedges 500

Whyd they speed up some of the the incar footage of the subaru 😂 what tv was that sinefeld on the end of the tape 😂

I wish we were alowed to use v8s in irish rallying but we are not 😤

Ahh memories of my teen years thrashing cars bonnet sliding block burnouts LOVE that road

Super sideways possum as Clint brown once said

Busier then a bricklayer in Beirut... Hahahaha. That is both terrible and hilarious. Does he have israeli friends or something?

Amazing that Wellington had street racing. We came to NZ in 1996, and 97 might have been the last time it was run. I remember visiting the city when they were setting up the circuit and being amazed at just how tight some of the sections were.

Remember Wayne Moore, Joe McAndrew & Ian Taylor all being quick.

golden days . I loved watching the Hamilton street race in the 90s ..... looking back now not a lot of safety like today but so awsome 😄

wrong date this was 1985, you can tell by comparisons of the street signage on the big race footage

The 635 BMW came to Graeme Raxworthy panelbeaters and I worked on that car with a guy Bob O,Malvina,never seen a car with such negative camber

Three hours of a neat GT race and '*poof*. We don't get to see the finish. Oh well, according to wikipedia it was Peter Brock/Allan Moffat. Thanks for posting this video. ☮

I wish the Wellington street race was brought back again

The Ford Sierra... what a beaut car to drive. Good memories.

First time ive seen the race .. We had a weekend off from or formula ford championship in the south island so were hired for this race . . I was with the Ford Dealer Team working in a little escort rs1600i. . .. . We had 2 cars . . The Sierra and our Escort . . I cant even remember it raining . Our car hit somthing on the road and split the sump . . We jacked it up . changed it in about 10mins ish . . Went out again and hit somthing else . . Our fast work all in vain but thats motorsport . . . . Poor Andy Rouse was just about in tears once he got back to the pits after his wheel left the car . Thanks for sharing .

N.Z TV cameramen were certainly not as good as the Aussies!!! So poor in fact it is hard to see much detail in the cars on track, Which is what the focus is supposed to be on!

1:29:00 Brock's pit stop i was chuckling at the guy changing tire just in polo shirt no gloves, rattle gun rounding up all the wheel nuts, how far have we come lol. then Moffat swaps in & leaves the pits, some marshall with yellow flag is at the end of pit road dont know WTF he is doing???? i think gets his toes run over LOL

I recall the 88 driving down from Auckland and standing on top of the petrol pumps at a station on the quay.... to see over the fence and up the track. Great.

Dam, was at this race, good ole Welly days

I went to the 1994 one as a kid and Paul raddisich won I think I was the kid at the top of the Frank kitts park playground haha

Turbo return pipe was to big who hasnt done that got to get thevright restrictor..

Denny Hulme NZ legend

Fick Johnson in the GT mustsng 5.0 foxbody

Insurance problems killed this race

I remember going to this with my Dad. I was 7 years old.we drove down from Palmerston north for it. It made a huge impact on me. Hearing those v8s reverberating between the buildings was amazing.

"Bear in mind the turbos are not supposed to be as fast off the start..." Isn't it amazing how they can just defy physics (or more impossibly, opinions in the 80s) like that!

If only Wellington still did fun stuff rather than succumb to nimby & woke culture!!

If only the video had a finish. - 😢

got to do a spin around the back of Tuakau one Friday afternoon in the Gold Commodore when I dropped off a couple of drums of fuel. Was being nosey, peaking inside, when a voice from behind asked if I wanted to go for a spin, up around the salesyards and back RIP Denny Hulme..

what month ???

3.35 -3.40mins that comment 😂😂

If only modern racing. was like this! Wow. Exciting - different models of cars, close racing, back markers, tails hanging out around corners, amazing circuit (no chance it as pass safety these days) and A grade racers

Remember when car races were lots of different makes and models. A 240 Volvo lifting up her skirt and running. Wonderful stuff!

A 240 on the front row. Aahh.. Those were the times. Thanks for posting this, dude.

What happened to the end of the Race...thumbs down.

What a horrible track...typical NZ

This is an awesome track. Obviously not suited to life in 2024, but amazing still. Thanks for uploading.

Johnson would drive anything if he thought it would give him and advantage. A bit of a car slut.

Amazing how many future future fraudsters are racing cars 1988 is just around the corner goldcorp fiasco etc

I was born in 86. I live in USA, never knew this existed. Today's racing groups should take notes.

Ahhh the old Benson & Hedges 500 on the water front epic

Good to see Ian Taylor in action again!

Cool!

Great footage, early group A, crazy one lane sections of track, good drivers & cricket scores even 👍👍

Why is there a live feed from radio giving horse racing odds?

what a shit track

Wow left turn at end of front straight,never seen that layout at puke before

Need to learn more about that falcon.was it grpA or grpC or somewhere in between?Seem to have grunt

Harvey's commodore retired with a broken oil cooler, strange that the same problem would happen at Bathurst to Brock/Moffat that same year. It let go where you see early on a couple of cars get very sideways. In this race the Volvo's power to weight ratio was superior to every other car, and Brock started the season with 370HP, by the time they got to Bathurst they would have 420HP

The waterfront before all the modern crap they put there for rich knobs.