1976 AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX Sandown

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This race was the 41st Australian Grand Prix. Held at Sandown, Melbourne in September 1976, it is Formula 5000 racing at its best. Featuring Max Stewart, Vern Schuppan, John Goss, Kevin Bartlett and John Leffler to name but a few. Leffler went on to win the 1976 Australian Drivers Championship and here in Round 1 drove a credible P3.
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All credit to ABC Sport Australia and John Leffler.
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@916senna 5 жыл бұрын

The good old days, pits down the bottom end and crowds in the stands and up the top. And real race cars !

@thethirdman225 23 күн бұрын

I was there. This was a really exciting race. I think this was where Vern Schuppan really impressed me with his smoothness and pace, despite an obvious horsepower disadvantage. Notable too that the first two cars were Australian built.

@professorpatpending8731 7 жыл бұрын

Was there that day. Was down at "drunks corner" but not drunk. Great days of racing. Thanks for the video.

@beeemm2578 7 ай бұрын

Boooooooo...lol. 😉

@Bellakelpie 4 жыл бұрын

I was there that day. Great memories. From memory, Goss and Schuppan were running Flat Plane crank Repco engines.

@ldnwholesale8552 2 жыл бұрын

Goss yes Vern no,, that was a Chev

@thethirdman225 23 күн бұрын

Neither were flat plane cranks. They were all cross plane. You can hear it: they sound the same. At the time, Goss was working on a F5000 Ford engine with a flat plane crank that was designed to turn at 9,000 RPM, which was rather a lot for an engine like that but I’m not sure it ever ran.

@frederickmiles327 7 жыл бұрын

Classic duel. I was thinking of flying over to watch this race. It was obviously it would be a small field, and I suspected the crowd in the 'common areas' might be more dangerous than anything on the track, experience of any major sth island, major motor racing meeting or even provincial rugby embankments, was pretty interesting in serious intoxication plus everything, and Melbourne for a 19 year old would obviously have been +++ . Goss and Schuphan are going as hard as European F1 of the period.. Absolutely, maybe not quite Stewart and Ridnt but I dont think Hunt and Lauda would have been as quick.

@casho1968 7 жыл бұрын

Great sounding engines! Good stuff thanks for uploading.

@Stiffjab71 3 жыл бұрын

Is number 12 a private Ferrari 312T?

@jimz68 2 жыл бұрын

Elfin MR8 / Chevrolet 5.0L V8

@troysvisualarts 3 жыл бұрын

Found this broadcast on a Philips N1700 videocassette am transferring it as I speak, does this broadcast exist in its entirety?

@ldnwholesale8552 2 жыл бұрын

How Sandown has changed. The obvious of turn 1 but the small kink on the back straight was more pronounced,, the Esses are more distinct. Dandenong Rd is far faster, 'The little 'straight' is less straight and the Causeway and final turns are bothentirely different shape

@thethirdman225 23 күн бұрын

They had to change Sandown. By the 1970s the track was antiquated. Apart from the bumpy surface and the barnyard pits, there were several corners that were simply too fast for the available run off areas. The most notable of these was the Causeway, where a number of drivers had serious crashes. Alan Hamilton crashed horrifically at the Causeway in the 1978 GP and never drove F5000 again and a Mini driver competing in a minor category was killed there about the same time. I would have much preferred that they kept the old layout as it was but realistically, there was no possibility. There was not enough realestate available for a track that had been designed at a time when safety had a lower level of importance. Sandown’s days are decidedly numbered. It will be a sad day when it closes but the hard reality is that it is simply too old, with few decent vantage points for the crowd and the land is way too valuable. It will be turned into a housing estate.