1984 Australian Grand Prix Touring Car Support Race

The Group C Touring Car Support Race from the 1984 Australian Grand Prix Meeting at Calder Park.
All credit to Channel 7.

[@suzyjones3247]

What a great race that was. Back when motorsport wasn't perfected and every lap had a little adventure in it!

[@darren2514fv]

This was one of the last Gr C races

[@michaelwyres]

Hooley dooley - I was there that day...fabulous :)

[@brendanwilliams7291]

Good job, Calder Park Raceway and the Thunderdome were car breakers of race tracks, you ask Alan Newton about it after his crash there during the first round of the Australian Sports Car Championship in 1984.

[@marcpaola1371]

I think this was the meeting that Fred Gibson spoke a while back that Howard Marsden found out his mechanics put a 2ltr turbo instead of the 1.8ltr. George Fury gave it away by saying it had more hp than they had at Bathurst.

[@markmark5269]

Just to be clear, they had permission from CAMS to use the local made 2.0 L20 block, which was interchangeable with the 1.8 Z18T components. The L20 had been used for many years in the Aus works rally Stanzas, locally developed, and was the main reason they were approved rather than relying on the Japanese Z18 which nobody were racing anywhere other than Australia and a few privateers in other countries. There was no 2.0 turbo in those days. All the Group C cars were modified from original, the most notable being the RX7 which never had the 'big block' 13B in the series 1 production. Webers on the Holdens, roller rockers in the Fords etc.

[@zanemurcha9742]

Just wondering why Evan Green didn't commentate at Bathurst 1984 when he was still a part of the Channel 7 Motorsport crew?

[@robossuperchannel9434]

By all accounts Mike Raymond and Evan Green weren't getting along. Mike got Bathurst and Evan the AGP in the divorce.

[@zanemurcha9742]

@@robossuperchannel9434 ha lol. Mike Raymond had the last laugh though he'd be the voice of ATCC and Bathurst for another decade.

[@michaeldawson735]

Evan Green threatened to walk out during the 1983 Bathurst telecast and never to return. He was unhappy because of the lack of live crosses to the pits during to telecast. If you watch the telecast Garry Wilkinson was commentating by himself for a long time as Raymond was in the pits trying to convince Evan not to walk out. Years later after Greens death, Raymond never acknowledged Evan Greens contribution to the Bathurst telecast during those interviews.

[@darren2514fv]

The Green/Raymond spat could have been solved by Raymond moving to ABC, 10 or 9 with Green staying at 7

[@daniellebcooper7160]

@@zanemurcha9742 After what green did in 72, i have little sympathy for him.