ABC TV 1960 Bathurst 100 intro and race start

[@brucecarpenter6095]

Wow the old circut was rough, I forgot how raw it was, drove a Bug Eye Sprite there in 62

[@michaelhalsall5684]

Amazing footage! Bathurst was a "rural" race tracck back then! The average person is unaware of Mt Panorama's rich motorsport history before the "500" & the "1000" saloon car races, so it's great to see this shown here.

[@andrewphillips4897]

The worst thing about this is that I remember all the names in this race. Makes me old (76).

[@2xxbroad]

good you can remember

[@adriancole3165]

Me too!

[@hmao4466]

Awesome shots of Bathurst...

[@snorrejnnevaldhalvorsen6548]

Makes you an adult !🙂

[@bradwilliams1691]

To quote the great Groucho Marx - "Growing old is easy - all you have to do is live long enough".

[@viennapalace]

Back when the "gravel trap" was anywhere off the racing line... Thanks for sharing this wonderful footage.

[@tanichiro]

amazing that the overall layout hasn't changed, there's just more barriers and more run off now

[@andrewphillips4897]

I loved the track of the sixties before the TV commercialised everything.

[@Will89114fmeyea]

Like number 500, what great vintage cars!.

[@stephensmith1794]

Well placed trees and telegraph poles...

[@marknelson5929]

Brilliant stuff. Is there any footage of racing at the Gnoo Blas circuit at Orange in the 50s?

[@306champion]

That would have to be the Late Bill Peach commentating I recon.

[@mdr279]

This is so cool. Everything from the 60's commentary ot hte 60's music, to the fact that Bathurst is almost unrecognisable due to the lack of barriers. These cars are awesome and I love the history of Bathurst.

[@peterpiper831]

All that dust on the goat track.

[@TheRacer120]

Great footage this. This may well be the oldest surviving TV broadcast of an Australian race.

[@john289]

Absolutely priceless footage...thanks for sharing !

[@JR1300r]

I was there cheers

[@bernardholcroft5138]

yhank you

[@collick100]

I noticed the mention and introduction of Glynn Scott. My dad and l were at the Lakeside circuit in Queensland the day he was killed.

[@donbon4204]

i could spend 6 and a half hours of this instead of the crap they have now

[@darryllspalding5211]

How the complex has evolved! I was born 3 years later , some names are familiar!!!!👍👍👍👌

[@robertjeffery4664]

I watched this race with my dad I was 7 then

[@paulorchard7960]

4 years for me, yes some names do spark a tiny memory!

[@tnralliart2600]

@TheRacer120 I have part of the 1959 race too but not the intro or race start. Only about the last 10 minutes or so of the race.

[@andrewphillips4897]

Just like going for a drive.

[@rosskelly8268]

Amazing how Mount Panorama has changed in the last 60 years. It was almost like an amateur "club" race, with a scrappy surface and almost the complete absence of advertising hoardings, billboards - hardly even little promotional signs anywhere apart from a few on pit straight. There was clearly very little money involved in the race. In fact, other than pit straight, it doesn't actually even look like a race track - just a country road that is scenic at one part and pretty ugly everywhere else. Obviously, this was a race for "pure" racing cars - open wheelers - but the name "Bathurst 100" also tells us this event was the premier car race of the year at "the mountain" and thus the forerunner of the saloon car 500 and 1000. Did you see the driver wearing a T-shirt! Things seem to have changed very quickly in just the next 10 years after this video. A lot of hoopla and live coverage came along in the very early 70s - and neck to ankle fire resistant racing suits were routine just those few years later. Full-face helmets crept in during the mid-70s if memory serves. I wonder how much the spectators paid back then for admission?? Two shillings?? Nothing at all??

[@AsinineComment]

1:16 Starting line timing equipment: squarish board (probably roughly cut, asbestos fibre 'cement sheet'); black paint; small brush.

[@rosskelly8268]

The Flintstones:)

[@michaelneville2915]

Wow pre tobacco advertising, long way to go.

[@AsinineComment]

It's hard to tell what's dirt and what's bitumen..! Seems to be of no consequence to the drivers or the commentator. 😄

[@anthonyg638]

The 'Superannuated' Orlando MG ?

[@MorrisonLee-wt2jp]

Yeah I had the same question. Just guessing. Meaning 'retired'or 'pensioned off?' or bought with his superannuation??? 🙂

[@AVportau]

wow pit straight looks impressive... room to move, set up the bbq, and best of all have a drive around the course on the way home.... sweet.

[@drewzerna4087]

Lots of names who became wealthy Holden and Ford dealers

[@TheSunnybunny2000]

THESE GUYS HAD HUGE BALLS

[@captainkaos754]

And no seatbelts 😲

[@donbon4204]

unlike todays safety crap

[@BaronBoy100]

Hell's teeth but that course was dangerous back then. Wooden "safety" rails and not many of them either. I remember when such a fuss was made when the first 100 MPH average lap was made in a touring car. The open wheelers had done that years before when the circuit was a true road circuit.

[@FairladyS130]

CAMS would put chicanes everywhere if they could.

[@bradgotch]

Holly shit D-type short nose next to Ferrari Monza @27 sec. 5-6 million dollars.

[@woobyvr9654]

I can just imagine Brock trying to go "fast" in one of these XD

[@grfxninja]

awesome bit of footage.

[@StegRacing]

I'm not sure if somebody has asked you or not, but could you please upload what you have of the '59 race. That would be really exciting to watch as well. Thanks for the uploads!

[@Skippy-id9yt]

Is that a house on the straight?

[@donbon4204]

still there

[@Skippy-id9yt]

@@donbon4204 you can see kids watching out the front of the house ,

[@donbon4204]

@@Skippy-id9yt that could be the house that went up for sale 2 or 3 months ago for over 3 million

[@woobyvr9654]

Craig Lowndes won Bathurst today WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 🇦🇺

[@andrewphillips4897]

Can you please find the 1970 Australian Rowing Championships on the Nepian River, Penrith? The race in particular is the Light Weight Eight which was won by the Sydney Rowing Club and Mosman Rowing Club came in second. I was in the Sydney Rowing Club Light Weight Eight. My cousin, Nick Padol was in the Mosman Rowing Club Eight. Nick passed away in December 2018.

[@AsinineComment]

🤔 Should I ask 'track and field' sports historians, to find videos of certain Group 2 horse races from the '70s? Would an enthusiast of Australian golf half a century ago, seek tournament film footage, on a historic rugby league channel...? 🤯

[@MysteriousMarsupial]

When the ABC wasn't run by activists

[@FairladyS130]

Yes, some men's sports are now out of favour with the ABC, wonder why?

[@donbon4204]

oh yes penny wong, the greens , vegans , university students, tree huggers, lgtbq rainbow chasers , modern ethnics , half of SBS , Brittany Higgins, anti fossil fuel brigade, andrew constance on behalf of the former nsw premier and coles because of their net zero policy