Darn I got re-set on my racing comeback at race A. All I did was try to avoid cars but it did not work. Full throttle on TC3 in the R32, turn the TC off during 2nd gear, I did manage to stay in the lead. But an Aussie with GTHO in his name was after me (GTHO was the name given to the best Ford Falcon V8 homologation special cars of early 1970's - there were Ford Falcon Its but then there were the HO versions of which the 3rd version - the "Phase 3" is now quite collectable and back then it was still hard to get - and those cars were then marginally improved for racing at the Annual Bathurst 1000km race. Win on Sunday, sell heaps of Fords - or GM Holdens if they won - on Monday) and instead of breaking he just aimed for me. The Aussie Government stopped the Phase IV being built too. I guess because I stayed on the track, I got a penalty and went form 31000 something (it is my B account though) to 16000. His qualifying time was 58.6, mine 58.06, so he knew he had to hit me early. It's a sound tactic I guess.
I had an ex Bathurst Datsun (Nissan now) 120-Y ... probably the ugliest car ever made by Nissan, sort of like a jelly bean that had been squeezed a bit by a child. It was seem welded for the race though, and the body felt like a Mercedes of the era, nice and stiff. But the rest of the plastic fantastic plus bare painted metal interior felt like cheap black crap. The Datsun 1200 was an elegant box, the 120Y totally horrible. But both of those cars despite RWD weighed less (individually) than an MX-5.
i still cant put a 57.xxx together.
