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Re: Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:36 pm
by Terry S
Milan Fistonic wrote:This is an entry list from the Warwick Farm meeting on 5 December 1965. The numbers don't match but it does show the three Neptune Racing Team cars.
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The Neptune Team normally ran with #2 for Manton, #3 for McKeown and #4 for Beechey at all circuits except Warwick Farm.
You can see from the above that it numbered strictly down the page in order. Only the unlucky #13 was omitted.
If there was a Division 2 race the numbers continued from Division 1. Not that they really liked Division 2 races.
It was no place for favourite numbers. You had to have a good supply of peel off numbers.
It was very "pukka" and English, the influence of Geoff Sykes. It was not for nothing it was called "Aintree Down Under".
Re: Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 9:07 am
by Ray Bell
Was it?
I can't say I ever heard it called that...
Re: Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 10:38 am
by Milan Fistonic
Found this article in the November 1964 edition of Sports Car World.
Re: Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 8:44 pm
by Terry S
Ray Bell wrote:Was it?
I can't say I ever heard it called that...
See this:
https://www.pitstop.net.au/browse/search?ipType=&searchKeywords=aintree
Re: Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 9:27 pm
by Ray Bell
A name for a book planned fifty or sixty years after the event, yes...
But never the circuit or any mention whatever in the day.
Re: Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 10:28 pm
by 928
in #43, the first photo caption
i bet the chrome rocker cover was good for 8-10 mph. lol
Re: Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 2:58 am
by bill hollingsworth
Aintree of the south seems a very apt title Ray, whenever it was dreamed up. I only went to Warwick Farm once, in 1974 which sadly was the last car race meeting ever held there.
Re: Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:12 am
by Ray Bell
Frankly, I don't think so...
It had its own character and even if Geoff had been an Aintree (BARC) man he came here with some definite ideas to do it better than Aintree.
1974? You mean on the Club circuit?
Re: Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:51 pm
by Terry S
Milan Fistonic wrote:Found this article in the November 1964 edition of Sports Car World.
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It is incredible how much ATCC winning cars have changed.
This car had only 130 horsepower and 5 and 1/2 inch tyres..........
Re: Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:27 am
by John McKechnie
and the competition was Beechey and Muir in their S4 Holdens
Re: Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 3:16 am
by Terry S
Terry S wrote:It is incredible how much ATCC winning cars have changed.
This car had only 130 horsepower and 5 and 1/2 inch tyres..........
This car was the lowest powered ever to win the ATCC
It had been preceded by four Jaguars and was followed by five Mustang V8’s
Re: Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 3:23 am
by bill hollingsworth
It was 1973 not 1974 thanks Ray for the correction.
Re: Geoghegan Family Cortina In New Zealand
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 5:41 pm
by Ray Bell
Originally posted by Terry S
This car was the lowest powered ever to win the ATCC.....
Also the lightest by a big margin.
It's interesting that this car wasn't significantly faster than the best of the 48/215 Holdens in 1963.