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Bathurst Trivia
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ROB17
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Bathurst 2009 was a disaster for DJR. Who can tell me the last time both DJR cars did not start in the top 10 and the strange similarity to this year? Although car 17 was the last classified finisher yesterday, when was the last time a DJR car did not finish at Bathurst and what happened to each car?
I'm not sure,but in the risk of making a fool of myself, I'll have a stab at it.
I don't even know if it was the same year but did McConville stick number 19 into the wall and then Dick got smashed into the wall at I think it was maybe Reid Park turning the car into a crushed tin can. I can't even remember the year???
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Hardies Hero
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was it 98? I remember #17 missed the shootout and from memory both cars were out of the race pretty early.
ROB17
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Damo,
The year you refer to is 1993. A young McConville put 18 into the wall early at the esses. Although the damage was substantial, the team made sufficient repairs and got 18 back out and finished the race in 8th position. Dick later wrote off car 17 when he was T-Boned by Bill O'brien who bounces off the wall at Reid Park. BTW, you are incorrect
HH,
Correct! 1998 was the last time both DJR cars DNF'd at Bathurst. Steve Johnson clipped the wall in 17 going into Forests Elbow avoiding a pile up and broke the rear wing/boot assembly. 18 retired with engine dramas.
Prior to that, in 1991 DJR entered 3 Sierra's and they all DNF's. 17 & 18 were plagued by electrical interference in their Engine Management System all weekend and retired with Piston failures and 19 broke a tail shaft which ripped a hole in the floor in-turn severing the battery cable leaving no power.
Can anyone name the other year a DJR car was not in the shootout prior to 2009?
The year you refer to is 1993. A young McConville put 18 into the wall early at the esses. Although the damage was substantial, the team made sufficient repairs and got 18 back out and finished the race in 8th position. Dick later wrote off car 17 when he was T-Boned by Bill O'brien who bounces off the wall at Reid Park. BTW, you are incorrect
HH,
Correct! 1998 was the last time both DJR cars DNF'd at Bathurst. Steve Johnson clipped the wall in 17 going into Forests Elbow avoiding a pile up and broke the rear wing/boot assembly. 18 retired with engine dramas.
Prior to that, in 1991 DJR entered 3 Sierra's and they all DNF's. 17 & 18 were plagued by electrical interference in their Engine Management System all weekend and retired with Piston failures and 19 broke a tail shaft which ripped a hole in the floor in-turn severing the battery cable leaving no power.
Can anyone name the other year a DJR car was not in the shootout prior to 2009?
Hardies Hero
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have tried to clear the Westpoint days from my memory, but 05?
2002 was a shocker in one respect - highest qualifier was Ritter with a time good enough for 7th, however it was disallowed and he subsequently started 15th. (top 15 runoff, not top ten.)
In the race, the striking similarity was car 17 breaking a left front suspension part, which pitched the Rat into the wall at or near the dipper.
In the race, the striking similarity was car 17 breaking a left front suspension part, which pitched the Rat into the wall at or near the dipper.
ROB17
Super Moderator
Not splitting hairs Doug. You are correct. Actually the following year in 99 there was similar carnage at the elbow when Mezera spun on his own oil in the Densitron Commodore and Steve clipped him in the AU slightly damaging the front right. Thankfully he was able to continue...
ROB17
Super Moderator
Now THIS is splitting hairs Doug
but I didn't include 2002 as Ritter did participate in the Shootout. I was thinking about 2004 when neither Junior nor David Brabham qualified in the top 10. The similarity to 2009 was that not only did both cars miss the ten, but car 17 started from position 13 in 2004 as they did this year.Good logic though...
Discounting Tr888or which is for all intents and purposes now a Holden team, it was a total and dismal failure by all Ford teams carte blanche, I am so glad that i wasn't at the event the drive home would have been painfull.
On the bright side, there is really no lower to go from here.
On the bright side, there is really no lower to go from here.