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unusual facts about 1986 James Hardie 1000


1986 James Hardie 1000

He had also set his qualifying time running on Dunlop Tyres and not the Yokohama's he was required by contract to run when the television cameras were running in the runoff.


Alfredo Costanzo

At the insistence of his long-time open wheel rival turned touring car racer John Bowe, who to this day rates him as the best Australian driver he raced against, Costanzo was drafted into the Volvo Dealer Team in 1986 for the Castrol 500 at Sandown and the James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst.

Midge Bosworth

It was Bosworth's second, and last, start in the Bathurst 500, giving him the distinction along with Harry Firth (1967) and Graham Bailey (1986), of winning the event in his last drive at Mount Panorama.

Perkins Engineering

Parsons again co-drove at Bathurst, though the team lost an hour of the race wheh the cars gearbox was replaced and at the Wellington 500 in January 1987, before Denny Hulme teamed with Perkins to win the Pukekohe 500.


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