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3 unusual facts about Dick Johnson Racing


Dick Johnson Racing

In a very generous move, fellow Falcon runner and reporter for The Mike Walsh Show, Andrew Harris, approached Johnson's wife Jill in the pits shortly after the crash and offered his car to the Johnson team if a replacement car could be found for him.

Proving that the Australian developed Sierra was the fastest Group A touring car in the world, Johnson easily qualified the car on pole in front of the Eggenberger Texaco Sierra's and the Andy Rouse example, and went on to an early race lead.

At the end of 1988, Britain's Robb Gravett of Trakstar persuaded Dick Johnson to supply his team with his Sierra RS500s, cars that had out-qualified the official Ford entered cars in the Tourist Trophy race in 1988.


Alan Jones Racing

At the 1995 Sandown 500 it was revealed that Alan Jones had concluded a deal with Dick Johnson Racing engineers Jim and Ross Stone to form a new team, with backing controversially from Glenn Seton Racing sponsor Philip Morris, for whom Jones drove.


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