This video was sent in by John Neal (RIVIERA)
An old film of the 1965 Armstrong 500...
( which changed it’s name a couple of time, and then finally evolved into the Bathurst 1000.)
Take note of just SOME of the points of interest in this race.
* Telegraph poles and dirt edges all around the track.
* Barbed wire fences a’plenty.
* 100 mph down Conrod Straight, no Chase Chicane!
* Drivers in “Dress shoes and overalls”
* No cages/roll bars
* Recovery men and Tow trucks on the track while the race continued.
* 165mm wide street tyres lasting the whole 500 miles (800 kms)...i.e. happy to show the “spare tyre” still in the boot at the end of the race.
* 7 minute pit stops.
* Drinking PLENTY of Heavy beer from kegs and “tallies” on the mountain.
* Lapping at 3m-14 secs
* 55 cars racing...worth the incredible TOTAL value of 90,000-00 pounds( $180,000-00...an average value of $3,272-00 each.)
* Race drivers stuck up on the mountain...changing their own tyres on the side of the road, as cars blast past them