A fortnight later I watched the last race in the '68 Tasman series in the pouring rain at Longford in Tasmania where Piers Courage won. A month later Jim Clark was dead. The Tasman series was fantastic fun, basically a holiday in the sun in NZ and Oz for the F1 drivers with the occasional race thrown in.
Great to footage from this era, especially anything containing one of my all time heroes - Jim Clark. Shame about the added Steppenwolf track. Corny and totally unnecessary. Drowns out the commentary and adds nothing to the video.
Real motor racing with a full support programe of improved touring cars, touring cars, sports sedans, sports cars, under 2 ltr touring cars, same make racing, formala 2 and 3, vees, F5000, clubmans etc. Not the same same we get today with just V8 supercars on the programe with maybe support of porsche cup, or second tier V8 supercars. with pace cars that come out evey few laps it seems, to keep the feilds close. V8 supercars all look, sound and perform the same, unlike the real good old days
Nice one, great to see actual race footage of Piers Courage (a long time hero of mine) fighting it out with the big names in F1 at the time. Clark is magical though isn't he?
Google earth it.Part of the track around and over the Causeway are still there.Its easy to see where the rest of the track was..I too was there for this race.Thanks for posting.
@tryhardparrot HAHHAHA 200 people everyday tell me to fuck off im sure it wont matter, hey do u sneak down port kembla and take ur camera for a sneaky peak at the steel mill all the sweaty men hahah coz u prob work there (coz there's no other jobs down there) or that stupid like carnival for loser's thats when sneaky parrot gets hard4kids those kids on the merry go round gets u goin aye
A fortnight later I watched the last race in the '68 Tasman series in the pouring rain at Longford in Tasmania where Piers Courage won. A month later Jim Clark was dead. The Tasman series was fantastic fun, basically a holiday in the sun in NZ and Oz for the F1 drivers with the occasional race thrown in.
BaronBoy100 1 year ago
Great vid but would be awesome if you could post it again without the music.
VIPEROSIBROCK 1 year ago
Great to footage from this era, especially anything containing one of my all time heroes - Jim Clark. Shame about the added Steppenwolf track. Corny and totally unnecessary. Drowns out the commentary and adds nothing to the video.
Sup3rSw3d3 2 years ago
Real motor racing with a full support programe of improved touring cars, touring cars, sports sedans, sports cars, under 2 ltr touring cars, same make racing, formala 2 and 3, vees, F5000, clubmans etc. Not the same same we get today with just V8 supercars on the programe with maybe support of porsche cup, or second tier V8 supercars. with pace cars that come out evey few laps it seems, to keep the feilds close. V8 supercars all look, sound and perform the same, unlike the real good old days
darrenmoscow 2 years ago
Nice one, great to see actual race footage of Piers Courage (a long time hero of mine) fighting it out with the big names in F1 at the time. Clark is magical though isn't he?
ADIPDI 3 years ago
What a fantastic clip !
What's the second piece of music on there ?
ludwig100 3 years ago
Thanks for posting - great clip.
andrewg7266 3 years ago
Google earth it.Part of the track around and over the Causeway are still there.Its easy to see where the rest of the track was..I too was there for this race.Thanks for posting.
tryhardparrot 3 years ago
@tryhardparrot HAHHAHA 200 people everyday tell me to fuck off im sure it wont matter, hey do u sneak down port kembla and take ur camera for a sneaky peak at the steel mill all the sweaty men hahah coz u prob work there (coz there's no other jobs down there) or that stupid like carnival for loser's thats when sneaky parrot gets hard4kids those kids on the merry go round gets u goin aye
mesoohornby 1 year ago
@tryhardparrot hahah tried to block me hahaha u creapy old man video taping everthing that goes on u queer old man shit ya pants allday
mesoohornby 1 year ago
Great clip. Would be better without the music.
acescribe 4 years ago 2
Fantastic! Any chance you could reupload with a better framerate and without the Steppenwolf?
fluffskunk 4 years ago
Great to see this again, I was there, great memories my firstmotor race, cheers
english59 4 years ago
wow, close racing!
iestyn16 4 years ago
great to wach. I always wanted to see action at the farm!
zarussia 4 years ago