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40 YEARS OF BATHURST DVD

Rating: G

Duration: 60 mins

RRP: $35.00

2003 marks 40 years since an endurance race for standard production cars was first run at Bathurst in 1963, laying the foundation for what would soon become the icon event of the Australian motor racing calendar. Come with us as we take a nostalgic look at the track, the cars, the stars and the characters that have made the annual Bathurst 1000...The Great Race."

Highlights of The 2002 Australian Rally Championship

DVD

Rating: G

Duration: 45 mins

RRP: DVD $35.00

  

It was all change in Australian rallying in 2002, and the new production-based Group N rules paved the way for some incredible battles between Subaru factory drivers Possum Bourne, Cody Crocker and Dean Herridge, and the Mitsubishi squad headed by Ed Ordynski and Spencer Lowndes. Not only that, the new regs also made for a much more even playing field, so that for the first time in several years the top privateer teams were able to seriously challenge the works teams for outright victory - and what great drives we saw from the likes of Simon Evans, Michael Guest, Chris Atkinson and the Pedders boys! See all the fantastic 2002 ARC rally action in this video package.

Classic Australian Touring Car Crashes Vol 1

DVD

Rating G

Approx. 60mins

RRP DVD A$35.00

There have been some memorable racing moments in the rich history of the Australian Touring Car Championship. And also lots and lots of crashes. Relive the early years of V8 Supercars and the moments when the legends of Australian touring car racing were, well, just a little but less than legendary. And a few special moments, so get ready for some action.

Classic Australian Touring Car Crashes Vol 2

DVD

Rating G

Approx. 60mins

RRP DVD A$35.00

There have been some memorable racing moments in the rich history of the Australian Touring Car Championship. And also lots and lots of crashes. Relive the early years of V8 Supercars and the moments when the legends of Australian touring car racing were, well, just a little but less than legendary. And a few special moments, so get ready for some action.

1985,1986,1987 Highlights of Bathurst 1000

DVD RRP: A$35.00 ea

Rating G 1985 - The Bathurst 1985 race was indeed the dawn of a new era. The thunderous Group C had come to an end in 1984 (Peter Brock called 1984 The Last of The Big Bangers), and in its place was Group A, an internationally-based class that put overseas cars on equal footing with Australian makes. The race had a record field of 25 top overseas touring car drivers, and their vehicles included the 3-car Jaguar TWR team headed-up by Tom Walkinshaw, Armin Hahne and locals John Goss and Ron Dickson.

1986 - The Bathurst 1985 race was indeed the dawn of a new era. The thunderous Group C had come to an end in 1984 (Peter Brock called 1984 The Last of The Big Bangers), and in its place was Group A, an internationally-based class that put overseas cars on equal footing with Australian makes. The race had a record field of 25 top overseas touring car drivers, and their vehicles included the 3-car Jaguar TWR team headed-up by Tom Walkinshaw, Armin Hahne and locals John Goss and Ron Dickson.

1987 - Australia’s premier motor sports event for more than two decades, the Bathurst enduro took on world championship status in 1987 and produced the most star-studded international field ever seen at Mount Panorama.

1988,1989,1990 Highlights of Bathurst 1000

DVD RRP: A$35.00 ea

Rating G

Approx. 4hours 1988 - The 1988 race featured a host if ingredients; a new sponsor, the first year as a round of the Asia Pacific Touring Car Championship – and a return to “everything old is new again” – the Australian tradition of Ford versus Holden.

1989 - Queensland folk hero, Dick Johnson, capped a two-year ATCC- winning run when he took his Shell Ultra Sierra team to his first full-length race win in the 1989 Bathurst 1000km, 161-lap touring car enduro. It was a race Johnson was determined to win with the Australian-prepared cars which had been unofficially recognised as the “world’s fastest Sierras”.

1990 - The 1990 Tooheys 1000, at Mount Panorama, Bathurst is Australian motorport’s ultimate test of man and machine. This video cassette captures all the race highlights from the Channel 7 telecast. Catch all the action from the Mountain, watch local and international drivers sweat it out as once again Nissan takes on Holden and Ford in the ultimate challenge. Recapture Holden’s great win by Allan Grice and Win Percy; witness the Nissan GTRs fastest lap (2m15.46s).

1991,1992 Highlights of Bathurst 1000

DVD RRP: A$35.00 ea

Rating G

Approx. 4hours 1991 - The 1991 Tooheys 1000, Mount Panorama, Bathurst – the ultimate test. This 2-hour video cassette captures all the race highlights from the Channel 7 telecast. Flawless driving, a perfectly prepared car and superb teamwork gave pre-race favourite, Jim Richards and Mark Skaife, and their Nissan GT-R an historic, record-breaking (6 hours 19 mins 14.8 sec) win. The Nissan duo also collected the fastest lap time – 2m.16.6s.

1992 - The 30th anniversary of the ‘Great Race’ at Mt Panorama, finished prematurely in extraordinary circumstances. With nature showing its strength and taking over from the might of the V8s and turbos, the race concluded on the 144th lap when the leading car yielded to the elements with a pile-up on Con-Rod Straight. Drivers faced some of the most testing conditions ever experienced in the history of the race, from a dry start to rain, hail and fog. The expected dominance of the V8 Commodore and Falcons failed with the handicapped Nissan Turbo winning again, but for the last time

1993,1994 Highlights of Bathurst 1000

DVD RRP: A$35.00 ea

Rating G

Approx. 4hours 1993 - The turbos were gone and the four wheel drives were out. The Tooheys 1000 was back as a battle of the big Aussie V8s. Once again it’s Holden vesus Ford, Commodore versus Falcon, in what was the most exciting showdown at Mount Panorama for many years. The most evenly contested 1000km race to date, this highlights video will tell the full story.

1994 - What a race, what a finish. After a day of rain, action and drama Ford drivers, Dick Johnson and John Bowe triumphed in the most competitive touring car race held at Mount Panorama.

With ten different leaders, the classic came down to a sprint between John Bowe in the Shell FAI Falcon and twenty year old rookie Craig Lowndes in the Holden Racing Team Commodore he shared with Brad Jones.

1993 - Great Race winners Larry Perkins and Gregg Hansford, took third place, while nine time winner Peter Brock came tantalizingly close until a high speed accident late in the event. So here is your chance to witness the great ’94 race on this two hour highlights video

1995,1996 Highlights of Bathurst 1000

DVD RRP: A$35.00 ea

Rating G

Approx. 4hours 1995 - Larry Perkins and his co-driver, Russell Ingall, overcame disaster to score one of the most memorable victories in the history of ‘The Great Race’. On the first lap of the 1995 Tooheys 1000, their car blew a tyre, which forced the Castrol team into last place with a seemingly impossible task - to chase and pass the field in the remaining 160 laps of the nation’s most exciting race track.

1996 - Craig Lowndes completed his motor racing apprenticeship in the most sensational fashion imaginable when he and his New Zealand co-driver, Greg Murphy, swept all before them in the dramatic 1996 AMP Bathurst 1000. Lowndes 22, became the youngest ever winner of the Mount Panorama classic when he took the chequered flag in his Mobil Holden Racing Team Commodore by 19.2 seconds from three-time winner Dick Johnson, and co-driver John Bowe, in their Shell-FAI Ford Falcon.

1997,1998 Highlights of Bathurst 1000

DVD RRP: A$35.00 ea

Rating G

Approx. 4hours 1997 - In front of the largest crowd ever at Mt Panorama, and the largest field of V8’s to run at the mountain (43 cars) Perkins and Ingall captured the Primus 1000 Classic as their rivals fell by the wayside.

Amidst mayhem and carnage, the Castrol Commodore duo maintained the kind of pace which saw many of the pre-race favourites wilt and perish under the pressure.

Perkins triumphed in one of the most amazing races ever seen at Mt Panorama, his Castrol Commodore surviving while only four of the top ten qualifiers managed to finish the Primus 1000 classic.

1998 - In what really was a victory against the odds, and defying the theory that only years of experience can produce a Bathurst triumph, Bright and Richards brought home their Pirtek-backed Ford Falcon to claim the greatest prize in V8 racing in front of a near record crowd of 47,000.

The Pirtek Falcon shot into the lead on lap 131, and aside from losing it briefly during a pitstop 17 laps later, was never headed again.

1999,2000 Highlights of Bathurst 1000

DVD RRP: A$35.00 ea

Rating G

Approx. 4hours 1999 - The V8 Supercars grand finale began with crashes and carnage, built through the emotion of Dick Johnson’s final race, and seemed to have reached a peak when Paul Radisich hit the lead with 20 laps to the flag.But then Radisich punctured, leaving Steven Richards and Greg Murphy with a clear run in the VT Commodore.

2000 - The 2000 FAI 1000 at Bathurst’s Mount Panorama is the pinnacle of the Australian motor racing scene, the event that every driver wants to win more than any other. The 2000 race will be remembered as the day of the Big Wet, with the Bathurst region deluged by rain that began earlier in the week and continued right through until race day.

2001 Highlights of Bathurst 1000

DVD RRP: A$35.00 ea

Rating G

Approx. 4hours

This year’s race was truly a survival of the fittest, where 18 of the 39-strong field retired – some of the most fancied runners victim of the four-season elements, like Lowndes and Perkins coming to grief in wet conditions. Both Lowndes and Perkins returned to the race finishing 17th and eighth respectively

The race saw 10 different leaders and 25 lead changes. Among them winners Skaife and Longhurst led for 57 laps, the third-placed young team of Kelly and Murphy led for 40, Seton and Richards for 23, Bow and Wills for 12, Lowndes and Crompton for 11 and Perkins just 3. In the ‘could’ve’ stakes, the Commodore of Perkins/Ingall could’ve won, as could have Kelly/Murphy, as could’ve Jones/Cleland. – the 2001 Bathurst 1000 highlights is a race not to be missed

2002 Highlights of Bathurst 1000

DVD RRP: A$35.00 ea

Rating G

Approx. 4hours

Mark Skaife took his fourth Bathurst win with only a few seconds to spare as he nursed home his Holden Racing Team Commodore, its engine badly overheating towards the end of the race. Skaife had taken a superb pole position on Saturday, but he and co-driver Jim Richards did not have an easy ride to victory on Sunday. This video highlights presentation of the 2002 Bob Jane T-Marts 1000 at Bathurst is one certainly not to be missed

2003 Bob Jane T-Marts Bathurst 1000 Highlights

DVD RRP: A$45.00 ea

Rating G

Approx. 120 mins

Kmart Commodore dominates and wins The Great Race making it five in a row for Holden.

It’s the greatest race in Australian motorsport, and in 2003 the Bob Jane T-marts Bathurst 1000 was the fastest and most hotly contested Great Race ever. Relive the incredible charge from pole position of Greg Murphy and Rick Kelly - who became the race’s youngest ever winner - in their Kmart Commodore, the Ford counter attack was led by Craig Lowndes and John Bowe plus the early race favourites for Ford Ambrose and Ingall. Put this all together with the controversial end for Holden Racing Team Mark Skaife’s bid to make it a hattrick of Great Race win when his left rear door came open in the dramatic closing stages. It’s all here and much more.

2004 Bob Jane T-Marts Bathurst 1000 Highlights

DVD RRP: A$45.00 ea

Rating G

It will forever be rememberedas the year of the kiwi,the kid and the kangaroo. The 2004 Bathurst 1000 was yet another vintage classic littered with controversy, crashes and crowns.

2005 BATHURST SUPER CHEAP AUTO 1000 HIGHLIGHTS

DVD

Rating: E

RRP: Only A45.00 ea

With heated clashes on and off-track and an unforgettable 11-lap dash to the finish line, the 2005 Super Cheap Auto 1000 will go down in history as one of the great Australian sporting classics.

Relive the drama of lap 144 when a fiery clash erupted between Marcos Ambrose and Greg Murphy. It not only ended their own races but resulted in mass carriage and a face off between the two great rivals.

The Mountain also tested the skills of Craig Lowndes after a loose tyre crashed into his windscreen, and few will forget the controversial drive-through penalty against Ambrose for not wearing a balaclava.

This action packed compilation also celebrates the triumph of V8 Supercar racing’s most decorated driver, Mark Skaife, as he wins his fifth Bathurst title with team mate Todd Kelly who, on his 26th birthday, took home his maiden crown.

All these unforgettable moments and more are featured in this historic event in one of the toughest and most exciting races on the V8 Supercar calendar – the Super Cheap Auto 1000, Bathurst.

Bonus feature: 2005 Bathurst Top Ten Shootout.

2006 Highlights of Bathurst 1000

DVD RRP: A$45.00 ea

Rating E

Triumph and tragedy prevailed in an unforgettable four days of Man versus Mountain at the 2006 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. Filled with raw emotion and sheer exhilaration, it will go down as the year of the Legend, the Kid and the Mountain.

Mount Panorama always offers something out of the ordinary and 2006 was no exception.

Relive all the high speed action and drama as Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup raise the inaugural Peter Brock Trophy after a frantic final seven laps with Rick Kelly in hot pursuit. The win was ultimately Ford’s first at Bathurst since 1988.

Mount Panorama is rarely a friend to pre-race favourites. Share Mark Skaife’s despair as he lost any hope of winning the first Peter Brock Trophy on the opening lap. Engine failure also played its part on another of the favourites – sidelining Sandown 500 winner Jason Bright on lap 28.

In all, the ever-brutal Mountain claimed 14 of the 31 starters, four-time Bathurst Champion Greg Murphy one of those when team-mate Cameron McConville had an unscheduled meeting with the wall along the top of Mount Panorama.

Searing heat, one of the world’s toughest circuits and high emotions combined to make for the best Bathurst 1000 on record.

Classic Bathurst Crashes

DVD

Rating G

Approx. 60mins

RRP VHS A$30.00

RRP DVD A$35.00

Some were little more than taps, others little more than scrapes – then there were the big, bad, ugly, noisy sons of mothers that caused mayhem, tears, dollars and dreams to go right down the gurgler. Enjoy.

COMMODORE - The Early Bathurst Years

DVD

Rating: E

Approx 105 mins

RRP: A$35.00 ea

Hosted by Peter Brock and John Harvey two of Holdens legends.

No Holden has been more successful in motorport than the Commodore model. From the late ‘70s to the mid 00s, Commodore has been a winner on the racetrack, and never more so than in Australia’s Great Race, the Bathurst 1000. This Holden archival video recounts the early years of Commodore at Bathurst: its debut win in 1980, and the follow up Brock/HDT triumphs in ’82 and ’83. These first three Bathurst wins were where the legend of Commodore was forged – and they were only the first of many.

This is the Last 4 original cinema films produced on Bathurst

DICK JOHNSON – True Blue

DVD

Rating: G

Duration: 90mins

RRP: $35.00

For over 30 years, Dick Johnson built a career in motorsport – you could say “on solid rock”. This is Johnson’s story, with his trademark dry humour, in colourful detail, combining archival and contemporary footage with exclusive interviews and fast-paced action

FORD AT THE GREAT RACE 1960-97

DVD

Rating G

Approx. 150mins

RRP: A$35.00 ea

Throughout this video, Ford followers will relive the times of Ford in The Great Race from its first victories at Phillip Island, through the glory years and the heartbreak years – and get to know all over again the champions and the characters who did so much to make it happen

FORD AUSTRALIA 75 YEARS

DVD

Rating G

Approx. 86mins

RRP A$35.00 ea

Australia’s first home-grown Model T Ford rolled off the production line in an old wool store in Geelong, Victoria, in July, 1925, and this programme celebrates 75 years of continuous production in Australia. The video features the Model T voted the Car of the Century, the world’s first ute, the Customline, the GTs and much more.

30 YEARS OF FALCON GT - THE LEGEND

DVD

Rating G

Approx. 60mins

RRP: A$35.00 ea

Recorded from the masters of the television special dedicated to the legendary Falcon GT, this landmark documentary is a tribute to the car that for over 30 years has been revered as the greatest car around motor racing, and which carved out its own legendary status in the history of motorsport.

The Holden Dealer Team

DVD

Rating: E

RRP: Only A35.00 ea

In the late sixties, a remarkable story in Australian motorsport began. It was a time when the Holden car was ubiquitous in Australia. But even though the car known as ‘Australia’s Own’ was strongly represented on the race tracks, it was without factory recognition.

To get around a world-wide ban by General Motors on motorsport, in 1969 Holden engaged the wily Harry Firth to manage a team called The Holden Dealer Team, supposedly supported by Holden retailers.

What followed was Australian motorsport legend. From the team’s first drivers, rising young stars Colin Bond and Peter Brock, in the Monaro GTS 350, through the Torana-dominated seventies and the Commodore-dominated early eighties.

In this DVD, we relive all the glorious moments – from the Mountain to the Island to the desert. We talk with all the main players, team managers Harry Firth and John Sheppard, drivers like Colin Bond, John Harvey and of course, Peter Brock, as well as mechanics and the money men behind the team.

From the mighty battles between the little Torana XU-1 and big Ford GT-HO Falcons, the domination of the Torana A9X, the stunning debut of the Commodore in the Repco round-Australia Trial in 1979, and the emergence of Peter Brock as an Australian icon at Bathurst – it’s all here in this ‘must have’ motorsport DVD.

The Endurance Man

DVD

Rating: G

Duration: 90mins

RRP: $35.00

Six-time Bathurst 1000 winner, Larry Perkins has established himself as one of the greats in Australian motorsport. With interviews from fellow drivers, race footage from his triumphs and commentary from Larry himself, this is an essential presentation for any motorsport fan.

PETER BROCK – The Legend

2 DVD Set

Rating: PG

Approx 110 mins

RRP: A35.00 ea

35 years on the mountain Collector’s Edition

Disc 1 - Peter Brock The Legend

Peter truly is “King Of The Mountain”. Touring car racing has always been his passion, the ultimate challenge. Taking a car originally intended for road use and pushing to the absolute limit in competition. On Bitumen or dirt, Brock has proved a master of the art and it’s all detailed on this video. This video includes driving interviews and footage previously unseen on television including Peter’s home videos. This is a visual history of Australia’s greatest racing car driver. So sit back to witness a true Australian legend in action.

Disc 2 - Peter Brock The Legend - Interview Disc

Special bonus disc which brings Peter’s career totally up to date, covering the years 1998 to 2004. Featuring his win at the Bathurst 24 Hour Race in 2003, his 10th Bathurst. Highlights of The Australian Safari and Targa Tasmania races. Plus the story behind Team Brock and his return to the V8 Supercar racing in 2002 and 2004. It’s all here.

1960 - 1966 THE GREAT RACE

VHS & DVD

Rating G

Duration 60 mins

RRP: $30.00

A fabulous era in Australian motor sport commenced at Phillip Island, Victoria, with the 1960 Armstrong 500 for production cars. The endurance race moved from the Island to Mount Panorama, Bathurst in 1963. This video details the first seven years of Australia’s Greatest Motor Race and makes compulsive viewing and is, indeed, a collector’s item.

1967 - 1974 THE GREAT RACE

VHS & DVD

Rating G

Duration 90 mins

RRP: $30.00Australia’s classic endurance race, the Bathurst 1000, has entertained millions of people and probably none more colourful than the 1967 – 1974 era. It was during this period that the youngsters of the calibre of Colin Bond, Allan Moffat, Peter Brock and John Goss emerged to cave a niche for themselves in local motor sporting history.

1975 - 1985 THE GREAT RACE

VHS & DVD

Rating G

Duration approx 90mins

RRP: $30.00

By 1975, after 13 years of the race being held at Bathurst, it had firmly established itself as a annual race legend, one never to be forgotten in the history of Australian motor sport. The Ford-Holden battle raged relentlessly on the Mountain during 1975 to 1985

1986 - 1992 THE GREAT RACE

VHS & DVD

Rating G

Duration 120 mins

RRP: $30.00

Although it was 1981 that saw the intrduction of the turbo entry into The Great Race, it was not until 1988 that a turbo charged machine won the race. From this point on, The Great Race was dominated by turbos, in particular the Sierra and the sophisticated four-wheel-drive, twin-turbo Nissan. This era was to be known as The Turbolent Years

1993 - 1996 THE GREAT RACE

VHS & DVD

Rating G

Duration 120 mins

RRP: $30.00

The V8 Years…

The turbos have well and truly gone, the four-wheel-drive is also out and Bathurst 1000 is back with the battle of the big Aussie V8s. Once again, it’s Holden vs Ford, Commodore vs Falcon, in what has been the most exciting showdown at Mount Panorama. This tells the story

1997 - 2001 THE GREAT RACE

VHS & DVD

Rating G

Duration 120 mins

RRP: $30.00The Boys are Back at Bathurst’s Mount Panorama, and proved that nothing shakes the Mountain like V8 Supercars. This new release highlights the Holden vs Ford classic battles from 1997 – 2001. They raced for four years in November and the fifth back to the traditional October period. The V8 Supercars remain the power behind The Great Race

THE GREAT RACE SERIES

DVD

Limited Edition Box Set

Rating G

DVD sets of these 6 great videos for only A$140.00 save A$40.00 show casing the rich history of The Great Race, Bathurst.

Containing:

1960-66 Phillip Island and Bathurst

1967-74 Gallaher 500/Hardie Ferodo 500/1000

1975-85 James Hardie 1000

1986-92 James Hardie/Tooheys 1000

1993-96 The V8 Years – Tooheys 1000/AMP 1000

1997-01 V8 Supercars – FAI 1000/V8 Supercars 1000

TORANA XU-1 When You're Hot You're Hot

DVD

Rating: G

Approx 70 mins

RRP: A$35.00 ea

In 1969 Bathurst was a horsepower race between Holden with its Monaro and Ford with the Falcon, GTHO. But while Ford went looking for more power from the HO, Holden made a surprising move of dumping the V8s and unleashing a smaller, more nimble, but amazingly potent, six-cylinder car. The Torana XU-1 went on to become one of Australia’s legendary muscle cars. It provided Peter Brock with his first win against the might of the Phrase 3 GTHO and it dominated early ‘70s Australian rallies. Relive the glory days of the XU-1 as Peter Brock and Colin Bond host a collection of Holden/Castrol sponsored films that were shown in cinemas during the ‘70s

TORANA SL/R 5000

DVD

Rating: G

Approx 90 mins

RRP: A$35.00

Holden’s SLR5000, known as L34 in its Bathurst-winning race spec, was the V8 successor to the nimble Torana XU-1, and debuted by Peter Brock as he won the final two races of his first touring car championship title in 1974. But it was Colin Bond who was the star of Harry Firth’s Holden Dealer Team in the five-race manufacturer’s championship.

HDT pipped the Falcon contingent of Moffat, Goss and Carter with a final victory at Phillip Island. This classic cinema film represents Aussie motoring racing – seventies style. In a much different scenario to today’s high-tech Supercars, we revisit the days of long hair, flared jeans and leisurely pit stops as well as look at the mighty Torana SL/R 5000.

Plus highlights of the Torana L34 victories at Bathust 1975 and 1976 all on one great video hosted by Peter Brock and John Harvey.

TORANA A9X

DVD

Rating: E

Approx 90 mins

RRP: A$35.00

Holden’s Torana A9X Hatchback hit the racetracks in late 1977 as GMH attempted to halt the big dollar Moffat Ford Dealer Team steamroller that took first and second placings in the 1977 Australian Touring Car Championship.

Peter Brock threw down the gauntlet to Allan Moffat at the Sandown 500 with a debut victory in his privateer Torana A9X, but both Moffat and Colin Bond took sweet revenge with a one/two result at Bathurst as lack of development proved costly for the leading Toranas.

In 1978, the A9X had proved to be both an excellent road and race car as Peter Brock, now back with Holden Dealer Team, blitzed the ATCC.

The A9X Toranas, with a 400hp V8, roller rocker overhead cam gear, four wheel disc brakes, Detroit locker diff and wide alloy wheels set the pace at Bathurst with Brock grabbing pole from Ford’s Bond and Moffat.

Brock was slow away on raceday in foggy conditions then charged back through the pack as rivals dropped by the wayside. Brock and New Zealand co-driver Jim Richards cleared away to win by a lap from the A9X of Grice/Leffler.

Things got even better for A9X and Holden in 1979. Bob Morris won the ATCC from HDT’s Brock and John Harvey without Ford getting a look in.

Then Brock and Richards thrashed all-comers at Bathurst to record an unprecedented six-lap victory with Brock claiming a lap record on the last circuit in his fabulous A9X.

It was the end of an era for Torana with five Bathurst trophies on the shelf while gaining a deserved reputation as one of Holden’s great sporting icons.

2003 V8 Supercars Highlights

DVD

Rating: E

RRP: A$45.00 ea

2004 V8 Supercars Highlights

DVD

Rating: E

RRP: A$45.00 ea

Kmart Commodore dominates and wins The Great Race making it five in a row for Holden

2005 V8 Supercars Highlights

DVD

Rating: E

RRP: A$45.00 ea

The 2005 V8 Supercar Championship Series completes yet another exciting chapter in the rich history of Australia’s premier Motorsport category.

In one of the closest finishes on record, Russell Ingall triumphed over Craig Lowndes to shake off his bridesmaid tag, claiming his first Series title after 11 attempts and four runner-up trophies.

Lowndes claimed four wins for the year but suffered from some poor results at the start of the season while the young gun Kelly brothers, Todd and Rick, proved they are a force to reckoned with both finishing in the Top 10.

The action packed 13-Round Series also took to the air when 32 V8 Supercars were flown to the $500 million Shanghai International Circuit for the international debut of the category outside Australasia.

The season concluded with Ingall’s triumph and a fond farewell to two-time Champion Marcos Ambrose.

Relieve all the excitement, controversy and clashes that made the 2005 V8 Supercar Championship Series one to remember.

Bonus Feature: HPDC V8 Supercars Season Highlights.

V8 Supercars Greates Hits – Volume One

DVD

Rating G

Approx. 70mins

RRP VHS A$30.00

RRP DVD A$35.00

It’s metal-crunching madness from the Holden and Fords of the V8 Supercar Shell Series. Greg Rust presents all the panel-bashing, wall walloping thrills, and lots of spills, from race tracks around the nation

V8 Supercars Greatest Hits – Volume Two

DVD

Rating G

Approx. 60mins

RRP VHS A$30.00

RRP DVD A$35.00

Metal-crunching mayhem from the Holden and Fords in the V8 Supercar Championship series. You thought Volume 1 was spectacular… The long awaited V8 Supers Greatest Hits Volume 2 has arrived and features some of the biggest, hardest and most expensive crashes in the history of the sport.

There are the solo wall-banging efforts, where driver and car come up against that immovable concrete object. Then there is the group efforts, where it takes two (or more) to tangle. Once again it is panel-punching pandemonium from the stars and cars in the greatest touring car show on earth-and best of all, no one gets hurt!

The DVD is presented in 4:3 standard format or 16:9 widescreen.

CRASHES You Won't Believe!

DVD

Rating E

Approx. 50mins

RRP A$35.00 ea

Shot in the realistic style of Wildest Police Videos, the program is a spectacular collection of crashes and rescue operations set against the glamour of the racing world. It is dramatic, realistic and most of all, true.

Everything you see actually happened.

21 YEARS OF COMMODORE -

The Bathurst Years (1980 - 2000)

DVD

Rating G

Approx. 2 hrs

RRP A$35.00

From the car’s first motor sport event, the 1979 Repco Round Australia Trial, to its successes of 2000, this video celebrates the extraordinary 21 years of the Commodore in Australian motor racing

HOLDEN In Motorsport

DVD

Rating G

Approx. 120 mins

RRP: A$30.00

For the 25 years between 1969 and 1994, Holden continuously supported its factory teams for the annual assault on Mt. Panorama. See classic race cars, the Monaro, Torana and Commodore

Highlights of the 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour Race

DVD

Rating: G

Duration: 3hrs

RRP: $35.00Mount Panorama is one of the world’s great motor racing circuits. As a test of drivers and machinery, it ranks up there with the famous Nurburgring, Spa-Francorchamps and Macau. It’s also home to Australia’s most famous and biggest motor sporting event, the Bathurst 1000. But now there is a second major event at Bathurst, and a race that is four times as long as the 1000. The 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour was epic contest as some of the best drivers from Australia and Europe faced the challenge of Bathurst

PETER BROCK – Nine Times a Champion

DVD

Rating: E

RRP: A35.00 ea

Peter Brock, King of the Mountain, is gone. But the man we all knew so affectionately as Peter Perfect will live on in the hearts of so many thousands of his fans - he was one of a kind, the type of sporting superstar that comes along only once in a life time. A champion, legend, a true Australian icon.

Brock was a rare driving talent, but his skills were never more apparent than at Bathurst each year. Nine Great Race wins between 1972 and 1987 is a record probably no driver will ever match.

This dvd is a celebration of all of Brock's massive success at Bathurst 1000, a fitting tribute to the King of the Mountain - gone, but remembered always.

This is the very first time that highlights of all of Peter's Bathurst 1000 wins appear on the same DVD. Highlights are 1972, 75, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, and 87.

Hosted by Garry Wilkinson

25 Years of HDT Special Vehicles

Collectors Edition

DVD

Rating: E

RRP: Only A35.00 ea

This much anticipated documentary celebrates the 25th Anniversary of HDT SPECIAL VEHICLES by taking an in depth look at the period in history in which some of Australia’s most famous muscle cars were born.

Special and exclusive commentary by Peter Brock, John Harvey, Lewis Brock and more, tells the story of HDT SV from the initial prototype VC HDT, through all models VH, VK, VL of the BROCK HDT vehicles. Covering all the HDT successes you know, to ‘one off’ cars and projects you never knew existed along with rare footage of vehicles such as the first ever HDT, Aeros/Directors, the Monza and the vehicle which sealed the end of the Peter Brock SPECIAL VEHICLES/Holden partnership.

Travelling to every corner of Australia and a year in production makes this feature the most comprehensive archival DVD ever on HDT SPECIAL VEHICLES and is essential for any HDT, Brock and Holden enthusiast!

2006 Australian Muscle Car Masters

DVD

Rating: E

RRP: Only A35.00 ea

Highlights of the 2006 Australian Muscle Car Masters from Sydney's Eastern Creek Raceway.

Re-live some of the greatest moments from Australia's premier muscle car event, including interviews with legendary drivers, a feast of power-sliding Historic Touring Car racing action, 'Master Blast' and 'Heritage Hot Lap' track demonstrations, muscle car parades and much more. This DVD is a must-have forany muscle car fan.

THE RACING HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN FORD MUSTANG

DVD

Rating E

RRP A$35.00 ea

Ford launched the Mustang in the USA back in 1964, it had no idea of the impact the "Pony" car would have. Initial expectations were that they would produce 75,000 cars a year, but just over a year later, they had sold nearly ten times that many. The Mustang legend had begun. In this DVD, we retrace those halcyon days of Australian motorsport with rare race footage featuring Geoghegan, Beechey, Jane and Moffat racing door handle to door handle in brutish machines that were all about the power slide, skinny tyres and no brakes. The Mustang Story is the stuff of legends – a must have DVD.

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