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Bathurst winner in 1985. John Goss makes the race debut of his Tornado Ford, Baskerville, Tasmania 1966. I was one of 38000 people enthralled by his battle with Vern Schuppan in Garrie Cooper’s latest Elfin MR8 Chev. The No.1 Holden Dealer Team Torana of pole winner Peter Brock and Brian Sampson dominated the first ⅔ of the race and had built up an incredible 6 lap lead over the field until their race was ended on lap 118. The 1301 – 2000cc class [2] was contested by Alfa Romeo Alfetta, Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV, Datsun 180B, Ford Escort, Mazda RX-3 and Volkswagen Passat. Front running group; Goss, Gethin, Schuppan and Bartlett. Goss also won the F5000 Australian Grand Prix at Sandown in 1976. (Anthony Loxley). The AGP field was buoyed by the addition of Internationals Graeme Lawrence, the former Tasman Champ Lola T332 mounted and Signorina Lella Lombardi. Vern’s was under the care of Garrie Cooper who raced that model himself. John had his tail up, he and Kevin Bartlett won the Bathurst 1000 in October the pair driving brilliantly to win the race held in difficult conditions that year. Brown took the Series win in the VDS Lola T430 Chev, both T430 chassis’ owned by VDS were sold to Alan Hamilton at the series end and would be an important part of the F5000 scene going forward in both Hamilton’s and especially Alfredo Costanzo’s hands. Engine failure after splashing around for 24 wet laps ended his race, Goss in his Ford Falcon XY GTHO Ph3, Hell Corner Bathurst 1972. Brittle things F5000’s; the Hewland DG300 box was originally designed for Gurney’s 400bhp F1 Eagle, not a 500bhp Chev. As noted above, Goss was the first to race the XA Hardtop in the 1973 ATCC, before the Works team who used a modified Phase III GTHO during the Australian Touring Car Championship which Allan Moffat won for them. 1976 AGP finish at Sandown. Matich A51/53 Repco and Elfin MR8 Chev. (Doug Eagar). After Jaguar Rover Australia declined to help fund a return effort by TWR in 1986 Goss returned with his own privately entered XJ-S backed by Citibank Australia and co-driven by veteran Bob Muir. The wettest race in the event's history to that time saw John Goss and Kevin Bartlett take victory in a Ford Falcon GT under pressure in the late stages from the Holden Torana SL/R 5000 L34 of Bob Forbes and Wayne Negus. John drove the three year old Matich A53, based on the 5 year old A50. At the ‘Oran Park 100′ Goss was 5th, in Adelaide he crashed, at Sandown he was 3rd in the race won by Cannons’ March, the final round at Surfers was washed out. During this period the team were developing the Ford engine, Goss raced his other, earlier chassis with Repco power; A51/53 ‘005’, the chassis he used to win the AGP. Goss’ domestic 1976 Gold Star campaign started well with his AGP win at Sandown in September, he didn’t finish at Oran Park with gearbox failure, at Calder he had an exhaust problem and didn’t contest the one off ‘Rose City 10000’ at Winton nor the final Phillip Island Gold Star round. (Rod MacKenzie). FORD FALCON XA GT 1974 BATHURST WINNER 1:1/8 CC: Condition: New. Car is Ford Falcon XA GT351 Coupe ‘Sports Sedan’. Once we have received payment, we will e-mail... !Ford GT's - Bathurst '67 to '72 - 80 Page Hard Cover Book - Pictorial History, !Torana SL/R 5000 L34 - 60 Page Hard Cover Book - Pictorial History, 1178 - John Goss the only person to win both the Bathurst 1000 & the AGP, 130 - Bathurst 1970 to 1979 - Slideshow DVD - $30.00, 371 - John Goss - A collage of a few of the cars he drove during his career, 605 - The Great Race 1974 - A collage of the first three place getters from Bathurst 1974 with winners time and laps completed. John Cannon 3rd ahead of John Goss 6th ,1978 ‘Sandown Park Cup’. One of my first motorsport memories is a handicap race there in 1967 which only had 2 cars start. L>R; Max Stewart Lola T400 Chev, Vern Schuppan Elfin MR8 Chev and Goss to the right, Matich A5153 Repco. The 1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 was an endurance race for Group C Touring Cars, held at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia on 6 October 1974. Manufacturers Championships Review, Australian Competition Yearbook, 1975 Edition, pages 120–145, Entry List, Official Programme, 1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, pages 35 & 37, Mini Mystery Solved, BMC Experience Issue 5, April–June 2013, Page 84, 1974 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, Steve Maher. Highlights from the Great Race. ‘Surfers Paradise 100’ Rothmans Series 1977. Despite the big corporate names which adorned the Matich cockpit over the years JG was not well-funded, in common with most of his fellow local competitors. (Robert Davies), Three Vignettes of John Goss, all at Sandown Park stick in my mind…. How the Photo Download Works. Hoping to progress in racing Goss took the Tornado to Sydney, with some success scoring points in the Australian Sports Car Championship in 1969 and 1970 (10th in both years). This created an opportunity for the rest of the field as Matich was arguably the ‘first among equals’ as a driver and the best funded, courtesy of Repco and Goodyear. I think you would have to say that he demonstrated in that race all the qualities that are necessary, the skill to do the job; the determination to be there, overcoming whatever hurdles might have been put in his way along the path he followed; the recognition of openwheelers as the pinnacle, despite having already won the biggest race in Australia. How the Photo Download Works. Goss missed the 1987 World Touring Car Championship round as well as the 1988 race but returned to drive for Glenn Seton Racing in 1989 in a Ford Sierra RS500. Goss’ final Bathurst 1000 came in 1990 when he paired with fellow Sydney based veteran Phil Ward in Ward’s Mercedes-Benz 190E to finish 12th outright and a Division 2 class win after starting 38th. John Goss in the very first Birrana, the F71 FF ahead of 2 Bowin P4a FF’s, Oran Park 1971. The pair returned to Bathurst for the 1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 in the same car, repainted blue after losing Shell sponsorship winning a race marred by driving rain. He paired with Seton for a fourth placed finish at the Sandown 500. XR V8 - XR GT - XT GT - XT 500 - XW GT - XW GTHO PHASE 1 - XW GTHO PHASE 2 - XY GS... A pictorial hard cover book (300mm x 220mm) with 60 pages of images of every Holden Torana SL/R 5000 L34 The AGP was the first round of the Gold Star that year, Goss matched local boy, Bruce Allison’s pole time but withdrew from the race early with a rough engine and visibility problems. Whereas they, without similar fiscal support were not as much so. 74748 - J. Goss / K Bartlett - 1st Outright & Class D winner - Ford Falcon GT XB - Bathurst 1974 - Photographer Lance J Ruting. that race in the Bathurst Hardie Ferodo 1000 - 1974 to 1977. Suffice it to say, depending upon results, any of Lola drivers, Brown, Lawrence or Walker could take the title…Walker crashed on lap 1, Lawrence retired with fuel metering unit failure late in the race, Brown got the necessary point and Goss won the race in a fast, controlled drive. As in the circuit was under the flooded Nerang River, Schuppan took the trophy, the presentation in waist deep water, the promoters gaining a shot for the tabloids despite the lack of a race! Great stuff from two very good drivers.’, John Goss in his Tornado Ford, Longford 1968. The 1977 Rothmans International Series of 4 races in Australia had good prizemoney, Count Rudy Van der Straten’s Team made a welcome return to Australia with a Lola T430 and Chevron B37 for Warwick Brown and Peter Gethin respectively, nuts from a spares point of view but both interesting cars, and critically not more Lola T332’s, wonderful devices that they are. Goss had an engine failure, the race was won by Max Stewart’s Lola T400 Chev. John Goss: Bathurst 1000 and Australian Grand Prix Winner…. (dry sumps stupidly not allowed by the regs). He was 9th at Surfers, 4th in the first heat and had an accident in the second. Despite trouble in qualifying with no suitable rear tyres arriving in time to use, the Scot qualified the car 8th before falling to 10th in the Hardies Heroes top ten run-off . Ford XC Falcon GT: 163: 6h 59m 7.8s: 1978: Hardie-Ferodo … Goss exiting Murray’s Corner Bathurst 500 1973. After a troubled run the trio went finished 20th outright. The Up to 1300cc class [2] was contested by Alfa Romeo GT 1300 Junior, Datsun 1200, Ford Escort, Honda Civic, Mazda 1300, Morris Cooper S and Morris Clubman GT. New Zealand drivers Jim Richards and Rod Coppins finished third, five laps down in another Holden Torana SL/R 5000 L34. He won the South Pacific Touring Car Championship, the touring car series support of the 1972 Australian Tasman Rounds, the plucky privateer beat the works teams. Takeouts; he was quick and gifted on the commercial side of the sport. As one wag put it after a JG Bathurst win; his victory speech was longer than the race itself! - Bathurst 1974 - Holden Torana SLR5000. Once we have received payment, we will e-mail you a jpeg file within 48 hours, which will print up to a... 605 - The Great Race 1974 - A collage of the first three place getters from Bathurst 1974 with winners time and laps completed. Pretty much everyone else stuck with the previous model, ‘XY’ Falcon GTHO’s for one more year, including the Broadmeadows factory until the Manufacturers Championship in the second half of the year. (Chris Jewell). He also put his Falcon on the front row of the grid at the 1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500, qualifying second fastest behind the Works GTHO of Allan Moffat. Order a Photographic Print or a Download.

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