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Jim Richards at his best, enjoy this blast from the past from Lakeside. Allan Grice and the Roadways team were down to one car, but it was a brand-spanking-new VL, the first to run in the ATCC. Meanwhile, the former factory team were also down to one car after Gary Scott crashed Brock's #05 during mid-week testing. Brock would race #6 until his new VL was ready, qualifying it on the front row next to pole-sitter Seton. credit to Channel 7 sport.
Jim Richards BMW M3 victory in the final round of the series at Oran Park in Sydney would be the last time a Naturally aspirated engined car would win an ATCC race until Peter Brock won Heat 1 of Round 1 of the 1992 Australian Touring Car Championship driving a V8 Holden Commodore.
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1987 was a year of lasts in Australian touring car racing. It was the last time Peter Brock would drive a Holden until 1991 as he would switch first to BMW and then Fords. Consequently it was the last time the Holden Dealer Team name, which started under Harry Firth in 1969, would be used (though the team officially ran as "HDT Racing Pty Ltd" as it was no longer the factory backed team following Holden's well publicised split with Brock in February). It would also be Colin Bond's last year of racing Alfa Romeo's before switching back to Ford to run a Sierra. And it was also the last time the JPS Team BMW (who won their second title) would be seen with team boss Frank Gardner closing the team down at the end of the year.
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