ONE of the most valuable cars at the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000 suffered a significant flesh wound in the final race of the Heritage Revival.
The Heritage category featured a variety of Group N, Group C and Group A touring cars, as well as Group S sports cars.
A star attraction was Mike Roddy’s ex-Tom Walkinshaw Racing Jaguar XJS – the very car that won the 1985 James Hardie 1000 in the hands of John Goss and Armin Hahne.
Roddy suffered a half-lose at Griffins Bend on the first racing lap of the final, which had started under Safety Car amid slippery track conditions.
The right-front corner of the big, V12-engined Cat clouted the concrete on driver’s right, before Roddy rejoined the circuit and finished the race in 11th place.
Terry Lawlor (ex-Bob Morris Group C Ford Falcon XD) won a spirited battle with Doug Barbour (Group S Porsche 911) to take victory by less than a tenth of a second.
Greg Keam (Group A Ford Mustang), Luke Harrison (Group N Torana XU-1) and Jack Harrison (Group N Ford Mustang) completed the top five.
“The conditions in that session were certainly challenging and I had a few moments, but it was a lot of fun racing against Doug, whose car had completely different strengths to mine,” said Lawlor.
Lawlor had held off Keam to win Race 1 by just 0.25s on Friday morning, while that evening’s race was declared a non-event after an incident prior to the start.
Oil on the circuit led to Rod Hatfield looping his Group C Torana at Forrest’s Elbow, where he was collected by an unsighted Chris O’Connor in his Toyota Celica.
