2012
AGP Historic Demonstration
About
63 cars took part in this year’s demonstration of historic vehicles
at the Grand Prix. Among them were braces of 275 GTB Ferraris, Bentleys
& Austin-Healey 100Ss. Tasmanian Scotty Taylor has finally brought
to Australia his ex. Jim Russell Cooper-Climax T45 from his Cooper/Lotus
collection, Paul Savoy had his Bobtail Cooper, Jeff Brown with the
Chevron B16 & Ian McDonald with both the Ausca & Allard J2
Competition.
The
demonstration had a huge speed differential, but all drivers gave
room for those faster in the field, which included Guido in the Ferrari
156 GP & Paul Faulkner in the Williams FW07.
The
writer was very appreciative of Warwick Anderson letting him drive
the Le Mans style left-hand drive Jaguar E-Type during the Saturday
event. An experience not to knock back, to drive the Albert Park circuit,
and a sore left arm from all the direction signals, and a minor miss
of the turn in point at turn 1 was all that went wrong, but in the
true spirit many competitors did the Stirling Moss wave when passing,
including Peter Strauss in the Brabham-Repco BT31.
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