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Dunlop: Here and Now with John Bowe (Sept 09)

As many of you may know, despite hanging up my V8 Supercar helmet a couple season ago, I am still quite active in the racing scene, particularly in the Biante Touring Car Masters series where I race a 69’ Chevy Camaro.

I also do a few ‘one-off’ events like the recent Baskerville Historic Race Meeting in Tasmania, where incidentally I have held the track record since 1982. This was the first all historic race meeting in the Apple Isle and was part of the tracks 50th anniversary celebrations. It is actually the oldest continuously operating circuit in Australia! At the event I was racing a 1960 Jaguar Mk2, a car that was once the fastest mass produced sedan in the world and dominated the touring car racing scene for more than 3 years, including taking the first European Touring Car Championship in 1963.

The rubber I was running on this awesome machine was a set of Dunlop CR65s, and looking around the pits at meetings like these you can really see the effect Dunlop’s motorsport heritage has had over the years with most competitors on their products.

But this relationship is a two-way street, Dunlophas also shown its commitment to the historic racing scene by being one of the few companies that continue to provide products for this kind of racing. They really are a true motorsport icon alongside the likes of the Camaro and the Mk2.

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