Hi! Holger,

On Mon, 10 Mar 14, you wrote to me:

 PQ>>  http://www.motorstv.com/tv-guide
 HG> Thanks a million Paul.

I hope that you can use it.

 PQ>>enthusiastic when it's that time for the Bathurst 1000 each year.
 HG> That's a real gem.

When I was single (oh, a about three *life* sentences ago), the Bathurst
weekends were 'lost'.  That is to say that nothing else got done other than
to vege-out in front of the TV.  8-9 hours each day.  :)  Not any more,
which is probably a good thing.

 HG> I saw in a "look-back" that Rauno Aaltonen from Finland
had done well
 HG> there with an Austin Mini Cooper S. Swedes have also participated
 HG> there.

Fascinating.  The other classes were usually a distraction from the big
battles between Holden & Ford.  Nothing else mattered.  Oops.  ;-)

 HG> Read also in Autosport magazine that GM will cease support of the
 HG> Holden racing activities and may as well close its car factory in 
 HG> Australia. Also Ford had plans to deactivate its racing activity but 
 HG> reconsidered that after Winterbottom won the 2013 Bathurst 1000.

I don't know specifics, but by about 2020 both Holden & Ford will not
be producing anything other than after-market spare parts.  Them's the
breaks.

Both companies were producing overpriced vehicles (whilst being
subsidised), still, when a goodly proportion of the driving public chose to
buy imports or others (we had a 'fleet' of two Aussie-built Mitsubishis at
one time).  I'm driving a Toyota Corolla hatchback these days and Barb has
a sweet little Nissan pocket-rocket (still with my music USB stuck in the
stereo... dammit!).

Cheers,
Paul.

... Should I or shouldn't I?  ...  Too late, I did!
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox