Start Line Pile Up

1984 - Start Line Pile Up

The start line accident, when Tesoriero in the Camaro hit the immobile Jaguar of Tom Walkinshaw and slewed into the path of the Williamson's Supra. The accident completely blocked the track on Pit Straight to cause only the 2nd restart of The Great Race. Amazingly there were three other incidents on that first abortive lap. Walkinshaw had earlier told Terry Finnigan, who was directly behind on the grid, to be careful at the start because he was using a different clutch in the Jag and wasn't sure how quickly it would take off. In fact when he dropped the clutch the centre of the clutch was torn right out and he moved nowhere.