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joined Percy in the #4 car for the endurance races with
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specifications. Again only running one car now as #7, Gardner won the team's only round at the opening
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when the engine expired on lap 90. A second car was entered as a customer car for Peter
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and at the end of the year sold the car and only appeared in
Australia as a hired driver.
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The team was created to further the motor sport career of 1987 World
Motorcycle Champion,
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who retired from motor cycle racing at the end of the 1992 season. After racing with the
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Anthony Tratt as #54. At the end of 1997 Gardner decided to close down the team.
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was an Australian motor racing team that competed in the
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was appointed team manager. The team had backing from
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187:specifications the team carries on unchanged in
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472:. Hornsby: Chevron Publishing.
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109:Bob Forbes Racing
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44:Final Season
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245:Calder Park
133:Alan Heaphy
607:Categories
455:References
400:Tony Scott
388:Brad Jones
193:Brad Jones
115:driven by
54:Round wins
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570:1329-3184
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364:Win Percy
319:Road cars
295:customer
269:Melbourne
267:and with
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137:Coca-Cola
127:. Former
121:Mona Vale
87:Formation
233:Yokohama
131:manager
335:Drivers
82:History
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34:Debut
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