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| Before going into the longest straight
in Australia, Conrod Straight, drivers' speeds can drop back to as slow
as 85km/h at this bend, named after a notorious accident which saw famous
motorcyclist, Jack Forrest, fall from his bike and break his elbow. A treacherous
turn, not braking early enough before Forrest's Elbow can see drivers quickly
ending their race in a tangle of metal and ready-mix.
In 1971, Leo Geoghegan and Doug Whitehead discovered the danger of the curve in a spectacular clash which saw the Mazda end up on its roof with glass scattered all over the track. In 1992, the year Jim Richards and Mark Skaife claimed their second successive Bathurst crown in their Nissan, it was at the end of The Elbow, at the entrance to Conrod Straight, that the controversial pile-up occurred. Richards knocked his front wheel askew at The Cutting, skating off at The Elbow, clobbering several other cars and severely damaging the Nissan. But the race was already over and he had won. Nasty scenes followed at the presentation as the pro-Johnson crowd booed Richards and Skaife, causing Richards to respond with the now famous line, 'You're all a pack of bastards'. |
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