Hardie-Ferodo 1000
Mount Panorama, Bathurst
5th October, 1975

Number of Laps: 163

Total Race Time: 7:50:99.1
Fastest lap: Peter Brock, 2:29.8 (148.33 km/h)
Classes: Class A - Up to 1300cc; Class B - 1301 to 2000cc; Class C - 2001 to 3000cc; Class D - 3001 to 6000cc

1975 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 Program

Even before the 1975 race started, there was a raging controversy about the future of the event following the announcement by the race organisers, the Australian Racing Drivers Club, of their intention to restrict the race to 3-liter cars in 1976. For 1975, the prize money was to be heavily biased towards the classes rather than outright placings, with the follow-up of the complete scrapping of the big cars in 1976.

An ARDC official was reported to have said: "It's a race for cars, not drivers, and if Moffat or Goss didn't start I don't think it would be a great loss." This statement was shouted down with some ferocity by motor sport fans and participants, and the idea was dropped.

Meanwhile, back at the race track, practice for the 1975 Hardie-Ferodo was going fairly well for Moffat who eventually earned a place on the front row of the grid only one-tenth of a second behind the pole-getter Colin Bond with a time of 2 min 27.4 sec. John Goss's car was blowing smoke all day and could only manage 10th fastest, while the Carter/Winter Falcon grabbed seventh spot.

The race itself was not a happy one for Ford, all three Falcons eventually retiring with various maladies, the Goss/Bartlett car blowing its engine after only 10 laps, Carter and Winter suffered a broken oil pipe after 53 laps, while Moffat and Geoghegan, after holding the lead at one stage, had to change a gearbox and then retired with a broken lower control arm. The race was won in easy style by Peter Brock and Brian Sampson in their Gown/Hindaugh Torana L34.

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