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Congratultions To Skaife And Lowndes

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In this day of Bathurst races featuring similar-looking cars with similar-looking drivers, I'd like to take the opportunity to congratulate Mark Skaife (one of the two guys responsible for me owning an R32 GT-R - the other one not being a fan of a 'pack of assholes') and Craig Lowndes on their win!

Cheers!

P.S. Mark, if you're reading this, where do I send you the bill for everything I have spent on my GT-R in the past couple of decades?

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N1GTR

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His old R32 (Burgandy) was at the R32 cruise in Sydney yesterday.

Talk about a clean car!

Its now onto its second owner and has 13000k's since new.

The lucky owner won an award for best concourse GTR

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Beer Baron

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yeah, my 2 favourite aus touring car drivers together again. how could they lose? wish I had been in the country and known they were driving together as I would have had a decent bet on.

still fantastic drive by both lowndes and skaife. the old blokes still got it!

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31GUN

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They were the guys I was going for too.

Skaife used to drive Nissans for Fred Gibson- Gazelle, R31, & R32.

Lowndes used to also drive for Fred Gibson.

Was also going for Courtney/Luff cause I did most of my driver training with young Luffy.

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