LEAD IMAGE (ABOVE): Steven Richards leads Craig Lowndes and Marcos Ambrose into the Senna Chicane early in the Saturday race. Basically, film was expensive and I was a poor unemployed kid trying to have a crack so with the fullest of honesty – I didn’t want to waste it on photos of Fords! That is why a majority of the images are skewed in that direction.
So while we go and wallow in feeling old and tired, here’s a quick look back at the 2002 Adelaide 500 from the lens of a very young and not overly competent would-be The Race Torque Editor / amateur Photographer.Įditors Note: You will note a theme in these photos so it’s worth pointing out that in 2002, yours truly was a) A Holden fan b) A Brock fan c) A Larry Perkins fan and d) not as impartial as I am today.
There are drivers actually racing Supercars now that weren’t born when this particular bit of film was exposed to the light. Though to some 2002 won’t seem like that long ago, it’s actually more than 6,200 days – over 17 years – since these photos were taken! Today it’s all about the Supercars, at a point where the championship was gradually morphing from a field split with professional teams and privateers to what we know now as a fully pro category. This story and gallery follows our first earlier this week, covering off some of the support categories with a feature on the very cool GT Nations Cup. We’ve found handful of cool images, yet to be published, in our archives that we thought would be worth getting out and about.
PART TWO of our look back at the 2002 Adelaide 500 takes us to the main game – the Supercars races.