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<\/a><\/p>\nThe team brought over 1986 Bathurst winner Allan Grice to Perth to drive the cars and advise the team on setup direction, a move that doomed the Slako\/Barbagallo team in mid-1989.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlf\u2019s ego was over and above,\u201d Slako told AMC in the latest issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t handle feedback well. In fact, he was jealous of myself, that he couldn\u2019t drive a car as fast. We would try all sorts of set ups. He even brought Allan Grice over for four days to teach us how to set these cars up.<\/p>\n
\u201cAllan would go out after a set up and do a lap time and then I would go and beat his lap time. This pissed Alf off. He came into the workshop one night when we were prepping for the next day and he jumped up and down saying \u2018you know Allan Grice is here to teach us things, not to go out there and race the f***er\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cI said, \u2018Alf, I\u2019m not racing him, I\u2019m just doing what you guys asked me to do \u2013 go out and try the car out after he set it up.\u2019 So that was the end of the whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n The team had planned to run both pink Commodores in that year\u2019s Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst, though only one made the trip across the Nullarbor as Slako promised his team they would go to Mount Panorama.<\/p>\n Sharing with Geoff Leeds and Damon Smith, the trio only lasted 28 laps in the race before head gasket failure.<\/p>\n The Slako feature is one of range in Issue 153 of the ever-popular AMC magazine. There\u2019s an exclusive extract from Colin Bond<\/a>\u2019s new book included, a feature on Calder\u2019s mid-1970s $100,000 Sports Sedan series and much more.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Issue-153-770x1024.jpg\")
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