{"id":841712,"date":"2026-08-03T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/841712\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:25:24","slug":"bathurst-1000-winner-to-take-wheel-of-texaco-sierra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/841712\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathurst 1000 winner to take wheel of Texaco Sierra"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIVE-TIME Bathurst 1000 winner Steve Richards is set to race an Eggenberger Motorsport-built Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth Group A car.<\/p>\n

Richards is flying out to Germany this week to compete in this weekend\u2019s BELMOT Oldtimer Grand Prix historic event at the Nurburgring on its GP circuit.<\/p>\n

The event is one of the most well-known historic racing festivals in Europe and will be held later this week, across August 7 to 9.<\/p>\n

STORIES EVERYWHERE! A huge three-part episode with Steve Richards available here on the V8 Sleuth Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n

Richards will step behind the wheel of one of the famous Texaco Sierras that has been owned for some years by Kiwi Bruce Miles.<\/p>\n

The car has been back to Switzerland since it appeared in the Historic touring car support races at the Ruapuna Supercars round<\/a>, where it has had a new engine fitted by one of Eggenberger\u2019s former mechanics who will also be on-site for this weekend\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve done one race in New Zealand in a B&H Sierra, Andy Greenslade\u2019s car; he was kind enough when my Atlantic dropped its engine he felt sorry for me and got me into his car for a race, it was bloody hard work!\u201d Richards told V8 Sleuth this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was exactly as everyone had explained a Sierra to be \u2013 light switch power and something you wouldn\u2019t want to be in on a set of slicks in the wet!<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll get into Germany on Wednesday morning and take it from there. I\u2019ve had a few chats with Bruce over time, he\u2019s been around the sport for a long time, even back in the two litre days he had the Carina that Murph (Greg Murphy) drove. He\u2019s a lovely guy, I\u2019m really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you grow up in racing and you see these iconic cars that my dad raced and all those guys he raced against, it\u2019s great to drive one now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sierra spent time in Australia in Allan Moffat<\/a>\u2019s hands and won the 1988 Sandown 500 in ANZ colours with Moffat and Gregg Hansford behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

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Moffat, Hansford and Klaus Niedwiedz famously came close to winning that year\u2019s Bathurst 1000 until the white Sierra expired late in the race.<\/p>\n

The car was retained by Moffat as his team\u2019s #9 car for the remainder of the Group A era in Australia; it made another three starts at Bathurst across 1990, 1991 and 1992.<\/p>\n

Richards\u2019 first time behind the wheel of the Sierra will be in an open test day at the Nurburgring on Thursday before the event starts proper on Friday.<\/p>\n

Last weekend he was in Perth at Wanneroo on double duty, running son Clay\u2019s Trans Am car as well as continuing in a mentor role for Blanchard Racing Team Supercar pilot Aaron Cameron<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIVE-TIME Bathurst 1000 winner Steve Richards is set to race an Eggenberger Motorsport-built Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth Group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-841712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}