{"id":915335,"date":"2026-10-04T02:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T02:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915335\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T02:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T02:26:15","slug":"bathurst-1000-winner-paul-morris-picks-the-favourite-car-of-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915335\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathurst 1000 winner Paul Morris picks the favourite car of his career"},"content":{"rendered":"

PAUL Morris has revealed that his favourite touring car from his racing career was not a five-litre beast nor a V8 Supercar.<\/p>\n

Rather, it was the BMW 320i that powered him to the 1997 Australian Super Touring Championship crown.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy favourite car I ever drove was the BMW I drove in \u201997, which was a \u201996-spec,\u201d Morris told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an amazing car, very tuneable. It had a ramp-style diff in it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was lots of things you could do with that car to make speed.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: an1images.com \/ Dirk Klynsmith<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the updates that kept coming \u2013 you had all these teams around the world racing these cars and this information pool, so every time you went to the track there was something new.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morris and Craig Baird also crossed the line first in the 1997 AMP Bathurst 1000, only to be excluded on the grounds of a maximum continuous driver time breach.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Dude\u2019 made a total of 339 ATCC\/Supercars Championship race starts across a 22-year period, winning two races in a Holden VT Commodore at Calder 2001, and conquering the 2014 Bathurst 1000 with Chaz Mostert<\/a> in a Ford FG Falcon.<\/p>\n

His son Nash will compete in next week\u2019s Great Race, co-driving with PremiAir Racing\u2019s Declan Fraser<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bathurst 1000 Preview | The Undercut<\/p>\n

IT\u2019S the biggest show of the season \u2013 The Undercut is back, previewing the 2026 Repco Bathurst 1000, with the V8 Sleuth Aaron Noonan joined in the studio by two of the stars of the big day \u2013 Jack Perkins and James Moffat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PAUL Morris has revealed that his favourite touring car from his racing career was not a five-litre beast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-915335","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\/915335","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=915335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}