John Goss is an Australian former touring car racing driver who won the prestigious Bathurst 1000 twice, in 1974 and 1985. Touring car racing is a general term for a number of distinct automobile racing competitions in heavily-modified street cars. ... Hell Corner of the Mount Panorama Circuit The Bathurst 1000 is a 1000-kilometre motor race for touring cars, conducted each October at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Racing career

Born and raised in Hobart, Tasmania, Goss began racing Ford Falcons in the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1968 and stayed loyal to the brand for much of his career. For other places and things named Hobart, see Hobart (disambiguation). ... This article is about the Australian car model. ... V8 Supercars in action V8 Supercar is the main motor racing series in Australia. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

Goss was the first driver to develop and use the new "XA" Falcon Coupe for racing in 1973, after rule changes for that year allowed for modification to race cars (prior to 1973, cars had to be stock and could not be modified). Goss obtained sponsorship from Shell and Max McLeod, a prominent Ford dealer in Rockdale, New South Wales - known for his "Horn cars" - as well as obtaining factory assistance from Ford Australia, who provided Goss with purpose-built XA racing chassis. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Royal Dutch Shell PLC is a multinational oil company of Anglo Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest energy corporations in the world, and one of the six supermajors (vertically integrated private-sector oil, natural gas, and petrol (gasoline) companies). ... Rockdale Town Hall, Princes Highway, Rockdale, Sydney Rockdale is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Ford Australia is the Australian subsidiary of Ford Motor Company and was founded in Geelong, Victoria in 1926 as an outpost of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. ...

1974

Goss and Kevin Bartlett teamed up for the 1973 Bathurst 1000 and qualified on pole position, but failed to finish despite leading for much of the race. The pair returned to Bathurst in another XA Falcon Coupe in 1974 and proved to have the reliability needed to last through a race marred by driving rain, finishing first. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

To celebrate the victory, Ford Australia released a limited edition XB Falcon Coupe in 1975 called the John Goss Special. Actual production numbers of these cars were never released by Ford, but estimates range anywhere between 260 and 800. Ford Australia is the Australian subsidiary of Ford Motor Company and was founded in Geelong, Victoria in 1926 as an outpost of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

1985

Goss' second and last Bathurst victory came in 1985 - with co-driver Armin Hahne - as a member of the Jaguar Racing Australia team, driving an XJ-S. Fellow Jaguar driver and team owner, Tom Walkinshaw, finished third. Jaguar Cars Limited is a British luxury carmaker, owned by the Ford Motor Company with headquarters at Browns Lane, Coventry, England. ... 1988 Jaguar XJ-S The Jaguar XJ-S (later the XJS) was a luxury GT coupe from Jaguar. ... Tom Walkinshaw (born November 17, 1950 Mauldslie Farm, near Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland) is a Scottish racing car driver and the founder of the racing team Tom Walkinshaw Racing. ...

Trivia

• During the 1970s, Goss' trademark was a yellow-and-black checkerboard tape stripe across the top of the windshield of his race cars.