Skaife quits retirement for Bathurst
The Age
Tuesday August 11, 2009
RETIRED V8 champion turned television commentator Mark Skaife is to have another crack at Australia's greatest motor race, the Bathurst 1000, in October.Skaife, who has triumphed at Mount Panorama five times, retired at the end of last season and has been part of Channel Seven's V8 commentary team since.Yesterday he confirmed that he would be back at the mountain one more time, to partner another Bathurst great in New Zealander Greg Murphy in the Sprint Gas Racing Commodore.The duo will link up for the first time in the Phillip Island 500 next month.Between them they have had nine chequered flags at Bathurst and also hold the lap record, set by Murphy in a Commodore in 2004 in qualifying ahead of his win that year with Rick Kelly.€śLast year Sprint Gas went excellently at Bathurst to run a close second, I reckon this year the team has the potential to go one better,€ť Skaife said.Although both drivers have raced in Holdens for a combined 35 years they have never been co-drivers. -- MICHAEL LYNCH
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