Falcon: EF
Round Results:
Round 1 Sandown - 12th
Round 2 Symmons Plains - 7th
Round 3 Mt Panorama (Championship Round) - 5th
Round 4 Phillip Island - 1st
Round 5 Lakeside - 1st
Round 6 Winton - 2nd
Round 7 Eastern Creek - 5th
Round 8 Mallala - 1st
Round 9 Waneroo (Barbagello) - 1st
Round 10 Oran Park - 2nd
ENDURANCE ROUNDS - Co Driver: ALAN GRICE (Sandown) SKIPPY PARSONS (Bathurst)
Repco Sandown 500 - 2nd
Tooheys 1000 Mt Panorama - DNF
SPECIAL EVENTS
Winfield Triple Challenge Eastern Creek - 2nd
Adeliade Grand Prix - 5th
TAC Peter Brock Classic Calder Park - 2nd
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1995 saw the introduction of the EF Falcon to replace the EB, after it began production in 1994. However even with John Bowe taking the championship that year the EF Falcon's Touring Car release was marred with TEGA (Touring Entranst Group Aus) discovering that the EF Falcon was running under weight and utilising lighter 'race panels' not the factory made panels that graced the Falcon's released to the public. Ford having acted against the rules with this homologation and were forced to fit factory panels and it was still found that the Falcon was underweight. TEGA decided the EF was to carry extra weight to compensate and 40mm was shaved off the under tray. The only Falcon running at the time that was legal was the Willmington EB Falcon, born out of two ex-taxis the Falcon ran factory panels, not the light weight panels the other Falcons ran.
However with 4 round wins under his belt Seton missed out on the Championship trophy to fellow Ford driver John Bowe from FAI Shell Racing. Was to follow in the enduros was a runners up position at Sandown and a sunny outlook at Bathurst, but horror struck Seton on the top of the mountain...
Bathurst 1000 1995, exactly 30 years after Barry 'Bo' Seton Glenn's dad won, total prize money up for grabs $30,000 and Glenn's number? 30. The prize money was put up by the Australian Racing Drivers Club and Channel 7, though Glenn had the choice of either the money or the original Ford Cortina that won Bathurst with Glenn's father Barry and Midge Bosworth in 1965. He chose the prize money.
After the final round of pitstops Glenn was leading and then some. 9 laps from the finish Glenn's Windsor V8 changes its tune, Mike Raymond announces the Falcon sounds "off song" as it heads down Conrod Straight and then totally gave up at the top of the mountain. Incar video recorded the most emotional show of loss the series would not see again.
Glenn was visualy distraught, he had lost after having worked to place a large gap between himself (6.55 secs) and the second placed car of Perkins and Ingall in the Castrol Commodore. It was HIS year to claim the top honour in V8 racing. He had the championship in 1993 and various round wins. In the GSR garage his father Barry who also acted as engine builder shared the loss with his son. His face buried in his hands. Not since the 'rock' incident with Dick Johnson, had Ford fans seen their hero so devastated.
1995 was a great loss to Seton at Mt. Panorama but the Baby Faced Assasin still had some racing left.
Team mate Alan Jones came second with Alan Grice.
For years to come the next Falcon the EL, legend has it some of the front running teams ran reskinned EF's in order to continue to capitalise on its low weight. Legend still has it that Seton's championship car of 1997 was a reskinned EF.
On a related note, David "Skippy" Parsons drove a GSR prepared Falcon, sponsered by Bridgestone, at the TAC Brock Classic finishing 8th.
