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Maybe you have to understand motor racing, maybe you have to understand Australians (not the poncy modern sort with their global ambitions and spiky hair) or maybe you just have to understand people.

But if it's any of those things, I urge you to read an article in today's Independent.

Kathy Marks is clearly not a petrolhead (only non-petrol-heads would refer to others using such terms) nor even, particularly, fascinated by racing.

But she has produced, and the Independent has published, one of the best articles ever written about a motorsport event.

Last week, we issued a plea for global and full TV coverage of the Bathurst race. Marks went and (literally) got the dirt.

In a laugh-out-loud article, she tells the history, and the story, of an event that is as much a part of Australian history as The Melbourne Cup - but doesn't get the international recognition. It's a proudly patriotic event, populated with characters who in other lives would be called nutcases.

Read it: The dirtiest show on Earth: Bathurst - Australia’s biggest motorsport event

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