Campbell

THERE WAS AN obvious symbolism to it. Shane Van Gisbergen had just won the Bathurst 1000 when, while cruising the sparsely attended Mount Panorama circuit, he stopped in his Commodore on Conrod to grab a Holden flag from a punter who – in my memory, a faceless, nameless bloke – represented hundreds of thousands of Australians watching at home.

As Van Gis cruised the track,