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In 1996 Castrol employed John Clarke who came with many ideas on how to build the Castrol team. His intuition to pick a moment in time to build the Castrol racing team and the Castrol Cougars for women racers was a head of its time. In 1997 John made a pact with Larry Perkins. Perkins role was to beat Brock in his retirement year. Larry and Russell did it. With increased money from [[Castrol]] and John Clarke who encouraged associated sponsors to get on board, Perkins Engineering finally expanded to two cars. Peter was a great supporter of the Cougars. For the record they came 13th in two Bathurst 1000 assaults.
After finishing sixth at Bathurst in an older VP Commodore, an experiment to work around the convoluted aerodynamic rules of the time, the team prepared itself for an all
The 1997 season turned out to be one of the best for the team from a championship perspective with Ingall finishing second and Perkins fourth. They dominated the [[1997 Australian Grand Prix|Melbourne Grand Prix]] support races and the Phillip Island races with one-two results before once again winning the [[1997 Primus 1000 Classic|Bathurst 1000]] for Larry's sixth and Ingall's second time. The team also ran a third car as part of the "Castrol Cougars", shared between female drivers [[Kerryn Brewer]] and [[Melinda Price]], who is the sister of former racer, [[Drew Price]], and the aunt of future Perkins Engineering driver, [[Shane Price]].
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