Australian Touring Car Championship

1982 index

The 1982 Australian Touring Car Championship was won by defending champion Dick Johnson, driving a Ford XD Falcon.
Peter Brock had actually scored more points than Johnson throughout the championship in his Holden Dealer Team Commodores (both the VC and VH SS models). However, the use of not yet homologated engine heads on the cars saw him disqualified from all but two rounds of the championship. The matter between CAMS and the HDT ended in court with Brock agreeing to the loss of points and the championship in order to avoid a three month suspension for himself and the team which would have actually excluded them from entering the James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst.
Allan Moffat's win in Round 5 at Lakeside was the first ever ATCC win by a Mazda with their RX-7 model and the first ever ATCC race win by a Japanese car. Moffat's win at Lakeside was also the first ATCC race that was won by a car not powered by a V8 engine since Peter Brock had won Round 4 of the 1974 championship at Amaroo Park driving a 6 cyl, Holden LJ Torana GTR XU-1. (Wikipedia)