The
1983 championship was won by Allan Moffat, his fourth and final
Australian Touring Car Championship and a first for Mazda, who were
helping to fund Moffat's team and it was also the first ATCC win for a
Japanese manufacturer. Moffat himself dominated the racing, taking four
out of the eight race wins, but a beneficial points structure for
smaller capacity cars allowed George Fury (driving a turbocharged
version of the Nissan Bluebird) to push Moffat all the way to the
title, despite not actually winning a race. The folly in the point
system was exposed at the first round at Calder when Moffat won the
race from Fury, but Fury actually led the championship by finishing
second outright in a smaller capacity car. When Fury took the lead for
a brief time at Calder, it was the first time that a turbo powered car
had led an ATCC race. (Wikipedia)