Australian Touring Car Championship

1985 index


The first year of Group A brought unexpected dominance of the previously troublesome BMW 635 of Jim Richards. It was expected that the car would be competitive, but 7 wins out of 10 races was something else. The sinister black car with backing of BMW Australia was in a league of its own, beating the Ford Mustang of Dick Johnson in the ATCC but also winning the Endurance champiosnhip as well as the AMSCAR series...

The races:


Winton Symmons Plains Wanneroo Adelaide Calder Oran Park

The cars

Final classification

Australian Touring Car Championship

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