Pole position: Richards in 1.05,74
Fastest lap: Perkins in 1.01,61
Distance: 60 laps
Average speed:
Weather: Overcast
Ruleset: Group A
Car info: 1987 Cars
The big story before the race meeting was Holden's dumping of Peter Brock a week prior. The originally planned 3-car attack was pared down to two, with the team's new VL auctioned off to raise funds. Gary Scott was drafted in to replace the departing Allan Moffat and John Harvey. The JPS team debuted the new BMW M3 - not yet officially homologated until race-day - along with Dick Johnson's new Sierras, now in the red and yellow colours of Shell as part of a rumoured million-dollar sponsorship deal. Grice was back in a Roadways-prepared VK, alongside him Graeme Crosby, while Andrew Miedecke joined the OXO team to drive the #35 car alongside Don Smith. Unchanged apart from Scott's departure was the Nissan team, with two cars for George Fury and Glenn Seton, the team having sorted out their tyre-chewing issues from Bathurst 1986. The front row had a new look to it, a wet qualifying session saw Richards and Johnson qualifying their new cars 1-2. It would be Dick's best qualifying performance of the ATCC. The rolling start works against the men on the front row, the normally-aspirated runners coming the the fore. Perkins makes a storming start before outbraking himself at the end of the straight and running off the circuit, letting Seton through into a lead he wouldn't lose. Brock, Fury, and a recovering Perkins would give chase, until Brock dropped out with engine issues. |
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Class A-B
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| Pos | Pos in class | # | Team / Entrant Car- Engine |
Drivers, Nationality | Engine vol. (cc) |
Engine Type |
Group | Distance, time |
Qualifying position | Qualifying time | Fastest lap | Reason out, remarks |
| 1 | 1 | 15 | Peter Jackson Nissan Racing Nissan Skyline RS DR30 |
Glenn Seton, AUS |
1990 | L4 | A | 60 laps, 1:02.34,72 | 3 | 1.07,89 | 1.01,75 | |
| 2 | 2 | 11 | Enzed team Perkins Holden VK Commodore |
Larry Perkins, AUS |
4980 | V8 | A | 60 laps, 1:02.37,27 | 7 | 1.09,27 | 1.01,61 | |
| 3 | 3 | 30 | Peter Jackson Nissan Racing Nissan Skyline RS DR30 |
George Fury, AUS |
1990 | L4 | A | 60 laps, 1:02.37,74 | 5 | 1.08,70 | 1.01,87 | |
| 4 | 4 | 2 | Bob Jane T-Marts Holden VK Commodore |
Allan Grice, AUS |
4980 | V8 | A | 60 laps, 1:02.50,49 | 6 | 1.08,78 | 1.02,14 | |
| 5 | 1 | 3 | JPS Team BMW BMW M3 |
Jim Richards, NZ |
2332 | L4 | B | 60 laps, 1:03.20,35 | 1 | 1.07,62 | 1.02,74 | |
| 6 | 2 | 4 | JPS Team BMW BMW M3 |
Tony Longhurst, AUS |
2332 | L4 | B | 60 laps, 1:03.26,14 | 4 | 1.08,67 | 1.02,46 | |
| 7 | 5 | 35 | OXO Supercube Motorsport Ford Sierra RS Cosworth |
Andrew Miedecke, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 60 laps, 1:03.38,86 | 15 | 1.12,82 | 1.02,60 | |
| 8 | 6 | 14 | Murray Carter Nissan Skyline RS DR30 |
Murray Carter, AUS |
1990 | L4 | A | 60 laps, 1:03.39,23 | 13 | 1.11,08 | 1.02,78 | |
| 9 | 7 | 17 | Shell Ultra Hi Tech Racing Team Ford Sierra RS Cosworth |
Dick Johnson, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 59 | 2 | 1.07,85 | 1.02,70 | |
| 10 | 8 | 10 | John Andrew Motorsport Ford Sierra XR4 TI |
Neville Crichton, NZ |
2320 tc | L4 | A | 59 | 9 | 1.09,78 | 1.03,04 | |
| 11 | 9 | 36 | OXO Supercube Motorsport Ford Sierra RS Cosworth |
Don Smith, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 59 | 23 | 1.24,04 | 1.03,39 | |
| 12 | 3 | 75 | Network Alfa Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo |
Colin Bond, AUS |
1779 tc | L4 | B | 58 | 12 | 1.10,97 | 1.04,94 | |
| 13 | 10 | 26 | Kalari Transport Services Holden VK Commodore |
Tony Noske, AUS |
4980 | V8 | A | 57 | 16 | 1.13,64 | 1.04,78 | |
| 14 | 11 | 27 | Ray Gulson BMW 635 CSi |
Graham Gulson, AUS |
3475 | L6 | A | 56 | 24 | 1.24,39 | 1.05,95 | |
| 15 | 4 | 86 | Gemspares Isuzu Gemini ZZ |
Daryl Hendrick, AUS |
1817 | L4 | B | 53 | 22 | 1.20,84 | 1.10,42 | |
| 16 | 5 | 88 | David Sala Isuzu Gemini ZZ |
David Sala, AUS |
1817 | L4 | B | 52 | 21 | 1.18,13 | 1.11,10 | |
| 17 | 6 | 57 | Toyota Celica 2000 GT RA40 |
Mike Freeman, AUS |
1968 | L4 | B | 51 | 26 | no time | 1.11,55 | |
| DNF | 38 | Grellis Marketing Holden VK Commodore |
Ray Ellis, AUS |
4980 | V8 | A | 54 | 25 | 1.33,15 | 1.04,91 | ||
| DNF | 6 | Mobil Holden Dealer Team Holden VK Commodore |
Gary Scott, AUS |
4980 | V8 | A | 45 | 14 | 1.11,37 | 1.02,44 | Accident | |
| DNF | 05 | Mobil Holden Dealer Team Holden VK Commodore |
Peter Brock, AUS |
4980 | V8 | A | 35 | 11 | 1.10,14 | 1.02,30 | Engine | |
| DNF | 32 | Toyota Team Australia Toyota Corolla FX-GT AE82 |
Drew Price, AUS |
1587 | L4 | C | 35 | 19 | 1.17,51 | 1.07,23 | ||
| DNF | 31 | Toyota Team Australia Toyota Corolla GT AE86 |
John Smith, AUS |
1587 | L4 | C | 30 | 17 | 1.14,08 | 1.07,16 | ||
| DNF | 18 | Shell Ultra Hi Tech Racing Team Ford Sierra RS Cosworth |
Gregg Hansford, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 25 | 8 | 1.09,74 | 1.03,26 | Turbo | |
| DNF | 28 | Capri Components Ford Mustang 5.0 GT |
Lawrie Nelson, AUS |
4999 | V8 | A | 24 | 18 | 1.15,25 | 1.05,33 | ||
| DNF | 21 | Lusty Engineering P/L Holden VK Commodore |
Graham Lusty, AUS |
4980 | V8 | A | 11 | 20 | 1.18,04 | 1.04,05 | Accident | |
| DNF | 8 | ICL Racing Pty Ltd Holden VK Commodore |
Graeme Crosby, NZ |
4980 | V8 | A | 10 | 10 | 1.09,85 | 1.02,04 | Brakes | |