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My understanding of the history of the other Sierras that raced in Australia. Those chassis numbers with an asterix (*) are not actual numbers, just numbers I have applied as a way of identifying each car.
Miedecke Motorsport
At the end of 1986 Don Smith set up a new team. Smith had been appointed a Ford Motorsport dealer and many of the Australian Sierras would be built from shells sourced from Smith.
At the end of 1987 Smith retired and a new team was formed, Miedecke Motorsport owned by Andrew Miedecke with Ross Stone as team manager.
At the end of 1989 Miedecke closed the team and went to drive for the Peter Brock. Ross Stone went to manage Kevin Waldock’s Playscape Racing team on the Gold Coast, for whom the team had built a car in 1989.
MM1*
Built as a Rouse kit car and driven as #34 by Don Smith in rounds 1–5 of the ATCC. The car was sold to John Giddings who drove it for the rest of the year, but still in the same Oxo Supercube colours. Bruce Stewart joined Giddings for the enduros. For the 1988 ATCC the car was leased to Colin Bond running as #4 in Caltex colours. As part of the deal, was run as a 2nd Caltex car in the enduros with Giddings & Stewart driving as #44. Last raced by Giddings at the 1989 Adelaide GP as #15.
MM2*
Built as a Rouse kit car and sold to Andrew Miedecke before the beginning of the season. Raced throughout ATCC as #35 by Miedecke in Oxo Supercube colours. Destroyed by Don Smith in practice for the Sandown 500. Car was sold and rebuilt as a sports sedan by Mike Ceveri.
MM3*
Built to replace MM2 for Bathurst. Raced by Miedecke until the end of 87. Run as a customer car as #8 for Andrew Bagnall in 1988 ATCC. Bagnall was joined by Miedecke at Sandown and Pierre Dieudonne at Bathurst, Wellington and Pukekohe. Run as a customer car again 1989. Bagnall was joined by Graham Crosby for Bathurst and Miedecke for the Wellington and Pukekohe enduros. The car was mothballed until reactivated for the 1990 Sandown, Bathurst and Wellington races with Robbie Francevic joining Bagnall to race the car as #38.
MM4*
Built for the beginning of 1988 for Miedecke to race as #6 with Steve Soper co driving at Bathurst, Wellington and Pukekohe and Crosby at the Mount Fuji 500. Was Miedecke’s 89 car until destroyed in round 3 of the ATCC at Lakeside.
MM5*
Built to replace MM4, debuting at round 6 at Sandown. Miedecke was joined by Bagnall driving to victory in the Oran Park 250 and by Charlie O’Brien at Sandown and Bathurst. May have been taken to the Brock team when Miedecke moved there in 1990.
MM6*
Built as a customer car for Kevin Waldock debuting at round 8 of the ATCC at Oran Park in July 1989 as #55. Bryan Thompson co drove at Oran Park, Sandown and Bathurst. Raced by Waldock in ATCC until the end of 92 as #28. Mike Preston co drove in 1990 at Sandown and Bathurst, Bagnall at Eastern Creek in 1990, Brett Peters at Sandown and Bathurst in 1991 and 1992, and Crosby at Wellington in 1991.
Tony Longhurst Racing
At the end of 1987 with Frank Gardner having closed the JPS team after BMW decided to transfer their support to Peter Brock, Tony Longhurst set up a new team on the Gold Coast, with Frank Gardner coming on board as team manager and with the Amatil sponsorship.
TLR1*
Assembled as Rouse kit car for the beginning of 88, painted in Freeport colours as #3. Raced in 88 enduros as #25 in Benson & Hedges colours with Tomas Mezera co driving. Sold at end of 88 to Ken Matthews and run as a customer car by Colin Bond, racing in Caltex colours. Bond may have used it in the odd race in 89. Garry Rogers joined Matthews for the enduros. Matthews raced in some 1990 races including the Eastern Creek 500 with son John. The 1988 Bathurst winner was purchased by Amatil and donated to the Bathurst museum in 1994.
TLR2*
Assembled as LHD car during 1988. Was in the garage at Bathurst, but team elected to stick with TLR1. Raced by Longhurst throughout 1989 with Neville Crichton co driving at Oran Park, Sandown, Bathurst, Wellington and Pukekohe. Raced by Longhurst in 1990 ATCC.
TLR3* & TLR4*
At the end of 1988 2 Wolf Racing built RS500s were purchased. These had been imported into Australia earlier in the year by Ian Paxton. One had appeared at the Winton round for Robbie Francevic. The liberal interpretations of the rules in Europe, didn’t sit well with the Australian scruitneers, it was allowed to start but for no points and wasn’t seen again.
After being rebuilt to to comply with the rules, one was raced throughout 1989 by Neville Crichton with Alan Jones & Denny Hulme driving it in the enduros. Jones drove it in the 1990 ATCC, again being joined by Hulme for the enduros. It was raced by Gary & David Brabham at the 1990 Eastern Creek 500.
The other served as a Test car, it appeared at Bathurst as such in 1989 & 1990, and was also driven in at the Waneroo round in 1990 by Crichton as #62.
Both appeared at Bathurst in 1991, one as the #44 Brian Bolwell Racing car driven by Dave Barrow & Glen McIntyre the other as the #50 Bryan Sala & Graham Lusty car.
On was later sold to Peter Hills and converted at 2 litre non turbo specs. It was sold to Sydney’s Neville Simmons and restored as it raced by Longhurst.
TLR5*
Built for the 1990 enduros only raced by Longhurst until the end of the year. Sold to Brian Bolwell who raced it at the Lakeside ATCC round, Bathurst with Arthur Abrahams and Wellington with Dave Barrow. As mentioned above is now owned by Chris Bowden.
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