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1987 Australian Group A Touring Car Races - Discussion & Results
Moving on to 1987. Plenty of races to cover. The Shell Ultra-Hi Australian Touring Car Championship, 2-litre championship, AMSCAR and the various one-off races, this year including the endurance races, as there were no championship for those races.
Sources: Australian Motor Racing Year 1987/88 Bathurst 1987 - book and DVD Autosport A bit of Motor Race Timing material before that site went off line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Au...ing_Car_season I used to have plenty of VHS material from the ATCC, but still have plenty of notes from this source. As usual entry lists and official results would be very welcome. Jesper |
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15/2/1987 - Castrol Clash - Oran Park South Circuit, NSW
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Oran Park South Circuit, NSW (15/2/1987) Circuit Length: 1.96 km Race Distance: 25 laps Weather: Rain clearing Oran Park was celebrating its 25th anniversary, and on the programme was the first Group A race for 1987 in Australia. A 25-lapper on the original short-circuit drew a solid local entry, with the bigger names mostly still on their way home from New Zealand's Nissan-Mobil Series. Larry Perkins entered, but didn't quite make it back in time. Cars making their debut were Colin Bond's long-awaited Alfa Romeo 75, and two Ford Sierra RS Cosworths from the OXO team. Tony Noske planned to have his first run in his ex-Perkins VK but put it into the wall during practice, while Phil Ward had the first of many drives in his ex-AMG Mercedes-Benz 190E. Reed mastered the greasy early conditions to run out a comfortable winner from Bond. Laurie Hazelton backed his Volvo into the pit wall late in the race, injuring a TV cameraman. Magazine sources disagree over whether the crash caused the race to be stopped, something I suspect the TV coverage would solve.
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A link to the Hazelton Volvo, providing the entry list for the Castrol Dash for Clash at Oran Park: http://www.ovlov.net/page.php?page_name=gallery
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The race almost didn't happen after a crash in the preceeding Formula Ford race dumped coolant all over the top of the dogleg, leaving that part of the track very slippery, and the rest of the track dry. Officials originally ordered all cars to race on wet tyres, however the drivers refused, for obvious reasons as 95% of the track was dry. In the end a compromise was reached, with the organisers basically telling the drivers it was 'on their heads'. They had 3 siting laps (in which Craig Harris spun on the coolant), then the race started. Reed's win was down to the fact he was the only driver not to run on slicks, he ran on Intermediates. Bond dominated early until it started to rain, and Reed came through to take an easy win. The race was stopped because of the Hazelton crash, as the seriousness of the crash was noted straightaway. The race was red-flagged while Reed was already on his 25th lap. Some car numbers to help with the above results; Terry Finnigan - #8 Graham Moore - #22 Graham Lusty - #21 Tony Mulvihill - #19 Phil Ward - #10 Paul Jones - #16 Daryl Hendrick - #86 Graham Gulson - #27 David Ratcliff - #58 Laurie Hazelton - #50 Kevin Clark - #18 Don Smith ran as #35, while Craig Harris was #36, while on the entry list i have, Tony Noske was entered as #2 This is a great thread, 1987 provided a great and varied season of Group A racing in Australia... and the best thing was every race was covered on TV (even Sandown, to an extent)
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here the video I have find on that race on youtube
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1/3/1987 - ATCC1 - Calder Park, Vic
1987 Shell Ultra Australian Touring Car Championship
Round 1 - Calder Park, VIC (1/3/1987) Circuit Length: 2.40 km Race Distance: 60 laps Weather: Overcast 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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8/3/1987 - ATCC2 - Symmons Plains, TAS
1987 Shell Ultra Australian Touring Car Championship
Round 2 - Symmons Plains, TAS (8/3/1987) Circuit Length: 2.41 km Race Distance: 60 laps Weather: Overcast A much smaller field appeared seven days later at Symmons Plains, but all the lead runners were there. Grice and Fury locked out the front row, the Commodore driver leading the race comfortably until overheating crippled the car with 10 laps to go. Fury went on to win from Richards, who charged through to 2nd as the bigger cars ran out of tyres after half distance. The Sierras teams were still struggling to replicate the results from their European counterparts, turning down the boost and sacrificing speed for reliability.
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22/3/1987 - U2LATCC1 - Winton, VIC
1987 Under 2 Litre Australian Touring Car Championship
Round 1 - Winton, VIC (22/3/1987) Circuit Length: 2.03 km Race Distance: 25 laps The first round of the 2 litre championship would see their biggest entry for a standalone round in either year of the championship. All the main little-car runners were there, the field only bolstered by two Group E production car runners. The race was dominated by the factory 1600cc Toyotas, Smith winning comfortably from team-mate Price in the AE86 coupes. Of interest is Mark Skaife, who made his race debut for the Peter Jackson Nissan team at this round.
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27/3/1987 - AMSCAR1 - Amaroo Park, NSW
James Hardie Industries Iplex AMSCAR Series
Round 1 (27/3/1987) Circuit Length: 1.946 km The first AMSCAR round of the year saw Frank Gardner enter three of the little M3s, with the team's engine builder Ludwig Finauer making his first Group A start. Peter Williamson also entered his Supra, hopefully free of the bad luck that seemed to have plagued it since the car dealer brought it into the country. The rounds would follow the same structure: three heats of 5, 10 and 15 laps. The winner of the round was a surprise, Trevor Ashby upsetting the JPS armada after Richards' exhaust problems in heat 2. Ashby's win in that heat would be the last race win for a Commodore (excluding Brock's 'eventual' win at Bathurst) until the end of 1988. Heat 1 Race Distance: 5 laps
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5/4/1987 - ATCC3 - Lakeside, QLD
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Round 3 - Lakeside, QLD (5/4/1987) Circuit Length: 2.41 km Race Distance: 60 laps Weather: Overcast Crosby couldn't find any sponsorship so the Roadways team were down to one car for Grice, but it was a brand-spanking-new VL, the first to run in the ATCC. Meanwhile, the former factory team were also down to one car after Gary Scott crashed Brock's #05 during mid-week testing. Brock would race #6 until his new VL was ready, qualifying it on the front row next to pole-sitter Seton. Seton would lead from the start, before local hero Johnson powered through the field into the lead. It wasn't to last, the engine crying enough just after half-distance, the same taking out team-mate Hansford a few laps later. At another tyre-sensitive track, Richards' M3 again came through for the win, from Seton and Longhurst. Post-race scrutineering revealed illegal impellers in the turbochargers of the Johnson cars. As the entrant, Dick was found guilty of presenting illegal cars and given a ban by CAMS, even if it was for only seven days. Dick said the impellers were the same as those being used in Europe... I'm not sure whether to classify the Johnson cars as being disqualified or not. IIRC, I don't think my sources have. The OXO cars were for a similar offence later in the year.
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Round 4 - Wanneroo Park, WA (26/4/1987) Circuit Length: 2.41 km Race Distance: 55 laps Weather: Overcast All the main runners made the long trek west to Wanneroo while several locals made up the rest of the field. Fury put his Skyline on pole, but his efforts came to naught when he broke an axle at the start. He lost several laps as repairs were made, the Talmalmo farmer eventually setting the fastest lap of the race. Perkins led first time across the line, but was passed by Seton into turn one. From there, the Skyline was never headed. Perkins, meanwhile, became embroiled in a huge scrap with Allan Grice, the two Commodore runners rubbing panels on several occasions. Johnson carefully picked his way past the pair to take second. The battle eventually took its toll, with Grice pitting for a new set of rubber. Seton ran out a comfortable winner from Johnson, Perkins, and Richards.
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1987 Shell Ultra Australian Touring Car Championship
Round 5 - Adelaide International Raceway, SA (3/5/1987) Circuit Length: 2.41 km Race Distance: 60 laps Weather: Overcast Adelaide's long front straight was expected to suit the Commodores and the turbos, but at the end of qualifying it was Richards' black JPS BMW on pole. The two M3s had towed each other down the straight, the tow being enough for the #3 M3 to top the timesheet from Perkins and Grice. However, another rolling start (in an unusual 3-2-3 formation to reflect the Adelaide grid) saw the little black car swamped by the bigger ones, with Perkins leading Grice and Fury into the first corner. The top order was steady for a few laps, before Fury dived below Grice heading into the bowl to take second. Johnson was trapped behind the two JPS cars for several laps before moving past them one-by-one. Longhurst brushed the wall with the left rear coming onto the straight, the bent panel eventually blowing the tyre sending him to the pits late in the race. Johnson would soon take the lead from Perkins, with Fury soon following the Ford pilot through. Seton blew an engine around half distance, while Perkins and Grice resumed their battle from the week before. This time the Roadways pilot tapped the back of the Perkins' Commodore entering turn 1, and was lucky not to crash into the spinning Enzed car. In the end, Johnson would win comfortably from Fury, who held out Grice for second.
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Round 2 (17/5/1987) Circuit Length: 1.946 km Weather: Overcast Mitsubishi made their comeback to Australian touring car racing, with Brad Jones aboard a Dulux-backed Starion run by Ralliart in Adelaide, while Nissan ventured up to Amaroo with a car for Fury. Longhurst's weekend ended early after badly bending his M3 in practice, while Fury swept all three heats. Heat 1 Race Distance: 5 laps
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- Don Smith ran as #36 at the Calder and Symmons Plains ATCC rounds - Rd2 of the AMSCAR Series was promoted as the "Wilson Fabric AMSCAR Series". Of course Rd1 was promoted as the "Hardie Iplex AMSCAR Series"... perhaps the overall name for the series was just the "James Hardie Building Products AMSCAR Series" as it was in 1988, they just gave some of their other companies naming rights of the individual rounds? (abit trivial i know, but isn't this what these threads are about )Quote:
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Cheers chavez and racer69, didn't know about any of that, especially the numbers and the AMSCAR meeting names.
I was wondering about the red flag since on that Volvo site there's a picture of the crashed Hazelton car with Reed in the background receiving the Last Lap board. It's strange that the results count the whole 25 laps. Shouldn't they have reverted to a couple of laps previous? Quote:
Class: 9, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 Outright: 3, 2, 1 Ashby won his class in each of the heats (27 pts) and received 5 bonus points for his overall placing in each heat. Longhurst received 6 bonus points for his overall placings, but only won his class in two of the heats (24 pts), so Ashby beat him to the overall win by two points, 32 to 30. The ARDC's point systems seemed to help out the smaller cars, 1986 is another example (not that I've managed to work out how the points worked, yet). |
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The points system is similiar to how the ATCC awarded points from 1972-1982. The '83-'86 points system is very complex to explain, but simple in reality. To use 1983 as an example, as there was just an Over & Under 3-Litre class, points were only awarded to finishing positions, but if you were a lower class car, your spot earned more points.... If you finished first in the race, but were in the O3L class, you got 25pts If you finished first in the race, but were in the U3L class, you got 30pts If you were second in the race, but were in the O3L class, you got 23pts If you were second in the race, but were in the U3L class, you got 27pts If you were third in the race, but were in the O3L class, you got 20pts If you were third in the race, but were in the U3L class, you got 24pts and so on.... (i have the full 1983 pts structure somewhere) Thats how, for example Allan Moffat won Rd1 in 1983 from George Fury, yet trailed Fury in the pointscore 27-25.... I'm not sure though how it applied to the three class system from 1985, nor the four class structure in 1986..... (plus we are getting off topic lol) |
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It was an outstanding win for Reed, and coupled with Ashby's AMSCAR success, the team had won two of their first four Group A outings.... |
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I had a soft spot for the Ashby-Reed combo for no apparent reason. At a time when I only had the oppertunity to see midfield runners and backmarkers on grainy video images, the Lansvale Smash Repairs Commodores looked well presented. Besides they always seemed quite competitive with the other privateer Commodores, and in turns of results both drivers must have been quite equal. As I remember they weren't only partners in their racing team, but also in business.
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One assumes the AMSCAR points awarded for the round that doubled as the ATCC round, and the Hardie Irrigation 100, were awarded on the same format as the above? Last edited by racer69; 29 May 2013 at 11:57. |
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31/5/1987 - ATCC6 - Surfers Paradise, QLD
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Round 6 - Surfers Paradise, QLD (31/5/1987) Circuit Length: 2.41 km Race Distance: 46 laps Weather: Cloudy Delayed by a week due to flooding, this would turn out to be the final time the ATCC ventured to Surfers Paradise Raceway before it closed down at the end of the year. Grice was scheduled to miss this race as it clashed with the World 600 NASCAR race, but Commodore numbers were maintained as the HDT welcomed back Gary Scott, Brock finally debuting his new VL. Meanwhile, John Giddings was now in the second OXO Sierra after buying the car from Don Smith. Johnson put his Sierra on pole but blew the engine half was around the first lap, Hansford capping off a bad day for the Shell team when his engine went south a lap later. Scott put in a great drive to run near the front in the first half of the race, but dropped back as his tyres wore out. The two M3s looked after their tyres, Richards running out a comfortable winner. Miedecke had his best run of the year finishing second, but post-race scrutineering revealed illegalities in the turbochargers of both OXO cars. They raced the rest of the year under appeal but eventually were found guilty, receiving the same 7-day punishment as Johnson and exclusion from the results of Surfers, Sandown, and Amaroo.
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