Английская Википедия:1986 Australian Touring Car Championship
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The 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship was an Australian motor racing competition for Touring Cars. It began on 2 March 1986 at Amaroo Park and ended on 13 July at Oran Park Raceway after ten rounds. The championship was authorised by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) as an Australian National Title. It was the 27th Australian Touring Car Championship and the second to be contested by cars conforming with CAMS regulations based on the FIA's international Group A Touring Car regulations.
The championship was won by Robbie Francevic driving a Volvo 240.
Season summary
The championship was won by Auckland (New Zealand) resident Robbie Francevic driving a Volvo Dealer Team Volvo 240T, the first time the championship had been won by a non-Australian resident and the first ATCC won by a turbocharged car. Francevic, who won Rounds 1, 2 and 4, defeated George Fury driving a Nissan Skyline DR30 RS who won Rounds 3, 5, 7, 8 and 10 of the series. Francevic's wins in the opening two rounds at Amaroo Park and Symmons Plains were when the Volvo team was still run by MPM, Mark Petch Motorsport. Following Francevic's Amaroo win, Petch and Bob Atkins, head of the Australian Volvo Dealer Council, announced the formation of the AVDT, Australian Volvo Dealer Team, and hired former HDT team manager John Sheppard to run the team on a day-to-day basis from Sheppard's Calder work shop. Contrary to what has been written in the past, Petch stayed involved as "Team Principle" until 10 July 1986, when he resigned over a disagreement with how Sheppard was managing the Team. The AVDT purchased MPM original 240T GpA car, and spares, which included a spare 240 GT body shell, which later became the basis for a new Australian built car, with all new parts and technical assistance from VMS. Francevic's 1985 endurance co-driver and dual Australian Drivers' Champion John Bowe joining the team full-time for his first ATCC campaign, in the team's new second car, a RHD car ex RAS in Belgium, which arrived just in time for the 4th round of the ATCC at Adelaide International Raceway, where Bowe qualified on pole, and led the race before engine issues forced his retirement. Bowe repeated his first Championship Pole position performance at the 5th round of the Champion at Barbagallo Raceway, only to have to retire again from a substantial lead with more engine issues. Peter Brock won round 6 at Surfers Paradise in his new for 1986 Holden VK Commodore SS Group A (his last ATCC win until 1989 and the last race win by a Holden Commodore until his win in Round 1, Heat 1 of the 1992 ATCC) while defending champion Jim Richards could only manage one win in his JPS Team BMW 635 CSi, winning Round 9 at Winton. Richards had finished the race in second place behind Nissan team driver Gary Scott, but the Nissan was later disqualified for having oversize brakes. Although the paperwork for the Nissan's new brakes had been put through, they had not yet been homologated which led to Scott's DQ.
Series regular Allan Grice missed the 1986 ATCC (he had also missed the 1985 championship) as he was racing his Les Small prepared Holden Commodore in the 1986 FIA Touring Car Championship (ETCC). Peter Brock missed some early rounds due to also racing his Commodore in Europe.
With the ATCC consisting of 10 rounds, many of the top level teams including the Holden Dealer Team, Dick Johnson Racing, JPS Team BMW and the Peter Jackson Nissan team all made loud noises during the year about the lack of prize money on offer for their efforts as the top drawing motorsport category in the country, especially as Group A racing had proven far more expensive than the old Group C regulations (Peter Brock estimated that his Bathurst winning Group C Commodore of 1984 had cost around AU$36,000 to build while his 1986 Group A Commodore had cost around $200,000, a cost increase of around 550%), with teams and drivers often racing for as little as $1,500 for a round win. Part of the problem for the teams was that due to Australia's size and the vast distance between the major cities where the race tracks were located, the prize money on offer usually did not even cover their transportation costs, let alone the cost of building, maintaining and racing the cars. Pressure was being put on the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) to come up with a series sponsor for future championships or they would risk smaller and smaller grids. CAMS rectified this from 1987 by signing a multi-year sponsorship deal with Shell who would provide some $275,000 in prize money.
Entrants and drivers
The following entrants and drivers competed in the championship.
| Entrant | Car model | No | Driver |
|---|---|---|---|
| JPS Team BMW | BMW 635CSi | 1 | Шаблон:Flagicon Jim Richards |
| BMW 325i | 23 | Шаблон:Flagicon Garry Rogers | |
| 25 | Шаблон:Flagicon Tony Longhurst | ||
| Chickadee Racing | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 2 | Шаблон:Flagicon Graeme Bailey |
| Graeme Crosby | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 2 6 20 |
Шаблон:Flagicon Graeme Crosby |
| Mobil Holden Dealer Team | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 3 | Шаблон:Flagicon John Harvey |
| 05 | Шаблон:Flagicon Peter Brock Шаблон:Flagicon Neal Lowe | ||
| Peter McLeod | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 4 | Шаблон:Flagicon Peter McLeod |
| Volvo Dealer Team | Volvo 240T | 4 44 |
Шаблон:Flagicon John Bowe |
| 10 | Шаблон:Flagicon Robbie Francevic | ||
| Charlie O'Brien | BMW 635CSi | 7 | Шаблон:Flagicon Charlie O'Brien |
| 22 | Шаблон:Flagicon Gregg Hansford | ||
| Terry Finnigan | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 8 | Шаблон:Flagicon Terry Finnigan |
| Kevin Bartlett | Mitsubishi Starion | 9 | Шаблон:Flagicon Kevin Bartlett |
| Mark Petch Motorsport | Volvo 240T | 10 | Шаблон:Flagicon Robbie Francevic |
| Toyota Team Australia | Toyota Corolla GT AE86 | 11 | Шаблон:Flagicon Drew Price |
| Toyota Corolla FX-GT AE82 | 16 | Шаблон:Flagicon John Smith | |
| Garry Willmington Performance | Jaguar XJS | 12 | Шаблон:Flagicon Garry Willmington |
| Simon Emmerling | BMW 635CSi | 12 | Шаблон:Flagicon Simon Emmerling |
| Bob Holden Motors | Toyota Sprinter | 13 | Шаблон:Flagicon Bob Holden |
| Peter Jackson Nissan Racing | Nissan Skyline DR30 RS | 15 | Шаблон:Flagicon Glenn Seton Шаблон:Flagicon Gary Scott |
| 30 | Шаблон:Flagicon George Fury | ||
| Palmer Tube Mills | Ford Mustang | 17 | Шаблон:Flagicon Dick Johnson |
| Ken Mathews Prestige Cars | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 19 | Шаблон:Flagicon Ken Mathews |
| Jim Keogh Automotive | BMW 635CSi | 20 | Шаблон:Flagicon Jim Keogh |
| Lusty Engineering | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 23 | Шаблон:Flagicon Graham Lusty |
| Jagparts Racing | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 24 | Шаблон:Flagicon Gerald Kay |
| Alf Grant Racing | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 27 | Шаблон:Flagicon Alf Grant |
| Mike Freeman | Toyota Celica RA40 | 27 | Шаблон:Flagicon Mike Freeman |
| Capri Components | Ford Mustang | 28 | Шаблон:Flagicon Lawrie Nelson |
| Yellow Pages | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 28 | Шаблон:Flagicon Tony Kavich |
| Ken Davison | Ford Mustang | 29 | Шаблон:Flagicon Wally Kramer |
| Mike Burgmann | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 33 | Шаблон:Flagicon Mike Burgmann |
| Garry Rogers Motorsport | BMW 635CSi | 34 | Шаблон:Flagicon Garry Rogers |
| Lester Smerdon | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 35 | Шаблон:Flagicon Geoff Russell Шаблон:Flagicon Lester Smerdon |
| Murray Carter | Nissan Skyline DR30 RS | 36 | Шаблон:Flagicon Murray Carter Шаблон:Flagicon Bill O'Brien |
| Grellis Marketing | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 38 | Шаблон:Flagicon Ray Ellis |
| Motor Sport Pacific[1] | Ford Sierra XR4Ti | 40 | Шаблон:Flagicon David Oxton |
| Ford Escort RS1600i | 55 | Шаблон:Flagicon Andrew Bagnall | |
| Brian Callaghan | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 47 | Шаблон:Flagicon Brian Callaghan |
| John Donnelly | Rover Vitesse | 50 | Шаблон:Flagicon John Donnelly |
| BJ Motorsport | Mitsubishi Starion | 53 | Шаблон:Flagicon Brad Jones |
| David Ratcliff | Toyota Corolla | 58 | Шаблон:Flagicon David Ratcliff |
| John Giddings | Nissan Gazelle | 60 | Шаблон:Flagicon John Giddings |
| John White | Isuzu Gemini ZZ | 65 | Шаблон:Flagicon John White |
| Graeme Hooley | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 71 | Шаблон:Flagicon Graeme Hooley |
| John Major | Mazda RX-7 | 74 | Шаблон:Flagicon Tim Howton |
| Network Alfa | Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV6 | 75 | Шаблон:Flagicon Colin Bond |
| Peter Williamson Toyota | Toyota Celica Supra | 77 | Шаблон:Flagicon Peter Williamson |
| Melbourne Brake & Clutch | Mitsubishi Starion | 78 | Шаблон:Flagicon Brian Sampson |
| Daryl Hendrick | Isuzu Gemini ZZ | 86 | Шаблон:Flagicon Daryl Hendrick |
| Brian Bolwell | BMW 323i | 87 | Шаблон:Flagicon Brian Bolwell |
| Auto Art | Ford Mustang | 91 | Шаблон:Flagicon Kevin Clark |
| Alf Barbagallo | Rover Vitesse | 96 | Шаблон:Flagicon Tim Slako |
Results and standings
Race calendar
The championship was contested over ten rounds with one race per round.[2]
Drivers championship
Points were awarded 25-23-20-17-15-13-11-10-9-8-7-6-4-3-2-1 based on the top 17 outright race positions. The two smaller engine capacity classes received bonus points. Class B, under 3.0 litres received 3 points additional to points scored from race position. Class C, under 2.0 litres received 4 points.
Class A consisted of BMW 635 CSi, Ford Mustang GT, Ford Sierra XR4Ti, Holden VK Commodore SS Group A, Jaguar XJS, Rover Vitesse.
Class B consisted of Alfa Romeo GTV6, BMW 323i, BMW 325i, Mazda RX-7, Mitsubishi Starion Turbo, Nissan Skyline DR30 RS, Toyota Supra and Volvo 240T.
Class C consisted of Isuzu Gemini ZZ, Nissan Gazelle, Toyota Celica and Toyota Corolla.
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See also
1986 Australian Touring Car season
References
External links
- Official V8 Supercar site Contains historical ATCC information.
Шаблон:Australian Touring Car Racing
- ↑ Program, Australian Touring Car Championship - Round 9, Saturday and Sunday June 28 and 29 1986
- ↑ Australian Motor Racing Year 1986/87, pages 312 & 313
- ↑ 1986 ATCC Symmons Plains Round 2
- ↑ 1986 Sandown ATCC R3
- ↑ 1986 ATCC Barbagello Round 5
- ↑ 1986 ATCC Surfers Paradise R 6
- ↑ 1986 ATCC Calder Park Round 7
- ↑ 1986 ATCC Lakeside Round 8
- ↑ 1986 ATCC R9 Winton
