1973 Sandown 250
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The 1973 Sandown 250
was an endurance race for Group C
Touring Cars. It was staged at Sandown
in Victoria, Australia
on 9 September 1973 over 130 laps of the 3.1 km circuit, a total distance of 403 km (250.4 mi). The event was Round 2 of the 1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship
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Note: As there were 53 entries for the race, it is most likely that there were additional non-finishers, not shown in the above table.
Sandown 500
The Sandown 500 is an endurance motor race staged at the Sandown Raceway, near Melbourne in Victoria, Australia between 1964 and 2011. It was typically held in September, the month before Australia’s premier endurance race, the Bathurst 1000. The “500” was not run in 1966, 1967, 1999, 2000, 2008,...
was an endurance race for Group C
Group C (Australia)
In relation to Australian motorsport, Group C refers to either of two sets of regulations devised by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport for use in Australian touring car racing from 1965 to 1984...
Touring Cars. It was staged at Sandown
Sandown Raceway
Sandown International Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, approximately south east of the city centre. It is considered a power circuit with its front straight being 899m long and back straight 910m long.-History:...
in Victoria, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
on 9 September 1973 over 130 laps of the 3.1 km circuit, a total distance of 403 km (250.4 mi). The event was Round 2 of the 1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship
1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship
The 1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for automobile manufacturers. It was the third Australian Manufacturers' Championship and the first to be contested with Group C Touring Cars.-Calendar:...
Results
| Position | Drivers | No. | Car | Entrant | Laps |
| 1 | Peter Brock Peter Brock Peter Geoffrey Brock, AM otherwise known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain" or simply as "Brocky" was one of Australia's best-known and most successful motor racing drivers. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other... |
1 | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 Holden Torana The Holden Torana is a car which was produced by General Motors–Holden's , the Australian subsidiary of General Motors from 1967 to 1980. The name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning "to fly". The first Torana appeared in 1967 and was a four-cylinder compact vehicle that had its origins in the... |
Holden Dealer Team Holden Dealer Team The Holden Dealer Team was Holden’s semi-official racing team from 1969 until 1987, primarily contesting Australian Touring Car events but also rallying, rallycross and sports sedans during the 1970s... |
130 |
| 2 | Colin Bond Colin Bond Colin John Bond is a retired Australian racing driver. Bond reached the highest levels in Australian motorsport in 1969 when he was recruited by Harry Firth to the newly formed Holden Dealer Team... |
24 | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | Holden Dealer Team | 130 |
| 3 | John Goss | 5 | Ford Falcon XA GT Hardtop Ford Falcon (Australia) The Ford Falcon is a full-size car which has been manufactured by Ford Australia since 1960. Each model from the XA series of 1972 onward has been designed, developed and built in Australia and/or New Zealand, following the phasing out of the American Falcon of 1960–71 which had been re-engineered... |
McLeod Ford | 129 |
| 4 | Fred Gibson Fred Gibson (motor racing) Fred Gibson is a former Australian racing driver and race team owner.-Competitor:After a career that began in small production sports cars, first an MGA, and later the first Lotus Elan to run in Australian competition , Gibson quickly moved up into the touring car ranks... |
6 | Ford Falcon XA GT Hardtop | Ford Motor Co of Australia Ford Works Team (Australia) The Ford Works Team was a former Australian motor racing team that was supported by the Ford Motor Company of Australia. The team was formed in 1962 and was wound up when Ford withdrew from motor racing at the end of 1973... |
129 |
| 5 | Murray Carter | 15 | Ford Falcon XA GT Hardtop | ||
| 6 | Tony Niovanni | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | |||
| 7 | Bob Morris Bob Morris (motor racing) Robert Morris is an Australian former racing driver. Morris was one of the leading touring car drivers during the 1970s and continued racing until 1984. Morris won Australia's premier Touring car race, the Bathurst 1000 in 1976. He also won the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1979... |
Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | |||
| 8 | Rod McRae | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | |||
| 9 | Ray Harrison | Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV Alfa Romeo Sprint GT (Veloce) The Alfa Romeo 105/115 series Coupés were a range of cars made by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1963 until 1977. They were the successors to the celebrated Giulietta Sprint coupé and used a shortened floorpan from the Giulia Berlina car.... |
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| 10 | Brian Ovenden | Chrysler Valiant Charger R/T E49 | |||
| Class A : Up to 1300cc | |||||
| 1 | James Laing-Peach | Datsun 1200 Coupe | |||
| 2 | L Brown | Morris Cooper S Mini The Mini is a small car that was made by the British Motor Corporation and its successors from 1959 until 2000. The original is considered a British icon of the 1960s, and its space-saving front-wheel-drive layout influenced a generation of car-makers... |
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| 3 | D Clement | Morris Cooper S | |||
| 4 | D Jarrett | Leyland Clubman GT Mini The Mini is a small car that was made by the British Motor Corporation and its successors from 1959 until 2000. The original is considered a British icon of the 1960s, and its space-saving front-wheel-drive layout influenced a generation of car-makers... |
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| 5 | Noel Riley | 63 | Honda Civic Honda Civic The Honda Civic is a line of subcompact and subsequently compact cars made and manufactured by Honda. The Civic, along with the Accord and Prelude, comprised Honda's vehicles sold in North America until the 1990s, when the model lineup was expanded... |
Bennett Honda | |
| 6 | J Leighton | Morris Cooper S | |||
| Class B : 1301cc to 2000cc | |||||
| 1 | Ray Harrison | Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV | |||
| 2 | G Perry | Mazda RX-3 Mazda RX-3 The Mazda RX-3 is an automobile sold in the 1970s. It was intended to be smaller and sportier than its brother, the RX-2/Capella Rotary. In 1972 all rotary engines had their die-cast rotor housing coated with a new process: The new Transplant Coating Process featured sprayed-on steel which is... |
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| 3 | W Evans | Datsun 180B SSS | |||
| 4 | Wayne Thomson | Ford Escort GT1600 | |||
| DNF | Barry Lee | Ford Escort GT1600 | |||
| DNF | Bob Holden | Ford Escort GT1600 | |||
| DNF | Graham Ritter | Ford Escort GT1600 | |||
| DNF | Tony Farrell | Ford Escort GT1600 | |||
| Class C : 2001cc to 3000cc | |||||
| 1 | Gary Cooke | Mazda Capella RX-2 Mazda Capella The second generation rear-wheel drive Capella was available between 1978 and 1982, in both sedan and coupe forms. It was known on export markets as the Mazda 626, with the exception of the United Kingdom, where it was called the Mazda Montrose, the name was changed to honour the local Mazda... |
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| 2 | George Garth | Holden Torana GTR | |||
| Class D : Over 3000cc | |||||
| 1 | Peter Brock | 1 | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | Holden Dealer Team | 130 |
| 2 | Colin Bond | 24 | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | Holden Dealer Team | 130 |
| 3 | John Goss | 5 | Ford Falcon XA GT Hardtop | McLeod Ford | 129 |
| 4 | Fred Gibson | 6 | Ford Falcon XA GT Hardtop | Ford Motor Co of Australia | 129 |
| 5 | Murray Carter | 15 | Ford Falcon XA GT Hardtop | ||
| 6 | Tony Niovanni | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | |||
| 7 | Bob Morris | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | |||
| 8 | Rod McRae | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | |||
| 9 | Brian Ovenden | Chrysler Valiant Charger R/T E49 | |||
| 10 | Ray Thackwell | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | |||
| 11 | John Bassett | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | |||
| 12 | Ron Dickson | 8 | Holden Monaro GTS 308 4 Door Holden Monaro The Holden Monaro is an automobile that was produced by GM Holden Ltd, an Australian subsidiary of General Motors, between 1968 and 1977 and between 2001 and 2005... |
Muirs Motors | |
| 13 | Robin Keitley | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | |||
| 14 | Laurie Nelson | 88 | Chrysler Valiant Charger R/T E49 | ||
| DNF | Graeme Blanchard | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | |||
| DNF | John Harvey John Harvey (motorsport) John Francis Harvey is a retired Australian racing driver. He was a top speedway driver for many years in the 1950s/1960s winning many championship races including NSW Championship 3 successive years, Victorian Championship twice.After switching from speedway to road racing, Harvey drove cars... |
Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | |||
| DNF | Pat Peck, Karen McPherson | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | |||
| DNF | Robert Bride | Holden Torana GTR XU-1 | |||
| DNF | Allan Moffat Allan Moffat Allan George Moffat, OBE is an Australian racing driver known for his four wins in the Australian Touring Car Championship, six wins in the Sandown 500 and his four wins in the Bathurst 1000... |
9 | Ford Falcon XA GT Hardtop | Ford Motor Co of Australia | 52 |
| DNF | John French | 4 | Ford Falcon XA GT Hardtop | 51 | |
| DNF | Ian Geoghegan Ian Geoghegan Ian "Pete" Geoghegan, was an Australian race car driver, known for a quick wit and natural driving skills. Geoghegan was one of the iconic characters of the 1960s and 1970s Australian motor racing scene... |
10 | Ford Falcon XA GT Hardtop | Ford Motor Co of Australia | 2 |
Note: As there were 53 entries for the race, it is most likely that there were additional non-finishers, not shown in the above table.
Further reading
- The Australian Racing History of Ford, 1989, page 290
- The Official Racing History of Holden, 1988, page 337
External links
- 1973 Touring Car images including Sandown 250 Retrieved - 1/7/2008