1992 Don't Drink Drive Sandown 500 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 1992 Don't Drink Drive Sandown 500
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 motor race open to Group 3A Touring Cars (commonly known as Group A

Group A

In relation to motorsport governed by the FIA, Group A referred to a set of regulations providing production-derived vehicles for outright competition. In contrast to the short-lived Group B and Group C, the Group A referred to production-derived vehicles limited in terms of power, weight, allowed...

cars), 1993 Group 3A 5.0 Litre Touring Cars (later to become known as V8 Supercars) and Group 3E Series Production Cars. The race was held at the Sandown circuit

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 on 13 September 1992
over 136 laps of the 3.1 km circuit, a total distance of approximately 422 km.

The race was intended to be run over 161 laps, but the race was significantly delayed by several periods of slow running behind the pace car and with the Sandown circuit operating under an Environmental Protection Agency curfew of 5pm, the race was shortened to 136 laps.

Results

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Position	Group	No.	Entrant	Drivers	Car	Laps
1	3A	11	Perkins Engineering Pty Ltd	Larry Perkins Larry Perkins Larry Clifton Perkins is a former racing driver and V8 Supercar team owner from Australia.-Career:... Steve Harrington	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	136
2	3A	25	Benson & Hedges Racing Tony Longhurst Racing Tony Longhurst Racing is a former V8 Supercar team. The team, based on Queenslands Gold Coast at the Longhurst family owned Dreamworld adventure park, made its debut in Group A touring car racing in the 1988 Australian Touring Car Championship at Melbourne's Calder Park Raceway and made its last...	Tony Longhurst Tony Longhurst Tony Longhurst is an Australian former racing driver and Australian Champion water skier. He is most noted for his career in the Australian Touring Car Championship and V8 Supercar series.... Paul Morris Paul Morris (motorsport) Paul Morris is a V8 Supercar racecar driver.-Early career:Paul Morris started his motor racing career at the age of 19 in 1987, driving in the Queensland Gemini Series. He won Rookie of the Year in his debut season, and won the state championship the following year. He spent the next three years...	BMW M3 Evolution	136
3	3A (1993)	15	Holden Racing Team Holden Racing Team The Holden Racing Team is a Melbourne based motor racing team. HRT is the most successful V8 Supercar racing team in the history of the category, having won the drivers championship six times, and the series signature race the Bathurst 1000 seven times...	Tomas Mezera Tomas Mezera Tomas Mezera, born November 5, 1958, in Czechoslovakia and now resides in Queensland, Australia. Mezera is best known as an Australian racing driver. Mezera's sporting career began as a downhill skier in his native Czechoslovakia, before he emigrated to Australia to be a ski instructor.-Formula... Brad Jones	Holden VP Commodore Holden VP Commodore The Holden VP Commodore is an automobile which was produced by Australian automaker Holden from 1991 to 1993. It is the seventh generation Holden Commodore....	133
4	3A	13	Ampol Max 3 Racing	Bob Jones Peter Janson	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	122
5	3E	10	Robinson Racing Developments	Ken Douglas Kent Youlden	Ford EB Falcon Ford EB Falcon The Ford EB Falcon is a car which was produced by the Ford Motor Company in Australia between 1991 and 1993.Visually the 1991 EB remained nearly identical to its predecessor. The most noticeable change was the transfer of the Ford emblem from the tip of the bonnet to the grille...	117
6	3E	4		Robert Ogilvie Paul Fordham	Holden VP Commodore SS Holden VP Commodore The Holden VP Commodore is an automobile which was produced by Australian automaker Holden from 1991 to 1993. It is the seventh generation Holden Commodore....	116
7	3E	7		Ian Palmer Brett Bull	Holden VP Commodore SS	114
8	3A	75	Bob Holden Motors	Brad Wright Ted Dunford	Toyota Corolla Toyota Corolla The Toyota Corolla is a line of subcompact and compact cars manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the best selling nameplate in the world, with over 35 million...	110
9	3E	6		Tony Scott Ed Lamont	Holden VP Commodore SS	110
10	3A	05	Mobil 1 Racing	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... Troy Dunstan	Holden VN Commodore SS Group A Holden VN Commodore The Holden VN Commodore was the sixth model of the Holden Commodore, a full-size car produced by the Australian automotive marque, Holden. It is essentially made out of an Opel donor body mated to either a Buick V6 or Holden V8, depending on the model, with slight tweaks to the front and rear ends...	110
11	3E	21		Danny Bogut Henry Draper	Suzuki Swift GTi Suzuki Swift The Suzuki Swift is a subcompact car produced by Suzuki in Japan since 2000. Prior to this, the "Swift" nameplate had been applied to the Suzuki Cultus in export markets such as Australasia, Europe, India and North America.- Predecessor :...	106
12	3E	14		Murray Carter Chris Muscat	Nissan Pulsar SSS Nissan Pulsar The Nissan Pulsar is an automobile that was produced by the Japanese automaker Nissan from 1978, when it debuted as a subcompact car, to 2007, when it was replaced in all markets by the Nissan Tiida. It was originally conceived as a replacement for Nissan's first front-wheel drive platform, the...	102
DNF	3A	28	Playscape Racing	Kevin Waldock Brett Peters	Ford Sierra RS500	130
DNF	3A (1993)	16	Holden Racing Team	Win Percy Win Percy Winston "Win" Percy is a former motor racing driver from England. He competed in many classes of motorsport during his long career, but is perhaps most famous as one of the greats of touring car racing. Joe Saward of Autosport magazine once described him as being "often regarded as the World's... Allan Grice Allan Grice Allan Maxwell Grice OAM , known to motor-racing fans as Gricey, is an Australian former racing driver and politician, most famous for twice winning the prestigious Bathurst 1000 , and as a privateer driver of a Holden in the Australian Touring Car Championship.Grice also had a successful second...	Holden VP Commodore	109
DNF	3E	3		Peter Fitzgerald Terry Lewis	Holden VP Commodore SS	109
DNF	3A	18	Shell Racing Dick Johnson Racing Dick Johnson Racing is Australia's oldest operating motor racing team. Founded by Dick Johnson, the team has won seven Australian Touring Car Championship titles and has taken three victories in Australia's hallmark race, the Bathurst 1000...	Terry Shiel Greg Crick	Ford Sierra RS500	108
DNF	3E	41		Terry Bosnjak Peter Hopwood	Holden VP Commodore SS	100
DNF	3A	39	Challenge Motorsport	Chris Smerdon Mark Poole	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	90
NC	3A	26		Daryl Hendrick John Blanchard	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	88
DNF	3A	35	Peter Jackson Racing Glenn Seton Racing Glenn Seton Racing was a V8 Supercar racing team that competed in the V8 Supercar series in Australia.Glenn Seton formed his own team in 1989, using Ford Sierras. Seton had been a protege of the works Nissan team, and took the Peter Jackson cigarette sponsorship of that team with him. Former F1...	Wayne Park David Parsons David 'Skippy' Parsons David John 'Skippy' Parsons , was an Australian racing driver, who while never a full time racing driver, drove for the biggest racing teams in Australia....	Ford Sierra RS500	82
NC	3A	73	Bob Holden Motors	Bob Holden Bob Holden (racing driver) Robin John Holden born December 1, 1932, is an Australian racing driver. Holden raced small-engined touring cars throughout his career, racing Peugeots in the early 1960s, establishing a reputation for himself which saw him become a regular part of BMC Australias racing program for Minis which... Dennis Rogers	Toyota Levin	72
NC	3A	52	M3 Motorsport	John Cotter Peter Doulman	BMW M3	69
DNF	3A	29	Mountain Motorsport	Calvin Gardiner Mike Conway	Toyota Levin	35
DNF	3A	17	Shell Racing	Dick Johnson John Bowe John Bowe (racing driver) John Bowe is an Australian racing driver, presently racing a 1969 Ford Mustang in the historic series, Touring Car Masters....	Ford Sierra RS500	31
DNF	3A (1993)	30	Peter Jackson Racing	Glenn Seton Glenn Seton Glenn Seton is an Australian racing driver.Seton, father of Courtney and Aaron Seton and husband to Jayne Seton, retired from full time racing after the 2005 V8 Supercar season, and is only one of five drivers to have competed in over 200 rounds in the series. The other drivers are Dick Johnson ,... Alan Jones	Ford EB Falcon	18
DNF	3A	88		Gregg Easton Brad Stratton	Toyota Levin	12
DNF	3A	31	Ampol Max 3 Racing	Robbi Ker Don Watson	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	2
DNS	3E	22	Garry Rogers Motorsport Garry Rogers Motorsport Garry Rogers Motorsport is an Australian motor racing team presently competing in V8 Supercar.-The early years:Garry Rogers Motorsport has its origins in Garry Rogers' own exploits in Sports Sedans during the late 1960s and the 1970s. In the mid-1970s Rogers got more serious, running a BDA Escort...	Melinda Price Steven Richards Steven Richards Steven Richards is a New Zealand racing driver, currently competing in the with the team. He previously raced in the V8 Supercar series for Ford Performance Racing....	Nissan Pulsar SSS Nissan Pulsar The Nissan Pulsar is an automobile that was produced by the Japanese automaker Nissan from 1978, when it debuted as a subcompact car, to 2007, when it was replaced in all markets by the Nissan Tiida. It was originally conceived as a replacement for Nissan's first front-wheel drive platform, the...

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Pole Position - 1:15.87 - #17 Dick Johnson
Fastest Lap - 1:16.88 - #17 Dick Johnson/John Bowe

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