1998 AMP Bathurst 1000

The 1998 AMP Bathurst 1000 was the 39th running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race. It was held on 4 October 1998 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst. It was the second year of the controversial split between race organisers, the Australian Racing Drivers Club, and V8 Supercar, which had led to Australia's leading touring car series leaving the Bathurst 1000. The V8 Supercar teams raced the 1998 FAI 1000 race, held six weeks later. The race distance was 161 laps, approximately 1000 km.

1998 AMP Bathurst 1000
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Class structure

The 1998 AMP Bathurst 1000 was an endurance race for Super Touring Cars, New Zealand Touring Cars and Production Cars.

ST

The class featured International Group 2 Touring Cars, otherwise known as Supertouring. It featured teams from Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain fielding a total of 28 cars. Featured cars were: Alfa Romeo 155, Audi A4, BMW 318i, BMW 320i, Ford Mondeo, Holden Vectra, Honda Accord, Hyundai Lantra, Nissan Primera, Peugeot 405, Peugeot 406, Toyota Carina, Vauxhall Cavalier, Vauxhall Vectra and Volvo S40.

NZ

The New Zealand touring car series, Schedule S, was invited and the ten car entry featured: BMW 320i, BMW 325i, Ford Telstar, Honda Integra, Nissan Sentra, Peugeot 405, Suzuki Baleno, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Corona.

3E

Production cars, conforming to an older version of the Australian Production Car Championship regulations were also invited with five cars arriving. They cars were: Honda Civic, Mazda 626 and Toyota Camry.

Top ten run-off

Post-qualifying shootout results as follows:[1]

Pos No Team Driver Car Time
1 40 Volvo S40 Racing Rickard Rydell Volvo S40 2:14.9265
2 34 Team Dynamics Steven Richards Nissan Primera 2:16.4143
3 4 Volvo S40 Racing Tim Harvey Volvo S40 2:16.4672
4 80 Team Vectra Greg Murphy Holden Vectra 2:16.7782
5 8 Team Vectra Derek Warwick Vauxhall Vectra 2:17.3103
6 2 Audi Sport Australia Paul Morris Audi A4 Quattro 2:18.2657
7 1 Audi Sport Australia Brad Jones Audi A4 Quattro 2:18.3658
8 29 Brookes Motorsport Lee Brookes Honda Accord 2:18.9932
9 12 Greenfield Mowers Racing Cameron McLean BMW 320i 2:19.1715
10 88 Knight Racing Peter Hills Ford Mondeo 2:22.9436

Official results

Race results as follows:[2]

Pos Class No Team Drivers Car Laps Qual
Pos
Shootout
Pos
1 ST 40 Volvo S40 Racing Rickard Rydell
Jim Richards
Volvo S40 161 2 1
2 ST 34 Team Dynamics Steven Richards
Matt Neal
Nissan Primera 161 3 2
3 ST 1 Audi Sport Australia Brad Jones
Cameron McConville
Audi A4 Quattro 161 5 7
4 ST 12 Greenfield Mowers Racing Cameron McLean
Tony Scott
BMW 320i 159 8 9
5 ST 8 Team Vectra Derek Warwick
John Cleland
Vauxhall Vectra 157 6 5
6 ST 88 Knight Racing Peter Hills
Domenic Beninca
Ford Mondeo 155 10 10
7 ST 30 Roadchill Express Troy Searle
Luke Searle
BMW 320i 152 12
8 ST 22 Playboy Racing Rodney Forbes
Rod Wilson
BMW 318i 152 15
9 ST 16 Faber-Castell Racing Justin Mathews
Bob Holden
Paul Nelson
BMW 318i 145 16
10 NZ 64 International Motorsport Kevin Bell
Rod Hicks
BMW 320i 144 28
11 ST 20 Brian Bradshaw Race Preparation Dennis Chapman
Brian Bradshaw
BMW 318i 144 22
12 NZ 65 International Motorsport Aaron Harris
Miles Worsley
BMW 325i 141 33
13 ST 45 Gun Motorsport David Auger
Lawrie Kyte
Alfa Romeo 155 137 17
14 3E 35 Tom Watkinson Tom Watkinson
Calvin Gardiner
Mazda 626 136 36
15 3E 71 Rebound Clothing Co. Phil Kirkham
Matt Lehmann
Mazda 626 135 34
16 NZ 67 Geoff Short Geoff Short
Greg Goudie
Ford Telstar 131 32
17 3E 37 Ken Talbert Ken Talbert
Carlos Rolfo
Mazda 626 130 40
18 ST 25 Rodney Jones Racing Mike Newton
Jamie Miller
Vauxhall Cavalier 128 30
DNF ST 14 Project Racing Blair Smith
Jim Cornish
Nissan Primera 139 13
DNF NZ 63 International Motorsport Jason Richards
Barrie Thomlinson
BMW 320i 128 24
NC NZ 68 Wayne Johnson Wayne Johnson
Maurice O'Reilly
Honda Integra 120 37
NC ST 49 Grid Motorsport Anthony Robson
Ric Shaw
BMW 318i 112 21
DNF NZ 70 Air Vanuatu / Bartercard Ted Jarvis
Tony Rutherford
Toyota Corolla 111 42
NC ST 11 All Auto Parts Milton Leslight
Dennis Cribbin
Toyota Carina 110 27
NC ST 58 HVE Motorsport Paul Pickett
Peter Rushton
Nigel Stones
Hyundai Lantra 107 19
DNF ST 2 Audi Sport Australia Paul Morris
Paul Radisich
Audi A4 Quattro 84 7 6
DNF ST 80 Team Vectra Greg Murphy
Russell Ingall
Holden Vectra 83 1 4
DNF ST 4 Volvo S40 Racing Tim Harvey
Jan Nilsson
Volvo S40 82 4 3
DNF ST 98 Knight Racing Paula Elstrek
Damien Digby
Heidi O'Neill
Ford Mondeo 78 25
DNF ST 77 Motorsport Developments Malcolm Rea
Wayne Wakefield
Toyota Carina 76 23
DNF ST 24 Bruce Miles Bruce Miles
Murray Cleland
BMW 318i 63 20
DNF 3E 38 Phoenix Motorsport David Ratcliff
Ron Searle
Toyota Camry 59 35
DNF NZ 61 Prestige Motorsports Management Peter Van Breugel
Ian Spurle
Mike Eady
Nissan Sentra SSS 56 26
DNF ST 10 TC Motorsport Tony Newman
Mark Williamson
Peugeot 406 52 11
DNF ST 29 Brookes Motorsport Robb Gravett
Lee Brookes
Honda Accord 49 9 8
DNF NZ 90 Robert Ker Bernie Gillon
Paul Pedersen
Toyota Corona 47 31
DNF NZ 62 BT Motorsport Bill Tunzelmann
Malcolm Udy
Peugeot 405 47 41
DNF 3E 33 Burwood Motorsport Allan Letcher
Adam Macrow
Cameron Edwards
Honda Civic 34 38
DNF ST 18 Aaron McGill Aaron McGill
Clayton Haynes
Peugeot 405 24 18
DNF ST 60 Knight Racing Warren Luff
Mark Zonneveld
Ford Mondeo 18 14
DNF ST 23 MF Motorsport Mike Fitzgerald
Jenni Thompson
Peugeot 405 17 29
DNF ST 15 Project Racing Jamie Wall
Mark Adderton
Honda Accord 14 43
DNS NZ 66 Suzuki Value Finance Max Pennington
Grant Aitken
Chris Bird
Suzuki Baleno 39

Statistics

  • Provisional Pole Position – #80 Greg Murphy
  • Pole Position – #40 Rickard Rydell – 2:14.9265
  • Fastest Lap – #40 Rickard Rydell – 2:17.9558 – Lap 153
  • Average Speed – N/A
  • Race Time – 6:54:23.4756

References

  1. "1998 AMP Bathurst 1000 Mount Panorama Bathurst Session 21 – Run off AMP BATHURST 1000". National Software. 3 October 1998. Archived from the original on 12 September 1999. Retrieved 1 June 2008.
  2. "1998 AMP Bathurst 1000 Mount Panorama Bathurst Session 30 – 1998 AMP BATHURST 1000". National Software. 4 October 1998. Archived from the original on 3 September 2006. Retrieved 1 June 2008.
  • Normoyle, Steve (1998). The Great Race 18. Chevron Publishing Group. ISSN 1031-6124.
  • Normoyle, Steve (1998). "Official 1998 Great Race Programme". Chevron Publishing Group. ISSN 1327-1970. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Auto Action, 2–8 October 1998
  • Auto Action, 9–15 October 1998
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