1995 Tooheys 1000

1995 Tooheys 1000
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The 1995 Tooheys 1000 was the 36th running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race. It was held on October 1, 1995 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst. The race was held for cars eligible under CAMS Group 3A 5.0 Litre Touring Car regulations, that later became known as V8Supercars. This was the first Bathurst 1000 to be contested by single class.

With only 32 cars on the starting grid it was the smallest field for the race since only 48 cars faced the starter for the 1988 Tooheys 1000. This was attributed to the fact that the race was run only for the outright class 5.0 Litre Touring Cars with no small car categories running for the first time in the history of the race going back to the 1960 Armstrong 500 at Phillip Island in Victoria.

Larry Perkins and Russell Ingall driving the #11 Castrol Commodore won the 1995 Tooheys 1000 in what was literally a last to first effort. Perkins clashed with the slow starting HRT Commodore of pole sitter Craig Lowndes before the first turn which pulled the valve out of a tyre forcing him to fall from third to last on the first lap before pitting to replace the tyre. The due started to climb back up into contention, helped by cars ailing to go the race distance and Safety car periods including once after having just un-laped themselves and were back in the top 5 with 20 laps to go.

Following the last Safety car, Perkins set about hauling in the leaders. He passed Neil Crompton's Coke Commodore and the Peter Jackson Falcon of Alan Jones to move into second place about 7 seconds behind the Falcon of Jones' team leader Glenn Seton. Then going across the top of the mountain on lap 151, Seton's engine, built by the teams chief engine builder and Glenn's dad Barry Seton dropped a valve. Going into Murray's Corner Perkins had caught up to Seton and passed him for the lead. Perkins went on to win a famous victory while Seton's race ended less than half a lap later, the Falcon coming to a stop on the climb to BP Cutting. In a show of courage, an obviously gutted Seton conducted an interview on Racecam with Channel 7 showing graciousness in defeat while the race continued with cameras in the pits showing his father Bo, head in hands not wanting to believe the race was lost after they were so close to winning.

Had Glenn Seton won the race in 1995 it would have been 30 years since his father Bo Seton had win the 1965 Armstrong 500 driving a Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500.

Contents

Tooheys Top 10

Pos No Team Driver Car Time
Pole 015 Holden Racing Team Craig Lowndes Holden VR Commodore 2:11.5540
2 1 Winfield Racing Mark Skaife Holden VR Commodore 2:11.9504
3 11 Castrol Perkins Racing Larry Perkins Holden VR Commodore 2:12.4759
4 7 Coca-Cola Racing Wayne Gardner Holden VR Commodore 2:12.5422
5 30 Peter Jackson Racing Glenn Seton Ford EF Falcon 2:12.5438
6 35 Peter Jackson Racing Alan Jones Ford EF Falcon 2:12.7075
7 18 Shell FAI Racing Steven Johnson Ford EF Falcon 2:13.1149
8 17 Shell FAI Racing Dick Johnson Ford EF Falcon 2:13.1854
9 25 Castrol Longhurst Ford Tony Longhurst Ford EF Falcon 2:13.8883
10 05 Holden Racing Team Peter Brock Holden VR Commodore DNF

Official results

Pos No Team Drivers Car Laps Qual
Pos
Shootout
Pos
1 11 Castrol Perkins Racing Larry Perkins
Russell Ingall
Holden VR Commodore 161 1 3
2 35 Peter Jackson Racing Alan Jones
Allan Grice
Ford EF Falcon 161 9 6
3 7 Coca-Cola Racing Wayne Gardner
Neil Crompton
Holden VR Commodore 161 7 4
4 2 Winfield Racing Anders Olofsson
Steven Richards
Holden VR Commodore 161 16
5 4 Coca-Cola Racing Brad Jones
Win Percy
Holden VR Commodore 161 11
6 21 Pinnacle Motorsport Tony Scott
John Cleland
Holden VR Commodore 158 13
7 18 Shell FAI Racing Charlie O'Brien
Steven Johnson
Ford EF Falcon 158 8 7
8 28 Playscape Racing Kevin Waldock
Mark McLaughlin
Ford EF Falcon 152 24
9 25 Castrol Longhurst Ford Tony Longhurst
Wayne Park
Ford EF Falcon 149 10 9
10 39 Bill O'Brien Bill O'Brien
Brian Callaghan Jr
Ron Barnacle
Holden Commodore VL SS Group A SV 149 30
11 37 Scotty Taylor Racing Alan Taylor
Roger Hurd
Stephen Bell
Holden VP Commodore 146 31
12 74 PACE Racing Kevin Heffernan
Stephen Voight
Holden VP Commodore 144 27
13 54 Ed Lamont Ed Lamont
Graham Gulson
Holden VP Commodore 143 26
14 49 Alcair Racing David Attard
Greg Crick
Holden VP Commodore 130 14
15 62 Novacastrian Motorsport Wayne Russell
Ric Shaw
Holden VP Commodore 129 29
DNF 30 Peter Jackson Racing Glenn Seton
David Parsons
Ford EF Falcon 152 2 5
DNF 38 James Rosenberg Racing Mark Poole
Ed Ordynski
Bernie Stack
Holden VP Commodore 136 25
DNF 3 Lansvale Racing Team Steve Reed
Trevor Ashby
Holden VP Commodore 132 15
DNF 55 David Parsons David Parsons
Rodney Crick
Holden VR Commodore 127 17
DNF 24 Romano Racing Paul Romano
Troy Dunstan
Holden VP Commodore 113 21
DNF 17 Shell FAI Racing Dick Johnson
John Bowe
Ford EF Falcon 110 3 8
DNF 33 Pro-Duct Motorsport Bob Pearson
Bruce Stewart
Holden VP Commodore 88 19
DNF 1 Winfield Racing Mark Skaife
Jim Richards
Holden VR Commodore 65 5 2
DNF 27 Terry Finnigan Terry Finnigan
Peter Gazzard
Holden VP Commodore 54 22
DNF 12 M3 Motorsport Peter Doulman
John Cotter
Holden VP Commodore 40 20
DNF 20 Palmer Promotions Ian Palmer
Brett Peters
Holden VR Commodore 38 28
DNF 05 Holden Racing Team Peter Brock
Tomas Mezera
Holden VR Commodore 32 4 10
DNF 10 Larkham Motor Sport Mark Larkham
Warwick Rooklyn
Ford EF Falcon 22 12
DNF 36 Schembri Motorsport Neil Schembri
Graham Moore
Holden VR Commodore 19 23
DNF 9 Allan Moffat Enterprises Andrew Miedecke
Mark Noske
Ford EB Falcon 16 18
DNF 015 Holden Racing Team Craig Lowndes
Greg Murphy
Holden VR Commodore 10 6 1
DNF 60 Enzed Racing Ryan McLeod
Peter McLeod
Holden VR Commodore 0 32

Statistics

See also

1995 Australian Touring Car season

References

  1. ^ Australian Motor Racing Year 1995, page 281

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