1997 AMP Bathurst 1000

1997 AMP Bathurst 1000
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The 1997 AMP Bathurst 1000 was the 38th running of the annual Bathurst 1000 touring car race. It was held on 5 October 1997 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia. It was the first Bathurst 1000 race held after the controversial split between race organisers, the Australian Racing Drivers Club, and V8 Supercar, which led to Australia's leading touring car category contesting a separate 1000 kilometre race at Bathurst. This race, the 1997 Primus 1000 Classic, was held two weeks after the AMP Bathurst 1000.

The 1997 AMP Bathurst 1000 was open to Super Touring Cars and featured teams from Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain. It could thus be considered as the first "international" Bathurst endurance race since the 1992 Tooheys 1000, which was the last Bathurst 1000 to be contested by cars complying with Australian regulations based on FIA Group A rules.

The race was won by brothers Geoff Brabham and David Brabham, driving a BMW 320i for BMW Motorsport Australia. The car of teammates Paul Morris and Craig Baird had initially been declared the winner of the race but was later disqualified as Baird had breached the race regulation which limited any one driver to a maximum of three hours continuous driving.[1]

Contents

Top Ten Run-off

The fastest ten cars from qualifying contested a one lap "Top Ten Run-off" on the Satursday to determine the first ten grid places for the race.

Pos No Team Driver Car Time
Pole 2 BMW Motorsport Australia Paul Morris BMW 320i 2:16.5958
2 3 Williams Renault Dealer Racing Alain Menu Renault Laguna 2:16.6158
3 6 Esso Ultron Team Peugeot Tim Harvey Peugeot 406 2:17.1536
4 05 Vauxhall Sport Derek Warwick Vauxhall Vectra 2:17.2754
5 26 Esso Ultron Team Peugeot Patrick Watts Peugeot 406 2:17.5628
6 83 BMW Motorsport Australia Geoff Brabham BMW 320i 2:17.5857
7 34 Garry Rogers Valvoline Cummins Steven Richards Nissan Primera 2:17.9726
8 1 ORIX Audi Sport Australia Brad Jones Audi A4 Quattro 2:18.8756
9 7 Vauxhall Sport John Cleland Vauxhall Vectra 2:19.5864
10 23 Williams Renault Dealer Racing Alan Jones Renault Laguna 2:20.5274

Official results

Pos No Team Drivers Car Laps Qual
Pos
Run-off
Pos
1 83 BMW Motorsport Australia Geoff Brabham
David Brabham
BMW 320i 161 1 6
2 1 ORIX Audi Sport Australia Brad Jones
Frank Biela
Audi A4 Quattro 161 9 8
3 11 ORIX Audi Sport Australia Cameron McConville
Jean-François Hemroulle
Audi A4 Quattro 161 11
4 4 Volvo Dealer Racing Jim Richards
Rickard Rydell
Volvo 850 159 13
5 8 Volvo Dealer Racing Jan Nilsson
Cameron McLean
Volvo 850 158 12
6 05 Vauxhall Sport Peter Brock
Derek Warwick
Vauxhall Vectra 148 7 4
7 16 Faber-Castell Racing Paul Nelson
Justin Mathews
Bob Holden
BMW 318i 146 20
8 20 Brian Bradshaw Race Preparation Dennis Chapman
Brian Bradshaw
BMW 318i 144 25
9 21 M F Motorsport Mike Fitzgerald
Jamie Miller
Peugeot 405 Mi16 139 26
10 60 FAI Insurance Julian Bailey
Warren Luff
Honda Accord 138 14
11 45 David Auger David Auger
Lawrie Kyte
Alfa Romeo 155 134 24
DNF 64 Supercheap Auto Racing Jason Richards
Brett Riley
BMW 318i 125 17
DNF 37 Fastway Couriers Tony Newman
Dwayne Bewley
Peugeot 405 Mi16 121 15
DNF 30 Roadchill Express Troy Searle
Geoff Full
BMW 320i 115 18
DNF 3 Williams Renault Dealer Racing Alain Menu
Jason Plato
Renault Laguna 114 2 2
DNF 26 Esso Ultron Team Peugeot Patrick Watts
Neil Crompton
Peugeot 406 112 4 5
DNF 14 HVE Motorsport Ric Shaw
Anthony Robson
Hyundai Lantra 110 23
DNF 34 Garry Rogers Valvoline Cummins Steven Richards
Matt Neal
Nissan Primera 84 10 7
NC 88 Knight Racing Peter Hills
Andrej Pavicevic
Ford Mondeo 80 21
DNF 58 HVE Motorsport Paul Pickett
Bill Seiders
Hyundai Lantra 73 27
DNF 6 Esso Ultron Team Peugeot Tim Harvey
Paul Radisich
Peugeot 406 70 3 3
DNF 10 Phoenix Motorsport Neal Bates
Mark Adderton
Toyota Camry 64 16
DNF 89 Knight Racing Jenni Thompson
Aaron McGill
Terry Skene
Ford Mondeo 56 22
DNF 23 Williams Renault Dealer Racing Alan Jones
Graham Moore
Renault Laguna 38 8 10
DNF 12 Nigel Barclay Nigel Barclay
Blair Smith
Jim Cornish
BMW 318i 37 19
DNF 7 Vauxhall Sport John Cleland
James Kaye
Vauxhall Vectra 32 6 9
DSQ 2 BMW Motorsport Australia Paul Morris
Craig Baird
BMW 320i 161 5 1
DNQ [2] 15 [2] All Auto Parts [3] Milton Leslight [2]
Dennis Cribbin [2]
Toyota Carina [2]
DNS [4] 22 [4] BMW Motorsport Australia [3] Geoff Brabham [4] BMW 320i [3]
DNS [4] 38 [4] Fastway Couriers [3] Dwayne Bewley [4]
Tony Newman [4]
Peugeot 405 [3]

References

  1. ^ The Great Race 1997, pages 228-231
  2. ^ a b c d e The Great Race 1997, pages 147-148
  3. ^ a b c d e 1997 AMP Bathurst 1000 Entry List, Official Programme, The 35th AMP Bathurst 1000, page 62
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Best individual times in each qualifying session, The Great Race 1997, pages 234-235

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