1993 Tooheys 1000

The 1993 Tooheys 1000 was the 34th running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race. It was held on 3 October 1993 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. The race was held for cars eligible under CAMS Group 3A Touring Car regulations, which included 5.0 litre V8 engined cars (that later became known as V8Supercars), International Class II 2.0 litre Touring Cars (that later became known as Supertouring Cars and normally aspirated two wheel drive cars complying with 1992 CAMS Group 3A regulations ^[1] (which had been based on international Group A rules).

Class structure

Class A: Over 2000cc ^[2]

The class later to become known as V8 Supercar, it consisted of V8 Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores with a special dispensation to allow Group A 2.5 litre BMW M3s and a BMW 635CSi to race.

Class B: Up to 2000cc ^[2]

The class later to become known as Supertouring, it consisted of a pair of Toyota Corollas and a Toyota Carina and a group of older modified Group A touring cars, BMW M3s, Ford Sierras and Toyota Corollas.

Tooheys Top 10

Pos	No	Team	Driver	Car	TT10	Qual
Pole	11	Perkins Engineering	Larry Perkins	Holden VP Commodore	2:13.013	2:12.86
2	1	Winfield Racing Team	Mark Skaife	Holden VP Commodore	2:13.573	2:13.06
3	15	Holden Racing Team	Tomas Mezera	Holden VP Commodore	2:14.450	2:14.06
4	16	Holden Racing Team	Wayne Gardner	Holden VP Commodore	2:14.903	2:14.31
5	17	Shell Racing	Dick Johnson	Ford EB Falcon	2:15.386	2:14.76
6	30	Peter Jackson Racing	Glenn Seton	Ford EB Falcon	2:15.459	2:14.37
7	05	Mobil 1 Racing	Peter Brock	Holden VP Commodore	2:16.251	2:14.42
8	2	Winfield Racing Team	David Brabham	Holden VP Commodore	2:16.308	2:15.82
9	18	Shell Racing	Paul Radisich	Ford EB Falcon	2:16.545	2:14.96
10	7	GIO Racing	Neil Crompton	Holden VP Commodore	2:29.902	2:14.98

* Larry Perkins was the only Commodore driver in the runoff to actually have a Holden V8 engine in his car. The rest of the Holden runners had the 5.0L Chevrolet engine in their cars.
* David Brabham became the first 2nd generation driver to compete in the runoff, emulating his triple Formula one World Championship winning father Jack who drove in the inaugural Top 10 runoff in 1978. By coincidence, both finished their respective runoffs in 8th position. The younger Brabham also became the 5th ex-F1 driver to qualify for the runoff following Jack Brabham, Derek Bell, Larry Perkins and Alan Jones.
* After the Ford EB Falcons had dominated the first six rounds of the ATCC, CAMS allowed a new aero package for the Holden VP Commodores. At Bathurst this allowed the Commodore runners to qualify almost 3 seconds faster than they had in 1992. The fastest Ford driver in official qualifying Glenn Seton (the only Falcon runner in 1992) could only improve his 1992 time by 1.2 seconds.
* The first driver to run against the clock, Neil Crompton, spun on oil coming into Caltex Chase on his fast lap. During his television interview upon returning to the pits, Crompton said he was stunned to find oil flags waving going into the chase and questioned why the drivers were not told about the oil before the runoff started. As it happened, it was his own GIO Commodore that had been dropping the oil onto the track during both his warm up and official lap, causing grip problems for the next 7-8 drivers to face the clock.

Official results

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Car	Laps	Qual Pos	Shootout Pos
1	A	11	Perkins Engineering	Larry Perkins Gregg Hansford	Holden VP Commodore	161	1	1
2	A	1	Winfield Racing Team	Mark Skaife Jim Richards	Holden VP Commodore	161	2	2
3	A	16	Holden Racing Team	Wayne Gardner Brad Jones	Holden VP Commodore	160	4	4
4	A	2	Winfield Racing Team	David Brabham Anders Olofsson	Holden VP Commodore	159	10	8
5	A	55	Pepsi Quix Racing	Troy Dunstan Steve Harrington	Holden VP Commodore	156	12
6	A	35	Peter Jackson Racing	Geoff Brabham David Parsons	Ford EB Falcon	154	14
7	A	12	Ampol Max 3 Racing	Bob Jones Greg Crick	Holden VP Commodore	153	15
8	A	18	Shell Racing	Paul Radisich Cameron McConville	Ford EB Falcon	151	8	9
9	A	27	Terry Finnigan	Terry Finnigan Garry Rogers	Holden VP Commodore	150	20
10	A	33	Pro-Duct Motorsport	Bob Pearson Bruce Stewart	Holden VP Commodore	148	17
11	A	20	Benson & Hedges Racing	John Blanchard Jeff Allam	BMW M3 Evolution	148	24
12	A	21	Laurie Donaher	Laurie Donaher Mick Donaher	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	147	22
13	A	14	Warren Jonsson	Warren Jonsson Des Wall	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	146	27
14	A	47	Daily Planet Racing	John Trimbole Andrew Harris	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	146	28
15	A	23	Diet Coke Racing	Paul Morris Joachim Winkelhock	BMW M3 Evolution	146	11
16	A	28	Playscape Racing	Mike Preston Brett Peters	Ford EB Falcon	145	19
17	A	05	Mobil 1 Racing	Peter Brock John Cleland	Holden VP Commodore	142	6	7
18	A	4	GIO Racing	Stuart McColl Peter Gazzard	Holden VP Commodore	140	23
19	B	52	M3 Motorsport	Peter Doulman John Cotter	BMW M3	136	36
20	A	26	Darrel Dixon	Graham Lusty Kevin Heffernan John Lusty	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	135	29
21	A	22	Wayne Douglass Racing	Brett Youlden John English	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	134	26
22	B	13	Bob Holden Motors	Dennis Rogers Peter Hopwood	Toyota Sprinter	128	44
23	B	79	Cadillac Productions	Mike Conway Calvin Gardiner Gavin Monaghan	Toyota Sprinter	127	38
DNF	A	30	Peter Jackson Racing	Glenn Seton Alan Jones	Ford EB Falcon	147	5	6
DNF	A	7	GIO Racing	Neil Crompton Mark Gibbs	Holden VP Commodore	125	9	10
DNF	B	50	Knight Racing	Steve Masteron Peter Hills	Ford Sierra	122	45
DNF	B	6	Caltex CXT Racing Team	John Smith Neal Bates	Toyota Corolla Seca	113	33
DNF	A	15	Holden Racing Team	Tomas Mezera Win Percy	Holden VP Commodore	107	3	3
DNF	B	72	Brad Stratton	Brad Stratton Chris Madden	Toyota Corolla	100	41
DNF	A	17	Shell Racing	Dick Johnson John Bowe	Ford EB Falcon	96	7	5
DNF	A	19	Lansvale Smash Repairs	Glenn Mason Richard Wilson Gregg McShane	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	93	34
DNF	A	39	Bill O'Brien	Bill O'Brien Barry Graham Brian Callaghan Jr	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	81	25
DNF	A	3	Lansvale Smash Repairs	Steve Reed Trevor Ashby	Holden VP Commodore	80	16
DNF	A	25	Benson & Hedges Racing	Tony Longhurst Steve Soper	BMW M3 Evolution	79	13
DNF	A	45	Ray Gulson	Ray Gulson Graham Gulson	BMW 635 CSi	70	31
DNF	B	8	Caltex CXT Racing Team	Colin Bond Terry Bosnjak	Toyota Corolla Seca	64	35
DNF	B	77	Phoenix Motorsport	Steven Ellery Gary Gosatti	Ford Sierra	62	37
DNF	B	99	Malcolm Rea	Steve Cramp Dennis Cribbin	Toyota Sprinter	57	43
DNF	A	24	Diet Coke Racing	Geoff Full Peter Fitzgerald	BMW M3 Evolution	53	21
DNF	B	75	Frank Binding	Frank Binding Frank Dartell	Toyota Corolla	52	39
DNF	B	49	Bob Holden Motors	Dave McMillan Matthew Martin Spencer Martin	Toyota Corolla FX-GT	46	40
DNF	A	10	Allan Moffat Enterprises	Andrew Miedecke Charlie O'Brien	Ford EB Falcon	41	18
DNF	A	44	Stuart McColl	Ken Mathews Tony Mulvihill John Mathews	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	31	30
DNF	A	41	Garry Willmington Performance	Garry Willmington Darren Pate Tom Watkinson	Ford EB Falcon	29	32
DNF	B	66	Malcolm Rea	Gregg Easton Kurt Kratzmann	Toyota Sprinter	8	42
DNS	A	34	Pro-Duct Motorsport	Bruce Stewart Darren Stewart	Holden VP Commodore
DNS	A	43	John Leeson	John Leeson Steve Coulter Greg Smith	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV
DNQ	B	88	Malcolm Rea	Malcolm Rea Ken Talbert Chris Barns	Toyota Carina

Statistics

• Provisional Pole Position - #11 Larry Perkins - 2:12.86
• Pole Position – #11 Larry Perkins – 2:13.013
• Fastest Lap – #1 Mark Skaife – 2:14.803 (165.92 km/h) on lap 84 ^[3]
• Winners' Average Speed – 154.51 km/h ^[3]
• Race Time - 6:29:06.69

See also

1993 Australian Touring Car season

References

1. ↑ CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, 1993, page 205
2. 1 2 Official Programme, Tooheys 1000, 1993, page 43
3. 1 2 Official Programme, Tooheys 1000, 1994, page 30

External links

• Official V8 Supercar website
• CAMS Manual reference to Australian titles
• www.touringcarracing.net
• race results
• Images from the 1993 Tooheys 1000 Retrieved from www.autopics.com.au on 6 December 2008