The 1971 Sandown 250 was an endurance
motor race
Motorsport, motorsports or motor sport is a global term used to encompass the group of competitive sporting events which primarily involve the use of motorized vehicles. The terminology can also be used to describe forms of competition of two ...
open to
Group E Series Production Touring Cars Group E Series Production Touring Cars was an Australian motor racing category for production based sedans competing with limited modifications. It was current from 1964 to 1972.
Although production car racing in Australia had gained momentum with ...
. The event was held at the
Sandown circuit in
Victoria, Australia
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Au ...
on 12 September 1971 over 130 laps, approximately 250 miles (403 km).
[The Age, Monday, September 13, 1971, page 21] As a round of the
1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, the race featured five classes based on Capacity Price Units with the CP Unit value for each model determined by multiplying the engine capacity of the vehicle in litres by its retail price in Australian dollars.
The race, which is recognised as the sixth "
Sandown 500
The Sandown 500 (formally known as the Penrite Oil Sandown 500) is an annual endurance motor race which is staged at the Sandown Raceway, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from 1964. The event's name, distance – and the category of cars comp ...
",
Stefan Bartholomaeus, End of an era, Sandown 500’s complex history, 6/11/2019, www.supercars.com, as archived at web.archive.org
/ref> was won by Colin Bond
Colin John Bond (born 24 February 1942) is a retired Australian racing driver. Bond reached the highest levels in Australian motorsport in 1969 when he was recruited by Harry Firth to the newly formed Holden Dealer Team. He quickly found succ ...
driving a Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1.
Results
Note: The above results list 36 of the 37 starters in the race.
Notes
* Attendance: 25,000[
* Number of entries in Official Programme: 44][
* Starters: 37][V8 Sleuth staff, 3 April 2019, When Torana first slayed the V8 goliaths, www.v8sleuth.com.au, as archived at web.archive.org]
/ref>
* Finishers: 25[
* Pole position: ]Allan Moffat
Allan George Moffat OBE (born 10 November 1939 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian-Australian racing driver known for his four championships in the Australian Touring Car Championship, six wins in the Sandown 500 and his four win ...
, 1 minute 21.4 seconds[
* Race time of winning car: 3 hours 5 minutes 21.0 seconds][
]
References
Further reading
* Holden, The official racing history, 1988, page 333
External links
Images from the Sandown 250
Retrieved from www.flickr.com on 17 March 2009
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Motorsport at Sandown
Sandown 250
Pre-Bathurst 500