The 1979 Hang Ten 400 was an endurance motor race held at the Sandown Park circuit in Victoria,

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on 9 September 1979.Australian Championship of Makes, Round One, Australian Motor Racing Yearbook 1979/80, pages 170 & 171 (Results table lists details for the 22 classified finishers only) It was staged over 129 laps of the 3.11 km circuit, a total of 401 km. The race was Round 1 of the

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and as such it was open to Group C Touring Cars. It was the fourteenth in a sequence of annual Sandown long distance races.Sandown long distance races, 2006 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 14-9 The race was won by

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Classes

Cars competed in three classes according to engine capacity:''Hang Ten 400'', Official Program, Sandown, 9 September 1979, pages 43 to 45 * Class A: 3001 to 6000cc * Class B: 2001 to 3000cc * Class C: Up to 2000cc

Results

There were 48 starters and 22 finishers in the race. The known non-finishers are listed in alphabetical order due to a lack of information concerning laps completed.

References

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