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The 1985 James Hardie 1000 was a motor race held on 6 October 1985 at the
Mount Panorama Circuit
Mount Panorama Circuit is a motor racing track located in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is situated on Mount Panorama (Wahluu) and is best known as the home of the Bathurst 1000 motor race held each October, and the Bathurst 12 Hour ...
just outside
Bathurst, in
New South Wales
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,
Australia
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. It was the 26th running of the
Bathurst 1000
The Bathurst 1000 (formally known as the Repco Bathurst 1000) is a touring car race held annually on the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is currently run as part of the Supercars Championship, the most recen ...
and was the first held exclusively for cars complying with the Australian version of International
Group A
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touring car regulations. The event, which was organised by the Australian Racing Drivers Club Ltd, was Round Four of both the
1985 Australian Endurance Championship
The 1985 Australian Endurance Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Touring CarsCAMS Manual of Motor Sport, 1985, page 90 complying with an Australian version of FIA Group A Touring Car regulations. The champions ...
and the
1985 Australian Manufacturers' Championship
The 1985 Australian Manufacturers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for car manufacturers.CAMS Manual of Motor Sport 1985, page 90 It was the 15th manufacturers title to be awarded by CAMS and the 6th to carry the Australian ...
.
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The race was dominated by the
Tom Walkinshaw Racing
Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR) was a motor racing team and engineering firm founded in 1976, in Kidlington, near Oxford, England, by touring car racer Tom Walkinshaw.
The company initially handled privateer work before entering works touring car r ...
run
Jaguar XJ-S
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's, which finished first and third.
John Goss and German driver
Armin Hahne
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claimed the victory with team owner
Tom Walkinshaw
Thomas Dobbie Thomson Walkinshaw (14 August 1946 – 12 December 2010) was a British racing car driver from Scotland and the founder of the racing team Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR). He was also involved in professional rugby union, as owner of ...
and his co-driver
Win Percy
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finishing three laps down in third. On the same lap as the winning Jaguar was the
Schnitzer Motorsport
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prepared
BMW 635CSi
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of Italian driver
Roberto Ravaglia
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and Venezuela's former
Motorcycle World champion (and ex-
Formula One
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driver)
Johnny Cecotto
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who, despite their extensive overseas experience, were Bathurst rookies and as such easily co-won the Rookie of the Year award. The
Holden Dealer Team
The Holden Dealer Team (HDT) was Holden's semi-official racing team from 1969 until 1986, primarily contesting Australian Touring Car events but also rallying, rallycross and Sports Sedan races during the 1970s. From 1980 the Holden Dealer ...
Holden VK Commodore
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The ...
of
Peter Brock
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and New Zealand
open-wheel
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racer David Oxton was in second place with three laps to go when it broke a timing chain and retired.
1985 was the first Great Race since
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* Januar ...
in which four-time winner
Allan Moffat
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was not an entrant. Left without a drive in 1985 after the withdrawal of
Mazda
, commonly referred to as simply Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan.
In 2015, Mazda produced 1.5 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly one m ...
from Australian touring car racing, Moffat was guest expert commentator with race broadcaster
Channel 7.
Class structure
The race was held for cars complying with the Australian version of International
Group A
Group A is a set of motorsport regulations administered by the FIA covering production derived vehicles intended for competition, usually in touring car racing and rallying. In contrast to the short-lived Group B and Group C, Group A vehicles w ...
touring car regulations with three engine capacity classes.
Class A - Up to 2000 cc
Six cars were entered for Class A, including four
Toyota
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s, two of them factory supported, an
Alfa Romeo Alfetta
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The Alfetta was noted for the rear position of its ...
which did not start and a
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which also failed to start.
Class B - 2001-3000 cc
With a multiplication factor of 1.3 applied to cars with
turbocharged
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engines, a 2000cc car with a turbocharger was rated at 2600cc for the purposes of the class structure. This saw the factory supported turbocharged
Mitsubishi Starion
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s and a
Volvo 240
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compete against non-turbo
Audi 5+5,
Toyota Celica Supra
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The initial four generations ...
and the factory-backed
Alfa Romeo GTV6
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. It was the first time since the
1973 race that there was no
Ford Capri
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on the grid.
Class C - Over 3000 cc
The class featured
Holden VK Commodore
The Holden Commodore (VK) is a mid-size car that was produced by Holden from 1984 to 1986. It was the fourth iteration of the first generation of the Holden Commodore and introduced the luxury variant, Holden Calais (VK) sedan.
Overview
The ...
V8s (in both 5.0 litre and 4.9 litre configuration), the big
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Jaguar XJ-S
The Jaguar XJ-S (later called XJS) is a luxury grand tourer manufactured and marketed by British car manufacturer Jaguar Cars from 1975 to 1996, in coupé, fixed-profile and full convertible bodystyles. There were three distinct iterations, ...
', the
V8 Ford Mustang GT
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's and
Rover Vitesse
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s and the
Straight-six
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BMW 635 CSi. Both the Rovers and BMW's used 3.5 litre engines, though unlike the BMW, the Rover was a
V8.
Hardies Heroes
* Tom Walkinshaw
Thomas Dobbie Thomson Walkinshaw (14 August 1946 – 12 December 2010) was a British racing car driver from Scotland and the founder of the racing team Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR). He was also involved in professional rugby union, as owner of ...
's pole time of 2:18.822 in his Group A
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Jaguar XJ-S
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was 0.138 seconds faster than he had qualified John Goss' Group C
Group C was a category of sports car racing introduced by the FIA in 1982 and continuing until 1993, with ''Group A'' for touring cars and ''Group B'' for GTs.
It was designed to replace both Group 5 special production cars (closed top touri ...
Jaguar XJS in Hardie's Heroes the previous year. It was also the first time a driver had gone from being the slowest in the runoff one year to being the fastest a year later. Showing the difference in performance between Group A and Group C at that stage, Walkinshaw's time was 4.972 seconds slower than George Fury
George Fury (born 31 January 1945, in Hungary) is a retired Australian rally and racing car driver. For the majority of his career Fury was associated with Nissan, twice winning the Australian Rally Championship, and twice runner up in the Aust ...
's pole winning time of 1984.Jaguar V12 Bathurst 1000 1985 pole lap Hardies Heroes
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* Walkinshaw's Jaguar was recorded at on Conrod Straight during the runoff. The fastest non-Jaguar was the turbocharged Volvo 240T
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driven by Bathurst Rookie Robbie Francevic
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which recorded . The once dominant V8 Holden and Fords were slower still, topping out at around .
* Volvo
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became the 8th marque to be represented in the Top 10 runoff since its inception in 1978 when Auckland
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based Robbie Francevic
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qualified his Mark Petch Motorsport
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History
Mark Petch Motorsport was formed in 1985 by former New Zealand National Championship winner Mark Petch who by 1985 had become a wealth ...
Volvo 240T in 5th place. The Volvo was also the only turbo powered car in the runoff.
* With Walkinshaw on pole and teammate Jeff Allam
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in second, 1985 was the first and so far only year that cars powered by V12 engine
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The fi ...
s have filled the front row of the grid at Bathurst. It was also the first time since Peter Brock
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and Colin Bond
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had qualified 1-2 for the Holden Dealer Team
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in 1974
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that one team had occupied the front row.
* The No. 18 DJR Ford Mustang
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driven by Larry Perkins
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was officially withdrawn from the race following Hardies Heroes. Every car on the grid that qualified behind the car was then was moved up one grid position. The car had been entered as an insurance policy should something happen to keep the #17 Mustang out of the race, and to give drivers Dick Johnson and Perkins the maximum amount of practice time before the race.
* For the first time there were 11 cars and not 10 in the runoff. The ARDC had originally bumped the Larry Perkins Mustang believing (correctly) that it would not start the race despite persistent rumours that it would, and included in its place the BMW 635 CSi of Roberto Ravaglia
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. However, DJR protested as their car had provisionally qualified 8th. As the ARDC had no grounds to exclude it as regulations stated the top 8 qualifiers were an automatic inclusion, the runoff went ahead with both Perkins and Ravaglia taking part.
* 1985 was the only time Peter Brock was out-qualified by one of his HDT teammates in Hardie's Heroes, qualifying 0.132 behind David Parsons, who was listed only as co-driver to 1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
race winner John Harvey John Harvey may refer to:
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in the No. 7 car. Prior to this the closest a teammate had got to him in HH was when Harvey was only 1.19 seconds slower in 1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
. 1985 would also be the only time that the HDT had the slowest two cars in the runoff.
* The fastest driver in official qualifying, 1974 winner John Goss, made his first and only appearance in Hardie's Heroes. Goss' Jaguar had also qualified for the shootout in 1984 but Tom Walkinshaw was at the wheel.
Official results
Bold donates outright and class winners
Statistics
* Provisional Pole Position - #10 John Goss - 2:19.77
* Pole Position – #8 Tom Walkinshaw – 2:18.822
* Fastest Lap – #10 John Goss – 2:21.86
* Average Speed – 150 km/h
* Race Time - 6:41:30.19
External links
James Hardie 1000 Bathurst 1985, www.touringcarracing.net, as archived at web.archive.org
References
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Motorsport in Bathurst, New South Wales
James Hardie 1000