The 1992 Don't Drink Drive Sandown 500 was an endurance motor race open to Group 3A Touring Cars (commonly known as

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cars), 1993 Group 3A 5.0 Litre Touring Cars (later to become known as

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) and

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.''Sandown Drink/Drive 500'', touringcarracing.net, as archived at web.archive.org
/ref> It was held at the

Sandown International Motor Raceway Sandown International Raceway is a motor racing circuit in the suburb of Springvale in Melbourne, Victoria, approximately south east of the city centre. Sandown is considered a power circuit with its " drag strip" front and back straights be ...

,Front cover, Official program, 1992 Don't Drink Drive Sandown 500, Sandown International Motor Raceway, Sunday, 13 September 1992 in

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, on 13 September 1992, over 136 laps of the 3.1 km circuit,Australian Motor Racing Year, 1992/93, page 298 a total distance of approximately 422 km. The race, which was the 27th ''

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 co ...

'', was won by

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and Steve Harrington driving a

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. The race was intended to be run over 150 laps,Entry list, Official program, 1992 Don't Drink Drive Sandown 500, Sandown International Motor Raceway, Sunday, 13 September 1992'' Perkins Paces Home'', Australian Motor Racing Year, 1992/92, pages 244-247 but it was significantly delayed by several periods of slow running behind the pace car. With the Sandown circuit operating under an Environmental Protection Agency curfew of 5pm, the race was shortened to 136 laps.

Top 10 Qualifiers

Although no official Top 10 run off was held during qualifying for the Sandown 500, the top 10 qualifiers were:

Results

Statistics

* Pole Position - 1:15.87 - #17 Dick Johnson -

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* Fastest Lap - 1:16.88 - #17 Dick Johnson/John Bowe - Ford Sierra RS500

References

External links

Image of program cover, www.progcovers.com, as archived at web.archive.org

Image of the winning car, cdn1.bigcommerce.com, as archived at web.archive.org
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Top 10 Qualifiers

Results

Statistics

See also

References

External links