The 1994 Sandown 500 was an endurance motor race for Group 3A Touring Cars and selected production cars held at the

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circuit in

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on 4 September 1994. The event was staged over 161 laps of the 3.10 km circuit, a total distance of 499 km. It was the 29th race in a sequence of annual endurance races held at Sandown. Dick Johnson and John Bowe won the race in their

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. Second was the

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and Jim Richards, while third was the

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Commodore of

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and

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. After first racing in the "Sandown 500" in

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when the race was known as the Hang Ten 400, Dick Johnson scored his first win in the classic. The race was notable as it marked the debut race of future three-time Supercars champion

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Results

Notes

* Pole position:

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, 1m 22.8269s * Race time of winning car: 3h 34m 14.4198s * Fastest lap: Dick Johnson / John Bowe, 1m 14.0747s

References

External links

Colin Young, Bowe goes charging to takeout 500 race, The Age, 5 September 1994, Sport Extra, Page 38, via newsstore.fairfax.com.au
As archived at web.archive.org
Image of the winning Ford EB Falcon of Dick Johnson and John Bowe, from d3spxwpngnho1k.cloudfront.ne
As archived at webarchive.org {{s-end Motorsport at Sandown

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 ...

Pre-Bathurst 500

Results

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