The 1999 Australian Touring Car season was the 40th year of touring car racing in Australia since the first runnings of the

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and the fore-runner of the present day

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, the Armstrong 500. Two major touring car categories raced in Australia during 1999, V8 Supercar and Super Touring. Between them there were 25 touring car race meetings held during 1999; a thirteen-round series for V8 Supercars, the

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(SCS), two of them endurance races; an eight-round series for Super Touring, the 1999 Australian Super Touring Championship (ASTC); support programme events at the

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and 1999 Honda Indy 300 and two stand-alone long distance races, nicknamed 'enduros'.

Results and Standings

Race Calendar

The 1999 Australian touring car season consisted of 25 events.

Hot Wheels V8 Supercar Showdown

This meeting was a support event of the

Shell Championship Series

Australian Super Touring Championship

Bob Jane T-Marts V8 300

Bob Jane T-Marts 500

V8 Supercar Challenge

This meeting was a support event of the 1999 Honda Indy 300.

References

Additional references can be found in linked event/series reports.

External links

Official V8 Supercar site

1999 Racing Results Archive
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Touring Cars Touring car racing is a motorsport road racing competition with heavily modified road-going cars. It has both similarities to and significant differences from stock car racing, which is popular in the United States. While the cars do not mo ...

Supercar seasons