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The 1999 Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 500 was a motor race staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst,
Retrieved on 14 April 2018 * Race time of winning car – 2:55:31.5969 * Average Race Speed – 106 km/h
The 1999 Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 500 was a motor race staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, New South Wales
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, Australia on 3 October 1999.Official Programme, Mt Panorama, Sunday 3 October 1999 It was the 37th and last in a sequence of annual touring car endurance races to be organised by the Australian Racing Driver's Club at the Mount Panorama Circuit, previous events having included Bathurst 500
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 rec ...
races and, from 1973, 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 rece ...
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The race was open to Super Touring
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cars, with FIA
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Production cars, GT Production cars and Schedule S carsEntry, Bathurst 500, Auto Action, 7 October 1999 also invited to compete. Qualifying established the grid for a 100 kilometre preliminary race, the Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 100, which in turn determined grid positions for the 500 kilometre main event.
The Super Touring 500 was won by Paul Morris driving a BMW 320i.
Race
The race was very heavily weather affected with rain wreathing the circuit for much of the day, earlier blighting the Bob Jane T-Marts V8 300 race held for a combined field of AUSCARs and Future Touring Cars. The race spent many laps behind a safety car because of heavy rain and poor visibility caused by fog across the top of the Mountain, including the final 17 laps and was eventually declared after 50 laps, 31 short of the intended full race distance. Paul Morris avenged his disqualification from victory in the1997 AMP Bathurst 1000
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taking victory over the two-car factory supported Volvo team, Jim Richards driving solo as Cameron McLean
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McLean began racing at age 14 in karts. He came to prominence when he won the 1995 Australian Sports Sedan Championship in a BMW M3. McLean won the 1997 ...
was unable to take his scheduled middle stint because of the weather and because of tyre issues, and Craig Baird
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and Matthew Coleman. Fourth place and leading independent driver was young New Zealander Mark Porter who had impressed team owner Mike Downard that he kept Porter in the car rather than take his own turn at the wheel. Leading independent team Knight Racing
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saw the Dean Canto / Leanne Ferrier buried in a sand trap at The Chase while the lead car of Peter Hills
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Hills was born at Ranfurly in Central Otago in 1 ...
/ Ron Searle
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Early life
Searle was born in Southampton, En ...
struggled with water leaks and electrical issues.
Official results
Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 100
Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 500
Note: * Italics indicate the driver practiced the car but did not compete in the race. * The Rod Salmon / Damien WhiteMitsubishi Lancer Evo V
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was entered as a GT Production car.
Statistics
* Pole Position – #3 Jim Richards (Determined from results of 100 km race)Morris Reigns on Mountain, Auto Action, 14 October 1999, pages 17–19 * Fastest Lap – #3 Jim Richards – 2:38.1390Race results, www.teamdan.comRetrieved on 14 April 2018 * Race time of winning car – 2:55:31.5969 * Average Race Speed – 106 km/h
References
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