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Appendix K
The GT World Challenge Australia, formerly known as the Australian GT Championship, is a Motorsport Australia-sanctioned national title for drivers of GT cars, held annually from 1960 to 1963, from 1982 to 1985 and from 2005. Each championship up to and including the 1963 title was contested over a single race and those after that year over a series of races. The categories which have contested the championship have not always been well defined and often have become a home for cars orphaned by category collapse or a sudden change in regulation. As of 2024, the series uses the international GT3 rules. For 2025, the GT World Challenge will be the headline category of a national race series organised by the category promoters, SRO Motorsports Group. History Appendix K In the first era the championship races were open to closed roof cars (not necessarily production based) complying with CAMS Appendix K regulations. Appendix K catered for modified production Grand Touring cars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Car Racing
Sports car racing is a form of motorsport road racing that uses sports cars with two seats and enclosed wheels. They may be either purpose-built Sports prototype, sports prototypes, which are the highest level in sports car racing; or grand tourers (GT cars) based on road-going models and therefore, in general, not as fast as sports prototypes. Sports car races are often Endurance racing (motorsport), endurance races run over particularly long distances or large amounts of time, emphazing on reliability and efficiency of the car and its drivers more than outright car performance or driver skills. The FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship are some of the best-known sports car racing series. Sports car racing is one of the main types of circuit auto racing, alongside open-wheel racing (such as Formula One), touring car racing (such as British Touring Car Championship, BTCC, which is based on 'saloon cars' as opposed to the 'exotics' seen in sports cars) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group A Sports Cars
Group A Sports Cars is an Australian motor racing category that CAMS formulated for sports car racing in Australia. Introduced in 1964, it continues today under the name Group 2A Sports Cars. On introduction in 1964, Group A catered only for closed sports racing cars with their open top counterparts continuing under existing CAMS Appendix C Sports Car regulations. For 1965, the Appendix C Sports Cars category was discontinued with Group A now catering for both open and closed sports cars. Vehicles were required to have two seats, two doors, mudguards, and an electrical system with operable lights, horn, and starter. Although the rules required that cars also be capable of being registered for road use, the category was not intended for production based cars, which were accommodated by two other newly introduced CAMS categories, Group B Improved Production Sports Cars and Group D Series Production Sports Cars. Initially, mechanical elements under Group A were virtually unrestri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Jane
Robert Frederick Jane (18 December 1929 – 28 September 2018) was an Australian race car driver and prominent entrepreneur and business tycoon. A four-time winner of the Armstrong 500, the race that became the prestigious Bathurst 1000 and a four-time Australian Touring Car Championship, Australian Touring Car Champion, Jane was well known for his chain of Tire, tyre retailers, Bob Jane T-Marts. Jane was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 2000. Early life Bob Jane grew up in Brunswick, Victoria, Brunswick, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne. His passion for racing began in the early 1950s as a champion bicycle rider, holding many state records before turning to four wheels. In the later 1950s, he started Bob Jane Autoland, a company that distributed parts for Jaguar (car), Jaguar and Alfa Romeo. Through this venture, a love of cars and motor sport blossomed and he first entered competitive racing in Australia in 1956; by 1960, he was racing with some of Australia's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Thomson
Bryan may refer to: Places in the United States * Bryan, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Bryan, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Bryan, Ohio, a city * Bryan, Texas, a city * Bryan, Wyoming, a ghost town * Bryan County, Georgia * Bryan County, Oklahoma * Bryan Township (other) * Lake Bryan, Bryan Texas, a power plant cooling pond People * Bryan (given name), a list of people with this name * Bryan (surname), a list of people with this name * Daniel Bryan, ring name of American professional wrestler Bryan Danielson (born 1981) Schools * Bryan University, Tempe, Arizona, United States, a for-profit private university * Bryan College, Dayton, Tennessee, United States a private Christian college * Bryan High School (other) Other uses * Baron Bryan, a baronial title of Plantagenet England * Bryan Boulevard, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States, limited access highway * Bryan House (other) Bryan House or variations such as Bryan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Grice
Allan Maxwell Grice (born 21 October 1942), known to motor-racing fans as "Gricey", is an Australian former racing driver and politician, most famous for twice winning the prestigious Bathurst 1000 (1986 and 1990), and as a privateer driver of a Holden in the Australian Touring Car Championship. Grice was educated at The Armidale School in northern NSW. Grice also had a successful second career as a politician and Member for Broadwater in the Queensland Parliament from 1992 to 2001. He currently operates an LPG conversion and importing business – LPGricey Tanks. Bathurst 1000 record Grice made 26 starts between 1968 and 2002 ( sixth on the 'most starts' list). Grice had seven podium finishes at Bathurst: two wins (1986 and 1990), four seconds (1978, 1982, 1991, 1995), and a third (1983). These results put him fifth on the 'most podiums' list for drivers at Bathurst. Thirteen top 10 finishes (50% of all his starts) (in addition to above, fourth in 1979, seventh in 1980 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Australian GT Championship
The 1985 Australian GT Championship was the eighth Australian GT Championship and the fourth to be decided over a series of races. It was open to grand tourer, GT Cars complying with Confederation of Australian Motor Sport, CAMS Group D regulations with Group B Sports Sedans and superseded Group C (Australia), Group C Touring Cars competing by invitation. The title was contested over six rounds from 24 March to 25 August 1985. The championship was won by Bryan Thomson driving a Chevrolet Monza and a Mercedes-Benz SLC-Class, Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC Chevrolet small-block engine, Chevrolet for Thomson-Fowler Motorsport. The Australian GT Championship was discontinued after 1985 however the title was reinstated for 2005. Schedule Note : Rounds were run concurrently with those of the 1985 Australian Sports Car Championship. Points system For rounds contested over a single race, i.e. Rounds 1, 4, 5 & 6, championship points were awarded on a 30-27-24-21-19-17-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
