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1980 Australian Sports Car Championship

The 1980 Australian Sports Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title open to Group D Production Sports Cars. The title, which was the twelfth Australian Sports Car Championship, was won by Allan Moffat, driving a Porsche 930 Turbo.

Calendar

The championship was contested over a five-round series with two heats per round.

5	Calder Raceway	Victoria	16-Nov	John Latham	Porsche Turbo

Classes

Cars competed in two engine displacement classes:

Up to and including 2000cc
Over 2000cc

Points system

Round results were determined by allocating points on a 20-16-13-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for the top fourteen places in each heat. Where drivers attained the same number of points, the placings achieved in the second heat were used to determine the round placing.

Actual championship points were then awarded on a 4-3-2-1 basis for the first four outright places at each round, regardless of class. Additionally, championship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six places in each class at each round.

Championship results

The top nine championship placings were as follows:

9	Bob Kennedy	Triumph TR5	R Kennedy	?	?	?	?	?	8

References

Conditions for Australian Titles, 1980 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, pages 91 to 93
Records, Titles and Awards, 2006 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 14-6
Australian Sports Car Championship, Australian Motor Racing Yearbook 1980/81, pages 100 to 105
Souvenir Program, Calder Raceway, Nov. 15-16 (1980), page 43
Official Program, Sandown, February 24, 1980
Latham's Sporties, Racing Car News, December 1980, page 23
RCN identifies the 7th placed driver only as “Colliver”. AMRY includes reference to “Rex Colliver” contesting the championship

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