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1983 Australian Endurance Championship

The 1983 Australian Endurance Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Group C Touring Cars. The championship was contested over a six-round series with all rounds run concurrently with those of the 1983 Australian Endurance Championship of Makes.

Wollongong based Peter McLeod's consistent run over the series which saw him score points in all but the Castrol 400 at Sandown, won his first (and only) touring car championship driving his Slick 50 sponsored Mazda RX-7. Second was the JPS Team BMW 635 CSi of triple Bathurst 1000 winner Jim Richards, with Nissan Motorsport driver George Fury third in his Bluebird Turbo.

Fury, who won the opening two rounds of the series, and the Holden Dealer Team's star driver Peter Brock, who won the James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst and the final round in Adelaide, were the only multiple winners in the 1983 AEC, though Brock received no points from his Bathurst win due to having already started the race in his usual No.05 which blew its engine on lap 8. The other winners were 1983 ATCC winner Allan Moffat who drove his Mazda RX-7 to victory in the Castrol 400, Allan Grice who drove his Roadways Holden Commodore to victory at Surfers Paradise while John Harvey and Larry Perkins shared the Bathurst win with Peter Brock.

Calendar

Rd.	Race title	Circuit	City/Town	Date	Winner/s	Car	Team	Car No.
Silastic 300	Amaroo Park	Annangrove	7 August	AUS George Fury	Nissan Bluebird Turbo	Nissan Motor Co.	55
Oran Park 250	Oran Park	Narellan	21 August	AUS George Fury	Nissan Bluebird Turbo	Nissan Motor Co.	57
Castrol 400	Sandown	Melbourne	11 September	CAN Allan Moffat	Mazda RX-7	Peter Stuyvesant International Racing	43	[Report](1983-castrol-400)
James Hardie 1000	Mount Panorama	Bathurst	2 October	AUS John Harvey
AUS Peter Brock
AUS Larry Perkins	Holden VH Commodore SS	Marlboro Holden Dealer Team	25	[Report](1983-james-hardie-1000)
Motorcraft 300	Surfers Paradise	Gold Coast	30 October	AUS Allan Grice	Holden VH Commodore SS	STP Roadways Racing	6
Humes Guardrail 300	Adelaide International Raceway	Adelaide	20 November	AUS Peter Brock	Holden VH Commodore SS	Marlboro Holden Dealer Team	05	[Report](1983-humes-guardrail-300)

Class structure

Cars competed in two engine displacement classes:

Up to 3000cc
Over 3000cc

Points structure

Championship points were awarded to the top twenty finishers at each round according to the outright position attained. If two drivers shared a car the points were split between the two drivers, except at Round 4 where two driver combinations were mandated by regulations, removing the single driver option. Full points to both drivers were awarded. The exception to this was Round 4 at Bathurst as Peter Brock received no points for winning the race while co-winners John Harvey and Larry Perkins were both awarded full points. This was because Brock had started the race in his usual No.05 which had an engine failure on lap 8 before transferring to No.25 on lap 22, the rules being that a driver could not be awarded awarded points after swapping cars. While this gave Brock no points despite the win, it did not affect his usual co-driver Perkins who only got to drive the race winning No.25 Commodore in the race.

Outright Position	Up to 3000cc	Over 3000cc
1	2	3
30	27	24
25	23	20

Results

=8	AUS Peter Brock	05	Holden VH Commodore SS	Marlboro Holden Dealer Team	11.5	-	-	-	-	25	36.5

References

CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, 1983, page 95
Australian Motor Racing Yearbook, 1983/84, pages 288–311
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDeShaiRL3s 1983 SILASTIC 300 AEC R1 Amaroo Park]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gd-AaNLdh4 AEC 1983 Rd 2 Oran Park]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIVEJJU_IKk 1983 Sandown 400 - Full Race]
Round 6. Adelaide International Raceway]

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