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1987 Bob Jane T-Marts 500

BEL Pierre Dieudonné ITA Roberto Ravaglia AUT Roland Ratzenberger

The 1987 Bob Jane T-Marts 500 was the ninth round of the 1987 World Touring Car Championship. The race, which was open to Group A Touring Cars, was held on 11 October 1987 at Calder Park Raceway in outer Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on the rarely used combined circuit which incorporated both the recently redeveloped (1986) road course and the newly completed, high banked (24°) NASCAR-style “Thunderdome” oval.

The combined oval/road course was 4.216 km (2.620 mi) long and the race was run over 120 laps.

The race was won by Steve Soper and Pierre Dieudonné driving a Ford Sierra RS500 for the Ford Texaco Racing Team. Both Klaus Ludwig's pole time of 1:42.92 and Andrew Miedecke's fastest race lap of 1:45.03 in their respective Ford Sierra RS500's were faster than the pole time set in the only other Group A Touring Car race held on the combined oval/road course, the Yokohama/Bob Jane T-Marts 300 held two months previously on 9 August.

Classes

Cars competed in three classes based on engine capacity.

Class A: Over 2500cc
Class B: 1601-2500cc
Class C: Up to 1600cc

Results

Pos	Class	No.	Entrant	Drivers	Car	Laps	Qual
Pos	Series
Points	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNQ
A	6	SWI Ford Texaco Racing Team	GBR Steve Soper
BEL Pierre Dieudonné	Ford Sierra RS500	120	2	40
B	46	FRG BMW Motorsport / Schnitzer Team	ITA Emanuele Pirro
ITA Roberto Ravaglia	BMW M3	120	9	35
B	40	FRG BMW Motorsport / Schnitzer Team	FRG Markus Oestreich
AUT Roland Ratzenberger	BMW M3	120	16	27
B	42	ITA BMW Motorsport / CiBiEmm	Venezuela Johnny Cecotto
ITA Gianfranco Brancatelli	BMW M3	119	7	22
A	15	AUS Peter Jackson Nissan Racing	AUS Glenn Seton
AUS George Fury	Nissan Skyline RS DR30	119	11
A	11	AUS Perkins Engineering	AUS Larry Perkins
NZL Denny Hulme	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	118	6
B	47	FRG BMW Motorsport / Schnitzer Team	FRG Anette Meeuvissen
AUT Mercedes Stermitz	BMW M3	117	18
A	05	AUS Mobil HDT Racing	AUS Peter Brock
AUS David Parsons	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	116	8
A	16	AUS Mitsubishi Ralliart Aust.	AUS Gary Scott
JPN Akihiko Nakaya	Mitsubishi Starion	115	14
A	26	AUS Kalari Transport Services	AUS Tony Noske
AUS Gary Rush	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	114	25
A	10	AUS Mobil HDT Racing	AUS Peter McLeod
AUS Neil Crompton	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	114	19
A	7	SWI Ford Texaco Racing Team	FRG Klaus Ludwig
FRG Klaus Niedzwiedz	Ford Sierra RS500	113	1	23
A	18	AUS Shell Ultra Hitech Racing	AUS Charlie O'Brien
NZL Neville Crichton
AUS Dick Johnson	Ford Sierra RS500	113	12
A	23	AUS Jagparts Racing	AUS Alf Grant
AUS Gerald Kay	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	108	28
A	22	AUS Lusty Engineering Pty. Ltd.	AUS Graham Lusty
AUS John Lusty	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	107	26
C	100	ITA Alfa Romeo	ITA Giorgio Francia
ITA Daniele Toffoli	Alfa Romeo 33	100	32	26
A	14	AUS Netcomm (Aust.) Racing	AUS Murray Carter
AUS Denis Horley
AUS Steve Masterton	Nissan Skyline RS DR30	94	17
A	31	AUS Cullen Supa Salvage	AUS Warren Cullen
NZL Gary Sprague
AUS Gary Cooke	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	104	20
A	27	AUS Ray Gulson	AUS Ray Gulson
AUS Graham Gulson
AUS Bryan Thomson	BMW 635 CSi	99	29
A	2	AUS Bob Jane T-Marts	AUS Allan Grice
GBR Win Percy	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	81	10
B	44	AUS JPS Team BMW	NZL Jim Richards
AUS Tony Longhurst	BMW M3	73	13
B	43	ITA BMW Motorsport	FRG Winni Vogt
FRG Altfrid Heger	BMW M3	70	15
C	91	AUS Toyota Team Australia	NZL John Faulkner
AUS Drew Price	Toyota Corolla GT	67	31
A	35	AUS Oxo Supercube Motorsport	AUS Andrew Miedecke
AUS Don Smith	Ford Sierra RS500	58	3
A	29	AUS Mulvihill Racing	AUS Barry Jones
AUS Ken Mathews	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	46	27
B	62	FRG Thomas von Loewis of Menar	FRG Thomas von Löwis of Menar
FRG Leopold von Bayern	BMW M3	44	23
A	24	NZL	NZL Keiran Wills
NZL Philip Henley	Nissan Skyline RS DR30	42	21
A	17	AUS Shell Ultra Hitech Racing	AUS Dick Johnson
AUS Gregg Hansford	Ford Sierra RS500	25	4
A	9	AUS Allan Moffat Racing	GRB Andy Rouse
CAN Allan Moffat
BEL Thierry Tassin	Ford Sierra RS500	21	5
A	4	ITA Pro Team Italia	ITA Marco Gunella
ITA Nicola Tesini
ITA Stefano Livio	Maserati Biturbo	18	30
A	1	ITA Pro Team Italia	FRG Armin Hahne
AUS Kevin Bartlett	Maserati Biturbo	17	22
A	3	AUS R. G. Lanyon	AUS Mike Freeman
AUS Bruce Williams
AUS Peter Fitzgerald	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	17	24
A	28	AUS Lawrie Nelson	AUS Lawrie Nelson
AUS Bryan Thomson	Ford Mustang GT	-	-

Statistics

Pole Position – #7 Klaus Ludwig – 1.42.92
Fastest Lap – #35 Andrew Miedecke – 1:45.03
Average Speed – 139.916 km/h

References

External links

References

Christopher de Fraga, Sierra’s winning run continues at Calder, The Age, Monday, 12 October 1987, page 35
[https://web.archive.org/web/20231003225829/http://touringcarracing.net/Races/1987%20Calder.html Bob Jane T-Marts 500, touringcarracing.net, as archived at web.archive.org]
Australian Auto Action, 23 October 1987, pages 12–13
Australian Auto Action, 23 October 1987, page 22
Official Programme, Calder Park, October 10 & 11 1987
Australian Auto Action, 23 October 1987, page 14

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