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1988 Enzed Sandown 500

The 1988 Enzed Sandown 500 was an endurance race for Group 3A Touring Cars. The event was held at the Sandown International Raceway in Victoria, Australia on 11 September 1988 over 129 laps of the 3.9 km circuit, a total distance of 503 km. This was the last time that the 3.9 km International configuration of the Sandown circuit was used for Australian touring car racing. The race was the 23rd running of the "Sandown enduro".

1988 would be the only year that New Zealand based hydraulic hose and connector repair company Enzed, a former sponsor of Larry Perkins, would sponsor the event.

Allan Moffat and Gregg Hansford won the race in their Eggenberger Motorsport built Ford Sierra RS500. It was Moffat's 6th and final Sandown enduro win having previously won in 1969, 1970, 1974, 1982 and 1983, while for Hansford it would be is only Sandown 500 win. It would also prove to be Moffat's final race win as both a driver and team owner in Australia. Second was the new Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV of Larry Perkins and Formula One World Drivers' Champion Denny Hulme, while third after numerous troubles was the pole winning Sierra of Dick Johnson and John Bowe.

Class B was won by the Mobil 1 Racing BMW M3 of Peter Brock, Jim Richards and David Parsons which finished 7th outright, 7 laps down on the Moffat/Hansford Sierra. Class C was won by the Nissan Gazelle of David Sala and Ross Burbidge which finished 11th outright, 20 laps down on the Sierra.

The race was broadcast live throughout Australia by the ABC with commentary provided by Will Hagon, Peter Gee and Melbourne motor racing personality "Captain" Peter Janson with John Thompson doing the pit reports.

Class structure

The race was contested in three displacement classes:

Class A: Outright
Class B: 2001 cc to 3000 cc
Class C: Up to 2000 cc

Results

Qualifying

Grid positions were determined by three 30 minute qualifying sessions. The first ten positions were:

Pos	No.	Entrant	Driver	Car
17	Shell Ultra Hi Racing	AUS Dick Johnson	Ford Sierra RS500	1:46.94
25	Benson & Hedges Racing	AUS Tony Longhurst	Ford Sierra RS500	1:48.30
15	Peter Jackson Nissan Racing	AUS Glenn Seton	Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R	1:48.82
05	Mobil 1 Racing	AUS Peter Brock	BMW M3	1:50.04
8	Andrew Bagnall	AUS Andrew Miedecke	Ford Sierra RS500	1:50.09
10	Holden Special Vehicles	AUS Larry Perkins	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	1:50.18
9	Allan Moffat Racing	CAN Allan Moffat	Ford Sierra RS500	1:50.40
30	Peter Jackson Nissan Racing	AUS George Fury	Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R	1:50.68
11	Holden Special Vehicles	FRG Armin Hahne	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	1:52.23
44	Caltex CXT Racing Team	AUS John Giddings	Ford Sierra RS500	1:52.24

Race

Position	Class	No.	Entrant
A	9	Allan Moffat Racing	CAN Allan Moffat
AUS Gregg Hansford	Ford Sierra RS500	129
A	10	Holden Special Vehicles	AUS Larry Perkins
NZL Denny Hulme	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	129
A	17	Shell Ultra Hi Racing	AUS Dick Johnson
AUS John Bowe	Ford Sierra RS500	125
A	26	Strathfield Car Radios	AUS Tony Noske
AUS Graham Moore	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	124
A	25	Benson & Hedges Racing	AUS Tony Longhurst
AUS Tomas Mezera	Ford Sierra RS500	123
A	18	Shell Ultra Hi Racing	AUS John Smith
AUS Alfredo Costanzo	Ford Sierra RS500	123
B	05	Mobil 1 Racing	AUS Peter Brock
NZL Jim Richards
AUS David Parsons	BMW M3	122
A	46	Sunliner Campmobiles	NZL Tony Hunter
AUS Steve Harrington	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	121
A	22	Lusty Engineering Pty Ltd	AUS Ken Lusty
AUS Graham Lusty	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	121
A	24	Jagparts Racing	AUS Gerald Kay
AUS Geoff Munday	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	117
C	88	David Sala	AUS David Sala
AUS Ross Burbidge	Nissan Gazelle	109
A	42	Hella Australia P/L	AUS Matt Wacker
AUS Larry Kogge	Nissan Skyline DR30 RS	99
C	13	Bob Holden Motors	AUS Bob Holden
AUS Garry Jones
AUS Damon Beck	Toyota Sprinter	81
A	30	Peter Jackson Nissan Racing	AUS George Fury
AUS Mark Skaife	Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R	94
A	36	Everlast Battery Service	AUS Bill O'Brien
AUS Ray Lintott	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	81
A	87	Joe Sommariva	AUS Joe Sommariva
AUS Darrell Belsky
AUS Warren McKellar	BMW 635 CSi	79
A	38	Grellis Marketing	AUS Ray Ellis
AUS Bruce Williams	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	78
B	34	Phil Ward Automotive Servies Motor Racing Division	AUS Phil Ward
AUS David Clement	Mercedes-Benz 190E	69
B	7	Mobil 1 Racing	AUS Neil Crompton
AUS David Parsons
AUS Peter Brock	BMW M3	58
A	11	Holden Special Vehicles	GBR Jeff Allam
FRG Armin Hahne	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	56
C	32	Toyota Team Australia	NZL Brett Riley
AUS Peter McKay	Toyota Corolla	44
A	8	Andrew Bagnall	AUS Andrew Miedecke
NZL Andrew Bagnall	Ford Sierra RS500	28
A	23	Beaurepaires Motorsport	GBR Chris Lambden
AUS Kerry Baily	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	26
A	20	Terry Finnigan	AUS Terry Finnigan
AUS Ken Mathews	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	25
C	31	Toyota Team Australia	AUS Mike Oliver
AUS Mike Freeman	Toyota Corolla	23
A	3	Yellow Pages	AUS Peter McLeod
AUS Jim Keogh	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV	21
C	86	Gemspares	AUS Darryl Hendrick
AUS John White	Isuzu Gemini ZZ	17
A	44	Caltex CXT Racing Team	AUS John Giddings
AUS Bruce Stewart	Ford Sierra RS500	15
C	91	Bryan Bate Motors Ltd	AUS Bryan Bate
AUS Andrew Maher	Toyota Corolla	11
A	28	Capri Components	AUS Lawrie Nelson
AUS Bob Jolly	Ford Mustang	3
A	15	Peter Jackson Nissan Racing	AUS Glenn Seton
SWE Anders Olofsson	Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R	1
C	29	Toyota Team Australia	AUS Drew Price
NZL John Faulkner	Toyota Corolla	1
A	4	Caltex CXT Racing Team	AUS Colin Bond
AUS Alan Jones	Ford Sierra RS500
A	14	Netcomm	AUS Murray Carter
AUS Steve Masterton	Ford Sierra RS500

Note: Car 13 was still running at the finish of the race but had not completed 75% of the race winners' distance.

Statistics

Pole Position - #17 Dick Johnson - 1:46.94
Winners' race time: 4 hrs 4 mins 11.24 sec
Fastest Lap - #17 John Bowe - 1:47.65 (lap 81 - new lap record)

Race name

Sources differ in referring to the race as either the Enzed Sandown 500 or simply as the Enzed 500. The former is used in the Official Program and in the Provisional Results and has been used here.

References

Official Program, ENZED Sandown 500
Mike Jacobson, Moffat's Sandown, Australian Auto Action, 16 September 1988, pages 10-15
Pit Lane, Thunderdome - Australian Motor Sport, October 1988, page 59
"Provisional - Results - 1988 Enzed Sandown 500 - Sandown International Raceway, Victoria - 11 September 1988", as obtained from the Eric Rainsford Library, Sporting Car Club of South Australia
David Segal, Enzed 500, Australian Motor Racing Year 1988/89, pages 264-267
Sandown Entry List, Racing Car News, September 1988, page 7
Bill Tuckey, "And Johnson rolled his eyes to the bilious skies" - The Enzed 500, The Great Race, #8, Chevron Publishing Group Pty Limited, 1989, pages 52 to 60
[http://touringcarracing.net/Races/1988%20Sandown%20Enzed.html Enzed 500, touringcarracing.net] Retrieved 11 March 2017

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