1993 Tooheys 1000

Class structure and entry list

Class structure

;Class A: Over 2000cc The class later to become known as V8 Supercar. It consisted of V8 Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores with a special dispensation to allow Group A 2.5 litre BMW M3s and a BMW 635CSi to race.

;Class B: Up to 2000cc The class later to become known as Super Touring. It consisted of a pair of Toyota Corollas and a Toyota Carina and a group of older modified Group A touring cars, BMW M3s, Ford Sierras and Toyota Corollas.

Entry list

47 cars were entered in the race.

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• – Bob Holden and David Sala withdrew separately from Car #13 prior to the race. Sala was replaced with Peter Hopwood.

Results

Top 10 shootout

• Larry Perkins was the only Commodore driver in the runoff to actually have a Holden V8 engine in his car. The rest of the Holden runners had the 5.0L Chevrolet engine in their cars.
• David Brabham became the first second generation driver to compete in the runoff, emulating his triple Formula One World Championship winning father Jack who drove in the inaugural Top 10 runoff in 1978. By coincidence, both finished their respective runoffs in 8th position. The younger Brabham also became the 6th ex-F1 driver to qualify for the runoff following Jack Brabham, Derek Bell, Larry Perkins, Johnny Cecotto and Alan Jones.
• After the Ford EB Falcons had dominated the first six rounds of the ATCC, CAMS allowed a new aero package for the Holden VP Commodores. At Bathurst this allowed the Commodore runners to qualify almost 3 seconds faster than they had in 1992 while the fastest Ford driver in official qualifying Glenn Seton (the only Falcon runner in 1992) could only improve his 1992 time by 1.2 seconds.
• The first driver to run against the clock, Neil Crompton, spun on oil coming into Caltex Chase on his fast lap. During his television interview upon returning to the pits, an angry Crompton said he was stunned to find oil flags waving going into the chase and questioned why the drivers were not told about the oil before the runoff started. As it happened, it was his own GIO Commodore that had been dropping the oil onto the track during both his warm up and official lap, causing grip problems for the next eight drivers to run. Only Perkins and a last out (due to an official mix-up) Dick Johnson said that they found none of the oil.

Race

Statistics

• Provisional Pole Position - #11 Larry Perkins - 2:12.86
• Pole Position – #11 Larry Perkins – 2:13.013
• Fastest Lap – #1 Mark Skaife – 2:14.803 (165.92 km/h) on lap 84
• Race time of winning car - 6:29:06.69
• Winners' Average Speed – 154.51 km/h

Broadcast

Channel Seven broadcast the race. Richard Hay and Mark Oastler spent time in both the booth and pit lane as part of the broadcast.

References

References

1. CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, 1993, page 205
2. Official Programme, Tooheys 1000, 1993, page 43
3. Noonan, Aaron. (25 November 2021). "Bathurst Every Car, the Photographic History 1990-1999". AN1 Media.
4. Official Programme, Tooheys 1000, 1994, page 30