1982 James Hardie 1000

Layout of the Mount Panorama Circuit (1938-1986)

The 1982 James Hardie 1000 was the 23rd running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race. It was held on 3 October 1982 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia. The race, which was Round 3 of both the 1982 Australian Endurance Championship and the 1982 Australian Endurance Championship of Makes, was open to cars eligible to the locally developed CAMS Group C touring car regulations with two engine capacity based classes.

The race was won by Peter Brock and Larry Perkins of the Holden Dealer Team driving a Holden Commodore. It was Brock's sixth victory, a record, the Holden Dealer Team's sixth win and the first win in the race for a car carrying a Racecam unit. Holden Commodores filled the top four positions, but only after Dick Johnson was disqualified after originally finishing in fourth spot. Brock and Perkins finished a lap ahead of Allan Grice and Alan Browne. It was the second time Grice had finished second but had yet to win. The second Holden Dealer Team Commodore of John Harvey and Gary Scott finished third, equalling the best previous performance of the HDT, their first in 1969.

Class structure[]

Class A[]

Bartlett/Bond Chevrolet Camaro

Officially designated as the Over 3000cc class,^[1] it featured the V8 Holden Commodores, Ford Falcons and Chevrolet Camaros. Also in this class were the Mazda RX-7s, the factory supported BMW 635CSis and a Jaguar XJS.

Class B[]

Officially designated as the Under 3000cc class,^[2] it featured the turbo charged Nissan Bluebirds, considerably quicker than the opposition made up of Ford Capris, Alfa Romeo GTV6s, and an Audi 5+5 plus cars from the previously featured 2.0 litre class, i.e. Toyota Celicas, Ford Escorts and Isuzu Geminis.

As a round of the Australian Endurance Championship there was also a secondary class structure applied which divided cars into four engine capacity classes.

• Up to 1600cc
• 1601 to 2000cc
• 2001 to 3000cc
• 3001 to 6000cc^[3]

There were no starters in the Up to 1600cc class.^[4]

Hardies Heroes[]

In official qualifying, Re-Car team owner and driver put up a $5,000 reward for the first Touring Car driver to break the 100 mph average lap barrier. The favourite to win the money was the Bathurst pole winner of the past two years, Kevin Bartlett in his 500 bhp (373 kW; 507 PS) V8 Chevrolet Camaro Z28. However, when his co-driver Colin Bond crashed the car due to a tyre blowout, the subsequent repairs put the Camaro's preparation a day behind and its chance was gone.

The Holden Dealer Team had announced Peter Brock to have broken the barrier in qualifying and Browne actually congratulated Brock. However it was revealed that Brock's time of 2:18.1 fell short of 100 mph average. Coincidentally it was Browne's co-driver Allan Grice who pocketed the cash in Friday's qualifying session with a time of 2:17.8 to set the first ever 100 mph lap of the 6.172 km Mount Panorama circuit.

After qualifying 31st and 43rd in 1981, the appearance of the Nissan Bluebird Turbos in the top 10 in qualifying came as a surprise to the V8 fraternity which had dominated the race since 1967, and was a sign of things to come at Bathurst. From 1983, turbo powered cars would qualify first or second in every year other than 1985 until CAMS banned turbos at the end of 1992, with 1983 (Brock in a V8 Holden Commodore VH SS), and 1985 (Tom Walkinshaw's V12 Jaguar XJS) being the only years a turbo powered car did not qualify on pole at Bathurst. The turbos prime year would come in 1989 when all 10 cars in the Saturday morning runoff were turbo powered (nine Fords and one Nissan). Also surprising the V8 runners was four time race winner Allan Moffat who qualified his rotary powered Mazda RX-7 in Hardies Heroes for the second year running.

Pos	No	Team	Driver	Car	Time
Pole	4	Re-Car Racing	Allan Grice	Holden Commodore VH SS	2:17.501
2	05	Marlboro Holden Dealer Team	Peter Brock	Holden Commodore VH SS	2:17.836
3	56	Nissan Motor Co.	Masahiro Hasemi	Nissan Bluebird Turbo	2:18.870
4	9	Nine Network Racing Team	Kevin Bartlett	Chevrolet Camaro Z28	2:18.946
5	16	Re-Car Racing	Garry Rogers	Holden Commodore VH SS	2:19.332
6	7	Seiko Watches	Bob Morris	Ford XE Falcon	2:19.380
7	17	Palmer Tube Mills	Dick Johnson	Ford XE Falcon	2:19.549
8	43	Peter Stuyvesant International Racing	Allan Moffat	Mazda RX-7	2:19.761
9	25	Marlboro Holden Dealer Team	John Harvey	Holden Commodore VH SS	2:19.764
10	55	Nissan Motor Co.	George Fury	Nissan Bluebird Turbo	2:20.613

* The first and only pole position for Allan Grice at Bathurst, and the first of only two times in 26 starts between 1968 and 2002 that he qualified on the front row. He finished 2nd in the 1986 Hardies Heroes, but had been the fastest qualifier going into the runoff.
* Masahiro Hasemi became the first and (as of 2020) only Japanese driver to appear in the runoff.
* 1982 saw the first time a turbocharged car qualified for the runoff. Hasemi and former Australian Rally Champion George Fury qualified their Nissan Motorsport Bluebird Turbos 3rd and 10th respectively
* Nissan became the 5th make of car to appear in Hardies Heroes, following Holden, Ford, Chevrolet and Mazda. The Bluebirds were also the first cars in the runoff to use a 4 cyl engine.
* 1976 race winners Bob Morris and John Fitzpatrick were due to start in their Seiko Watches sponsored Ford XE Falcon after Morris finished 6th in the runoff. Unfortunately during Saturday afternoon's final practice session, Fitzpatrick suffered a broken wheel going into Forrest's Elbow and crashed the car heavily into the bank. The damage was sufficient to see the car withdrawn from the race.

Results[]

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Car	Laps	Qual Pos	Shootout Pos
1	A	05	Marlboro Holden Dealer Team	Peter Brock Larry Perkins	Holden Commodore VH SS	163	2	2
2	A	4	Re-Car Racing	Allan Grice	Holden Commodore VH SS	162	1	1
3	A	25	Marlboro Holden Dealer Team	John Harvey	Holden Commodore VH SS	162	4	9
4	A	3	Cadbury Schweppes Pty Ltd.	Peter Janson David Parsons	Holden Commodore VH SS	158	17
5	A	31	JPS Team BMW	Jim Richards David Hobbs	BMW 635 CSi	157	19
6	A	43	Peter Stuyvesant International Racing	Allan Moffat Yoshimi Katayama	Mazda RX-7	156	3	8
7	A	2	Masterton Homes	Bruce Stewart	Ford XE Falcon	155	31
8	B	56	Nissan Motor Co.	Masahiro Hasemi Kazuyoshi Hoshino	Nissan Bluebird Turbo	153	5	3
9	A	40	Strongbow Racing Team	Peter McLeod	Mazda RX-7	153	22
10	A	35	Ron Gillard		Mazda RX-7	149	30
11	A	6	Ron Dickson		Chevrolet Camaro Z28	149	23
12	B	50	Barry Seton	Barry Seton	Ford Capri Mk.III	147	43
13	A	30	Bangalow Motors Pty Ltd	Phil Ward	Mazda RX-7	145	34
14	B	54	Les Grose		Ford Capri Mk.III	144	48
15	B	63	Bob Holden Motors	Bob Holden	Ford Escort 2.0 GL	141	50
16	B	53	Chris Heyer		Audi 5+5	139	52
17	B	57	Walter Scott		Toyota Celica	137	51
18	A	44	Ron Horner		Mazda RX-7	137	40
19	B	64	Ray Gulson		Alfa Romeo GTV6	136	54
20	A	26	Everlast Battery Service	Bill O'Brien Brian Sampson	Ford XD Falcon	134	24
21	A	12	Ron Dickson		Chevrolet Camaro Z28	134	26
22	A	19	Ken Mathews		Holden Commodore VH SS	130	36
DSQ	A	17	Palmer Tube Mills	Dick Johnson John French	Ford XE Falcon	160	6	7
DSQ	A	47	Brian Callaghan Racing		Ford XE Falcon	150	18
DNF	A	11	Soundwave Discos	Charlie O'Brien	Holden Commodore VH SS	143	28
DNF	B	52	Hulcraft Autos		Ford Capri Mk.III	132	46
DNF	A	37	Eurocars (Northside) P/L		Mazda RX-7	121	20
DNF	A	49	Greg Symes		Holden VB Commodore	121	37
DNF	A	10		John Goss Bob Tullius	Jaguar XJS	119	14
DNF	A	16	Re-Car Racing	Garry Rogers	Holden Commodore VH SS	119	9	5
DNF	A	38	Gawler, SA		Holden Commodore VH SS	118	35
NC	A	46	Rosco Rotary		Mazda RX-7	109	45
NC	A	32	Scotty Taylor		Holden VC Commodore	102	39
NC	B	60	Country Dealer Team		Isuzu Gemini ZZ	96	53
DNF	A	41	JPS Team BMW	Denny Hulme	BMW 635 CSi	96	38
NC	A	21	STP Roadways Racing		Holden Commodore VH SS	90	13
DNF	A	27	Seiko Watches	Alan Jones	Mazda RX-7	88	15
DNF	A	20	King George Tavern		Ford XE Falcon	75	42
DNF	A	8			Ford XD Falcon	68	21
DNF	B	61	Chickadee Chicken	Graeme Bailey	Toyota Celica	65	49
DNF	A	22	Cullen Automotive Industries		Holden Commodore VH SS	54	11
DNF	A	29	John Donnelly		Ford XD Falcon	51	44
DNF	A	23	Alfred Grant		Ford XD Falcon	48	33
DNF	B	55	Nissan Motor Co.	George Fury Fred Gibson	Nissan Bluebird Turbo	40	7	10
DNF	A	9	Nine Network Racing Team	Kevin Bartlett Colin Bond	Chevrolet Camaro Z28	27	8	4
DNF	A	18	Murray Carter Racing	Murray Carter	Ford XE Falcon	25	32
DNF	A	14	John English		Ford XD Falcon	17	25
DNF	B	51	Capri Components	Lawrie Nelson	Ford Capri Mk.III	17	41
DNF	A	33	B.F. Goodrich Australia		Mazda RX-7	13	47
DNF	A	15	Terry Finnigan		Holden Commodore VH SS	9	12
DNF	A	48	Fred Geissler		Holden Commodore VH SS	4	29
DNF	A	34	Penrith Mazda Centre P/L		Mazda RX-7	4	16
DNF	A	28	Bayside Spares		Holden Commodore VH SS	1	27
DNS	A	7	Seiko Watches	Bob Morris John Fitzpatrick	Ford XE Falcon		10	6
DNS	B	62	Gary Leggatt		Alfa Romeo GTV[5]
DNS	A	42	Peter Stuyvesant International Racing	Gregg Hansford	Mazda RX-7
DNQ[6]	A	24	Glenn Molloy		Ford XD Falcon		DNQ
DNQ[6]	B	58	The Daily Planet		Toyota Celica		DNQ

References[]

Statistics[]

• Provisional Pole Position - #4 Allan Grice - 2:17.8
• Pole Position - #4 Allan Grice - 2:17.501
• Fastest Lap - #05 Peter Brock - 2:20.1 (lap record)
• Average Speed - 154 km/h
• Race Time - 6:32:03.2

External links[]

• CAMS Manual reference to Australian titles
• www.touringcarracing.net
• race results
• Autopics Bathurst images