1999 Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 500
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The 1999 Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 500 was a motor race staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia on 3 October 1999.[1] It was the 37th and last in a sequence of annual touring car endurance races to be organised by the Australian Racing Driver's Club at the Mount Panorama Circuit, previous events having included Bathurst 500 races and, from 1973, the Bathurst 1000.
The race was open to Super Touring cars,[1] with FIA Production cars, GT Production cars and Schedule S cars [2] also invited to compete. Qualifying established the grid for a 100 kilometre preliminary race, the Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 100, which in turn determined grid positions for the 500 kilometre main event.
The Super Touring 500 was won by Paul Morris driving a BMW 320i.
Race[]
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The race was very heavily weather affected with rain wreathing the circuit for much of the day, earlier blighting the Bob Jane T-Marts V8 300 race held for a combined field of AUSCARs and Future Touring Cars. The race spent many laps behind a safety car because of heavy rain and poor visibility caused by fog across the top of the Mountain, including the final 17 laps and was eventually declared after 50 laps, 31 short of the intended full race distance. Paul Morris avenged his disqualification from victory in the 1997 AMP Bathurst 1000 taking victory over the two-car factory supported Volvo team, Jim Richards driving solo as Cameron McLean was unable to take his scheduled middle stint because of the weather and because of tyre issues, and Craig Baird and Matthew Coleman. Fourth place and leading independent driver was young New Zealander Mark Porter who had impressed team owner that he kept Porter in the car rather than take his own turn at the wheel. Leading independent team saw the Dean Canto / Leanne Ferrier buried in a sand trap at The Chase while the lead car of / struggled with water leaks and electrical issues.
Official results[]
Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 100[]
Pos [3] | No | Team | Drivers | Car | Laps | Qual Pos |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 3 | Volvo Dealer Racing | ![]() |
Volvo S40 | 16 | 1 |
2 | 1 | Paul Morris Motorsport | ![]() |
BMW 320i | 16 | 2 |
3 | 4 | Volvo Dealer Racing | ![]() |
Volvo S40 | 16 | 3 |
4 | 88 | Knight Racing | ![]() |
Ford Mondeo | 16 | 5 |
5 | 44 | Knight Racing | ![]() |
Ford Mondeo | 16 | 4 |
6 | 9 | Aaron McGill Motorsport | ![]() |
Ford Mondeo | 15 | 8 |
7 | 10 | TC Motorsport | ![]() |
Peugeot 406 | 15 | 6 |
8 | 20 | TC Motorsport | ![]() |
Peugeot 406 | 15 | 7 |
9 | 95 | Phoenix Motorsport | ![]() |
Toyota Camry | 15 | 10 |
10 | 14 | MPD Racing | ![]() |
BMW 320i | 15 | 12 |
11 | 38 | Rod Salmon | ![]() |
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V | 15 | 13 |
12 | 12 | Rodney Jones Racing | ![]() |
Vauxhall Cavalier | 15 | 15 |
13 | 15 | Archerfield Speed Karts | ![]() |
Porsche 930 | 15 | 16 |
14 | 22 | Brian Bradshaw Race Preparation | ![]() |
BMW 320i | 15 | 17 |
DNF | 7 | Anthony Robson | ![]() |
BMW 318i | 10 | 14 |
DNF | 24 | Bruce Miles | ![]() |
BMW 318i | 3 | 11 |
DNF | 97 | Triple P Racing | ![]() |
Hyundai Lantra | 2 | 18 |
DNF | 8 | Project Racing | ![]() |
Nissan Primera | 0 | 9 |
Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 500[]
Pos [3] | No | Team | Drivers | Car | Laps | B100 Pos |
Qual Pos |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Paul Morris Motorsport | ![]() |
BMW 320i | 50 | 2 | 2 |
2 | 3 | Volvo Dealer Racing | ![]() ![]() |
Volvo S40 | 50 | 1 | 1 |
3 | 4 | Volvo Dealer Racing | ![]() ![]() |
Volvo S40 | 50 | 3 | 3 |
4 | 14 | MPD Racing | ![]() ![]() |
BMW 320i | 49 | 10 | 12 |
5 | 38 | Rod Salmon | ![]() ![]() |
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V | 49 | 11 | 13 |
6 | 12 | Rodney Jones Racing | ![]() ![]() |
Vauxhall Cavalier | 49 | 12 | 15 |
7 | 8 | Project Racing | ![]() ![]() |
Nissan Primera | 49 | DNF | 9 |
8 | 88 | Knight Racing | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Mondeo | 49 | 4 | 5 |
9 | 95 | Phoenix Motorsport | ![]() ![]() |
Toyota Camry | 48 | 9 | 10 |
10 | 22 | Brian Bradshaw Race Preparation | ![]() ![]() |
BMW 320i | 48 | 14 | 17 |
11 | 24 | Bruce Miles | ![]() ![]() |
BMW 318i | 47 | DNF | 11 |
12 | 7 | Grid Motorsport | ![]() ![]() |
BMW 318i | 46 | DNF | 14 |
13 | 9 | Aaron McGill Motorsport | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Mondeo | 39 | 6 | 8 |
14 | 77 | Motorsport Developments | ![]() ![]() |
Toyota Carina | 38 | DNS | DNS |
DNF | 97 | Triple P Racing | ![]() ![]() |
Hyundai Lantra | 34 | DNF | 18 |
DNF | 10 | TC Motorsport | ![]() ![]() |
Peugeot 406 | 25 | 7 | 6 |
DNF | 44 | Knight Racing | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Mondeo | 24 | 5 | 4 |
DNF | 30 | Roadchill Express | ![]() ![]() |
BMW 320i | 9 | DNS | DNS |
DNF | 99 | Motorsport Developments | ![]() ![]() |
Toyota Carina | 6 | DNS | 19 |
DNS | 20 | TC Motorsport | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Peugeot 406 | 8 | 7 | |
DNS | 15 | Archerfield Speed Karts | ![]() |
Porsche 930 | 13 | 16 |
Note:
- Italics indicate the driver practiced the car but did not compete in the race.
- The Rod Salmon / Damien White Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V was entered as a GT Production car.[2]
Statistics[]
- Pole Position – #3 Jim Richards (Determined from results of 100 km race) [4]
- Fastest Lap – #3 Jim Richards – 2:38.1390 [5]
- Race time of winning car – 2:55:31.5969 [3]
- Average Race Speed – 106 km/h [5]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Official Programme, Mt Panorama, Sunday 3 October 1999
- ^ Jump up to: a b Entry, Bathurst 500, Auto Action, 7 October 1999
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Results, racing.natsoft.com.au
- ^ Morris Reigns on Mountain, Auto Action, 14 October 1999, pages 17–19
- ^ Jump up to: a b Race results, www.teamdan.com Archived 14 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 14 April 2018
- Motorsport in Bathurst, New South Wales
- 1999 in Australian motorsport