1964 Sandown 6 Hour International
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The 1964 Sandown 6 Hour International was an endurance race for saloon cars complying with FIA Group 1 regulations.
The event was held at the Sandown Park circuit in Victoria on 29 November 1964 and was the genesis of what we now know as the Sandown 500
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Entries competed in seven classes as follows :
Class G was created to cater for entries which were modified to FIA Group 2 specifications. These entries were ineligible for outright placing prizemoney.
Results for the event are given below.
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The event was held at the Sandown Park circuit in Victoria on 29 November 1964 and was the genesis of what we now know as the Sandown 500
Sandown 500
The Sandown 500 is an endurance motor race staged at the Sandown Raceway, near Melbourne in Victoria, Australia between 1964 and 2011. It was typically held in September, the month before Australia’s premier endurance race, the Bathurst 1000. The “500” was not run in 1966, 1967, 1999, 2000, 2008,...
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Entries competed in seven classes as follows :
- Class A : Over 3000cc
- Class B : 2501-3000cc
- Class C : 2001-2500cc
- Class D : 1601-2000cc
- Class E : 1301-1600cc
- Class F : 900-1300cc
- Class G : Open
Class G was created to cater for entries which were modified to FIA Group 2 specifications. These entries were ineligible for outright placing prizemoney.
Results for the event are given below.
Position | Drivers | No. | Car | Class | Laps | ||
1 | Roberto Bussinello Roberto Bussinello Roberto Bussinello was a racing driver from Italy. He participated in three Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 10 September 1961. He scored no championship points. He also participated in several non-Championship Formula One races.-Complete Formula One World Championship... , Ralph Sachs |
50 | Alfa Romeo TI Super | E | 230 | ||
2 | Peter Manton, Brian Foley | 62 | Morris Cooper S | F | 223 | ||
3 | Geoff Russell, John Raeburn | Ford Cortina GT | E | 223 | |||
4 | Allan Moffat Allan Moffat Allan George Moffat, OBE is an Australian racing driver known for his four wins in the Australian Touring Car Championship, six wins in the Sandown 500 and his four wins in the Bathurst 1000... , Jon Leighton |
Lotus Cortina | G | 220 | |||
5 | I Cooke, Bruce Hindhaugh | Morris Cooper S | F | 211 | |||
6 | Paddy Hopkirk Paddy Hopkirk Patrick Barron "Paddy" Hopkirk is a former rally driver from Northern Ireland.He was born in Belfast and educated at Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare from 1945 – 1949 before attending Trinity College, Dublin until 1953. He started his winning career in professional racing and rally driving... , John Fitzpatrick |
Morris Cooper S | F | 204 | |||
7 | Bill Burns, Brian Lawler | Fiat 2300 | C | 202 | |||
8 | C Giltrap, Ivan Segedin | Volvo 122S | D | 201 | |||
9 | Brian Muir, Bill Brown | Datsun SS | F | 201 | |||
10 | Spencer Martin, Ron Clarke | Datsun SS | F | 201 | |||
11 | Bruce McPhee Bruce McPhee Bruce Alexander McPhee was a former Australian motor racing driver.He is most famous for winning the 1968 Hardie-Ferodo 500 , defeating both the Holden and Ford factory teams. He drove a Holden Monaro GTS327 painted yellow and black stripes with the number 13... , Fred Morgan |
Holden 179M | B | 201 | |||
12 | Bob Jane Bob Jane Robert "Bob" Jane is an Australian former race car driver and prominent businessman. A four-time winner of the Armstrong 500, the race that became the prestigious Bathurst 1000 and a four-time Australian Touring Car Champion, Jane is perhaps known best nowadays for his chain of tyre retailers,... , George Reynolds |
51 | Lotus Cortina | E | 200 | ||
13 | Ann Bennett, John Colwell | Toyota Crown | D | 200 | |||
14 | P Owen, Kevin Bartlett Kevin Bartlett (race driver) Kevin Bartlett , often known by his nickname "KB", is an Australian former open wheel and touring car racing driver who won the CAMS Gold Star in 1968 and 1969, as well as the prestigious Bathurst 1000. Bartlett was named in Wheels magazine's annual yearbook in 2004 as one of Australia's 50... |
Mercedes-Benz 220SE | C | 198 | |||
15 | I McDonald, C Fisher | Peugeot 404 | D | 197 | |||
16 | L Stewart, B Rossiter | 63 | Morris Cooper S | F | 197 | ||
17 | Alan Mottram, Fred Sutherland | Studebaker Lark | A | 196 | |||
18 | John Eiffeltower, C Smith | Chrysler Valiant | A | 195 | |||
19 | A Osborne, K Burns | Ford Zephyr | B | 192 | |||
20 | Paul England Paul England Paul England is an Australian former racing driver. He worked for the Repco company and raced his own Holden-powered Ausca sports racing car that used a fibreglass body based on the A6GCS Maserati. He contested a single Grand Prix race, the 1957 German Grand Prix, in a Formula 2 Cooper-Climax... , D Stewart |
Volkswagen 1500S | D | 190 | |||
21 | R Thurston, Brian Sampson | 45 | Triumph 2000 | D | 189 | ||
22 | B Topen, D Cooke | Fiat 2300 | C | 187 | |||
23 | Roger Ward, Warren Weldon | Studebaker Lark | A | 187 | |||
24 | Bob Holden, B Ferguson | Volkswagen 1500S | F | 182 | |||
25 | D Leighton, Kaye Whiteford | Morris 1100 | F | 179 | |||
26 | H Gibson, H Gibson Jr. | Triumph Herald | F | 176 | |||
27 | A Cooper, J Hills | Ford Cortina GT | D | 171 | |||
28 | Frank Matich Frank Matich Frank Matich, born 1935, was an Australian racing car driver. A highly successful motor racing competitor in the 1960s and 70s, Matich built his own range of Matich sports cars and open wheel cars, mainly to support his own career, but some cars found success with other drivers... , Rod Blair |
14 | Jaguar 3.8 | A | 157 | ||
DNF | Timo Makinen Timo Mäkinen Timo Mäkinen was one of the original "Flying Finns" of motor rallying. He is most famous for his hat-tricks of wins in the RAC Rally and the 1000 Lakes Rally-Career:... , Raubi Altonen |
Morris Cooper S | F | ||||
DNF | Jackie Stewart Jackie Stewart Sir John Young Stewart, OBE , better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scotsman, is a Scottish former racing driver and team owner. He competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three World Drivers' Championships. He also competed in Can-Am... , Jim Palmer |
Lotus Cortina | D | ||||
DNF | Lex Davison Lex Davison Alexander Nicholas Davison was a racing driver who won the Australian Grand Prix four times between 1954 and 1961 and won the Australian Drivers' Championship in 1957... , Gawaine Baillie Sir Gawaine Baillie, 7th Baronet Sir Gawaine Baillie, 7th Bt was an amateur motor racing driver, engineer, industrialist, stamp collector, and the owner of the ancient estate surrounding Leeds Castle, the ancient fortress in Kent... |
1 | Ford Galaxie | G | |||
DNF | Alan Hamilton | Peugeot 404 | D | ||||
DNF | Frank Coad, John Roxburgh | 21 | Vauxhall Velox | B |