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The 1968 Datsun 3 Hour Trophy
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,...

was an endurance race for production cars staged at the Sandown Park

Sandown Raceway

Sandown International Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, approximately south east of the city centre. It is considered a power circuit with its front straight being 899m long and back straight 910m long.-History:...

circuit in Victoria, Australia on 15 September 1968. There were 31 starters in the event.

Results

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Position	Drivers	No.	Car	Entrant	Laps
1	Tony Roberts Tony Roberts (racing driver) Anthony Roberts, , was an Australian race and rally driver.Roberts won the 1968 Sandown 3 Hours with Bob Watson, giving the Holden Monaro a debut victory... , Bob Watson	40	Holden Monaro HK GTS327 Holden Monaro The Holden Monaro is an automobile that was produced by GM Holden Ltd, an Australian subsidiary of General Motors, between 1968 and 1977 and between 2001 and 2005...		116
2	Alan Jones Alan Jones (Formula 1) Alan Stanley Jones MBE is an Australian former Formula One driver. He was the first driver to win a Formula One World Championship with the Williams team, becoming the 1980 World Drivers' Champion.... , Clive Millis		Holden Monaro HK GTS327		116
3	Alan Hamilton, Tony Jones	53	Porsche 911 Sportmatic Porsche 911 The Porsche 911 is a luxury 2-door sports coupe made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. It has a distinctive design, rear-engined and with independent rear suspension, an evolution of the swing axle on the Porsche 356. The engine was also air-cooled until the introduction of the Type 996 in 1998...	Porsche Distributors	116
4	Don Toffolon, Tom Roddy		Ford Falcon XT GT Ford Falcon (Australia) The Ford Falcon is a full-size car which has been manufactured by Ford Australia since 1960. Each model from the XA series of 1972 onward has been designed, developed and built in Australia and/or New Zealand, following the phasing out of the American Falcon of 1960–71 which had been re-engineered...	Motor Improvements	116
5	Doug Chivas Doug Chivas Doug Chivas was an Australian rally and racing car driver. Chivas drove the first Lotus Mark 6 in Australia in the early 1950s winning many races.... , John French John French (racing driver) John French is a retired Australian racing driver.French had a long career throughout the 60s and 70s and the early 80s. He won the 1962 Australian GT Championship driving a Centaur-Waggott and in 1969 French paired with Allan Moffat to win the Sandown Three Hour race in a Ford Falcon GTHO...		Alfa Romeo 1750 GTV Alfa Romeo 1750 The Alfa Romeo 1750/2000 is a medium-priced range of cars presented in 1967 by Alfa Romeo.The 1750 Berlina sedan was introduced in 1967, together with the 1750 GTV coupe and 2000 Spider. The 1750 models replaced the earlier 2600 Berlina, Sprint and Spider at the top of the Alfa Romeo range...	Mildren Racing	115
6	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... , Barry Mulholland Barry Mulholland Barry Mulholland was an Australian racing driver.While a skilled racing driver, Mulholland was more infamously known as Bruce McPhee's 'contractual obligation' co-driver...	44	Holden Monaro HK GTS327	Wyong Motors	113
	Class A : Up to $1800
1	Evans, Colwell		Datsun 1000 Nissan Sunny The Nissan Sunny is a small car from Nissan. It was launched in 1966 as the Datsun 1000 and although production in Japan ended in 2004, it remains in production today for the African, American and Sri Lankan markets. In the US, the later models were known as the Nissan Sentra; in Mexico, the Sunny...		105
2	Sorensen, Gibson		Datsun 1000	Datsun Racing Team	103
3	Reid, Thurston	3	Toyota Corolla Toyota Corolla The Toyota Corolla is a line of subcompact and compact cars manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the best selling nameplate in the world, with over 35 million...		103
?	Brian Sampson Brian Sampson (racing driver) Brian Sampson is a retired Australian racing driver.Sampson had a long career throughout the 60s and 70s, which he still continues as a hobby... , Ferguson		Toyota Corolla	AMI Racing Team
?	?		Morris Mini Deluxe Mini The Mini is a small car that was made by the British Motor Corporation and its successors from 1959 until 2000. The original is considered a British icon of the 1960s, and its space-saving front-wheel-drive layout influenced a generation of car-makers...
?	?		Honda Scamp Honda N360 The Honda N360 is a kei car, designed and built by Honda and produced from March 1967 through 1970, while its larger N600 brother lasted three more years. After a January 1970 facelift, the N360 became the NIII360 and continued in production until 1972...
	Class B : $1801 – $2250
1	Eiffeltower, O'Keefe		Hillman Hillman Hillman is a British automobile marque created by the Hillman Motor Car Company, founded in 1907. The company was based in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, England. Before 1907 the company had built bicycles...		108
2	Sutherland, Ould		Datsun 1600 Datsun 510 The Datsun 510 was a series of the Datsun Bluebird sold from 1968 to 1974, and offered outside the U.S. and Canada as the Datsun 1600. According to AutoWeek's G.D...		105
3	Bryan Thomson, Adrian Ryan		Ford Cortina 220 Ford Cortina As the 1960s dawned, BMC were revelling in the success of their new Mini – the first successful true minicar to be built in Britain in the postwar era...		99
?	John Roxburgh John Roxburgh (racing driver) John Roxburgh, was an Australian racing driver, and motor sports administrator.Roxburgh's career was highlighted by taking victory in the original 1960 Armstrong 500 , co-driving a Vauxhall Cresta with Frank Coad... , Doug Whiteford Doug Whiteford Doug Whiteford was an Australian racing driver.Whiteford was best known as a competitor in the Australian Grand Prix which he won three times in four years. He was fondly remember for his Talbot-Lago T26 Formula One car which he used to win his second and third Grands Prix. His third win was at the...		Datsun 1600
?	?		Hillman
	Class C : $2251 – $3000
1	Lord-Milne, Smith		Renault Gordini		106
2	Nick Ledingham, Hickson		Holden HR Holden HR The Holden HR is an automobile that was produced by General Motors-Holden's in Australia from 1966 to 1968.-Introduction:The Holden HR range was released in April 1966, replacing the Holden HD series which had been in production since 1965...		104
3	Olsen, Gracie		Morris Cooper S		103
?	?		Fiat 125 Fiat 125 The Fiat 125 is a large family car introduced by Fiat in 1967 and produced by them until 1972. Derivatives were built under license outside Italy until the 1990s...
	Class D : $3001 – $4500
1	Tony Roberts, Bob Watson	40	Holden Monaro HK GTS327		116
2	Alan Jones, Clive Millis		Holden Monaro HK GTS327		116
3	Don Toffolon, Tom Roddy		Ford Falcon XT GT	Motor Improvements	116
4	Bruce McPhee, Barry Mulholland	44	Holden Monaro HK GTS327	Wyong Motors	113
?	Howard, Chris Brauer		Ford Falcon XT GT
DNF	Henk Woelders, Bennett	41	Holden Monaro HK GTS327	Perfectune Automotive Services	10
DNF	Ian Haynes, Dave Price		Holden Monaro HK GTS327
DNF	Dalton, Lindsay		Holden Monaro HK GTS327
	Class D : Over $4500
1	Alan Hamilton, Tony Jones	53	Porsche 911 Sportmatic	Porsche Distributors	116
2	Doug Chivas, John French		Alfa Romeo 1750 GTV	Mildren Racing	115
3	Gulson, Brown		Alfa Romeo 1750 GTV		112
?	Brian Foley, Stewart		Alfa Romeo 1750 GTV

The above results table is incomplete.

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