1971 Phillip Island 500K
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The 1971 Phillip Island 500K was an endurance race for Group E Series Production Touring Cars
Group E Series Production Touring Cars
Group E Series Production Touring Cars was an Australian motor racing category for production based sedans competing with limited modifications. It was current from 1964 to 1972....

 held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
The Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit is a motor racing racing circuit on Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia. The circuit was opened in 1956.-Road circuit:...

 in Victoria, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 on 24 October 1971. The event was staged over a race distance of 106 laps, totalling 500 km (310.7 mi). It was Round 4 of the 1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship
Australian Manufacturers' Championship
The Australian Manufacturers' Championship is a motor racing title awarded by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport to the winning car manufacturer in a series of races held throughout Australia...

. The field was divided into five classes according to the assessed CP Units of each car (i.e. engine capacity in litres multiplied by retail price in dollars).

Results

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Position Drivers No. Car Entrant Laps
1 Colin Bond
Colin Bond
Colin John Bond is a retired Australian racing driver. Bond reached the highest levels in Australian motorsport in 1969 when he was recruited by Harry Firth to the newly formed Holden Dealer Team...

31 Holden Torana GTR XU-1
Holden Torana
The Holden Torana is a car which was produced by General Motors–Holden's , the Australian subsidiary of General Motors from 1967 to 1980. The name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning "to fly". The first Torana appeared in 1967 and was a four-cylinder compact vehicle that had its origins in the...

Holden Dealer Team
Holden Dealer Team
The Holden Dealer Team was Holden’s semi-official racing team from 1969 until 1987, primarily contesting Australian Touring Car events but also rallying, rallycross and sports sedans during the 1970s...

106
2 Peter Brock
Peter Brock
Peter Geoffrey Brock, AM otherwise known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain" or simply as "Brocky" was one of Australia's best-known and most successful motor racing drivers. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other...

32 Holden Torana GTR XU-1 Holden Dealer Team 106
3 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....

Chrysler Valiant Charger Liverpool Chrysler 105
4 Frank Porter Holden Torana GTR XU-1 Garry & Warren Smith 104
5 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...

65 Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III Ford Motor Co of Australia
Ford Works Team (Australia)
The Ford Works Team was a former Australian motor racing team that was supported by the Ford Motor Company of Australia. The team was formed in 1962 and was wound up when Ford withdrew from motor racing at the end of 1973...

104
Class A (Up to 3000 CP Units)
1 Geoff Perry Mazda 1300
Mazda Familia
Mazda's automotive plans for the early sixties consisted of growing alongside the Japanese economy. To achieve this goal, they began by building an extremely cheap Kei car, the R360 in 1960, planning on introducing gradually larger and pricier cars as the Japanese customers became able to afford them...

G Perry 90
2 Mel Mollison Mazda 1300 Mel Mollison 87
3 Jim Laing-Peach Datsun 1200
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...

Datsun Racing Team 85
Class B (3001 to 4600 CP Units)
1 Bill Stanley Morris Cooper S
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...

Marque Motors 96
2 Lakis Manticas 19 Morris Cooper S British Leyland 92
3 Ron McCormack Honda 1300
Honda 1300
The 1300 was a novel car for Honda, it was a front wheel drive car, and was the largest model the company had ever produced. In 1970 a stylish coupe complemented the more conservatively styled sedan: both had a 1.3 L engine....

Melbourne Vehicles Sales
Class C (2601 to 9000 CP Units)
1 John Piper Ford Escort Mk.I Twin Cam J Piper 99
2 Bill Evans Ford Escort Mk.I Twin Cam R Wilson 99
3 Bob Forbes Fiat 124S
Fiat 124 Coupe
Fiat 124 Coupé is an Italian car produced between 1967 and 1975 in three generations.The four cylinder, aluminum, twin overhead cam engine was designed by ex-Ferrari engineer Aurelio Lampredi. Originally, the AC or first generation featured an 1,438 cc engine, which grew to 1,608 in the...

Fiat Dealer Team 98
DNF Tony Niovanni Mazda Capella
Mazda Capella
The second generation rear-wheel drive Capella was available between 1978 and 1982, in both sedan and coupe forms. It was known on export markets as the Mazda 626, with the exception of the United Kingdom, where it was called the Mazda Montrose, the name was changed to honour the local Mazda...

DNF Jim Murcott Ford Escort Mk.I Twin Cam
DNF Ward Ford Escort Mk.I Twin Cam
DNF Alan Keith Ford Escort Mk.I Twin Cam 2
Class D (9001 to 18000 CP Units)
1 Colin Bond Holden Torana GTR XU-1 Holden Dealer Team 106
2 Peter Brock Holden Torana GTR XU-1 Holden Dealer Team 106
3 Doug Chivas Chrysler Valiant Charger Liverpool Chrysler 105
4 Tony Roberts Holden Torana GTR XU-1 102
5 Tom Naughton Chrysler Valiant Charger Northcote 101
Lawrie Nelson Chrysler Valiant Charger Northcote
Malcolm Ramsey Holden Torana GTR XU-1
Leo Geoghegan Chrysler Valiant Charger
Bertram Holden Torana GTR XU-1
Lionel Rose Holden Torana GTR XU-1
DNF 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...

Holden Torana GTR XU-1
DNF Brian Reed Chrysler Valiant Charger
DNF Devine Chrysler Valiant Charger
DNF John Walker Holden Torana GTR XU-1
Class E (18001 and Over CP Units)
1 Allan Moffat Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III Ford Motor Co of Australia 104
2 Don Preece Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III Pitstop Motors 84
DNF Murray Carter Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III
DNF Phil Barnes Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III Byrt Ford
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