The 1971 Sandown 250

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 motor race open to 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....

. The event was held at the Sandown circuit

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:...

 in Victoria, Australia on 12 September 1971 over 130 laps, approximately 250 miles (403 km). As a round 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 race featured five classes based on Capacity Price Units with the CP Unit value for each model determined by multiplying the engine capacity of the vehicle in litres by its retail price in Australian 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...	44	Holden LC 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...	130
2	Murray Carter		Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase 3	John Harding Ford	125
3	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...		Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1	Dustings of Burwood	124
4	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 LC Torana GTR XU-1	Kevin Dennis Motors	124
5	Bill Evans		Ford Escort Twin Cam	RG Wilson	122
6	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...	45	Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1	Holden Dealer Team
7	Graeme Blanchard	39	Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1
8	Bob Forbes, John Millyard	34	Fiat 124 Coupe 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 Dealers Team	120
9	Frank Porter		Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1		120
10	Wayne Rogerson, Alan Mayne		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...	Mazda Dealers Team	120
11	Lakis Manticas		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...	British Leyland Works Team	119
12	Bill Stanley, Mike Kable		Morris Cooper S	Marque Motors	117
13	Caroline O'Shaughnessy, Paul Gulson		Morris Cooper S	Marque Motors	117
	Class A : Up to 3000 CP Units
1	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 1200	Datsun Racing Team	112
2	John Leffler John Leffler John Leffler is a former Australian racing driver. Leffler is best known for driving open-wheelers and winning the Australian Drivers' Championship in 1976.Leffler drove Morris Coopers for many years in the 1960s...		Mazda 1300	John Palmer Motors	112
3	Geoff Perry	3	Mazda 1300	Geoff Perry	112
4	James Laing-Peach		Datsun 1200		112
?	Mel Mollison		Mazda 1300
?	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...		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...
	Class B : 3001 to 4600 CP Units
1	Lakis Manticas		Morris Cooper S	British Leyland Works Team	119
2	Bill Stanley, Mike Kable		Morris Cooper S	Marque Motors	117
3	Caroline O'Shaughnessy, Paul Gulson		Morris Cooper S	Marque Motors	117
?	Leighton		Datsun 1600 Datsun 1600 Datsun 1600 may refer to one of the following Datsun cars:* Datsun 510* Datsun Fairlady 1600 Roadster SP311/SPL311...
	Class C : 4601 to 9000 CP Units
1	Bill Evans		Ford Escort Twin Cam	RG Wilson	122
2	Bob Forbes, John Millyard	34	Fiat 124 Coupe	Fiat Dealers Team	120
3	Wayne Rogerson, Alan Mayne		Mazda Capella	Mazda Dealers Team	120
?	Bill Gates		Ford Escort Twin Cam
?	Alan Keith		Ford Escort Twin Cam
?	Ward		Ford Escort Twin Cam
?	Garth		Mazda Capella
?	Thompson		Alfa Romeo Giulia Alfa Romeo Giulia The Alfa Romeo Giulia is an Alfa Romeo automobile. Alfa was one of the first manufacturers to put a powerful engine in a light-weight car for mainstream production. The Giulia weighed about . The car was equipped with a light alloy twin overhead camshaft four-cylinder engine, similar to that of...
DNF	Barry Seton Barry Seton Barry Seton , , is an Australian racing driver. He won the Bathurst 500 in 1965 with co-driver Midge Bosworth driving a Ford Cortina GT500. He has competed in the Bathurst 500 22 times, competing every year from 1963 to 1984, and completing the race in fifteen of those...		Ford Escort Twin Cam
Disq	Jim Murcott		Ford Escort Twin Cam
	Class D : 9001 to 18000 CP Units
1	Colin Bond	44	Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1	Holden Dealer Team	130
2	Tony Roberts		Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1	Dustings of Burwood	124
3	Bruce McPhee		Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1	Kevin Dennis Motors	124
4	Peter Brock	45	Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1	Holden Dealer Team
5	Graeme Blanchard	39	Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1
6	Frank Porter		Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1		120
DNF	Malcolm Ramsay	42	Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1
DNF	John Walker		Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1
DNF	Pat Peck, Jan Holland		Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1
	Class E : 18001 and Over CP Units
1	Murray Carter		Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase 3	John Harding Ford	125
2	Doug Grimson	62	Ford XW Falcon GTHO Phase 2	Doug Grimson	113
DNF	Barnes, Bob Skelton	64	Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase 3	Byrt Ford
DNF	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...	61	Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase 3	Ford Motor Company Ford Australia Ford Australia is the Australian subsidiary of Ford Motor Company and was founded in Geelong, Victoria, in 1925 as an outpost of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. At that time, Ford Canada was a separate company from Ford USA...
DNF	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...	60	Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase 3	Ford Motor Company

Note: The above results, which are incomplete, are based on the report published in Racing Car News, October 1971 with additional information from other listed References and Further Reading sources.

Further reading

• The Australian Racing History of Ford, 1989, page 287
• Holden, The official racing history, 1988, page 333

External links

• The winning Holden Torana (First image on second row) Retrieved from motorsportarchive on 17 March 2009
• Images from the Sandown 250 Retrieved from www.flickr.com on 17 March 2009