The 1973 Phillip Island 500K

Phillip Island 500K

The Phillip Island 500K is an endurance motor race held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Victoria, Australia. It has been contested each year from 1971 to 1977 and from 2008 to date....

was an endurance race for Group C Touring Cars

Group C (Australia)

In relation to Australian motorsport, Group C refers to either of two sets of regulations devised by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport for use in Australian touring car racing from 1965 to 1984...

 staged at the Phillip Island 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

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, 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 25 November 1973. Race distance was 106 laps of the 4.73 km circuit, a total distance of 501.38 km. It was the fifth and final round of the 1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship

1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship

The 1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for automobile manufacturers. It was the third Australian Manufacturers' Championship and the first to be contested with Group C Touring Cars.-Calendar:...

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Results

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Position	Drivers	No.	Car	Entrant	Laps
1	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...	1	Holden Torana LJ 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	106
2	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...		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1	Holden Dealer Team	105
3	Barry Nixon-Smith		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		99
4	Gil Davis		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		98
5	John Stoopman		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		97
6	Ray Harrison		Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV Alfa Romeo Sprint GT (Veloce) The Alfa Romeo 105/115 series Coupés were a range of cars made by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1963 until 1977. They were the successors to the celebrated Giulietta Sprint coupé and used a shortened floorpan from the Giulia Berlina car....		96
7	Cam Richardson		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		94
8	Bill Evans	56	Datsun 1200 Coupe		94
9	Roger Bonhomme	37	Holden Torana LC GTR		92
10	Kevin Kennedy		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		92
	Class A : Up to 1300cc
1	Bill Evans	56	Datsun 1200 Coupe		94
2	N Riley		Honda Civic Honda Civic The Honda Civic is a line of subcompact and subsequently compact cars made and manufactured by Honda. The Civic, along with the Accord and Prelude, comprised Honda's vehicles sold in North America until the 1990s, when the model lineup was expanded...		91
3	J Lord		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...		89
4	J Bundy		Morris Cooper S		82
??	Lakis Manticas		Fiat 128 Coupe Fiat 128 The Fiat 128 is a small family car manufactured by the Italian manufacturer Fiat from 1969 to 1985. The engine was designed by the famous Ferrari racing engine designer Aurelio Lampredi.-History:...		?
DNF	James Laing-Peach	57	Datsun 1200 Coupe		?
	Class B : 1301 - 2000cc
1	Ray Harrison		Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV		96
2	Mel Mollison		Mazda RX-3 Mazda RX-3 The Mazda RX-3 is an automobile sold in the 1970s. It was intended to be smaller and sportier than its brother, the RX-2/Capella Rotary. In 1972 all rotary engines had their die-cast rotor housing coated with a new process: The new Transplant Coating Process featured sprayed-on steel which is...		92
3	Raymond Harrison		Mazda R100 Coupe Mazda R100 The Mazda R100 was the export name for the Mazda Familia Rotary Coupe, an automobile produced by Mazda in Japan from 1968 to 1973. It used the chassis from the Familia and the rotary 0820 engine similar to the one used in the Cosmo Sport Series II. It was a 2 door 2+2 coupé and was produced from...		81
DNF	Christine Cole, Sue Ransom		Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV		?
DNF	Graham Ritter		Ford Escort Twin Cam Ford Escort (European) The Mark I Ford Escort was introduced in the United Kingdom at the end of 1967, making its show debut at Brussels Motor Show in January 1968. It replaced the successful long running Anglia. The car was presented in continental Europe as a product of Ford's European operation...		?
DNF	Bob Holden	43	Ford Escort Twin Cam		?
	Class C : 2001 - 3000cc
1	Roger Bonhomme	37	Holden Torana LC GTR		92
2	Garry Cooke		Mazda RX-2 Mazda RX-2 The Mazda RX-2 was a midsize car introduced in 1970 and sold through 1978. It used a rotary engine and shared a chassis with the piston-engined Mazda Capella/616/618....		91
3	Tony Roberts		Datsun 240K		90
	Class D : Over 3000cc
1	Peter Brock	1	Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1	Holden Dealer Team	106
2	Colin Bond		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1	Holden Dealer Team	105
3	Barry Nixon-Smith		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		99
4	Gil Davis		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		98
5	John Stoopman		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		97
6	Cam Richardson		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		94
7	Kevin Kennedy		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		92
8	Murray Carter		Ford Falcon XA 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...		91
9	Graeme Blanchard		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		85
10	Brian Ovenden		Chrysler Valiant VH Charger		78
?	Robert Bride		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		?
?	Rod McRae		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		?
?	Phil Brock		Chrysler Valiant VH Charger		?
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...	9	Ford Falcon XA GT	Ford Motor Co of Australia	?
DNF	Fred Gibson Fred Gibson (motor racing) Fred Gibson is a former Australian racing driver and race team owner.-Competitor:After a career that began in small production sports cars, first an MGA, and later the first Lotus Elan to run in Australian competition , Gibson quickly moved up into the touring car ranks...	6	Ford Falcon XA GT	Ford Motor Co of Australia	?
DNF	John Harvey John Harvey (motorsport) John Francis Harvey is a retired Australian racing driver. He was a top speedway driver for many years in the 1950s/1960s winning many championship races including NSW Championship 3 successive years, Victorian Championship twice.After switching from speedway to road racing, Harvey drove cars...		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		?
DNF	Tony Niovanni		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		?
DNF	Stuart Saker		Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1		?
DNF	John Goss		Ford Falcon XA GT		?
DNF	Lawrie Nelson		Chrysler Valiant VH Charger		?

Note : As 47 cars were entered for this event it is likely that there were additional starters not shown in the above table.