The 1979 Australian Sports Car Championship was a CAMS

Confederation of Australian Motor Sport

The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport , has been the governing body of Australian motorsport since 1953. It is affiliated with the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile ....

 sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Group D Production Sports Cars

Group D Production Sports Cars

Group D Production Sports Cars was a CAMS motor racing category current in Australia from 1972 to 1981.The Group D category catered for series-production type automobiles, other than those eligible to compete as Touring Cars, which were:...

. It was the eleventh Australian Sports Car Championship

Australian Sports Car Championship

The Australian Sports Car Championship was the CAMS sanctioned national title for Sports Car drivers in the years from 1969 to 1988. Each championship was contested over a series of races with the exception of the 1975 title, which was awarded on the results of a single race held at the Phillip...

 and the fourth to be restricted to cars complying with Group D regulations.

Schedule

The championship was contested over a four round series.

• Round 1 Baskerville
  Baskerville Raceway
  Baskerville Raceway is a 2.01 km permanent motor and motorbike racing circuit. It is located at 473 Baskerville Rd, Old Beach- a northern suburb of...
  
  , Tasmania
  Tasmania
  Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
  
  , 22 April
• Round 2 Calder
  Calder Park Raceway
  Calder Park Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The complex includes a drag strip, a road circuit with several possible configurations, and the "Thunderdome", a high-speed banked oval equipped to race either clockwise or counter-clockwise .-History:Calder Park...
  
  , 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....
  
  , 27 May
• Round 3, Winton
  Winton Motor Raceway
  Winton Motor Raceway is a Motor Racing track in Winton, near Benalla, Victoria, Australia.-History:The Benalla Auto Club began planning for a permanent racing track around 1958. In 1960 it was decided to build the track at Winton Recreation Reserve and was completed in twelve months...
  
  , 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....
  
  , 19 August
• Round 4 Calder
  Calder Park Raceway
  Calder Park Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The complex includes a drag strip, a road circuit with several possible configurations, and the "Thunderdome", a high-speed banked oval equipped to race either clockwise or counter-clockwise .-History:Calder Park...
  
  , 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....
  
  , 25 November

Round 1 was conducted over two races and all other rounds over one race.

Class Structure

Cars competed in two engine capacity classes:

• Up to and including 2000cc
• Over 2000cc

Points system

Championship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six places in each class at each round and on a 4-3-2-1 basis for the first four outright places at each round.

For Round 1, the round results, on which championship points were awarded, were determined by allocating race points on a 20-16-13-11-10-9-8-9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 for the first 14 outright places in each race and aggregating the points for each driver. Where more than one driver attained the same total, the superior round position was awarded to the higher placed driver in the second race.

Results

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Position	Driver	Car	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
1	Ross Mathieson	Porsche Carrera Porsche 911 classic The original Porsche 911 was a sports car made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. The famous, distinctive, and durable design was introduced in autumn 1963 and built until 1989...	6	13	13	6	38
2	Peter Fitzgerald	Porsche Carrera Porsche 911 classic The original Porsche 911 was a sports car made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. The famous, distinctive, and durable design was introduced in autumn 1963 and built until 1989...	13	6	9	9	37
3	Bernie Bisseling	Lotus 47	9	9	1	6	25
4	John Gourlay	Bolwell Nagari Bolwell Nagari The Bolwell Nagari is a sports car produced by Bolwell in Australia. The original Mk VIII Nagari was built from 1969 to 1974 and the Mk X Nagari was launched in 2008.-Mk VIII Nagari:...	9	-	-	13	22
5	Rex Colliver	Lotus 47	4	-	4	9	17
	Tim Briglia	Lotus Elan Lotus Elan Lotus Elan is the name of two convertible cars and one fixed head coupé produced by Lotus Cars. The original Type 26, 26R Racing version , 36R Racing version , 36 Fixed Head Coupe, 45 Drop Head Coupe, and the "Type 50" +2 Coupe, circa 1962 to 1975, are commonly known as the '60s Elans...	-	4	9	4	17
7	Murray Bryden	Lotus Elan Lotus Elan Lotus Elan is the name of two convertible cars and one fixed head coupé produced by Lotus Cars. The original Type 26, 26R Racing version , 36R Racing version , 36 Fixed Head Coupe, 45 Drop Head Coupe, and the "Type 50" +2 Coupe, circa 1962 to 1975, are commonly known as the '60s Elans...	6	6	-	-	12
8	Chris Swingler	Triumph TR7 Triumph TR7 The Triumph TR7 is a sports car manufactured from September 1974 to October 1981 by the Triumph Motor Company in the United Kingdom. It was initially produced at the Speke, Liverpool factory, moving to Canley, Coventry in 1978 and then finally to the Rover plant in Solihull in 1980...	3	3	2	3	11
9	John Latham	Bolwell Nagari Bolwell Nagari The Bolwell Nagari is a sports car produced by Bolwell in Australia. The original Mk VIII Nagari was built from 1969 to 1974 and the Mk X Nagari was launched in 2008.-Mk VIII Nagari:...	-	-	6	4	10
10	Warwick Henderson	Chevrolet Corvette C3 Chevrolet Corvette C3 The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors for the 1968 through 1982 model years. Corvette chief Zora Arkus-Duntov wanted a striking new Corvette; although engines and chassis components were mostly carried over from the previous generation, its...	-	9	-	-	9
11	Neal Swingler	Triumph GT6 Triumph GT6 The GT6 was a 6-cylinder sports coupé built by Standard-Triumph and based on their popular Triumph Spitfire convertible. Production ran from 1966 to 1973.- Development history :...	?	?	?	?	6
12	Paul Trevathan	MGB GT V8 MG MGB The MGB is a sports car launched by MG Cars in May 1962 to replace the MGA. Introduced as a four-cylinder roadster, a coupé with 2+2 seating was added in 1965...	-	4	-	-	4
	Barry Main		2	?	?	?	4
	Alan Edwards	Bolwell Nagari Bolwell Nagari The Bolwell Nagari is a sports car produced by Bolwell in Australia. The original Mk VIII Nagari was built from 1969 to 1974 and the Mk X Nagari was launched in 2008.-Mk VIII Nagari:...	-	-	4	-	4
15	Dick Smith	Lotus Super Seven	?	?	?	?	3
16	Ross Bond	Bolwell Nagari Bolwell Nagari The Bolwell Nagari is a sports car produced by Bolwell in Australia. The original Mk VIII Nagari was built from 1969 to 1974 and the Mk X Nagari was launched in 2008.-Mk VIII Nagari:...	1	?	?	?	2
	Gordon Dobie		?	?	?	?	2
	Steve Wherrett		?	?	?	?	2
	Allan Hanns	Bolwell Bolwell Bolwell is an Australian company that originally produced sports cars between 1962 and 1979. A new company of the same name began production of new cars in 2009 after several years of concept and show cars.-Mk IV:...	-	-	-	2	2
20	Tim Edmonds		?	?	?	?	1
	Peter Boston		?	?	?	?	1
	Geoff Dennis		?	?	?	?	1
	Ranald MacLurkin	TVR TVR thumb|right|240px|TVR No.2, the oldest surviving TVR, located at [[Lakeland Motor Museum, Newby Bridge, Cumbria]]TVR was an independent British manufacturer of sports cars. Until 2006 it was based in the English seaside town of Blackpool, Lancashire, but has since split up into several smaller...	?	?	?	-	1

External links

• Christopher de Fraga, Last Dash Win for Mathieson, The Age, 28 May 1979
• Image of Ross Mathieson and John Gourlay at Winton in 1979