The 1979 Hang Ten 400

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 Touring Cars complying with CAMS

Confederation of Australian Motor Sport

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 Group C regulations. The event was held at the Sandown Park 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

Victoria (Australia)

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, Australia

Australia

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 on 9 September 1979. The race distance was 129 laps of the 3.11 km circuit, a total of 401 km.

Cars competed in three classes according to engine capacity:

• Class A: 3001 to 6000cc
• Class B: 2001 to 3000cc
• Class C: Up to 2000cc

The event was Round 1 of the 1979 Australian Championship of Makes

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...

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Results

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Position	Drivers	No.	Car	Entrant	Class	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...	05	Holden Torana LX SS A9X Hatchback	Marlboro 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...	A	129
2	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...	26	Holden Torana LX SS A9X Hatchback	Marlboro Holden Dealer Team	A	128
3	Peter Janson	9	Holden Torana LX SS A9X Hatchback	Cadbury Schweppes	A	125
4	Murray Carter		Ford Falcon XC GS500 Hardtop	Brian Wood Ford	A	123
5	Alan Browne		Holden Torana LX SS A9X Hatchback	Re-Car Consolidated Enterprises	A	122
6	Allan Taylor		Holden Torana LX SS A9X Hatchback	Scotty Taylor Holden	A	120
7	John Gates		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...		B	114
8	Graeme Bailey Graeme Bailey Graeme Alfred Bailey , was an Australian racing driver, best known as co-winner of the 1986 Bathurst 1000....		Toyota Celica	Brian Hilton	C	113
9	Graham Mein		Ford Escort RS2000		C	112
10	Roger Cartwright		Ford Escort RS2000	Roger Cartwright	C	112
11	Peter Kuebler		Alfa Romeo GTV		C	109
12	Ian Wells		Holden Gemini		C	106
13	Chris Heyer		Volkswagen Golf Volkswagen Golf Mk1 In May 1974, Volkswagen presented the first-generation Golf as a modern front-wheel-drive, hatchback replacement for the Volkswagen Beetle.-History:...		C	106
14	Ken Price		Holden Gemini	Modulaire Air Conditioning	C	102
15	Jim Faneco		Holden Gemini		C	102
16	Dean Gall	45	Mazda RX-7		B	100
17	Martin Power		Triumph Dolomite Sprint	Jag Parts	C	93
18	Frank Porter		Alfa Romeo Alfetta		C	92
19	Larry Kogge		Mazda RX-3	Larry Kogge	B	90
20	John Faulkner John Faulkner (racing driver) John Murray Faulkner, born 24 August 1952, in Palmerston North, New Zealand, is a retired racing driver. Faulkner spent the majority in sedan based classes, initial small touring cars, Ford Escorts and Capris initially before joining Toyota Team Australia's team of factory supported Toyota Corolla...		Ford Escort	John Faulkner	C	88
21	Brian Boyd		BMW 3.0 BMW New Six The BMW New Six is a line of six-cylinder luxury cars produced by the German automaker BMW from 1968 to 1977. The series was introduced as a response to the Mercedes-Benz-dominated large luxury car class and was very important in establishing BMW's reputation as a maker of sporting, luxury sedans....		B	87
22	Mal Smith		Holden Gemini		C	87
DNF	Allan Grice Allan Grice Allan Maxwell Grice OAM , known to motor-racing fans as Gricey, is an Australian former racing driver and politician, most famous for twice winning the prestigious Bathurst 1000 , and as a privateer driver of a Holden in the Australian Touring Car Championship.Grice also had a successful second...	6	Holden Torana LX SS A9X Hatchback	Craven Mild Racing	A
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...	25	Ford Falcon XC Cobra Ford Falcon Cobra The Cobra was a limited edition of the Ford Falcon released by Ford Australia in 1978. It was based on the XC Hardtop .-History:In 1978, Ford Australia unveiled plans for an all-new Falcon, dubbed the XD, that would be released in 1979...		A
DNF	Bill O'Brien		Ford Falcon XC GS500 Hardtop		A
DNF	Bob Morris Bob Morris (motor racing) Robert Morris is an Australian former racing driver. Morris was one of the leading touring car drivers during the 1970s and continued racing until 1984. Morris won Australia's premier Touring car race, the Bathurst 1000 in 1976. He also won the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1979...	7	Holden Torana LX SS A9X Hatchback	Ron Hodgson Racing	A
DNF	Charlie O'Brien Charlie O'Brien (racing driver) This article is about the Australian racing driver. For other people, see Charles O'Brien.Charles Lindsay O'Brien is a former Australian race car driver. From 1976 to 2003, he held the record for being the youngest winner of an Australian Touring Car Championship round.-Career results:-References:...	21	Holden Torana LX SS A9X Hatchback	Roadways	A
DNF	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...		Ford Falcon XC Cobra		A
DNF	David Earle		Ford Escort		C
DNF	Garry Rogers	34	Holden Torana LX SS A9X Hatchback	Greater Pacific Finance	A
DNF	Garth Wigston	20	Holden Torana LX SS A9X Hatchback	Roadways	A
DNF	Gary Cooke		Holden Torana LX SS A9X Hatchback		A
DNF	Jim Keogh		Ford Falcon XC GS500 Hardtop		A
DNF	Michael Quinn		Toyota Corolla	Peter Williamson Pty Ltd	C
DNF	Ray Allford		Ford Falcon XC GS500 Hardtop		A
DNF	Ray Farrar		Ford Capri V6		B
DNF	Rod Stevens		Ford Falcon XC GS500 Hardtop		A
DNF	Ron Wanless		Ford Falcon XC GS500 Hardtop		A
DNF	Rusty French		Ford Falcon XC GS500 Hardtop		A
DNF	Warren Cullen		Holden Torana LX SS A9X Hatchback		A

Note: The above results listing is most likely missing some non finishers. The non finishers that are listed appear in alphabetical order due to lack of information concerning laps completed.