1980 Australian Sports Sedan Championship
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The 1980 Australian Sports Sedan Championship was open to drivers of Sports Sedans complying with CAMS
Group B regulations. The title was contested over an eleven round series
Points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the top six outright placegetters in each round. Only the best nine scores could be retained by each driver although this had no effect on the nett pointscores.
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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 ....
Group B regulations. The title was contested over an eleven round series
- Round 1, Oran Park RacewayOran Park RacewayOran Park Raceway was a motor racing circuit at Narellan in southwestern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia which was operational from 1962 to 2010....
, New South WalesNew South WalesNew South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, 23 March - Round 2, Winton Motor RacewayWinton Motor RacewayWinton 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, 4 May - Round 3, Amaroo ParkAmaroo ParkAmaroo Park was a motor racing circuit located in Annangrove, New South Wales, in the present-day western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. It opened in 1967, hosting its first motorcycle meeting on 26 February with a 30 lap production race won by Larry Simons on a BSA Spitfire in heavy rain. The...
, New South Wales, 25 May - Round 4, Wanneroo ParkBarbagallo RacewayBarbagallo Raceway is a motorsport circuit located in Wanneroo, approximately north of Perth in Western Australia.The circuit was originally known as Wanneroo Park and the first race meet took place in March 1969. Initially the major race per year was a 6 hour Le Mans style race for sedans and...
, Western AustraliaWestern AustraliaWestern Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
, 8 June - Round 5, Lakeside International RacewayLakeside International RacewayLakeside Park, formerly known as Lakeside International Raceway is a motor racing circuit located at Pine Rivers north of Brisbane and lies adjacent to Lake Kurwongbah....
, QueenslandQueenslandQueensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
, 22 June - Round 6, Calder Park RacewayCalder Park RacewayCalder 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, 3 August - Round 7, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, 31 August
- Round 8, Symmons Plains, TasmaniaTasmaniaTasmania 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...
, 21 September - Round 9, Baskerville, Tasmania, 12 October
- Round 10, The Advertiser Sports Sedan Challenge, Adelaide International Raceway, South AustraliaSouth AustraliaSouth Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
, 19 October - Round 11, Sandown RacewaySandown RacewaySandown 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:...
, Victoria, 14 December
Points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the top six outright placegetters in each round. Only the best nine scores could be retained by each driver although this had no effect on the nett pointscores.
Results
Position | Driver | No. | Car | Entrant | Rd1 | Rd2 | Rd3 | Rd4 | Rd5 | Rd6 | Rd7 | Rd8 | Rd9 | Rd10 | Rd11 | Total |
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1 | Tony Edmondson | 9 | Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV Alfa Romeo Alfetta Alfa Romeo GTV redirects here. For 916 series GTV see Alfa Romeo GTV & SpiderThe Alfa Romeo Alfetta is an Italian rear-wheel drive executive saloon car and fastback coupé produced from 1972 until 1987 by Alfa Romeo... - Repco Holden |
Donald Elliott | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | - | 9 | 9 | 1 | 9 | - | 4 | 59 |
2 | 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... |
7 / 1 / 6 | Holden Torana LX 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... BMW 318i Turbo BMW E21 BMW E21 is the body designation for the first BMW 3 Series compact executive car, produced by the German automaker BMW from 1975 to 1983. This series was the immediate successor to the BMW 2002 and was superseded by the BMW E30 platform.... |
Craven Mild Racing | 4 | - | - | 6 | 9 | 6 | - | - | 6 | 9 | 3 | 43 |
3 | Jim Richards Jim Richards (race driver) Jim Richards is a New Zealand racing driver who has spent most of his racing life in Australia. While retired from professional racing, Richards continues to compete in the historic category Touring Car Masters while running a team in the Australian GT Championship... |
15 | Ford Falcon XC 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... |
Jim Richards | - | 9 | 9 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 31 |
4 | John McCormack John McCormack (racing driver) John McCormack is a former Australian racing driver. Originally from Tasmania McCormack became one of the leading Formula 5000 racers in Australia during the 1970s.... |
8 | Jaguar XJ-S | McCormack - Unipart Racing | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | 19 |
4 | Graeme Whincup | 5 | Chevrolet Monza Chevrolet Monza The Chevrolet Monza is a subcompact, four-passenger automobile produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors for the 1975–1980 model years. The Monza is based on the Chevrolet Vega, sharing its wheelbase, width and 140 CID inline-4 engine... |
Graeme Whincup | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 6 | - | 19 |
6 | John Briggs | 7 | Chevrolet Monza | JR Team Monza | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | - | - | 6 | 15 |
6 | Garry Rogers | 34 | Holden Torana LX | Greater Pacific Finance | - | - | 4 | 3 | - | 4 | - | 4 | - | - | - | 15 |
8 | Phil Ward | 2 | Holden Monaro HQ Holden Monaro The Holden Monaro is an automobile that was produced by GM Holden Ltd, an Australian subsidiary of General Motors, between 1968 and 1977 and between 2001 and 2005... |
9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | |
9 | Brian Potts | 42 / 20 | Holden Torana LJ | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 8 | |
10 | Tony Parkinson | 2 | Holden Commodore VB | QH-ABS | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | 7 |
11 | Paul Gulson | 44 | Leyland Mini 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... - Mazda |
- | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | 6 | |
11 | Steve Harrington | Holden Torana | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | 6 | ||
13 | Wayne Mahnken | Holden EH Holden EH The Holden EH is an automobile which was produced by General Motors-Holden's in Australia from 1963 to 1965.The EH was released in August 1963 replacing the Holden EJ series and was the first Holden to incorporate the new "Red" motor. This new "Red" motor featured 7 main bearings as opposed to 4... - Turbo |
- | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | ||
13 | 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 / 77 | Chevrolet Monza Mazda RX-7 Mazda RX-7 Series 1 is commonly referred to as the "SA22C" from the first alphanumerics of the vehicle identification number. This series of RX-7 had exposed steel bumpers and a high-mounted indentation-located license plate, called by Werner Buhrer of Road & Track magazine a "Baroque depression."In 1980... |
Allan Moffat Racing | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 |
13 | Mike Griffen | 41 | Datsun 120Y - Mazda | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | |
13 | Richard Purtell | 27 | Holden Torana | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | 4 | |
17 | Greg Wright | Holden Torana LX | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | ||
17 | David Ferrall | 27 | Chrysler Charger CL - Chevrolet | Road & Track Services (SA) Pty Ltd | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 3 |
19 | Bob Jane Bob Jane Robert "Bob" Jane is an Australian former race car driver and prominent businessman. A four-time winner of the Armstrong 500, the race that became the prestigious Bathurst 1000 and a four-time Australian Touring Car Champion, Jane is perhaps known best nowadays for his chain of tyre retailers,... |
10 | Chevrolet Monza | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
19 | Ian Denner | Ford Cortina Ford Cortina As the 1960s dawned, BMC were revelling in the success of their new Mini – the first successful true minicar to be built in Britain in the postwar era... |
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19 | Vince Powell | 30 | Ford Cortina TD - Chevrolet | Elite Racing | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 |
19 | Martin Sinclair | Holden Torana | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | ||
19 | Robbie Mills | 13 | Toyota Corona Toyota Corona The Toyota Corona is an automobile manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota between 1957 and 2002. Traditionally, the competitor from Nissan was the Nissan Bluebird. The word Corona is Latin for "crown"... - Holden |
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19 | Max Clark | 11 | Holden Torana LH SLR5000 L34 | Max Clark | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 |
25 | Bruce Stewart | Holden Torana | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||
25 | Kent Youlden | Ford Cortina | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||
25 | Russell Worthington | 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... |
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25 | James Bartsch | 93 | Holden Torana | James Bartsch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |