Adelaide International Raceway
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The Adelaide International Raceway is a permanent circuit owned by Australian Motorsport Club Limited under the auspices of the Bob Jane
Corporation. It is located on Port Wakefield Road
at Virginia
, a small town just north of Adelaide, South Australia, and is round the corner from Speedway City
. AIR is owned by the Bob Jane
Corporation and run by the Australian Motorsport Club Ltd.
and was opened in 1972. The race track can be used in four different configurations. The full circuit is 2.41 km, the short circuit is 1.77 km, the Speedway Superbowl is 0.8 km and the drag strip is 0.25 mile (0.402335 km) long.. The track is dominated by its 915m long main straight which doubles as the drag strip and the 800m long Speedway Superbowl. Like most Australian circuits at its time of construction, AIR raced and still races clockwise. The only time the circuit was raced anti-clockwise was for speedway meetings in the mid-1970s and for major championship races such as NASCAR
races in the 1990s.
Both the Speedway Superbowl and the Drag Strip have the capacity to run night meetings due to the lights that run around the Superbowl and down the circuits main straight. The spectator viewing areas extend from the final turn and all the way down the 900m long straight. There are also spectator mounds on the outside of Turn 9 (last turn of the road course and part of the Superbowl) and on the Superbowl's back straight.
AIR also has an unusual set up for the Pits. The pits for races are located on the inside of the track coming onto the main straight. The cars actually enter the track for a race through a gate on the outside of the track, again coming onto the main straight as the pits where the cars and crew are when not racing is located outside the main straight behind the officials tower and spectator mounds.
From 1972 to 1988 the Adelaide International Raceway was a major motor racing circuit regularly holding rounds of the Australian Touring Car Championship
and endurance races of the Australian Manufacturers' Championship
(later known as the 'Championship of Makes'). The Adelaide track also hosted rounds of the famous Tasman Series
.
Beginning in the early 1970s, paved short track speedway
was becoming popular in Australia and with the Speedway Superbowl, Adelaide a ready made track. Compared to the ¼ mile paved tracks such as the now closed Liverpool Speedway
in Sydney
and Tralee Speedway
in Canberra
, the Superbowl was a ½ mile track and supremely fast with room on the 200m long straights for cars to reach high speeds. When racing Speedway's traditional anti-clockwise, turns 1 and 2 (turn 9 on the road course) is slightly banked (approximately 7°) while turns 3 and 4 is banked at 5°. This made turn 7 of the main road course slightly off-camber as cars entered the Bowl.
The Speedway Superbowl held winter race meetings and was first used on 16 June 1974 when a large crowd turned up to see competitors from Rowley Park Speedway
drive on the new asphalt speedway. It quickly became apparent that cars built for a ¼ mile dirt track speedway
were out of their depth on the ½ mile Superbowl with the Modified Rods (Sprintcars
) reaching over 170km/h on the straights when they were only used to about 80km/h on dirt. Sedan driver Jim Curnow was knocked unconscious when his Holden Torana
hit the concrete retaining wall and chronic Understeer
was the biggest complaint of almost all drivers with cars generally being set up for dirt and not asphalt. Some sedan drivers then started building cars that were suited to racing on the Superbowl with a space frame chassis, well tuned V8 engine
s and wide slick tyres and these cars quickly dominated. The problem was that there were too few of them with some races only having five or six competitors. Most drivers eventually decided it was more fun racing on the dirt at Rowley Park and with crowd numbers dwindling due to both the tracks location (26km north of the city) and the dwindling number of competitors, speedway meetings stopped being held after 1976.
In an ironic twist, when Rowley Park ceased operating after April 1979, Adelaide's new speedway venue Speedway Park (now called Speedway City) was opened adjacent to AIR in October 1979 the crowds returned despite the longer travel time to get there.
The fastest qualifying and race laps set during speedway meetings was set in 1976 by John Hughes (later the founder of World Series Sprintcars
) driving a Holden 308
powered HJ Holden
One Tonner ute chassis covered by HJ Monaro bodywork. His times were 23.8 for qualifying and 23.2 seconds race lap. Though they remain the speedway lap records they can't be counted as the Superbowl's outright lap records as both AUSCAR and NASCAR times in the mid-1990s were significantly faster.
AIR's Speedway Superbowl was also a regular and popular short track venue for AUSCAR and NASCAR racing during the 1990s with crowds of up to 15,000 attending the annual Adelaide round of the Australian Championships. The Superbowl was and still is the only race circuit still in operation other than the Calder Park Thunderdome where the race cars can run on a paved oval track in Australia. Both AIR with its Superbowl and Calder Park with its Thunderdome are owned by Australian motor racing legend turned multi-million dollar businessman Bob Jane.
The site has seen no drag racing since the late 1990s, despite repeated promises by management.
The entire track has recently been resurfaced, restricting use even further with a possibility of events being held from late 2008.
In 2006 the Australian Motor Racing Series held a round at AIR, but it appears to have been a "one-off" for the circuit, as no major circuit racing has been held there since.
until it was last won by Peter Brock
in his Holden Dealer Team
Commodore
on 20 November 1983.
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,...
Corporation. It is located on Port Wakefield Road
Port Wakefield Road
Port Wakefield Road is an important Australian highway. It connects Adelaide, the South Australian capital, to the Yorke Peninsula, Port Augusta, northern and western South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It is designated National Highway A1 and a part of the National Highway...
at Virginia
Virginia, South Australia
Virginia is a suburb on the rural outskirts of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. Port Wakefield Road, the main highway taking traffic to the north of Adelaide, passes through the area. Market gardening is the main activity there.-References:...
, a small town just north of Adelaide, South Australia, and is round the corner from Speedway City
Speedway City
Speedway City is a Dirt track racing venue located 26 km north of Adelaide in Virginia, South Australia, adjacent to the Adelaide International Raceway...
. AIR is owned by the 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,...
Corporation and run by the Australian Motorsport Club Ltd.
History
Adelaide International Raceway (AIR) was built by Surfers Paradise businessman Keith Williams who also owned the Surfers Paradise International RacewaySurfers Paradise International Raceway
Surfers Paradise International Raceway was a motor racing complex at Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The circuit was designed and built by Keith Williams, a motor racing enthusiast. It was located opposite the Surfers Paradise Ski Gardens at Carrara...
and was opened in 1972. The race track can be used in four different configurations. The full circuit is 2.41 km, the short circuit is 1.77 km, the Speedway Superbowl is 0.8 km and the drag strip is 0.25 mile (0.402335 km) long.. The track is dominated by its 915m long main straight which doubles as the drag strip and the 800m long Speedway Superbowl. Like most Australian circuits at its time of construction, AIR raced and still races clockwise. The only time the circuit was raced anti-clockwise was for speedway meetings in the mid-1970s and for major championship races such as NASCAR
NASCAR in Australia
The American stock car racing category NASCAR raced in Australia from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. After strong initial interest, particularly in Melbourne at Australia's only Superspeedway, the Calder Park Thunderdome, the category collapsed in the early 2000s and has defied several attempts...
races in the 1990s.
Both the Speedway Superbowl and the Drag Strip have the capacity to run night meetings due to the lights that run around the Superbowl and down the circuits main straight. The spectator viewing areas extend from the final turn and all the way down the 900m long straight. There are also spectator mounds on the outside of Turn 9 (last turn of the road course and part of the Superbowl) and on the Superbowl's back straight.
AIR also has an unusual set up for the Pits. The pits for races are located on the inside of the track coming onto the main straight. The cars actually enter the track for a race through a gate on the outside of the track, again coming onto the main straight as the pits where the cars and crew are when not racing is located outside the main straight behind the officials tower and spectator mounds.
From 1972 to 1988 the Adelaide International Raceway was a major motor racing circuit regularly holding rounds of the Australian Touring Car Championship
Australian Touring Car Championship
The Australian Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing award held in Australia since 1960. The series itself is no longer contested, but the title lives on, with the winner of the V8 Supercar Championship Series awarded the trophy and title of Australian Touring Car Champion.-History:The...
and endurance races of the 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...
(later known as the 'Championship of Makes'). The Adelaide track also hosted rounds of the famous Tasman Series
Tasman Series
The Tasman Series was a motor racing series held from 1964 to 1975, in Australia and New Zealand, and named after the Tasman Sea between the two countries...
.
Beginning in the early 1970s, paved short track speedway
Short track motor racing
In North American auto racing, particularly with regard to NASCAR, a short track is a racetrack of less than one mile in length. Short track racing, often associated with fairgrounds and similar venues, is where stock car racing first got off the back roads and into organized and regulated...
was becoming popular in Australia and with the Speedway Superbowl, Adelaide a ready made track. Compared to the ¼ mile paved tracks such as the now closed Liverpool Speedway
Liverpool Speedway
Liverpool Speedway was located in Green Valley, Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Liverpool was opened by Frank Oliveri, the mayor of Liverpool at the time, and ran until its sudden and unexpected closure in 1989...
in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
and Tralee Speedway
Tralee Speedway
The Tralee Speedway was a Dirt track racing venue located in Jerrabomberra on the New South Wales side of the ACT/NSW border near Canberra, the capital city of Australia. The speedway was home to several drivers who went on to become Australian national and state champions...
in Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
, the Superbowl was a ½ mile track and supremely fast with room on the 200m long straights for cars to reach high speeds. When racing Speedway's traditional anti-clockwise, turns 1 and 2 (turn 9 on the road course) is slightly banked (approximately 7°) while turns 3 and 4 is banked at 5°. This made turn 7 of the main road course slightly off-camber as cars entered the Bowl.
The Speedway Superbowl held winter race meetings and was first used on 16 June 1974 when a large crowd turned up to see competitors from Rowley Park Speedway
Rowley park speedway
Rowley Park Speedway is a former Dirt track racing venue that was located on Torrens Road in Brompton, South Australia, The speedway was named after Mr Enoch Procter Rowley, an English-born Dentist who moved to Adelaide from Kalgoorlie in 1908 where he had forged a reputation as being Western...
drive on the new asphalt speedway. It quickly became apparent that cars built for a ¼ mile dirt track speedway
Dirt track racing
Dirt track racing is a type of auto racing performed on oval tracks. It began in the United States before World War I and became widespread during the 1920s and 30s. Two different types of racecars predominated—open wheel racers in the Northeast and West and stock cars in the South...
were out of their depth on the ½ mile Superbowl with the Modified Rods (Sprintcars
Sprint car racing
Sprint cars are high-powered race cars designed primarily for the purpose of running on short oval or circular dirt or paved tracks. Sprint car racing is popular in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa....
) reaching over 170km/h on the straights when they were only used to about 80km/h on dirt. Sedan driver Jim Curnow was knocked unconscious when his Holden Torana
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...
hit the concrete retaining wall and chronic Understeer
Understeer
Understeer and oversteer are vehicle dynamics terms used to describe the sensitivity of a vehicle to steering. Simply put, oversteer is what occurs when a car turns by more than the amount commanded by the driver...
was the biggest complaint of almost all drivers with cars generally being set up for dirt and not asphalt. Some sedan drivers then started building cars that were suited to racing on the Superbowl with a space frame chassis, well tuned V8 engine
V8 engine
A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two banks of four cylinders, in most cases set at a right angle to each other but sometimes at a narrower angle, with all eight pistons driving a common crankshaft....
s and wide slick tyres and these cars quickly dominated. The problem was that there were too few of them with some races only having five or six competitors. Most drivers eventually decided it was more fun racing on the dirt at Rowley Park and with crowd numbers dwindling due to both the tracks location (26km north of the city) and the dwindling number of competitors, speedway meetings stopped being held after 1976.
In an ironic twist, when Rowley Park ceased operating after April 1979, Adelaide's new speedway venue Speedway Park (now called Speedway City) was opened adjacent to AIR in October 1979 the crowds returned despite the longer travel time to get there.
The fastest qualifying and race laps set during speedway meetings was set in 1976 by John Hughes (later the founder of World Series Sprintcars
World Series Sprintcars
World Series Sprintcars is a Dirt track racing series held in Australia for Sprintcars. It is the richest and best known Speedway series in Australia....
) driving a Holden 308
Holden V8 engine
The Holden V8 is an overhead valve V8 engine which was produced by the Australian General Motors subsidiary Holden between 1969 and 2000. The engine was used initially in the Kingswood and Monaro model ranges; it was later utilised in the Torana and Commodore ranges...
powered HJ Holden
Holden HJ
The Holden HJ is a series of automobiles which were produced by General Motors-Holden’s in Australia from 1974 to 1976. The HJ series was released on 4 October 1974 and was an improved and facelifted version of the superseded Holden HQ series which had been in production since 1971.- Model range...
One Tonner ute chassis covered by HJ Monaro bodywork. His times were 23.8 for qualifying and 23.2 seconds race lap. Though they remain the speedway lap records they can't be counted as the Superbowl's outright lap records as both AUSCAR and NASCAR times in the mid-1990s were significantly faster.
AIR's Speedway Superbowl was also a regular and popular short track venue for AUSCAR and NASCAR racing during the 1990s with crowds of up to 15,000 attending the annual Adelaide round of the Australian Championships. The Superbowl was and still is the only race circuit still in operation other than the Calder Park Thunderdome where the race cars can run on a paved oval track in Australia. Both AIR with its Superbowl and Calder Park with its Thunderdome are owned by Australian motor racing legend turned multi-million dollar businessman Bob Jane.
The site has seen no drag racing since the late 1990s, despite repeated promises by management.
The entire track has recently been resurfaced, restricting use even further with a possibility of events being held from late 2008.
In 2006 the Australian Motor Racing Series held a round at AIR, but it appears to have been a "one-off" for the circuit, as no major circuit racing has been held there since.
Touring Car round winners
Note: In both the 1976 and 1977 Australian Touring Car Championships there were two rounds held at Adelaide International Raceway. The earlier round was a 'sprint' event and later round was a 250 km endurance race. The endurance race was lengthened to 300km in 1978 and became part of the "Australian Championship of Makes" until 1980 then becoming part of the Australian Endurance ChampionshipAustralian Endurance Championship
The Australian Endurance Championship was first contested in 1981, as a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for car manufacturers. Replacing the Australian Championship of Makes , it was decided over a series of endurance races for touring cars complying with CAMS Group C regulations.In the...
until it was last won by 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...
in his 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...
Commodore
Holden VH Commodore
The Holden VH Commodore, an evolution of the previous Holden Commodore VC model, was released in October 1981. The frontal appearance was mildly facelifted with a new horizontal-slat grille and new lighting components designed to give a lower, wider look, and for interest of aerodynamics...
on 20 November 1983.
| Year | Driver | Car | Entrant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 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,... |
Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1 | Bob Jane Racing |
| 1973 | 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... |
Holden LJ Torana GTR XU-1 | 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... |
| 1974 | 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... |
Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 | 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... |
| 1975 | 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 LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34 | 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... |
| 1976 | 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... |
Ford XB Falcon GT Hardtop Ford XB Falcon The Ford XB Falcon is a car which was produced by Ford Australia between 1973 and 1976 and was built exclusively in Australia. It bore minor cosmetic differences to the preceding model, the XA, aimed at giving the car a more muscular stance... |
Allan Moffat Racing Allan Moffat Racing Allan Moffat Racing was one of a number of names used for the Australian-based motor racing team fronted by multiple-championship winning Canadian-Australian racing driver Allan Moffat... |
| 1976 | 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... |
Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34 | Craven Mild Racing |
| 1977 | 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 XB Falcon GT Hardtop Ford XB Falcon The Ford XB Falcon is a car which was produced by Ford Australia between 1973 and 1976 and was built exclusively in Australia. It bore minor cosmetic differences to the preceding model, the XA, aimed at giving the car a more muscular stance... |
Moffat Ford Dealers Allan Moffat Racing Allan Moffat Racing was one of a number of names used for the Australian-based motor racing team fronted by multiple-championship winning Canadian-Australian racing driver Allan Moffat... |
| 1977 | 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... |
Ford XC Falcon GS500 Hardtop Ford XC Falcon The Ford XC Falcon is a car which was produced by Ford Australia between 1976 and 1979. It was a facelift of the XB Falcon, itself an upgrade of the XA Falcon which had entered production in 1972... |
Moffat Ford Dealers Allan Moffat Racing Allan Moffat Racing was one of a number of names used for the Australian-based motor racing team fronted by multiple-championship winning Canadian-Australian racing driver Allan Moffat... |
| 1978 | 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 XC Falcon GS500 Hardtop Ford XC Falcon The Ford XC Falcon is a car which was produced by Ford Australia between 1976 and 1979. It was a facelift of the XB Falcon, itself an upgrade of the XA Falcon which had entered production in 1972... |
Moffat Ford Dealers Allan Moffat Racing Allan Moffat Racing was one of a number of names used for the Australian-based motor racing team fronted by multiple-championship winning Canadian-Australian racing driver Allan Moffat... |
| 1979 | Bob Morris | Holden LX Torana SS A9X Hatchback | Ron Hodgson Motors |
| 1980 | Kevin Bartlett | Chevrolet Camaro Z28 | Nine Network Racing Team |
| 1981 | 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... |
Holden VC Commodore | 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... |
| 1982 | Dick Johnson | Ford XD Falcon Ford XD Falcon The Ford XD Falcon is a car that was produced by the Ford Motor Company of Australia between 1979 and 1982.The XD series was introduced on 28 March 1979 and was initially offered in five models:* Falcon GL * Fairmont... |
Dick Johnson Racing Dick Johnson Racing Dick Johnson Racing is Australia's oldest operating motor racing team. Founded by Dick Johnson, the team has won seven Australian Touring Car Championship titles and has taken three victories in Australia's hallmark race, the Bathurst 1000... |
| 1983 | 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... |
Holden VH Commodore SS Holden VH Commodore The Holden VH Commodore, an evolution of the previous Holden Commodore VC model, was released in October 1981. The frontal appearance was mildly facelifted with a new horizontal-slat grille and new lighting components designed to give a lower, wider look, and for interest of aerodynamics... |
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... |
| 1984 | 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... |
Holden VH Commodore SS Holden VH Commodore The Holden VH Commodore, an evolution of the previous Holden Commodore VC model, was released in October 1981. The frontal appearance was mildly facelifted with a new horizontal-slat grille and new lighting components designed to give a lower, wider look, and for interest of aerodynamics... |
Roadways Racing |
| 1985 | Jim Richards | BMW 635CSi BMW E24 The BMW E24 series was the first BMW 6 Series coupé, produced by the German automaker BMW between the 1976 and 1989 model years. The 6 Series name reappeared with the BMW E63 chassis beginning in the 2004 model year. The E24 borrowed heavily from contemporary 5-series cars .- Model history :The... |
JPS Team BMW JPS Team BMW JPS Team BMW is a former motor racing team that ran primarily in Australia and New Zealand mainly in touring car racing but also ran in sports sedans and GT cars as well... |
| 1986 | Robbie Francevic Robbie Francevic Robert James Francevic, was a touring car racing driver in New Zealand and Australia in the 1970s and 1980s... |
Volvo 240T Volvo 200 series The Volvo 200 series is a range of large family cars , produced by Volvo from 1974 to 1993, with more than 2.8 million units sold worldwide. The 200 series was essentially an updated version of the 140; both were designed by Jan Wilsgaard. It shared the same body, but included a number of... |
Volvo Dealer Team |
| 1987 | Dick Johnson | Ford Sierra RS Cosworth Ford Sierra RS Cosworth The Ford Sierra RS Cosworth was a high-performance version of the Ford Sierra. It was the result of a Ford Motorsport project with the purpose of producing an outright winner for Group A racing in Europe.- Development :... |
Shell Ultra Hi-Tech Racing Team Dick Johnson Racing Dick Johnson Racing is Australia's oldest operating motor racing team. Founded by Dick Johnson, the team has won seven Australian Touring Car Championship titles and has taken three victories in Australia's hallmark race, the Bathurst 1000... |
| 1988 | Dick Johnson | Ford Sierra RS500 | Shell Ultra-Hi Racing Dick Johnson Racing Dick Johnson Racing is Australia's oldest operating motor racing team. Founded by Dick Johnson, the team has won seven Australian Touring Car Championship titles and has taken three victories in Australia's hallmark race, the Bathurst 1000... |
External links
- Official site
- Circuit map
- Circuit info from motorsportworld.com.au
- Adelaide International Raceway in Google Maps