Across five rounds, the title is decided in favour of Ian Geoghegan’s Mustang in the final at Symmons Plains in Tasmania. Robbie Francevic beat Nissan Skyline driver George Fury to the 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship, between Richards’ two crowns, in what was a short-lived program. 1995 Australian Touring Car Champion and two-time Bathurst 1000 winner John Bowe retires from V8 Supercar racing in the final round at Phillip Island, in turn creating the record for the most number of events starts in the history of the ATCC/V8 Supercars Championship – 225. The 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title open to Group 3A Touring Cars. At 55 he teams with 1991 and 1992 race-winning partner Mark Skaife to seal victory for the Holden Racing Team. It is currently run as a championship event for Supercars. He made ‘give it some jandal’ a household expression with his colourful post-race interview. This period saw a rise in the tribal style conflicts between Holden and Ford and in particular the two marques leading drivers, respectively Peter Brock and Allan Moffat who between them would claim seven of the eras 12 championships (and nine of the associated Bathurst victories). V8 Supercars also welcomes Garry Rogers to the grid of champions as the 2015 Hall of Fame Inductee. The win is Richards’ seventh in The Great Race, second only to Peter Brock. The ‘V8 Supercar’ brand takes over as the banner of Australia’s top category, signaling the start of a new era. Mark Skaife claims the title for Gibson Motorsport, the first ATCC crown for Holden since Brock’s 1980 success. Two marquee events make their long-awaited debut on the V8 Supercars Championship calendar – the Townsville 400 in North Queensland and the Sydney Telstra 500 at Sydney Olympic Park. The rookie sensation takes out the opening round at Eastern Creek on debut and goes on to claim the title. Whincup enters the record books once again by becoming the first V8 Supercars driver in history to win six V8 Supercars Championships. It was won by … The 'Supercar scare' that had rocked the buildup to 1972 Bathurst 500 forced sweeping changes through touring car regulations. A milestone 2013 was the first year of the Car of the Future (COTF) platform. It was 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. 1 2 "2000 V8 Supercar awards". The race was held at the Gnoo Blas Motor Racing Circuit in Orange in rural New South Wales, west of Sydney. Erebus Motorsport, in just its second season with Holdens, wins the Great Race with eventual Barry Sheene Medalist David Reynolds and Luke Youlden. The sponsor that was found was oil giant Shell who put up some $275,000 worth of prize money from the 1987 ATCC, ensuring the long term future of the series. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. Peter Brock competes in both but is unable to win his 10th Bathurst crown in the year of his retirement from full-time racing. Holden was forced briefly into catchup phase and all but backed out of the sport in 1992 after Group A had been dominated by more track-focused production cars such as the turbocharged Ford Sierra RS500 and various Nissan Skylines, as well as the BMW M3. This was an acknowledgement of the rising popularity of races held for passenger sedans as opposed to those for purpose built open wheel racing cars, or sports cars. A second-tier V8 Supercar series is created as a development category for drivers, teams and personnel. Two rounds will be held in South Australia for the first time since 1977, as the new Bend Motorsport Park facility joins the season-opening Adelaide 500 on the calendar. It was contested over a single 20-lap race staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia on Easter Monday, 11 April 1966, and was the seventh running of the Australian Touring Car Championship. The official history: Australian Touring Car Championship – 50 Years. Scott McLaughlin wins a maiden title after a year-long fight with Shane van Gisbergen, in the perfect farewell for Ford’s Falcon. Group Nb is intended … Allan Moffat and Colin Bond line up for an iconic 1-2 formation finish in the Hardie-Ferodo 1000 at Bathurst. … Lowndes also takes his sixth Bathurst 1000 victory, with Steven Richards. The win is the first of an eventual nine for the man to become ‘King of the Mountain’. Bowe and Francevic failed to finish but it put the then-single-seater ace on course for a long and successful career in touring cars. The championship had grown from a single race into a multi-event series in 1969, but the competition had not changed markedly. A twilight event at Calder Park in Melbourne on Saturday March 15, it is won by former World Motorcycle Champion Wayne Gardner in his Coke Commodore. List of Australian Touring Car and V8 Supercar champions, List of Australian Touring Car Championship races, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Australian_Touring_Car_Championship&oldid=983120508, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, This page was last edited on 12 October 2020, at 10:53. Read more here… Group Nb. The 1986 Australian Touring Car season was the 27th season of touring car racing in Australia commencing from 1960 when the first Australian Touring Car Championship and the first Armstrong 500 were contested. Two Bathurst 1000 events are also held in the same year. On November 30, the rivals clash on-track, sending Skaife into the wall and out of the race. On Volvo’s first race day in Supercars, Scott McLaughlin finishes second in the second race of the season opening Clipsal 500. Later in the year Percy and Allan Grice claim a surprise win in the Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst, the first win in The Great Race for HRT. The 1984 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title for Group C Touring Cars. The race was held at the Gnoo Blas Motor Racing Circuit in Orange in rural New South Wales, west of Sydney. The Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) is a touring car racing award held in Australia since 1960. It is now known as the Dunlop Super2 Series. They lead home a clean sweep of the podium for Commodore drivers with Allan Grice/Alan Browne second and John Harvey/Gary Scott third. A chronicle of Australian Touring Car Championship / V8 Supercars / Supercars championship history from 1960 to the present day… 1960. Peter Brock wins his first Bathurst classic. History. The Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 is called one of history’s best, as second-time starter Chaz Mostert wins with colourful veteran Paul Morris. The Holden Racing Team driver claims victory in the Queen’s Birthday round held at Eastern Creek in Sydney. Shane van Gisbergen was again his nearest championship rival, while Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes’ reuniting netted the PIRTEK Enduro Cup. Overseas cars from the likes of Volvo, Jaguar, Ford, BMW, Nissan and Mitsubishi make it hard for the locally produced Holden to compete. On 29 October 2008, he announced his retirement from full-time touring car racing. V8 Supercars announces plans are underway for the Gen II Supercar to compete in the Championship from 2017, as the ‘white paper’ detailing the sport’s future is signed off by team owners. Australian motor racing legend Peter Brock is killed in a tarmac rally accident in Perth on September 8.