1989 Australian Touring Car season

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1989 Australian Touring Car season
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The 1989 Australian Touring Car season was the 30th year of touring car racing in Australia since the first runnings of the Australian Touring Car Championship and the fore-runner of the present day Bathurst 1000, the Armstrong 500.

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There were 12 touring car race meetings held during 1990; an eight-round series, the 1989 Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC); a support programme event at the 1989 Australian Grand Prix and three long-distance races, nicknamed 'enduros'.

Results and standings

Race calendar

The 1989 Australian touring car season consisted of 12 events.

DateSeriesCircuitCity / stateWinnerTeamCarReport
5 March ATCC Round 1 Amaroo Park Sydney, New South Wales John Bowe Shell Ultra-Hi Racing Ford Sierra RS500
12 March ATCC Round 2 Symmons Plains Raceway Launceston, Tasmania Dick Johnson Shell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500
16 April ATCC Round 3 Lakeside International Raceway Brisbane, Queensland Dick JohnsonShell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500
30 April ATCC Round 4 Barbagallo Raceway Perth, Western AustraliaJohn BoweShell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500
7 May ATCC Round 5 Mallala Motor Sport Park Mallala, South Australia Dick JohnsonShell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500
21 May ATCC Round 6 Sandown Raceway Melbourne, Victoria Dick JohnsonShell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500
4 June ATCC Round 7 Winton Motor Raceway Benalla, Victoria George Fury Nissan Motorsport Australia Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R
9 July ATCC Round 8 Oran Park Raceway Sydney, New South Wales Peter Brock Mobil 1 Racing Ford Sierra RS500
19 August Pepsi 300Oran Park RacewaySydney, New South Wales Andrew Miedecke
Andrew Bagnall
Miedecke Motorsport Ford Sierra RS500 report
10 September .05 - 500 Sandown RacewayMelbourne, Victoria Jim Richards
Mark Skaife
Nissan Motorsport AustraliaNissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R report
1 October Tooheys 1000 Mount Panorama Circuit Bathurst, New South Wales Dick Johnson
John Bowe
Shell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500 report
4–5 November Yokohama Cup Group A Race Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia Tony Longhurst Benson & Hedges Racing Ford Sierra RS500

Australian Touring Car Championship

Australian Manufacturers' Championship

Pepsi 300

Sandown 500

Tooheys 1000

Yokohama Cup Group A Races

This meeting was a support event of the 1989 Australian Grand Prix. This was the first time that the Group A cars ran two races at the Australian Grand Prix meeting, one on the Saturday afternoon and the second on the Sunday morning. [1] [2]

DriverNo.TeamCarRace 1Race 2
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tony Longhurst 25 Benson & Hedges Racing Ford Sierra RS500 11
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Colin Bond 4 Caltex CXT Racing Ford Sierra RS50052
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dick Johnson 17 Shell Ultra-Hi Racing Ford Sierra RS50073
Flag of New Zealand.svg Jim Richards 2 Nissan Motorsport Australia Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R 44
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Peter Brock 05 Mobil 1 Racing Ford Sierra RS50025
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Allan Grice 40 ICL Racing Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 86
Flag of Australia (converted).svg George Fury 3Nissan Motorsport AustraliaNissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R67
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Win Percy 16 Holden Racing Team Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV3DNF

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