Lakeside ATCC round

Lakeside ATCC round
	Race Information
Venue	Lakeside International Raceway
Number of times held	29
First held	1964
Last held	1998
	Race Format
	Race 1
Laps	23
Distance	55 km
	Race 2
Laps	23
Distance	55 km
	Race 3
Laps	23
Distance	55 km
	Last Event (1998)
	Overall Winner
Russell Ingall	Perkins Engineering
	Race Winners
John Bowe	Dick Johnson Racing
Russell Ingall	Perkins Engineering
Russell Ingall	Perkins Engineering

Last updated October 28, 2024

The Lakeside ATCC round was an Australian Touring Car Championship motor racing event held at Lakeside International Raceway in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The event was held 29 times from 1964 to 1998, with only seven circuits having hosted more events in championship history as of 2021.

History

The Lakeside round of the championship was first held in the era of single-race championships, deciding the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1964 and 1967 for two of Ian Geoghegan's five championship wins.^[1] The circuit held two further events as part of a multi-round championship in 1970 and 1971, the second of which was a replacement event for the Warwick Farm Raceway event due to concerns over the circuit's safety barriers.^[2] The circuit did not return to the calendar until 1975, but then remained on the calendar for an uninterrupted spell which continued until 1998.^[1]

The circuit hosted championship deciders in 1975, 1981 and 1983. The 1981 decider was notable for a famous race-long duel between local driver Dick Johnson's ailing Ford XD Falcon and Peter Brock's Holden VC Commodore. Johnson prevailed and won the first of his five championships in what is considered one of the greatest races in championship history.^[3]^[4] The 1983 finale was a more controversial affair, in which Gibson Motorsport boycotted the final round, resulting in championship contender George Fury forfeiting any chance of taking his maiden title. Instead, Allan Moffat won his final championship title and the only title for Mazda. Fury went on to win the Lakeside event in 1984, Nissan's first championship round victory, and 1986.^[1]

Tony Longhurst won three of his five career rounds at Lakeside in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This comprised winning the only round not won by Dick Johnson Racing in 1988, winning one of the two championship events the circuit held within the 1991 season and winning the final ATCC round to date for BMW in 1992. The circuit's proximity to Lake Kurwongbah saw two events postponed due to flooding, the 1989 event by a fortnight and the 1996 event by one week.^[2] In 1994, Larry Perkins, already a four-time Bathurst 1000 winner, won his first championship round.^[1]

In 1999, Queensland Raceway, near Ipswich, replaced Lakeside on the championship calendar. Lakeside then appeared on the second-tier V8 Lites calendar in 2000 and 2001, before the circuit closed for eight years in 2001.^[5]

Winners

Year	Driver^[1]	Team	Car	Report
1964	Ian Geoghegan	Total Team	Ford Cortina Mk.I GT	Report
1965 – 1966	not held
1967	Ian Geoghegan	Mustang Team	Ford Mustang GTA	Report
1968 – 1969	not held
1970	Norm Beechey	Shell Racing	Holden HT Monaro GTS350
1971	Allan Moffat	Allan Moffat Racing	Ford Boss 302 Mustang
1972 – 1974	not held
1975	Colin Bond	Holden Dealer Team	Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34
1976	Colin Bond	Holden Dealer Team	Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34
1977	Peter Brock	Bill Patterson Racing	Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34
1978	Allan Moffat	Allan Moffat Racing	Ford XC Falcon GS500
1979	Bob Morris	Ron Hodgson Motors	Holden LX Torana SS A9X
1980	Peter Brock	Holden Dealer Team	Holden VB Commodore
1981	Dick Johnson	Dick Johnson Racing	Ford XD Falcon
1982	Allan Moffat	Allan Moffat Racing	Mazda RX-7
1983	Peter Brock	Holden Dealer Team	Holden VH Commodore SS
1984	George Fury	Gibson Motorsport	Nissan Bluebird Turbo
1985	Jim Richards	JPS Team BMW	BMW 635 CSi
1986	George Fury	Gibson Motorsport	Nissan Skyline DR30 RS
1987	Jim Richards	JPS Team BMW	BMW M3
1988	Tony Longhurst	LoGaMo Racing	Ford Sierra RS500
1989	Dick Johnson	Dick Johnson Racing	Ford Sierra RS500
1990	Colin Bond	Colin Bond Racing	Ford Sierra RS500
1991 ¹	Jim Richards	Gibson Motorsport	Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R
1991 ¹	Tony Longhurst	LoGaMo Racing	BMW M3 Evolution
1992	Tony Longhurst	LoGaMo Racing	BMW M3 Evolution
1993	Alan Jones	Glenn Seton Racing	Ford EB Falcon
1994	Larry Perkins	Perkins Engineering	Holden VP Commodore	Report
1995	Glenn Seton	Glenn Seton Racing	Ford EF Falcon
1996	Craig Lowndes	Holden Racing Team	Holden VR Commodore
1997	John Bowe	Dick Johnson Racing	Ford EL Falcon
1998	Russell Ingall	Perkins Engineering	Holden VS Commodore

Notes

^1 – Lakeside hosted two rounds of the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship, Round 4 and Round 8.

Multiple winners

By driver

Wins	Driver	Years
3	Allan Moffat	1971, 1978, 1982
	Peter Brock	1977, 1980, 1983
	Colin Bond	1975, 1976, 1990
	Jim Richards	1985, 1987, 1991-1
	Tony Longhurst	1988, 1991-2, 1992
2	Ian Geoghegan	1964, 1967
	George Fury	1984, 1986
	Dick Johnson	1981, 1989

By team

Wins	Team
4	Holden Dealer Team
3	Allan Moffat Racing
	Gibson Motorsport
	LoGaMo Racing
	Dick Johnson Racing
2	JPS Team BMW
	Glenn Seton Racing
	Perkins Engineering

By manufacturer

Wins	Manufacturer
11	Ford
10	Holden
4	BMW
3	Nissan

Event names and sponsors

1964, 1967, 1970–71, 1975–77, 1979–85, 1987–98: Lakeside
1978: Round 7 Presented by Rothmans
1986: Motorcraft 100

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[ATCC50-1] 1 2 3 4 5 Greenhalgh, David; Howard, Graham; Wilson, Stewart (2011). The official history: Australian Touring Car Championship - 50 Years. St Leonards, New South Wales: Chevron Publishing Group. pp. 102–111. ISBN 978-0-9805912-2-4.

[cancel-2] 1 2 Dale, Will (14 March 2020). "Feature: The Supercars races that never were". Supercars.com. Retrieved 15 March 2020.

[3] Bowden, Dan (17 February 2014). "Dick Johnson reunited with Tru Blu at Lakeside". Bowden's Own. Retrieved 18 February 2019.

[4] Fogarty, Mark (15 April 2016). "The best of the V8 Supercars 500". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 March 2019.

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