1988 Australian Touring Car season

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1988 Australian Touring Car season
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The 1988 Australian Touring Car season was the 29th 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 16 touring car race meetings held during 1988; a nine-round series, the 1988 Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC); the four round Amaroo Park based AMSCAR series (Round 3 doubled as Round 8 of the ATCC); a support programme event at the 1988 Australian Grand Prix and three long-distance races, nicknamed 'enduros'.

Results and standings

Race calendar

The 1988 Australian touring car season consisted of 16 events.

DateSeries / race nameCircuitCity / stateWinnerTeamCarReport
6 March ATCC Round 1 Calder Park Raceway Melbourne, Victoria Dick Johnson Shell Ultra-Hi Racing Ford Sierra RS500
13 March ATCC Round 2 Symmons Plains Raceway Launceston, Tasmania Dick JohnsonShell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500
27 MarchAMSCAR Round 1 Amaroo Park Sydney, New South Wales Colin Bond Caltex CXT Racing Team Ford Sierra RS500
10 April ATCC Round 3 Winton Motor Raceway Benalla, Victoria John Bowe Shell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500
24 April ATCC Round 4 Barbagallo Raceway Perth, Western AustraliaDick JohnsonShell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500
1 May ATCC Round 5 Adelaide International Raceway Adelaide, South Australia Dick JohnsonShell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500
15 MayAMSCAR Round 2 Amaroo Park Sydney, New South Wales Dick JohnsonShell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500
22 May ATCC Round 6 Lakeside International Raceway Brisbane, Queensland Tony Longhurst Freeport Motorsport Ford Sierra RS500
29 May ATCC Round 7 Sandown Raceway Melbourne, VictoriaDick JohnsonShell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500
19 June ATCC Round 8
AMSCAR Round 3		 Amaroo Park Sydney, New South Wales John BoweShell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500
17 July ATCC Round 9 Oran Park Raceway Sydney, New South WalesDick JohnsonShell Ultra-Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500
31 JulyAMSCAR Round 4 Amaroo Park Sydney, New South Wales Tony LonghurstFreeport MotorsportFord Sierra RS500
28 Aug [1] Pepsi 250Oran Park RacewaySydney, New South Wales Peter Brock
Jim Richards 		Mobil 1 Racing BMW M3 report
11 Sep Enzed Sandown 500 Sandown RacewayMelbourne, Victoria Allan Moffat
Gregg Hansford 		Allan Moffat Enterprises Ford Sierra RS500 report
2 Oct Tooheys 1000 Mount Panorama Circuit Bathurst, New South Wales Tony Longhurst
Tomas Mezera 		Benson & Hedges Racing Ford Sierra RS500 report
12 Nov South Australia Cup Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia Larry Perkins Holden Special Vehicles Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV

Australian Touring Car Championship

James Hardie Building Products AMSCAR Series

Pepsi 250

Enzed Sandown 500

Tooheys 1000

South Australia Cup

This race was a support event at the 1988 Australian Grand Prix meeting. This was Larry Perkins' first win in Australia since the 1984 Bathurst 1000 and also the only Holden win for the year. [2] This would be the final time that the touring cars would only have a single race at the Australian Grand Prix. Starting in 1989, the tourers would have one race on the Saturday afternoon following the Formula One final qualifying session with a second race the following morning on F1 race day.

Pos.DriverNo.TeamCarGrid
1 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Larry Perkins 10 Holden Special Vehicles Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 4
2 Flag of New Zealand.svg Denny Hulme 11Holden Special VehiclesHolden VL Commodore SS Group A SV7
3 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Colin Bond 4 Caltex CXT Racing Ford Sierra RS500 5
4 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Peter Brock 05 Mobil 1 Racing BMW M3 10
5 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Garry Rogers 33 Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV15
6 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Gerald Kay24Jagparts Holden VK Commodore SS Group A 18
7 Flag of Australia (converted).svg George Fury 30 Peter Jackson Nissan Racing Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R 8
8 Flag of Australia (converted).svg John Farrell52John Farrell Holden VL Commodore SS Group A 27
9 Flag of New Zealand.svg John Faulkner 71 Toyota Team Australia Toyota Corolla GT 25
10 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Lawrie Nelson28Capri Components Ford Mustang GT 20

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