1986 Australian Touring Car Championship
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The 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship was the 27th running of the Australian Touring Car Championship. It began on 2 March 1986 at Amaroo Park and ended on 13 July at Oran Park Raceway after ten rounds. This was the second ATCC to be run to the FIA's international Group A Touring Car Regulations.
The championship was won by Auckland (New Zealand) resident Robbie Francevic driving a Volvo Dealer Team Volvo 240T, the first time the championship had been won by a non-Australian resident and the first ATCC won by a turbocharged car. Francevic, who won Rounds 1, 2 and 4, defeated George Fury driving a Nissan Skyline DR30 who won Rounds 3, 5, 7, 8 and 10 of the series. Peter Brock won round 6 at Surfers Paradise (his last ATCC win until 1989 and the last race win by a Holden Commodore until his win in Round 1, Heat 1 of the 1992 ATCC) while defending champion Jim Richards could only manage 1 win in his JPS Team BMW 635 CSi, winning Round 9 at Winton. Richards had finished the race in second place behind Nissan team driver Gary Scott, but the Nissan was later disqualified for having oversize brake. Although the paperwork for the Nissan's new brakes had been put through, they had not yet been homologated which led to Scott's DQ.
With the ATCC consisting of 10 rounds, many of the top level teams including the Holden Dealer Team, Dick Johnson Racing, JPS Team BMW and the Peter Jackson Nissan team all made loud noises during the year about the lack of prizemoney on offer for their efforts (especially as Group A racing had proven far more expensive than the old Group C regulations), with teams and drivers often racing for as little as A$1,500. Pressure was being put on the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) to come up with a series sponsor for future championships or they would risk smaller and smaller grids. CAMS rectified this from 1987 by signing a multi-year sponsorship deal with Shell providing some $200,000 in prizemoney.
Contents
Teams and drivers
The following drivers and teams competed in the 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship. The series consisted of ten rounds of with one race per round.
Team | Manufacturer | Car model | No | Driver |
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JPS Team BMW | BMW | 635 CSi | 1 | ![]() |
325i | 23 | ![]() |
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Chickadee Racing | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 2 | ![]() |
Graeme Crosby | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 2 6 20 |
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Holden Dealer Team | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 3 | ![]() |
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Peter McLeod | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 4 | ![]() |
Volvo Dealer Team | Volvo | 240T | 4 44 |
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Charlie O'Brien | BMW | 635 CSi | 7 | ![]() |
22 | ![]() |
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Kevin Bartlett | Mitsubishi | Starion | 9 | ![]() |
Garry Willmington Performance | Jaguar | XJS | 12 | ![]() |
Bob Holden Motors | Toyota | Sprinter | 13 | ![]() |
Peter Jackson Nissan Racing | Nissan | Skyline DR30 RS | 15 | ![]() ![]() |
30 | ![]() |
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Toyota Team Australia | Toyota | Corolla | 16 | ![]() ![]() |
Auto Art | Ford | Mustang | 16 | ![]() |
Dick Johnson Racing | Ford | Mustang | 17 | ![]() |
Terry Finnigan | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 18 | ![]() |
Ken Mathews | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 19 | ![]() |
Jim Keogh | BMW | 635CSi | 20 | ![]() |
Lusty Engineering | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 23 | ![]() |
Jagparts Racing | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 24 | ![]() |
Simon Emmerling | BMW | 635 CSi | 26 | ![]() |
Alf Grant Racing | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 27 | ![]() |
Capri Components | Ford | Mustang | 28 | ![]() |
Tony Kavich Racing | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 28 | ![]() |
Ken Davison | Ford | Mustang | 29 | ![]() |
Mike Burgmann | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 33 | ![]() |
Garry Rogers Motorsport | BMW | 635 CSi | 34 | ![]() |
Lester Smerdon | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 35 | ![]() ![]() |
Murray Carter | Nissan | Skyline DR30 RS | 36 | ![]() ![]() |
Grellis Marketing | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 38 | ![]() |
David Oxton | Ford | Sierra XR4Ti | 40 | ![]() |
BJ Motorsport | Mitsubishi | Starion | 43 | ![]() |
Brian Callaghan | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 47 | ![]() |
John Donnelly | Rover | Vitesse | 50 | ![]() |
Brian Sampson | Mitsubishi | Starion | 54 | ![]() |
Andrew Bagnall | Ford | Escort RS1600i | 55 | ![]() |
Peter Fitzgerald | Mitsubishi | Starion | 57 | ![]() |
Mike Freeman | Toyota | Celica RA40 | 57 | ![]() |
David Ratcliff | Toyota | Corolla | 58 | ![]() |
John Giddings | Nissan | Gazelle | 60 | ![]() |
John White | Holden | Gemini ZZ | 65 | ![]() |
Graeme Hooley | Holden | VK Commodore SS Group A | 71 | ![]() |
Tim Howton | Mazda | RX-7 | 74 | ![]() |
Network Alfa | Alfa Romeo | GTV6 | 75 | ![]() |
Peter Williamson | Toyota | Celica Supra | 77 | ![]() |
Daryl Hendrick | Holden | Gemini ZZ | 86 | ![]() |
Brian Bolwell | BMW | 323i | 87 | ![]() |
Alf Barbagallo | Rover | Vitesse | 96 | ![]() |
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Results and Standings
Race Calendar
The 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship consisted of ten rounds.
Drivers Championship
Points were awarded 25-23-20-17-15-13-11-10-9-8-7-6-4-3-2-1 based on the top 17 outright race positions. The two smaller engine capacity classes received bonus points. Class B, under 3.0 litres received 3 points additional to points scored from race position. Class C, under 2.0 litres received 4 points.
Class A consisted of BMW 635 CSi, Ford Mustang, Ford Sierra XR4Ti, Holden VK Commodore SS Group A, Jaguar XJS.
Class B consisted of Alfa Romeo GTV6, BMW 323i, BMW 325i, Mazda RX-7, Mitsubishi Starion Turbo, Nissan Skyline DR30 RS, Toyota Supra and Volvo 240T.
Class C consisted of Holden Gemini, Nissan Gazelle, Toyota Celica and Toyota Corolla.
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See also
1986 Australian Touring Car season
External links
- Official V8 Supercar site Contains historical ATCC information.