1998 Tickford 500

The 1998 Tickford 500 was an endurance motor race for V8 Supercars. The event, which was the 33rd running of the Sandown 500, was held on 13 September 1998 at the Sandown International Motor Raceway. The race was won by Larry Perkins and Russell Ingall driving a Perkins Engineering Holden VT Commodore.

Class Structure

While still following long-term plans to abandon class structures within V8 Supercar, a class was instigated for the 1998 Tickford 500 and FAI 1000 Classic endurance races allowing smaller teams to save considerable budget by running a Dunlop control tyre, indicated here by CT. Most teams, particularly the professional teams, preferred to race with freedom of tyre choice, indicated by the class OC.

Top Ten Shootout

The top ten cars from Qualifying contested a Top Ten Shootout to determine the first ten grid positions for the race. Shootout results were as follows:[1]

Pos No Team Driver Car Time
Pole 50 Holden Racing Team Greg Murphy Holden VS Commodore 1:22.3834
2 1 Holden Racing Team Mark Skaife Holden VT Commodore 1:22.4050
3 18 Dick Johnson Racing John Bowe Ford EL Falcon 1:22.4548
4 4 Stone Brothers Racing Jason Bright Ford EL Falcon 1:22.4990
5 5 Glenn Seton Racing Glenn Seton Ford EL Falcon 1:23.3160
6 10 Larkham Motor Sport Mark Larkham Ford EL Falcon 1:23.7831
7 25 Longhurst Racing Tony Longhurst Ford EL Falcon 1:24.1355
8 17 Dick Johnson Racing Dick Johnson Ford EL Falcon 1:24.3714
9 35 Garry Rogers Motorsport Jason Bargwanna Holden VS Commodore 1:24.6735
10 11 Perkins Engineering Larry Perkins Holden VT Commodore 1:25.9808

Official results

Race results were as follows:[2]

Pos Class No Team Drivers Car Laps Qual
Pos		 Shootout
Pos
1 OC 11 Perkins Engineering Larry Perkins
Russell Ingall		 Holden VT Commodore 147 7 10
2 OC 1 Holden Racing Team Craig Lowndes
Mark Skaife		 Holden VT Commodore 147 1 2
3 OC 18 Dick Johnson Racing John Bowe
Cameron McConville		 Ford EL Falcon 147 5 3
4 OC 5 Glenn Seton Racing Glenn Seton
Neil Crompton		 Ford EL Falcon 145 6 5
5 OC 4 Stone Brothers Racing Jason Bright
Steven Richards		 Ford EL Falcon 145 3 4
6 OC 50 Holden Racing Team Greg Murphy
Mark Noske		 Holden VS Commodore 145 2 1
7 OC 35 Garry Rogers Motorsport Jason Bargwanna
Jim Richards		 Holden VS Commodore 144 8 9
8 OC 7 Gibson Motorsport Darren Hossack
Darren Pate		 Holden VS Commodore 143 16
9 OC 32 Tomas Mezera Motorsport Tomas Mezera
Terry Finnigan		 Holden VT Commodore 143 17
10 OC 2 Gibson Motorsport David Parsons
Simon Wills		 Holden VS Commodore 143 22
11 OC 10 Larkham Motor Sport Mark Larkham
Brad Jones		 Ford EL Falcon 142 4 6
12 CT 3 Lansvale Racing Team Steve Reed
Trevor Ashby		 Holden VS Commodore 141 23
13 OC 49 Greg Crick Motorsport Greg Crick
Dean Crosswell		 Holden VS Commodore 139 21
14 OC 16 Perkins Engineering Melinda Price
Kerryn Brewer		 Holden VS Commodore 138 24
15 CT 99 Clive Wiseman Racing Mick Donaher
Dean Lindstrom		 Holden VS Commodore 133 26
16 OC 38 James Rosenberg Racing Mark Poole
Tony Scott		 Holden VS Commodore 133 13
17 OC 46 John Faulkner Racing John Faulkner
Todd Kelly		 Holden VS Commodore 131 33
18 CT 54 Simon Emerzidis Simon Emerzidis
Garry Willmington		 Ford EL Falcon 128 25
19 CT 14 Imrie Motor Sport Mike Imrie
Rodney Crick		 Holden VS Commodore 127 31
20 CT 72 Robert Smith Racing Robert Smith
Bruce Williams		 Holden VS Commodore 123 27
21 CT 48 Rod Smith Racing D'arcy Russell
Colin Ivory		 Holden VS Commodore 121 30
22 OC 79 Cadillac Productions Mike Conway
Chris Hones		 Ford EL Falcon 119 29
DNF OC 75 John Sidney Racing Anthony Tratt
Bob Jones		 Ford EL Falcon 125 20
DNF OC 43 Paul Weel Racing Paul Weel
Neal Bates		 Ford EL Falcon 122 18
NC OC 8 Perkins Engineering Dugal McDougall
Jason Wylie		 Holden VS Commodore 109 19
DNF CT 55 Rod Nash Racing Rod Nash
Darren Edwards		 Holden VS Commodore 102 28
DNF OC 17 Dick Johnson Racing Dick Johnson
Steven Johnson		 Ford EL Falcon 99 9 8
DNF CT 77 V8 Racing Richard Mork
Bill Sieders		 Holden VP Commodore 94 32
DNF OC 96 Wayne Gardner Racing Wayne Gardner
Paul Stokell		 Holden VS Commodore 73 14
DNF OC 34 Garry Rogers Motorsport Garth Tander
Cameron McLean		 Holden VS Commodore 30 12
DNF OC 25 Longhurst Racing Tony Longhurst
Geoff Brabham		 Ford EL Falcon 7 10 7
DNF OC 24 Romano Racing Paul Romano
Steve Ellery		 Holden VR Commodore 6 15
DNF OC 9 Longhurst Racing Alan Jones
Adam Macrow		 Ford EL Falcon 0 11

Note: The race was scheduled to be run over 161 laps, however the slower lap times dictated by the wet weather conditions resulted in the race being shorted after reaching its three-hour-45-minute time limit.[3]

Statistics
  • Provisional Pole Position (Qualifying) - #1 Mark Skaife - 1:11.9148 [3]
  • Pole Position (Top Ten Shootout) - #50 Greg Murphy - 1:22.3834 [3]
  • Fastest Race Lap - #4 Jason Bright - 1:13.2534 (152 km/h)
  • Winners' race time - 03:45:09.5507 [2]
  • Average Race Speed - 121 km/h [2]

References
  1. "Tickford 500 Sandown 1998 Sandown International Motor Raceway Tickford 500 Top Ten Shootout". National Software. 13 September 1998. Archived from the original on 9 September 2006. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
  2. "Tickford 500 Sandown 1998 Sandown International Motor Raceway Tickford 500". National Software. 14 September 1998. Archived from the original on 3 September 2006. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
  3. Rain, What Rain? Australian Auto Action, 18-24 September 1998, pages 42-46

Further reading
  • Normoyle, Steve (1999). V8 Bathurst 2. Chevron Publishing Group. ISSN 1329-3184.
Preceded by
1997 Tickford 500		 Sandown 500
1998		 Succeeded by
2001 Clarion Sandown 500
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