1999 Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 500

The 1999 Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 500 was a motor race staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia on 3 October 1999.[1] It was the 37th and last in a sequence of annual touring car endurance races to be organised by the Australian Racing Driver's Club at the Mount Panorama Circuit, previous events having included Bathurst 500 races and, from 1973, the Bathurst 1000.

This article is about the Super Touring car race. For the V8Supercar race, see 1999 FAI 1000.

1999 Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 500
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The race was open to Super Touring cars,[1] with FIA Production cars, GT Production cars and Schedule S cars [2] also invited to compete. Qualifying established the grid for a 100 kilometre preliminary race, the Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 100, which in turn determined grid positions for the 500 kilometre main event.

The Super Touring 500 was won by Paul Morris driving a BMW 320i.

Race

The race was very heavily weather affected with rain wreathing the circuit for much of the day, earlier blighting the Bob Jane T-Marts V8 300 race held for a combined field of AUSCARs and Future Touring Cars. The race spent many laps behind a safety car because of low visibility caused by fog, including the final 17 laps and was eventually declared after 50 laps, 31 short of the intended full race distance. Paul Morris avenged his disqualification from victory in the 1997 AMP Bathurst 1000 taking victory over the two-car factory supported Volvo team, Jim Richards driving solo as Cameron McLean was unable to take his scheduled middle stint because of the weather and because of tyre issues, and Craig Baird and Matthew Coleman. Fourth place and leading independent driver was young New Zealander Mark Porter who had so impressed team owner Mike Downard that he kept Porter in the car rather than take his own turn at the wheel. Leading independent team Knight Racing saw the Dean Canto / Leanne Ferrier buried in a sand trap at The Chase while the lead car of Peter Hills / Ron Searle struggled with water leaks and electrical issues.

Official results

Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 100
Pos [3] No Team Drivers Car Laps Qual
Pos
1 3 Volvo Dealer Racing Jim Richards Volvo S40 16 1
2 1 Paul Morris Motorsport Paul Morris BMW 320i 16 2
3 4 Volvo Dealer Racing Craig Baird Volvo S40 16 3
4 88 Knight Racing Peter Hills Ford Mondeo 16 5
5 44 Knight Racing Dean Canto Ford Mondeo 16 4
6 9 Aaron McGill Motorsport Aaron McGill Ford Mondeo 15 8
7 10 TC Motorsport Tony Newman Peugeot 406 15 6
8 20 TC Motorsport Anthony Robson Peugeot 406 15 7
9 95 Archerfield Speed Karts Jamie Miller Toyota Camry 15 10
10 14 MPD Racing Mark Porter BMW 320i 15 12
11 38 Rod Salmon Rod Salmon Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V 15 13
12 12 Rodney Jones Racing Mike Newton Vauxhall Cavalier 15 15
13 15 Archerfield Speed Karts Mike Kilpatrick Porsche 930 15 16
14 22 Dennis Chapman Debbie Chapman BMW 320i 15 17
DNF 7 Anthony Robson Allan Letcher BMW 318i 10 14
DNF 24 Bruce Miles Bruce Miles BMW 318i 3 11
DNF 97 Triple P Racing Claude Elias Hyundai Lantra 2 18
DNF 8 Project Racing Jim Cornish Nissan Primera 0 9

Bob Jane T-Marts Super Touring 500
Pos [3] No Team Drivers Car Laps B100
Pos		 Qual
Pos
1 1 Paul Morris Motorsport Paul Morris BMW 320i 50 2 2
2 3 Volvo Dealer Racing Jim Richards
Cameron McLean		 Volvo S40 50 1 1
3 4 Volvo Dealer Racing Craig Baird
Matthew Coleman		 Volvo S40 50 3 3
4 14 MPD Racing Mark Porter
Mike Downard		 BMW 320i 49 10 12
5 38 Rod Salmon Rod Salmon
Damien White		 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V 49 11 13
6 12 Rodney Jones Racing Mike Newton
Andy Lloyd		 Vauxhall Cavalier 49 12 15
7 8 Project Racing Jim Cornish
Roger Townshend		 Nissan Primera 49 DNF 9
8 88 Knight Racing Peter Hills
Ron Searle		 Ford Mondeo 49 4 5
9 95 Archerfield Speed Karts Mike Kilpatrick
Jamie Miller		 Toyota Camry 48 9 10
10 22 Dennis Chapman Dennis Chapman
Debbie Chapman		 BMW 320i 48 14 17
11 24 Bruce Miles Bruce Miles
Murray Cleland		 BMW 318i 47 DNF 11
12 7 Anthony Robson Allan Letcher
Jenni Thompson		 BMW 318i 46 DNF 14
13 9 Aaron McGill Motorsport Aaron McGill
Gary Quartly		 Ford Mondeo 39 6 8
14 77 Motorsport Developments Malcolm Rea
Dennis Cribbin		 Toyota Carina 38 DNS DNS
DNF 97 Triple P Racing Claude Elias
Paul Leabeater		 Hyundai Lantra 34 DNF 18
DNF 10 TC Motorsport Tony Newman Peugeot 406 25 7 6
DNF 44 Knight Racing Dean Canto
Leanne Ferrier		 Ford Mondeo 24 5 4
DNF 30 Roadchill Express Troy Searle
Luke Searle		 BMW 320i 9 DNS DNS
DNF 99 Motorsport Developments Clayton Haynes
Carlos Rolfo		 Toyota Carina 6 DNS 19
DNS 20 TC Motorsport Anthony Robson
Mark Zonneveld		 Peugeot 406 8 7
DNS 15 Archerfield Speed Karts Mike Kilpatrick Porsche 930 13 16

Note:

Statistics
  • Pole Position – #3 Jim Richards (Determined from results of 100 km race) [4]
  • Fastest Lap – #3 Jim Richards – 2:38.1390 [5]
  • Race time of winning car – 2:55:31.5969 [3]
  • Average Race Speed – 106 km/h [5]

References
  1. Official Programme, Mt Panorama, Sunday 3 October 1999
  2. Entry, Bathurst 500, Auto Action, 7 October 1999
  3. Results, racing.natsoft.com.au
  4. Morris Reigns on Mountain, Auto Action, 14 October 1999, pages 17–19
  5. Race results, www.teamdan.com Archived 14 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 14 April 2018
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