Date 11 October, 1987 Laps 120 | Location Melbourne, Australia | |
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Course Calder Park Raceway
4.216 kilometres (2.620 mi) | ||
The 1987 Bob Jane T-Marts 500 was the ninth round of the 1987 World Touring Car Championship. The race, which was open to Group A Touring Cars, was held on 11 October 1987 at Calder Park Raceway in outer Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on the rarely used combined circuit which incorporated both the recently redeveloped (1986) road course and the newly completed NASCAR-style “Thunderdome” oval.
Contents
The combined oval/road course was 4.216 km (2.620 mi) long and the race was run over 120 laps.
Both Klaus Ludwig's pole time of 1:42.92 and Andrew Miedecke's fastest race lap of 1:45.03 in their respective Ford Sierra RS500's were faster than the pole time set in the only other Group A touring car race held on the combined oval/road course, the Yokohama/Bob Jane T-Marts 300 held two months previously on 9 August. Allan Grice set pole position for the earlier race in his Holden VL Commodore SS Group A with a time of 1:45.74.
Classes
Cars competed in three classes based on engine capacity.