1998 Tickford 500

Track map of the Sandown Raceway

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

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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

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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 New Zealand Greg Murphy Holden VS Commodore 1:22.3834
2 1 Holden Racing Team Australia Mark Skaife Holden VT Commodore 1:22.4050
3 18 Dick Johnson Racing Australia John Bowe Ford EL Falcon 1:22.4548
4 4 Stone Brothers Racing Australia Jason Bright Ford EL Falcon 1:22.4990
5 5 Glenn Seton Racing Australia Glenn Seton Ford EL Falcon 1:23.3160
6 10 Larkham Motor Sport Australia Mark Larkham Ford EL Falcon 1:23.7831
7 25 Longhurst Racing Australia Tony Longhurst Ford EL Falcon 1:24.1355
8 17 Dick Johnson Racing Australia Dick Johnson Ford EL Falcon 1:24.3714
9 35 Garry Rogers Motorsport Australia Jason Bargwanna Holden VS Commodore 1:24.6735
10 11 Perkins Engineering Australia Larry Perkins Holden VT Commodore 1:25.9808

Official results

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Race results were as follows:[2]

Pos Class No Team Drivers Car Laps Qual
Pos
Shootout
Pos
1 OC 11 Perkins Engineering Australia Larry Perkins
Australia Russell Ingall
Holden VT Commodore 147 7 10
2 OC 1 Holden Racing Team Australia Craig Lowndes
Australia Mark Skaife
Holden VT Commodore 147 1 2
3 OC 18 Dick Johnson Racing Australia John Bowe
Australia Cameron McConville
Ford EL Falcon 147 5 3
4 OC 5 Glenn Seton Racing Australia Glenn Seton
Australia Neil Crompton
Ford EL Falcon 145 6 5
5 OC 4 Stone Brothers Racing Australia Jason Bright
New Zealand Steven Richards
Ford EL Falcon 145 3 4
6 OC 50 Holden Racing Team New Zealand Greg Murphy
Australia Mark Noske
Holden VS Commodore 145 2 1
7 OC 35 Garry Rogers Motorsport Australia Jason Bargwanna
New Zealand Jim Richards
Holden VS Commodore 144 8 9
8 OC 7 Gibson Motorsport Australia Darren Hossack
Australia Darren Pate
Holden VS Commodore 143 16
9 OC 32 Tomas Mezera Motorsport Australia Tomas Mezera
Australia Terry Finnigan
Holden VT Commodore 143 17
10 OC 2 Gibson Motorsport Australia David Parsons
New Zealand Simon Wills
Holden VS Commodore 143 22
11 OC 10 Larkham Motor Sport Australia Mark Larkham
Australia Brad Jones
Ford EL Falcon 142 4 6
12 CT 3 Lansvale Racing Team Australia Steve Reed
Australia Trevor Ashby
Holden VS Commodore 141 23
13 OC 49 Greg Crick Motorsport Australia Greg Crick
Australia Dean Crosswell
Holden VS Commodore 139 21
14 OC 16 Perkins Engineering Australia Melinda Price
Australia Kerryn Brewer
Holden VS Commodore 138 24
15 CT 99 Clive Wiseman Racing Australia Mick Donaher
Australia Dean Lindstrom
Holden VS Commodore 133 26
16 OC 38 James Rosenberg Racing Australia Mark Poole
Australia Tony Scott
Holden VS Commodore 133 13
17 OC 46 John Faulkner Racing New Zealand John Faulkner
Australia Todd Kelly
Holden VS Commodore 131 33
18 CT 54 Simon Emerzidis Australia Simon Emerzidis
Australia Garry Willmington
Ford EL Falcon 128 25
19 CT 14 Imrie Motor Sport Australia Mike Imrie
Australia Rodney Crick
Holden VS Commodore 127 31
20 CT 72 Robert Smith Racing Australia Robert Smith
Australia Bruce Williams
Holden VS Commodore 123 27
21 CT 48 Rod Smith Racing Australia D'arcy Russell
Australia Colin Ivory
Holden VS Commodore 121 30
22 OC 79 Cadillac Productions Australia Mike Conway
Australia Chris Hones
Ford EL Falcon 119 29
DNF OC 75 Paul Little Racing Australia Anthony Tratt
Australia Bob Jones
Ford EL Falcon 125 20
DNF OC 43 Paul Weel Racing Australia Paul Weel
Australia Neal Bates
Ford EL Falcon 122 18
NC OC 8 Perkins Engineering Australia Dugal McDougall
Australia Jason Wylie
Holden VS Commodore 109 19
DNF CT 55 Rod Nash Racing Australia Rod Nash
Australia Darren Edwards
Holden VS Commodore 102 28
DNF OC 17 Dick Johnson Racing Australia Dick Johnson
Australia Steven Johnson
Ford EL Falcon 99 9 8
DNF CT 77 V8 Racing Australia Richard Mork
Australia Bill Sieders
Holden VP Commodore 94 32
DNF OC 96 Wayne Gardner Racing Australia Wayne Gardner
Australia Paul Stokell
Holden VS Commodore 73 14
DNF OC 34 Garry Rogers Motorsport Australia Garth Tander
Australia Cameron McLean
Holden VS Commodore 30 12
DNF OC 25 Longhurst Racing Australia Tony Longhurst
Australia Geoff Brabham
Ford EL Falcon 7 10 7
DNF OC 24 Romano Racing Australia Paul Romano
Australia Steve Ellery
Holden VR Commodore 6 15
DNF OC 9 Longhurst Racing Australia Alan Jones
Australia Adam Macrow
Ford EL Falcon 0 11
DNS OC 95 Road Care Racing Australia Steve Cramp
Australia Gary Baxter
Ford EL Falcon -

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 shortened after reaching its three-hour-45-minute time limit.[3]

Statistics

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  • 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]
  • Race average speed - 121 km/h[2]

References

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  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. ^ a b c "Tickford 500 Sandown 1998 Sandown International Motor Raceway Tickford 500". National Software. 13 January 2021. Archived from the original on 13 January 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
  3. ^ a b c Rain, What Rain? Australian Auto Action, 18–24 September 1998, pages 42-46

Further reading

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  • Normoyle, Steve (1999). V8 Bathurst 2. Chevron Publishing Group. ISSN 1329-3184.
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Preceded by Sandown 500
1998
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