1994 Sandown 500

The 1994 Sandown 500 was an endurance motor race for Group 3A Touring Cars and selected production cars held at the Sandown circuit in Victoria, Australia on 4 September 1994. The event was staged over 161 laps of the 3.10 km circuit, a total distance of 499 km. It was the 29th race in a sequence of annual endurance races held at Sandown.

Dick Johnson and John Bowe won the race in their Dick Johnson Racing Ford EB Falcon. Second was the Gibson Motorsport Holden VP Commodore of Mark Skaife and Jim Richards, while third was the Perkins Engineering Commodore of Larry Perkins and Gregg Hansford. After first racing in the "Sandown 500" in 1977 when the race was known as the Hang Ten 400, Dick Johnson scored his first win in the classic.

The race was notable as it marked the debut race of future three-time Supercars champion Craig Lowndes.[1]

Results
Pos. [2] Class No. [3] Entrant [3] Drivers [2] Car [2] Laps [2]
1 V8 17 Shell FAI Racing Dick Johnson
John Bowe		 Ford EB Falcon 161
2 V8 2 Winfield Racing Mark Skaife
Jim Richards		 Holden VP Commodore 161
3 V8 11 Castrol Perkins Racing Team Larry Perkins
Gregg Hansford		 Holden VP Commodore 161
4 V8 25 Benson & Hedges Racing Tony Longhurst
Charlie O'Brien		 Holden VP Commodore 161
5 V8 015 Holden Racing Team Brad Jones
Craig Lowndes		 Holden VP Commodore 161
6 V8 05 Holden Racing Team Tomas Mezera
Peter Brock		 Holden VP Commodore 161
7 V8 7 Coca-Cola Racing Win Percy
Russell Ingall		 Holden VP Commodore 159
8 V8 18 Shell FAI Racing Allan Grice
Steven Johnson		 Ford EB Falcon 159
9 V8 1 Peter Jackson Racing Glenn Seton
Paul Radisich		 Ford EB Falcon 158
10 V8 47 Daily Planet Racing John Trimbole
Steve Harrington		 Holden VP Commodore 157
11 V8 12 Ampol Max 3 Racing Bob Jones
Troy Dunstan		 Holden VP Commodore 156
12 V8 39 Anderson Consulting / Protech Chris Smerdon
Cameron McConville		 Holden VP Commodore 155
13 V8 24 Pinnacle Motorsport Greg Crick
Tony Scott		 Holden VP Commodore 154
14 V8 26 Don Watson Transport Don Watson
Ian Love		 Holden VP Commodore 154
15 Prod. 9 Neville Crichton Neville Crichton
Mark Brame		 BMW M3 141
16 Prod. 70 BP Mazda Motorsport Garry Waldon
Colin Bond		 Mazda RX-7 140
17 Prod. 34 Garry Rogers Motorsport Steven Richards
Garry Rogers		 Porsche 968CS 140
18 V8 28 Playscape Racing Kevin Waldock
Michael Preston		 Ford EB Falcon 133
19 Prod. 8 Volvo Cars Australia Pty Ltd Jan Lammers
Kent Youlden		 Volvo 850 T-5 132
20 Prod. 19 Murray Carter Murray Carter
Terri Sawyer		 Nissan Pulsar SSS 129
21 Prod. 61 Falken Tyres Keith Carling
Kevin Burton		 Mazda RX-7 126
22 Prod. 41 Danny Bogut Danny Bogut
Ian Sawtell		 Mazda 626 123
DNF V8 30 Peter Jackson Racing Alan Jones
David Parsons		 Ford EB Falcon 147
DNF V8 44 [4] Group Motorsport [4] George Ayoub
Mike Conway		 Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 130
NC Prod. 33 David Sala David Sala
Steve Swaine		 Holden VP Commodore SS 113
NC V8 23 Diet-Coke Racing Paul Morris
Geoff Brabham		 Holden VP Commodore 94
DNF V8 16 Australian Boat Manufacturers Graham Blythman
Stephen Renshaw		 Holden VP Commodore 56
DNF V8 31 Malcolm Stenniken Brett Youlden
Malcolm Stenniken		 Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 34
DNF V8 4 Coca-Cola Racing Wayne Gardner
Neil Crompton		 Holden VP Commodore 27

Notes

See also

1994 Australian Touring Car season

References
  1. Bartholomaeus, Stefan (17 November 2018). "How Lowndes' debut almost didn't happen". Supercars. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  2. Australian Motor Racing Year, 1994/95
  3. Official Program, Sandown 500, Sunday, 4 September 1994, as published in Australian Auto Action, 1 September 1994
  4. The Richards / Rogers Porche and the Ayoub / Conway Holden were not listed in the Official Program
Preceded by
1993 Sandown 500		 Sandown 500
1994		 Succeeded by
1995 Sandown 500
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