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 | Holden VS Commodore | 1:22.3834 | |
2 | 1 | Holden Racing Team | Holden VT Commodore | 1:22.4050 | |
3 | 18 | Dick Johnson Racing | Ford EL Falcon | 1:22.4548 | |
4 | 4 | Stone Brothers Racing | Ford EL Falcon | 1:22.4990 | |
5 | 5 | Glenn Seton Racing | Ford EL Falcon | 1:23.3160 | |
6 | 10 | Larkham Motor Sport | Ford EL Falcon | 1:23.7831 | |
7 | 25 | Longhurst Racing | Ford EL Falcon | 1:24.1355 | |
8 | 17 | Dick Johnson Racing | Ford EL Falcon | 1:24.3714 | |
9 | 35 | Garry Rogers Motorsport | Holden VS Commodore | 1:24.6735 | |
10 | 11 | Perkins Engineering | 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 | Holden VT Commodore | 147 | 7 | 10 | |
2 | OC | 1 | Holden Racing Team | Holden VT Commodore | 147 | 1 | 2 | |
3 | OC | 18 | Dick Johnson Racing | Ford EL Falcon | 147 | 5 | 3 | |
4 | OC | 5 | Glenn Seton Racing | Ford EL Falcon | 145 | 6 | 5 | |
5 | OC | 4 | Stone Brothers Racing | Ford EL Falcon | 145 | 3 | 4 | |
6 | OC | 50 | Holden Racing Team | Holden VS Commodore | 145 | 2 | 1 | |
7 | OC | 35 | Garry Rogers Motorsport | Holden VS Commodore | 144 | 8 | 9 | |
8 | OC | 7 | Gibson Motorsport | Holden VS Commodore | 143 | 16 | ||
9 | OC | 32 | Tomas Mezera Motorsport | Holden VT Commodore | 143 | 17 | ||
10 | OC | 2 | Gibson Motorsport | Holden VS Commodore | 143 | 22 | ||
11 | OC | 10 | Larkham Motor Sport | Ford EL Falcon | 142 | 4 | 6 | |
12 | CT | 3 | Lansvale Racing Team | Holden VS Commodore | 141 | 23 | ||
13 | OC | 49 | Greg Crick Motorsport | Holden VS Commodore | 139 | 21 | ||
14 | OC | 16 | Perkins Engineering | Holden VS Commodore | 138 | 24 | ||
15 | CT | 99 | Clive Wiseman Racing | Holden VS Commodore | 133 | 26 | ||
16 | OC | 38 | James Rosenberg Racing | Holden VS Commodore | 133 | 13 | ||
17 | OC | 46 | John Faulkner Racing | Holden VS Commodore | 131 | 33 | ||
18 | CT | 54 | Simon Emerzidis | Ford EL Falcon | 128 | 25 | ||
19 | CT | 14 | Imrie Motor Sport | Holden VS Commodore | 127 | 31 | ||
20 | CT | 72 | Robert Smith Racing | Holden VS Commodore | 123 | 27 | ||
21 | CT | 48 | Rod Smith Racing | Holden VS Commodore | 121 | 30 | ||
22 | OC | 79 | Cadillac Productions | Ford EL Falcon | 119 | 29 | ||
DNF | OC | 75 | John Sidney Racing | Ford EL Falcon | 125 | 20 | ||
DNF | OC | 43 | Paul Weel Racing | Ford EL Falcon | 122 | 18 | ||
NC | OC | 8 | Perkins Engineering | Holden VS Commodore | 109 | 19 | ||
DNF | CT | 55 | Rod Nash Racing | Holden VS Commodore | 102 | 28 | ||
DNF | OC | 17 | Dick Johnson Racing | Ford EL Falcon | 99 | 9 | 8 | |
DNF | CT | 77 | V8 Racing | Holden VP Commodore | 94 | 32 | ||
DNF | OC | 96 | Wayne Gardner Racing | Holden VS Commodore | 73 | 14 | ||
DNF | OC | 34 | Garry Rogers Motorsport | Holden VS Commodore | 30 | 12 | ||
DNF | OC | 25 | Longhurst Racing | Ford EL Falcon | 7 | 10 | 7 | |
DNF | OC | 24 | Romano Racing | Holden VR Commodore | 6 | 15 | ||
DNF | OC | 9 | Longhurst Racing | 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
- "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.
- "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.
- 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.
External links
- Official race results
- Official V8 Supercar website
- Thumbnail race images at web.archive.org
- 1998 Sandown 500 - Full Race video at www.youtube.com
Preceded by 1997 Tickford 500 |
Sandown 500 1998 |
Succeeded by 2001 Clarion Sandown 500 |