Pole position: Johnson in 0.54,06
Fastest lap: Johnson in 0.55,36
Distance: 33 laps, 30 minutes, shortened after starting crash from 1 hour
Average speed:
Weather: Sunny
Ruleset: Group A
Car info:
The meeting was postponed for two weeks after unseasonally heavy rainfall in south-east Queensland caused the adjacent Lake Kurwongbah to flood the racetrack. One qualifying session had already been completed, but the times were scrubbed and the restarted from scratch. Andrew Miedecke was fastest early, before Johnson came through on the Saturday to take pole on home ground. Terry Finnigan destroyed his car in a fiery accident exiting the kink, backing the Trojan Boats commodore hard into the earth-filled tyre barrier. Terry emerged the burning car unscathed through the drivers' side window, the once immaculately presented car a write-off. There were question marks over the durability of the the D15 Dunlops chosen by Johnson and Longhurst. Johnson took off from the start while Brock held up the field. First Longhurst, then Bowe, then Richards made their way past the Mobil Sierra but Miedecke was trapped, along with Seton, Hansford and Fury. They weren't helped by yellow flags at the main passing spot - heading into the Karussell - after contact between Ken Mathews and Superbike racer Michael Dowson in the second TTA car. On lap 10 the train of cars came up to lap Graham Lusty... Brock made it past okay, but Miedecke ran wide into the Commodore, both crashing hard into the armco and catching fire under the Dunlop Bridge. The Lusty car stopped under the armco, but the Kenwood Sierra bounced back into the path of Seton, which wiped out the Peter Jackson car. Miedecke's car ended up broadsides in the middle of the track on fire, Andrew hiding behind the car until a break in the traffic allowed him to sprint across the track to safety; the race still hadn't been stopped. Marshals had begun to attack the fire in the Lusty car with cars still coming through at racing speeds. Murray Carter, unsighted behind two Commodores and the smoke and the flame, and the powder from the extinguishers, slammed into the side of the burning Miedecke car. Eventually the race was redflagged, but the Seton, Lusty and Miedecke cars were destroyed; the former Kenwood car now just a burnt-out shell. A restart was delayed by almost two hours while the race while the armco under the bridge was replaced. Apart from the four cars involved, Brad Jones would also miss the restart after debris smashed the oil cooler on his Sierra. The restarted race was shortened to a duration of 30 minutes which eased the Dunlop runners worries about making their rubber last. On the restart Johnson led away from Brock, Longhurst and Bowe. Brock's hard Bridgestones worked against him over the shorter distance. Longhurst moved past the Mobil car on lap 8 but by that point Johnson had already legged it. Brock would spin off at the Karussell but came back to hold off Hansford and Richards for fourth. |
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Class A-C
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| Pos | Pos in class | # | Team / Entrant Car- Engine |
Drivers, Nationality | Engine vol. (cc) |
Engine Type |
Group | Distance, time |
Qualifying position | Qualifying time | Fastest lap | Reason out, remarks |
| 1 | 1 | 17 | Shell Ultra Hi Racing Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth |
Dick Johnson, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 33 laps, 30.57,09 | 1 | 0.54,06 | 0.55,36 | |
| 2 | 2 | 25 | Benson & Hedges Racing Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth |
Tony Longhurst, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 33 laps, 31.02,24 | 4 | 0.54,58 | 0.55,80 | |
| 3 | 3 | 18 | Shell Ultra Hi Racing Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth |
John Bowe, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 33 laps, 31.11,07 | 5 | 0.54,62 | 0.55,82 | |
| 4 | 4 | 05 | Mobil 1 Racing Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth |
Peter Brock, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 33 laps, 31.21,07 | 2 | 0.54,18 | 0.56,04 | |
| 5 | 5 | 9 | Allan Moffat Enterprises Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth |
Gregg Hansford, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 33 laps, 31.21,31 | 9 | 0.55,10 | 0.56,24 | |
| 6 | 6 | 2 | Nissan Motorsport Nissan Skyline GTS-R Turbo HR31 |
Jim Richards, NZ |
2029 tc | L6 | A | 33 laps, 31.38,36 | 3 | 0.54,23 | 0.56,30 | |
| 7 | 7 | 3 | Nissan Motorsport Nissan Skyline GTS-R Turbo HR31 |
George Fury, AUS |
2029 tc | L6 | A | 33 laps, 31.40,97 | 7 | 0.54,77 | 0.56,70 | |
| 8 | 8 | 20 | Benson & Hedges Racing Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth |
Neville Crichton, NZ |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 32 | 15 | 0.56,27 | 0.57,24 | |
| 9 | 9 | 4 | Caltex CXT Race Team Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth |
Colin Bond, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 32 | 12 | 0.55,72 | 0.57,51 | |
| 10 | 10 | 23 | Beaurepaires Motorsport Holden VL SS Commodore |
Chris Lambden, AUS |
4980 | V8 | A | 31 | 18 | 0.57,66 | 0.58,96 | |
| 11 | 11 | 24 | Jagparts Racing Holden VK Commodore |
Gerald Kay, AUS |
4980 | V8 | A | 31 | 19 | 0.58,67 | 0.59,69 | |
| 12 | 1 | 39 | Nissan Gazelle |
David Sala, AUS |
1990 | L4 | C | 31 | 22 | 1.00,13 | 1.00,34 | |
| 13 | 2 | 32 | Toyota Team Australia Toyota Corolla FX-GT AE82 |
John Faulkner, NZ |
1587 | L4 | C | 30 | 25 | 1.01,21 | 1.01,04 | |
| 14 | 12 | 28 | Sommariva Concrete BMW 635 CSi |
Joe Sommariva, AUS |
3475 | L6 | A | 29 | 26 | 1.01,34 | 1.02,00 | |
| 15 | 13 | 68 | Blue Haven Pools Holden VL SS Commodore |
Garry Willmington, AUS |
4980 | V8 | A | 29 | 13 | 0.56,15 | 0.57,53 | |
| 16 | 3 | 78 | Team Madison Racing Toyota Corolla GT AE86 |
Geoffrey Full, AUS |
1587 | L4 | C | 29 | 28 | 1.02,86 | 1.03,07 | |
| DNF | 48 | Holden VL SS Commodore |
Wayne Park, AUS |
4980 | V8 | A | 10 | 17 | 0.57,48 | 0.58,75 | ||
| DNF | 8 | Miedecke Motorsport Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth |
Andrew Bagnall, NZ |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 8 | 10 | 0.55,23 | 0.57,74 | Turbo charger | |
| DNF | 69 | Blue Haven Pools Holden VL SS Commodore |
Reda Awadullah, ET |
4980 | V8 | A | 3 | 20 | 0.58,87 | 1.05,12 | ||
| DNF | 13 | Bob Holden Motors Toyota Corolla GT AE86 |
Bob Holden, AUS |
1587 | L4 | C | 3 | 27 | 1.02,11 | 1.04,76 | ||
| DNF/DNS | 8 | Miedecke Motorsport Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth |
Andrew Bagnall, NZ |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 6 | 0.54,64 | Accident; did not restart | |||
| DNF/DNS | 30 | Peter Jackson Racing Pty Ltd Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth |
Glenn Seton, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 8 | 0.55,02 | Accident; did not restart | |||
| DNF/DNS | 14 | Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth |
Murray Carter, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 16 | 0.57,46 | Accident; did not restart | |||
| DNF/DNS | 21 | Lusty Engineering Pty Ltd Holden VL SS Commodore |
John Lusty, AUS |
4980 | V8 | A | 21 | 0.59,86 | Accident; did not restart | |||
| DNF/DNS | 105 | Mobil 1 Racing Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth |
Brad Jones, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 11 | 0.55,39 | Oil cooler; did not restart | |||
| DNF/DNS | 33 | Toyota Team Australia Toyota Corolla FX-GT AE82 |
Mike Dowson, AUS |
1587 | L4 | C | 24 | 1.01,13 | Accident; did not restart | |||
| DNF/DNS | 19 | Caltex CXT Race Team Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth |
Ken Mathews, AUS |
1993 tc | L4 | A | 14 | 0.56,20 | Accident; did not restart | |||
| DNS | 40 | Holden VL SS Commodore |
Terry Finnigan, AUS |
4980 | V8 | A | 23 | 1.00,45 | Accident in practice | |||