1998 Tickford 500

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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.

Track map of the Sandown Raceway

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   Greg Murphy Holden VS Commodore 1:22.3834
2 1 Holden Racing Team   Mark Skaife Holden VT Commodore 1:22.4050
3 18 Dick Johnson Racing   John Bowe Ford EL Falcon 1:22.4548
4 4 Stone Brothers Racing   Jason Bright Ford EL Falcon 1:22.4990
5 5 Glenn Seton Racing   Glenn Seton Ford EL Falcon 1:23.3160
6 10 Larkham Motor Sport   Mark Larkham Ford EL Falcon 1:23.7831
7 25 Longhurst Racing   Tony Longhurst Ford EL Falcon 1:24.1355
8 17 Dick Johnson Racing   Dick Johnson Ford EL Falcon 1:24.3714
9 35 Garry Rogers Motorsport   Jason Bargwanna Holden VS Commodore 1:24.6735
10 11 Perkins Engineering   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   Larry Perkins
  Russell Ingall
Holden VT Commodore 147 7 10
2 OC 1 Holden Racing Team   Craig Lowndes
  Mark Skaife
Holden VT Commodore 147 1 2
3 OC 18 Dick Johnson Racing   John Bowe
  Cameron McConville
Ford EL Falcon 147 5 3
4 OC 5 Glenn Seton Racing   Glenn Seton
  Neil Crompton
Ford EL Falcon 145 6 5
5 OC 4 Stone Brothers Racing   Jason Bright
  Steven Richards
Ford EL Falcon 145 3 4
6 OC 50 Holden Racing Team   Greg Murphy
  Mark Noske
Holden VS Commodore 145 2 1
7 OC 35 Garry Rogers Motorsport   Jason Bargwanna
  Jim Richards
Holden VS Commodore 144 8 9
8 OC 7 Gibson Motorsport   Darren Hossack
  Darren Pate
Holden VS Commodore 143 16
9 OC 32 Tomas Mezera Motorsport   Tomas Mezera
  Terry Finnigan
Holden VT Commodore 143 17
10 OC 2 Gibson Motorsport   David Parsons
  Simon Wills
Holden VS Commodore 143 22
11 OC 10 Larkham Motor Sport   Mark Larkham
  Brad Jones
Ford EL Falcon 142 4 6
12 CT 3 Lansvale Racing Team   Steve Reed
  Trevor Ashby
Holden VS Commodore 141 23
13 OC 49 Greg Crick Motorsport   Greg Crick
  Dean Crosswell
Holden VS Commodore 139 21
14 OC 16 Perkins Engineering   Melinda Price
  Kerryn Brewer
Holden VS Commodore 138 24
15 CT 99 Clive Wiseman Racing   Mick Donaher
  Dean Lindstrom
Holden VS Commodore 133 26
16 OC 38 James Rosenberg Racing   Mark Poole
  Tony Scott
Holden VS Commodore 133 13
17 OC 46 John Faulkner Racing   John Faulkner
  Todd Kelly
Holden VS Commodore 131 33
18 CT 54 Simon Emerzidis   Simon Emerzidis
  Garry Willmington
Ford EL Falcon 128 25
19 CT 14 Imrie Motor Sport   Mike Imrie
  Rodney Crick
Holden VS Commodore 127 31
20 CT 72 Robert Smith Racing   Robert Smith
  Bruce Williams
Holden VS Commodore 123 27
21 CT 48 Rod Smith Racing   D'arcy Russell
  Colin Ivory
Holden VS Commodore 121 30
22 OC 79 Cadillac Productions   Mike Conway
  Chris Hones
Ford EL Falcon 119 29
DNF OC 75 Paul Little Racing   Anthony Tratt
  Bob Jones
Ford EL Falcon 125 20
DNF OC 43 Paul Weel Racing   Paul Weel
  Neal Bates
Ford EL Falcon 122 18
NC OC 8 Perkins Engineering   Dugal McDougall
  Jason Wylie
Holden VS Commodore 109 19
DNF CT 55 Rod Nash Racing   Rod Nash
  Darren Edwards
Holden VS Commodore 102 28
DNF OC 17 Dick Johnson Racing   Dick Johnson
  Steven Johnson
Ford EL Falcon 99 9 8
DNF CT 77 V8 Racing   Richard Mork
  Bill Sieders
Holden VP Commodore 94 32
DNF OC 96 Wayne Gardner Racing   Wayne Gardner
  Paul Stokell
Holden VS Commodore 73 14
DNF OC 34 Garry Rogers Motorsport   Garth Tander
  Cameron McLean
Holden VS Commodore 30 12
DNF OC 25 Longhurst Racing   Tony Longhurst
  Geoff Brabham
Ford EL Falcon 7 10 7
DNF OC 24 Romano Racing   Paul Romano
  Steve Ellery
Holden VR Commodore 6 15
DNF OC 9 Longhurst Racing   Alan Jones
  Adam Macrow
Ford EL Falcon 0 11
DNS OC 95 Road Care Racing   Steve Cramp
  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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