1985 Pepsi 250

The 1985 Pepsi 250 was an endurance race for Group A touring cars held at the Oran Park Raceway in Sydney, New South Wales on 18 August 1985. The race was the second round of the 1985 Australian Endurance Championship. It was held over 100 laps of the 2.620 km (1.62 mi) circuit for a total of 262 km (162 mi).[1]

The field was divided into three classes according to engine displacement.

The JPS Team BMW's golden season continued as Jim Richards drove his BMW 635 CSi to a second straight AEC win after winning the opening round at Amaroo Park. Unlike the 1985 Australian Touring Car Championship and at Amaroo though, Richards did not have it all his own way. The 1 August homologation had seen the Ford Mustang back into winning contention and it was only a broken stub axle on lap 88 that resulted in the car losing a wheel which saw pole sitter and runaway leader Dick Johnson give up his stranglehold on the race (sturdier axle stubs had been homologated for the Mustang and the Palmer Tube Mills team had the new items, but did not have time pre-race to fit them to the car). Richards won the race by a lap from Peter Brock in his Mobil Holden Dealer Team VK Commodore with the Volvo 240T of Robbie Francevic finishing third. Francevic's 3rd place also saw him win Class B.

Dick Johnson showed the benefit of the homologation gain, putting his Mustang on pole with a time of 1:15.1, some 1.2 seconds faster than his pole time at the circuit for the final round of the ATCC just over a month earlier.

Results

Position Class No. Entrant Drivers Car Laps Grid
1 A 62 JPS Team BMW New Zealand Jim Richards BMW 635 CSi 100 2
2 A 05 Mobil Holden Dealer Team Australia Peter Brock Holden VK Commodore 99 5
3 B 21 Mark Petch Motorsport New Zealand Robbie Francevic Volvo 240T 99 7
4 A 30 Yellow Pages Racing Australia Allan Grice
Australia Tony Kavich		 Holden VK Commodore 98 4
5 A 12 Garry Willmington Performance Australia Garry Willmington Jaguar XJS 98 8
6 B 27 Network Alfa Australia Colin Bond
Australia Gregg Hansford		 Alfa Romeo GTV6 98 10
7 B 66 Mitsubishi Ralliart Australia Kevin Bartlett
Australia Peter Fitzgerald		 Mitsubishi Starion Turbo 98 9
8 A 3 H. Kent Baigent New Zealand Kent Baigent
New Zealand Neal Lowe		 BMW 635 CSi 98 6
9 A 39 New Zealand Graeme Bowkett
New Zealand Wayne Wilkinson		 Holden VK Commodore 97 13
10 B 23 JPS Team BMW Australia Tony Longhurst BMW 323i 97 16
?? C 10 Toyota Team Australia Australia John Smith Toyota Corolla
?? C 13 Bob Holden Motors Australia Bob Holden
Australia Mike Quinn		 Toyota Corolla AE86 23
?? A 36 Lusty Engineering P/L Australia Graham Lusty Holden VK Commodore
?? A 14 Auckland - Coin & Bullion Exchange Ltd New Zealand Denny Hulme
New Zealand Ray Smith		 Holden VK Commodore 20
?? A 19 Ken Mathews Prestige Cars Australia Ken Mathews Holden VK Commodore 17
?? A 33 Mike Burgmann Australia Mike Burgmann Holden VK Commodore 19
?? A 41 Barry Jones Australia Barry Jones Holden VK Commodore 33
?? A 37 Brian Callaghan Australia Brian Callaghan Holden VK Commodore 15
?? A 4 I.M.B. Team Wollongong Australia Peter McLeod Holden VK Commodore 18
?? A 29 Ken Davison Australia Ken Davison
Australia Wally Kramer		 Ford Mustang 29
?? B 65 Hulcraft Autos Australia John Craft Ford Capri Mk.III 27
?? B Hulcraft Autos Australia Les Grose Ford Capri Mk.III 30
?? A 25 Jagparts Australia Gerald Kay Holden VK Commodore
DNF A 17 Palmer Tube Mills Australia Dick Johnson Ford Mustang 88 1
DNF B 77 Peter Williamson Toyota Australia Peter Williamson Toyota Celica Supra 15 3
DNF A 8 Terry Finnigan Australia Terry Finnigan Holden VK Commodore
DNF A 7 Mobil Holden Dealer Team Australia John Harvey Holden VK Commodore 11
DNF A 2 Masterton Homes Australia Steve Masterton Holden VK Commodore 12
DNF A 27 Alf Grant Australia Alf Grant Holden VK Commodore 14

* The event had 33 starters[2]

Notes

References

  1. ↑ Pepsi 250 Highlights
  2. ↑ 1985 Pepsi 250
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