1987 James Hardie 1000

1987 Bathurst 1000

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1987 Bathurst 1000

Race details
Round 8 of 11 in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship at Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, Australia.
Date	4 October, 1987
Location	Bathurst, Australia
Course	Mount Panorama Circuit 6.213 kilometres (3.861 mi)
Laps 161 Pole position Driver Klaus Ludwig Eggenberger Motorsport Time 2:16.969 Podium First Peter McLeod Peter Brock David Parsons HDT Racing Second Glenn Seton John Bowe Peter Jackson Nissan Racing Third George Fury Terry Shiel Peter Jackson Nissan Racing Fastest Lap Driver Andrew Miedecke Oxo Supercube Motorsport Time 2:22.50

The 1987 Bathurst 1000, known for naming rights reasons as the 1987 James Hardie 1000, was an endurance race for Group A Touring Cars, staged on 4 October 1987 at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. The race was the eighth round of the World Touring Car Championship.

The race was shortened from 163 laps to 161 for 1987, when the track was slightly lengthened by the addition of the Caltex Chase, a chicane which was built in response to the death of Mike Burgmann in an accident during the previous year's race.

The race was provisionally won by Eggenberger Motorsport, with Steve Soper and Pierre Dieudonné first across the line in a Ford Sierra RS500, two laps ahead of teammates Klaus Ludwig and Klaus Niedzwiedz. Third was the HDT Racing Holden Commodore VL driven by Peter McLeod, Peter Brock and David Parsons.

A protest lodged after the race resulted in the two Eggenberger cars being disqualified for illegally modified front wheel arch guards. A final appeal was rejected in March 1988.

Classes

Cars competed in three classes conforming to World Touring Car Championship regulations:

• Class 1: The outright category was for cars with an engine capacity over 2500cc. The class consisted of BMW 635 CSi, Ford Sierra RS500, Holden Commodore, Maserati Biturbo, Mitsubishi Starion, Nissan Skyline and Toyota Supra.
• Class 2: The middle class was for cars with an engine capacity from 1601 to 2500cc. The class consisted of Alfa Romeo 75, BMW M3, Mercedes-Benz 190E and Nissan Gazelle.
• Class 3: The "baby" car class was for cars with an engine capacity from 1001 to 1600cc. It consisted of a variety of Toyota Corollas and a single Alfa Romeo 33.

Hardies Heroes

The Top 10 runoff for pole position was a one-off event in the World Touring Car Championship. FISA initially objected to it but were ultimately powerless to stop it as it was written into the race regulations by the event promoters, the Australian Racing Driver's Club (ARDC).

Klaus Ludwig gained pole position for the race in a Ford Sierra RS500

Pos	No	Team	Driver	Car	HH	Qual
Pole	7	Ford Texaco Racing Team	Klaus Ludwig	Ford Sierra RS500	2:16.969	2:17.46
2	9	Allan Moffat Enterprises	Andy Rouse	Ford Sierra RS500	2:18.468	2:18.12
3	6	Ford Texaco Racing Team	Steve Soper	Ford Sierra RS500	2:18.663	2:20.52
4	12	Ford Texaco Racing Team	Klaus Niedzwiedz	Ford Sierra RS500	2:21.318	2:20.96
5	35	Oxo Supercube Motorsport	Andrew Miedecke	Ford Sierra RS500	2:22.057	2:20.26
6	42	BMW Motorsport / CiBiEmme	Johnny Cecotto	BMW M3	2:23.147	2:21.48
7	2	Roadways Racing	Allan Grice	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	2:23.626	2:21.38
8	11	Enzed Team Perkins	Larry Perkins	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	2:24.209	2:22.28
DSQ	17	Shell Ultra Hi-Tech Racing Team	Dick Johnson	Ford Sierra RS500	2:22.744	2:20.18
DSQ	18	Shell Ultra Hi-Tech Racing Team	Charlie O'Brien	Ford Sierra RS500	2:21.452	2:21.50

* Three time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Klaus Ludwig became the first Bathurst Rookie to take pole position for the race. With the addition of the new "Caltex Chase" complex on Conrod straight, lap times were around 4–5 seconds slower in 1987 than before. The general feeling was that Ludwig's pole time would have been even faster than George Fury's record 1984 pole time of 2:13.85 had the Chase not been there. With Ludwig on pole and Andy Rouse second, 1987 was the first time in race history that two Bathurst rookies had occupied the front row of the grid since qualifying times first counted for grid positions in 1967, though Rouse had been previously entered in 1976 but did not arrive, and one of his co-drivers was four time Great Race winner Allan Moffat, who was having his first race in a Ford since 1980. 1987 also marks Ford's first pole position at Bathurst since Allan Moffat claimed pole in his XB Falcon in 1976. It was also Ford's first front row start at Bathurst since Dick Johnson started second in 1981 in an XD Falcon, and the first time that Ford outnumbered other makes in the shootout.
* The two Dick Johnson Racing Sierras of Dick Johnson and Charlie O'Brien were had their times disallowed after failing a fuel check following the shootout. The team had mistakenly used fuel churns that had been filled at the team base in Brisbane and not at the track. It was of an inferior grade and actually made the engines produce less power than normal, but the penalty stood. Johnson was contesting his tenth consecutive Hardie's Heroes, being the only driver to have contested each one since its inception in 1978.
* The #12 Texaco Sierra driven by Klaus Niedzwiedz was withdrawn from the race following the shootout, with Niedzwiedz being Ludwig's nominated co-driver in the #7 Sierra. All qualified cars behind then moved up one place on the grid. 1987 was the first Hardies Heroes that Peter Brock failed to qualify for after qualifying twelfth. He did not appear in the 1986 shootout due to the car still being repaired following Allan Moffat's Friday crash, but Brock had qualified second before the crash.
* Countering the myth that only Bathurst regulars could be fast on The Mountain, 5 European based drivers qualified for the shootout. Klaus Ludwig, Andy Rouse, Steve Soper, Klaus Niedzwiedz (the top 4) and Johnny Cecotto. Only Soper (1984) and 1985 Rookie of the Year Cecotto had previously raced at Bathurst.

Official results

The winning Holden VL Commodore SS Group A, pictured in 2010.

Sourced from:

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Car	Laps	Qual Pos	Shootout Pos	Series Points
1	1	10	HDT Racing	Peter McLeod Peter Brock David Parsons Jon Crooke	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	158	20
2	1	15	Peter Jackson Nissan Racing	Glenn Seton John Bowe	Nissan Skyline RS DR30	157	15
3	1	30	Peter Jackson Nissan Racing	George Fury Terry Shiel	Nissan Skyline RS DR30	157	14
4	2	44	JPS Team BMW	Jim Richards Tony Longhurst	BMW M3	156	12
5	1	16	Ralliart Australia	Gary Scott Akihiko Nakaya John French	Mitsubishi Starion	154	23
6	2	45	JPS Team BMW	Robbie Francevic Ludwig Finauer Jim Richards	BMW M3	154	22
7	2	42	BMW Motorsport / CiBiEmme	Johnny Cecotto Gianfranco Brancatelli	BMW M3	154	8	6	40
8	1	4	Formula 1 Investments	Graham Moore Michel Delcourt	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	152	29
9	1	26	Kalari Transport Services	Tony Noske Gary Rush	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	151	35
10	1	39	Lansvale Smash Repairs	Steve Reed Trevor Ashby	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	150	38
11	2	43	BMW Motorsport / Bigazzi	Altfrid Heger Olivier Grouillard Winni Vogt	BMW M3	150	16		30
12	2	40	Schnitzer Motorsport	Emanuele Pirro Roberto Ravaglia Markus Oestreich Roland Ratzenberger	BMW M3	150	19		24
13	1	34	Oxo Supercube Motorsport	Bruce Stewart John Giddings	Ford Sierra RS500	150	24
14	1	38	Everlast Automotive Services	Brian Sampson Bill O'Brien	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	146	33
15	1	27	Ray Gulson	Graham Gulson Ray Gulson	BMW 635 CSi	146	41
16	2	41	BMW Motorsport	Gary Brabham Juan Manuel Fangio II	BMW M3	146	18
17	1	35	Oxo Supercube Motorsport	Andrew Miedecke Don Smith	Ford Sierra RS500	144	4	5
18	1	3	Petro-Tech	Peter Fitzgerald Peter Janson	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	144	37
19	2	60	Peter Jackson Nissan Racing	Mark Skaife Grant Jarrett	Nissan Gazelle	138	44
20	1	29	Mulvihill Racing	Ken Mathews Tony Mulvihill Barry Jones	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	136	32
21	1	24	Team Nissan Racing NZ	Graeme Bowkett Kent Baigent	Nissan Skyline RS DR30	135	17
22	1	36	Yellow Pages	Tony Kavich Kerry Baily Allan Grice	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	131	31
23	3	93	Bob Holden Motors	Bob Holden Bryan Bate Garry Willmington	Toyota Sprinter AE86	123	47
DNF	3	90	Toyota Team Australia	Drew Price John Smith John Faulkner	Toyota Corolla GT	119	43
DNF	3	91	Toyota Team Australia	John Faulkner Mike Quinn John Smith	Toyota Corolla GT	118	45
DNF	1	2	Roadways Racing	Allan Grice Win Percy	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	96	7	7
DNF	3	92	Ratcliff Transport Spares	David Ratcliff Mark Gibbs	Toyota Sprinter AE86	96	49
DNF	1	37	Brian Callaghan Racing	Barry Graham Brian Callaghan	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	86	26
DNF	3	94	Gullivers travel Limited	Andrew Bagnall Chris Hodgetts Mark Jennings	Toyota Sprinter AE86	77	46
DNF	1	19	Canam Enterprises	Graeme Cameron Wayne Wilkinson	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	71	25
DNF	2	50	Riethmuller-Ward International Motorsport	Llyndon Riethmuller Phil Ward Chris Clearihan	Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.3-16	70	40
DNF	3	100	Alfa Romeo	Giorgio Francia Daniele Toffoli	Alfa Romeo 33	55	48
DNF	2	47	BMW Motorsport	Anette Meeuvissen Mercedes Stermitz Roland Ratzenberger	BMW M3	45	42
DNF	2	46	Schnitzer Motorsport	Markus Oestreich Roland Ratzenberger Emanuele Pirro Roberto Ravaglia	BMW M3	41	13
DNF	1	05	HDT Racing	Peter Brock David Parsons	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	34	11
DNF	2	57	Caltex CXT Racing	Colin Bond Lucio Cesario	Alfa Romeo 75	34	21
DNF	1	9	Allan Moffat Enterprises	Andy Rouse Thierry Tassin Allan Moffat	Ford Sierra RS500	31	2	2
DNF	1	32	Warren Cullen	Warren Cullen Gary Cooke Gary Sprague	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	31	27
DNF	1	1	Pro Team Italia	Armin Hahne Kevin Bartlett Bruno Giacomelli	Maserati Biturbo	29	34
DNF	1	22	Lusty Engineering	Graham Lusty John Lusty	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A	17	39
DNF	1	21	D.F.C. NZ Ltd	Graeme Crosby John Billington	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	9	28
DNF	1	17	Shell Ultra Hi-Tech Racing Team	Dick Johnson Gregg Hansford	Ford Sierra RS500	3	3	DSQ
DNF	1	11	Enzed Team Perkins	Larry Perkins Denny Hulme	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A	2	10	8
DNF	1	18	Shell Ultra Hi-Tech Racing Team	Charlie O'Brien Neville Crichton	Ford Sierra RS500	2	9	DSQ
DSQ	1	6	Ford Texaco Racing Team	Steve Soper Pierre Dieudonné	Ford Sierra RS500	161	5	3
DSQ	1	7	Ford Texaco Racing Team	Klaus Ludwig Klaus Niedzwiedz	Ford Sierra RS500	159	1	1
DSQ	2	53	Viacard Services	Ian Tulloch Trevor Crowe Jim Keogh	BMW M3	151	36
DSQ	1	14	NetComm (Aust) Racing	Murray Carter Steve Masterton Denis Horley	Nissan Skyline RS DR30	147	30
DNS	1	12	Ford Texaco Racing Team	Klaus Niedzwiedz Klaus Ludwig	Ford Sierra RS500	0	6	4
DNQ	1	20	Terry Finnigan	Terry Finnigan Geoff Leeds	Holden VL Commodore SS Group A
DNQ	1	31	Lester Smerdon	Lester Smerdon Bruce Williams	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A
DNQ	1	23	Jagparts	Alf Grant Gerald Kay	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A
DNQ	1	33	Peter Williamson Toyota	Peter Williamson Chris Clearihan John Sax	Toyota Celica Supra
DNQ	1	28	Wayne Clift	Bernie Stack Wayne Clift	Holden VK Commodore SS Group A
DNQ	1	25	Team Nissan Racing NZ	Kent Baigent Graeme Bowkett	Nissan Skyline RS DR30
DNQ	1	13	Viacard Services	Ian Tulloch Trevor Crowe Jim Keogh	BMW 635 CSi

Italics indicate driver practiced this car but did not race.

Statistics

• Provisional Pole Position - #7 Klaus Ludwig - 2:17.46
• Pole Position - #7 Klaus Ludwig - 2.16.969
• Fastest Lap - #35 Andrew Miedecke - 2:22.50 - Lap 19 (new lap record)
• Average Speed - 140 km/h
• Race Time - 7:01:08.40 (based upon when Car 6 crossed the line).

Further reading

• Naismith, Barry (December 1987). Bathurst. Glen Waverley: Garry Sparke & Associates. ISBN 0-908-081-359.
• Normoyle, Steve (1988). The Great Race 7. Hornsby: Chevron Publishing. ISSN 1031-6124.

External links

• James Hardie 1000 Bathurst 1987, www.touringcarracing.net