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John Bowe (racing driver)
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John Bowe (born 16 April 1954 in Devonport, Tasmania) is an Australian racing driver, presently racing a 1969 Ford Mustang in the historic series, Touring Car Masters.
Bowe is a multiple Australian Champion, having twice won the Australian Drivers' Championship during the Formula Mondial era and the Australian Sports Car Championship, before winning the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1995. He has also won the prestigious Bathurst 1000 touring car endurance race twice, in 1989 and 1994. Both times as co-driver with longtime friend and teammate Dick Johnson driving for iconic Ford team Dick Johnson Racing.

Racing Cars

Bowe began racing at the age of sixteen in Formula Vee Elfin 500 in 1971, winning the Tasmanian state title on debut. The following year, he also won the Tasmanian Formula Ford title.

After graduating from domestic Formula Ford racing Bowe moved into the Australian Drivers Championship in the late 1970s, racing Elfin Formula 5000s for the most prestigious team of the era, the factory Ansett Team Elfin run by Elfin Sports Cars founder and chief designer Garrie Cooper. The pinnacle of his Formula 5000 career was finishing runner up in the 1979 Australian Grand Prix driving one of Cooper's Chevrolet V8 powered Elfin MR8s. In the same year he also came second in the Australian Formula 2 Championship.

Bowe would finish third in the 1980 Australian Drivers' Championship driving the MR8, and would finish fourth in the Formula 2 title. He would finish fourth in 1981 driving the Elfin MR9, the only Ground effects F5000 ever built. He also dropped to ninth place in the Formula 2 championship driving an Elfin Two-25 Volkswagen.

After playing second fiddle to Alfredo Costanzo for several seasons, Bowe broke through for his first Australian Drivers' Championship in 1984, backing it up the following year with his second title in his Ford powered Ralt RT4 for Chris Leach. The 1984 and 1985 championships were run under Formula Mondial regulations.

Bowe qualified on the front row for the 1984 Australian Grand Prix at Calder Park in Melbourne and led the race for the first 18 laps before a loose spark plug lead caused the 4 cyl Ford engine to misfire and he was passed by defending race winner Roberto Moreno of Brazil who went on to win the race. Bowe finally stopped on lap 33 and rejoined in 13th place. He would fight his way back to 6th place by the end of the race (2 laps down), setting the 3rd fastest race lap behind Moreno's Ralt and the similar car of Formula One driver Andrea de Cesaris.

Bowe's last open wheeler race was in the Formula Mondial support race at the 1986 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide. Driving a Ralt RT4 in the race (for the first time in 12 months), Bowe equalled the category lap record for the Adelaide Street Circuit set one year earlier by American driver Ross Cheever, the younger brother of Formula One driver Eddie Cheever. Bowe's time of 1:33.20 for the 3.780 km (2.362 mi) track compared to the fastest Formula One race lap of the circuit that year of 1:20.78 set by Nelson Piquet driving a 1,000 bhp (746 kW; 1,014 PS) turbocharged Williams-Honda.

Sports Cars

John Bowe drove the Bryan Thompson–owned Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC-Chevrolet twin-turbo in Sports Sedan and GT events during the early 1980s when Thompson was in retirement, which stopped when Thompson came out of retirement in 1983. The Mercedes with its 4.2 litre Chevrolet engine put out a reported 1,100 bhp (820 kW; 1,115 PS), but was somewhat unreliable due to the use of smaller turbo's.

In 1985 while still contesting the Australian drivers' Championship, Bowe was approached by Adelaide-based photographer and Sports Car racer Bernie Van Elsen to race his new car for the Australian Sports Car Championship (ASCC). The car, built by K&A Engineering in Adelaide and called a Veskanda C1, was initially powered by an F5000 sourced 5.0-litre Chevrolet V8, though this was changed to a 5.8-litre (350 cui) Chevrolet V8 in 1986 when CAMS increased the engine capacity limit for Group A Sports Cars from 5000 cc to 6000 cc. The Veskanda is generally regarded as the fastest Sports Car ever designed and built in Australia. In Bowe's talented hands the Veskanda Chev easily won the 1986 Australian Sports Car Championship, with the Bowe setting outright lap records (often faster than the open wheelers) at circuits around the country. Two of these records will stand forever as the tracks are now closed: Amaroo Park in Sydney (set in 1987, track closed in 1998), and the Surfers Paradise International Raceway (set in 1986, track closed in late 1987).

Bowe and the Veskanda finished second in the three round 1987 ASCC after engine reliability troubles saw him retire from the first race at a very wet Calder Park in Melbourne. He then easily won the final two rounds at Amaroo and Sandown Park to finish nineteen points behind Andy Roberts in his self-designed Roberts SR3. Following the season the car was parked as Bowe was moving full-time into Touring Car Racing in 1988.

Van Elsen entered the Veskanda in the Sandown 360 which was a round of that year's 1988 World Sports-Prototype Championship. Bowe teamed with his Touring Car team owner and team mate Dick Johnson in the Veskanda (the 5.8 litre V8 was replaced for the meeting by a 6.0 litre Chevrolet V8). After qualifying a credible 8th with a time of 1:35.510 (compared to Jean Louis Schlesser's pole time of 1:28.620 in his Sauber C9), the pair completed 87 laps, six less than the winning Sauber C9 of Schlesser and Jochen Mass. Unlike the 1984 World Sportscar Championship race when Australian sports cars, GT and sports sedans had been permitted to compete in a special class by the FIA, Australian cars were not eligible for the 1988 event. However, although the Veskanda had been built to comply with CAMS Group A rules, it had also been built to the FIA's Group C sports car rules and was thus free to enter and race.

Ultimately the Bowe / Johnson Veskanda, the only Australian car in the 18 car field, was disqualified for using more fuel than the rules allowed.

Touring Cars

Bowe's two CAMS Gold Stars in 1984 and 1985 saw him finally get the attention of the Australian touring car establishment. In mid-1985 he was contacted by New Zealander Mark Petch to join the Mark Petch Motorsport Volvo 240 Turbo team during the 1985 Australian Endurance Championship. Bowe co-drove with the teams lead driver Robbie Francevic at the Sandown 500 and the Bathurst 1000. They were a DNF at Sandown after the differential in the Volvo locked solid underneath Bowe at the entrance to the pits on lap 60 (the car had to be pushed into the pits with the rear end supported by a trolley jack). At Bathurst the turbocharged Volvo was considered the only car capable of matching the speed of the three V12 Jaguar XJS' run by Tom Walkinshaw Racing. The Volvo qualified fifth fastest after Hardie's Heroes (set by Francevic), and after running second and third in the early laps, was destined to spend time in the pits having the alternator replaced, losing many laps. The car failed to finish after running out of fuel on lap 122. Despite it being only the second time he had driven the Volvo, and not having previously driven at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bowe proved to be as quick in the car at Bathurst as Francevic until late in the final qualifying session when the team put on a set of qualifying tyres and Francevic set the third fastest time.

Prior to 1985, Bowe had never driven the Bathurst circuit and before practice started enlisted the services star driver Allan Grice to show him how to drive the track. Grice was only too happy to show the Bathurst rookie the fast way around the daunting circuit, something Bowe continues to be grateful for.

During the 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship the new factory-supported Volvo Dealer Team replaced the Mark Petch Motorsport outfit and expanded to a second car and Bowe joined Francevic in the team full-time at round four. Bowe proved he could match it with the likes of Francevic, Peter Brock, Dick Johnson, George Fury and Jim Richards by qualifying on pole and easily leading the 5th round of the championship at Wanneroo in Perth until the new Volvo's engine went off song and forced him to retire. Francevic went on to win the championship, with Bowe taking eighth place in the series including a pair of third places at Calder Park and also at Oran Park in Sydney. Also in 1986, Bowe raced the Veskanda-Chevrolet Sports car owned by Bernie van Elsen and used it to dominate the Australian Sports Car Championship, along the way setting outright lap records at various tracks around the country.

Bowe became the lead driver of the Volvo team after Francevic was fired from the team shortly by team boss John Sheppard after his refusal to drive a newly built car at the 1986 Castrol 500 (he was also fired for comments made to the media on race morning which Francevic claimed was aimed at the race officials, but Sheppard took as criticising the team). Once again though, the Volvo proved fragile and unable to effectively threaten for the 1986 endurance races, though Bowe was able to qualify the Volvo in fifth place for the 1986 James Hardie 1000. The team closed at the end of the season leaving Bowe without a drive for the 1987 season.

He was picked up by the Peter Jackson Nissan Racing team for the 1987 endurance season, mainly as a co-driver with young sensation Glenn Seton. The pair finished fourth at Bathurst in the Nissan Skyline RS DR30, and were later promoted to second after the disqualification of the Texaco Eggenberger Ford team. Although the Nissan's won a number of touring car races in Australia during 1986 and 1987, Bowe would later claim both privately and publicly that the turbocharged 4 cyl DR30 Skyline (which had no aerodynamic aids making it very unstable at high speed) was the worst touring car he ever raced, thoughts that were echoed by regular Nissan drivers Seton and George Fury.

Bowe's first major touring car win came in the 1987 Yokohama/Bob Jane T-Marts 300 at the Calder Park Raceway. The race was run on the rarely used combined circuit which incorporated both the 1986 redeveloped road course and the newly completed NASCAR-style “Thunderdome” oval. Bowe and Sydney driver Terry Shiel won the race, the first on the combined course, driving the Peter Jackson team's spare Nissan Skyline RS DR30 from the Holden VL Commodore SS Group A of Bowe's former open wheel rival Larry Perkins, and the Commodore's owner Bill O'Brien. As of 2016 this is believed to be the only touring car victory for a Japanese car on the high-banked Thunderdome.

For 1988, Dick Johnson Racing hired Bowe, replacing Gregg Hansford as the teams number two driver in their Ford Sierra RS500's. Team manager Neal Lowe had completely re-engineered the cars after an embarrassing 1987 endurance season and the Shell backed cars proved to be the class of the field. Bowe won his third race for the team, his first ever ATCC race win, at Winton and would go on to win again at Amaroo Park, finishing second in the 1988 ATCC behind team boss Dick Johnson. The pair salvaged a runner up position at Bathurst in the team's third entry (Bowe's ATCC Sierra) after their two primary cars failed early in the race. After Johnson and Bowe's Sierra's failed, they moved into the #18 car which had at that stage been driven by one of Bowe's former open wheel rivals John Smith (another open wheel rival, Alfredo Costanzo, was to be Smith's co-driver but didn't get to drive at Bathurst after Dick and John swapped cars).

After the 1988 ATCC, DJR took one Dick's championship winning Sierra to the Silverstone Circuit to contest the RAC Tourist Trophy. DJR proved they had the fastest Group A Sierra's in the world when Dick Johnson easily won the pole by just under half a second against the best European and British opposition. Johnson and Bowe led the race early on and were pulling away from the Eggenberger and Andy Rouse Sierra's, with Johnson setting the circuits Group A lap record, until the water pump in the car failed and had to be replaced. Rouse would go on to win the race, with the DJR Sierra eventually finishing 21st

The 1989 ATCC would prove to be more of the same for Bowe, again finishing runner up to Johnson after taking victories at Amaroo Park and Wanneroo. The 1989 Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst was a triumph for Bowe and Johnson, seeing off all challengers on their way to victory, including the Eggenberger built and engineered Allan Moffat Sierra's driven by European aces Klaus Niedzwiedz and Frank Biela, as well as Peter Brock's Rouse built Sierra (with Rouse himself co-driving) which Brock had put on pole position. With the Shell Sierra limping due to failing turbo boost, Bowe drove the car over the finish line at Bathurst, saying to Channel 7 commentator Mike Raymond "Fancy doing that" over racecam as he did so.

Over the next three seasons his 1987 team Nissan, now running the formidable 4WD, twin-turbo Nissan GT-R, surged to the fore-front of Australian Touring Car racing and Bowe's only win would come at the Sandown round of the 1992 Australian Touring Car Championship. Bowe would then go on to finish second with Johnson in the now ageing Sierra at the crash shortened 1992 Tooheys 1000.

V8Supercar

DJR fortunes reversed in 1993 with the advent of the V8 based regulations that in 1997 would become known as V8 Supercar. The team's new Ford Falcon V8s returned to the front with Bowe winning the first round under the new regulations at Amaroo Park. Bowe would narrowly miss out on second place in the championship. For the 1994 season DJR was initially off the pace until the Sandown 500 where in a race of mixed fortunes Bowe and Johnson won, taking the team's first Sandown 500 win after over 15 years of disappointment. Four weeks later in one of the most dramatic Bathurst 1000s of all time Bowe and Johnson held off a pursuing pack of five Holdens late in the race to win, with Bowe memorably fighting for the lead with teenage debutante Craig Lowndes in the final laps.

The team continued their good form into 1995 where not even the destruction of tyre suppliers Dunlop factory in the Kobe earthquake could stop Bowe from winning the 1995 Australian Touring Car Championship, taking victories at Symmons Plains, a sprint round held at Bathurst for the first time since 1972, Winton and under terrific pressure from Glenn Seton and Peter Brock, the championship finale at Oran Park. The team went on to win back-to-back Sandown 500s but didn't finish at Bathurst after an accident with Glenn Seton while leading stopped their run on lap 110.

Bowe continued to race for DJR for the next three seasons, taking a second sprint victory at Bathurst in 1996, Lakeside in 1997 and Winton in 1998, the last of his 15 Touring Car round victories. Bowe also finished runner up in the 1996 Australian Touring Car Championship and Bathurst 1000 to his young rival from two years prior, Craig Lowndes.

Bowe moved on to Caterpillar backed West Australian team PAE Motorsport seeking a new challenge but before the season was out the team had been sold to Queensland car dealer John Briggs. Despite some early promise he was fired from the team after Bathurst in 2001 with just a single race win at Queensland Raceway in 1999 to show for his efforts.

From 2002-2006 Bowe and new team-mate Brad Jones had mixed fortunes. As with Briggs Motorsport early promise faded as the team struggled to find the resources to regularly threaten the front running teams. Always a threat at Bathurst, Bowe and Jones finished third in 2004 and won the second race in the 2005 Australian Grand Prix non-championship event.

Bowe was known for being outspoken and opinionated during his V8 Supercar career. Bowe often found himself involved in incidents either of his causing or as a result of altercations with other drivers. Bowe famously never admitted blame or fault much to the annoyance of fans and fellow drivers.

Retirement

Announcing his retirement, Bowe raced a final season in 2007 for Paul Cruickshank Racing. In March 2007 Bowe broke the record for most championship races starts when he started in round 2 at Barbagallo, his 213th start. His race was marred with two spins. His prospects for a glorious final season appear limited as PCR was a single car team and under funded compared to the front running teams. In 2008 Bowe returned to Sports car racing in a Lamborghini Gallardo in the Australian GT Championship, before securing a full-time drive in 2009 with the Touring Car Masters series for historic touring cars, driving a Chevrolet Camaro. 2010 saw John Bowe returning to the Touring Car Masters category driving "Sally", his 1969 Ford Mustang (powered by a Ford 351 Windsor V8 engine), with sponsorship from WesTrac and Wilson Security. Bowe also runs the number 18 on his Mustang, the same number he used when driving for Dick Johnson Racing.

Bowe's name has been lent to the John Bowe Trophy, awarded to the winner of the Formula 3 Tasmanian Super Prix.

Driving a Ferrari 458 GT3 for Maranello Motorsport alongside Craig Lowndes, Peter Edwards, and former Formula One driver Mika Salo, Bowe was the winner of the 2014 Bathurst 12 Hour on 9 February. It was his third success in the race after winning at Eastern Creek in 1995 and at Bathurst in 2010.

Career results

The 1969 Ford Mustang of John Bowe - 2011 Touring Car Masters
SeasonSeriesPositionCarTeam
1978Australian Drivers' Championship10thElfin MR8 ChevroletAnsett Team Elfin
1979Australian Drivers' Championship2ndElfin MR8 ChevroletAnsett Team Elfin
1979Australian Formula 2 Championship2ndElfin 792 VolkswagenAnsett Team Elfin
1980Australian Drivers' Championship3rdElfin MR8 ChevroletAnsett Team Elfin
1980Australian Formula 2 Championship4thElfin Two-25 VolkswagenAnsett Team Elfin
1981Australian Drivers' Championship4thElfin MR9 ChevroletAnsett Team Elfin
1981Australian Formula 2 Championship9thElfin Two-25 VolkswagenChris Leach Racing
1982Australian Drivers' Championship2ndRalt RT4 FordChris Leach Racing
1983Australian Drivers' Championship6thRalt RT4 FordChris Leach Racing
1984Australian Drivers' Championship1stRalt RT4 FordChris Leach Racing
1985Australian Drivers' Championship1stRalt RT4 FordChris Leach Enterprises
1985Australian Sports Car ChampionshipNCVeskanda C1 ChevroletBernie van Elsen
1985Australian Endurance ChampionshipNCVolvo 240TMark Petch Motorsport
1986Australian Touring Car Championship8thVolvo 240TVolvo Dealer Team
1986Australian Sports Car Championship1stVeskanda C1 ChevroletBernie van Elsen
1986Australian Endurance ChampionshipNCVolvo 240TVolvo Dealer Team
1987Australian Sports Car Championship2ndVeskanda C1 ChevroletBernie van Elsen
1988Australian Touring Car Championship2ndFord Sierra RS500Shell Ultra Hi Racing
1988European Touring Car ChampionshipNCFord Sierra RS500Redkote Racing
1988Asia-Pacific Touring Car ChampionshipNCFord Sierra RS500Shell Ultra Hi Racing
1988World Sports Prototype ChampionshipNCVeskanda C1 ChevroletBernie van Elsen
1989Australian Touring Car Championship2ndFord Sierra RS500Shell Ultra Hi Racing
1990Australian Touring Car Championship5thFord Sierra RS500Shell Ultra Hi Racing
1990Australian Endurance ChampionshipNCFord Sierra RS500Shell Ultra Hi Racing
1991Australian Touring Car Championship7thFord Sierra RS500Shell Ultra Hi Racing
1991Australian Endurance ChampionshipNCFord Sierra RS500Shell Ultra Hi Racing
1992Australian Touring Car Championship4thFord Sierra RS500Shell Ultra Hi Racing
1993Australian Touring Car Championship3rdFord EB FalconShell Racing
1994Australian Touring Car Championship6thFord EB FalconShell FAI Racing
1995Australian Touring Car Championship1stFord EF FalconShell FAI Racing
1995Australian GT Production Car Series16thMazda RX-7
1996Australian Touring Car Championship2ndFord EF FalconShell FAI Racing
1996Australian GT Production Car Championship5thFerrari F355 ChallengeRoss Palmer Motorsport
1997Australian Touring Car Championship2ndFord EL FalconShell Helix Racing
1997Australian GT Production Car Championship2ndFerrari F355 ChallengeRoss Palmer Motorsport
1998Australian Touring Car Championship5thFord EL FalconShell Helix Racing
1998Australian GT Production Car Championship5thFerrari F355 ChallengeRoss Palmer Motorsport
1999Shell Championship Series13thFord AU FalconPAE Motorsport
2000Shell Championship Series16thFord AU FalconBriggs Motor Sport
2001Shell Championship Series22ndFord AU FalconBriggs Motor Sport
2001Australian GT Production Car Championship5thFord Mustang Cobra RAPrancing Horse Racing
2002V8Supercar Championship Series12thFord AU FalconOzEmail Racing
2002Australian Nations Cup Championship3rdFerrari 360 N-GTPrancing Horse Racing
2003V8Supercar Championship Series11thFord BA FalconOzEmail Racing
2003Australian Nations Cup Championship2ndFerrari 360 N-GT
Chrysler Viper ACR
Porsche 911 GT3 RS
Prancing Horse Racing
2004V8Supercar Championship Series9thFord BA FalconOzEmail Racing
2005V8Supercar Championship Series18thFord BA FalconTeam BOC
2006V8Supercar Championship Series23rdFord BA FalconTeam BOC
2007V8Supercar Championship Series30thFord BF FalconPaul Cruickshank Racing
2007Australian GT Championship12thLamborghini Gallardo GT3Team Lamborghini Australia
2008Australian GT Championship5thFerrari 360 GT
Lamborghini Gallardo GT3
Coopers
www.consolidatedchem.com.au
2008Touring Car Masters2ndChevrolet CamaroSunliner RV
2009Touring Car Masters2ndChevrolet CamaroSunliner RV
2010Touring Car Masters3rdFord MustangJohn Bowe Racing
2011Touring Car Masters (Class C)1stFord MustangJohn Bowe Racing
2011Australian Production Car Championship19thBMW 335iGWS Personnel
2012Touring Car Masters1stFord MustangJohn Bowe Racing
2013Touring Car Masters2ndFord MustangJohn Bowe Racing
2013Australian GT Championship4thFerrari 458 GT3Maranello Motorsport
2013Australian Production Car Championship23rdBMW 335iGWS Motorsport
2014Australian GT Championship3rdFerrari 458 ItaliaIL Bello Rosso
2014Touring Car Masters (ProMasters class)1stFord MustangDunlop Super Dealers/Wilson Security
2015Australian GT Championship36thBentley ContinentalFlying B Racing
2015Touring Car Masters (ProMasters class)1stFord Mustang
Holden Torana SL/R 5000
Dunlop Super Dealers / Wilson Security

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

YearTeamCar1234567891011DCPoints
1987Australia Peter Jackson Nissan RacingNissan Skyline DR30 RSMNZJARDIJNURSPABNOSILBAT
ovr:2
cls:2
CLDWEL
Ret
FJINC0

† Not registered for series & points

Complete World Sports Prototype Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

YearTeamCar1234567891011DCPoints
1988Australia Bernie van ElsenVeskanda C1 ChevroletJRZJARMONSILLMSBRNBHTNURSPAFJISAN
DSQ
NC0

Complete European Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

YearTeamCar1234567891011DCPoints
1988Australia Redkote RacingFord Sierra RS500MNZDONESTJARDIJVALNURSPAZOLSIL
21
NOGNC0

Complete Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

YearTeamCar1234DCPoints
1988Australia Shell Ultra Hi RacingFord Sierra RS500BAT
2
WEL
Ret
PUKFJIN/A15

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

YearCar#TeamCo-DriversCarClassLapsPos.Class
Pos.
198555New Zealand Mark Petch MotorsportNew Zealand Robbie FrancevicVolvo 240TB122DNFDNF
198644Australia Volvo Dealer TeamAustralia Alfredo CostanzoVolvo 240TB113DNFDNF
42New Zealand Graham McRae
New Zealand Neville Crichton
Volvo 240T15611th4th
198715Australia Peter Jackson Nissan RacingAustralia Glenn SetonNissan Skyline DR30 RS11572nd2nd
198817Australia Shell Ultra Hi RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord Sierra RS500A22DNFDNF
28United Kingdom Robb Gravett
New Zealand Neville Crichton
Ford Sierra RS50027DNFDNF
18Australia John Smith
Australia Dick Johnson
Australia Alfredo Costanzo
Ford Sierra RS5001602nd2nd
198917Australia Shell Ultra Hi RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord Sierra RS500A1611st1st
199017Australia Shell Ultra Hi RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord Sierra RS500194DNFDNF
199117Australia Shell Ultra Hi RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord Sierra RS5001123DNFDNF
18New Zealand Paul Radisich
Australia Terry Shiel
Ford Sierra RS500152DNFDNF
199217Australia Shell Ultra Hi RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord Sierra RS500A1432nd2nd
199317Australia Shell RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord EB FalconA96DNFDNF
199417Australia Shell FAI RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord EB FalconA1611st1st
199517Australia Shell FAI RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord EF Falcon110DNFDNF
199617Australia Shell FAI RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord EF Falcon1612nd2nd
199717Australia Shell FAI RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord EL FalconL117DNFDNF
199818Australia Dick Johnson RacingAustralia Cameron McConvilleFord EL FalconOC80DNFDNF
1999600Australia PAE MotorsportNew Zealand Jim RichardsFord AU Falcon82DNFDNF
2000600Australia Briggs Motor SportNew Zealand Jim RichardsFord AU Falcon147DNFDNF
2001600Australia Briggs Motor SportNew Zealand Simon WillsFord AU Falcon124DNFDNF
200221Australia OzEmail Racing TeamAustralia Brad JonesFord AU Falcon15816th16th
200321Australia OzEmail Racing TeamAustralia Brad JonesFord BA Falcon16010th10th
200412Australia OzEmail Racing TeamAustralia Brad JonesFord BA Falcon1613rd3rd
200521Australia Team BOCAustralia Brad JonesFord BA Falcon12521st21st
200614Australia Brad Jones RacingAustralia Brad JonesFord BA Falcon16111th11th
2007111Australia Paul Cruickshank RacingAustralia Jonathon WebbFord BF Falcon16014th14th

Complete Sandown 500 results

YearTeamCo-DriversCarClassLapsPos.Class
Pos.
1985Australia Mark Petch MotorsportNew Zealand Robbie FrancevicVolvo 240TB60DNFDNF
1986Australia Volvo Dealer TeamAustralia Alfredo CostanzoVolvo 240TBNADNFDNF
1987Australia Peter Jackson Nissan RacingAustralia Glenn SetonNissan Skyline DR30 RSB86NCNC
1988Australia Shell Ultra Hi RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord Sierra RS500A1253rd3rd
1989Australia Shell Ultra Hi RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord Sierra RS500A1595th5th
1990Australia Shell Ultra Hi RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord Sierra RS500Div.118DNFDNF
United Kingdom Jeff Allam
New Zealand Paul Radisich
Ford Sierra RS50060DNFDNF
1992Australia Shell Ultra Hi RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord Sierra RS5003A31DNFDNF
1993Australia Shell FAI RacingAustralia Dick Johnson
Australia Cameron McConville
Ford EB FalconV81476th6th
1994Australia Shell FAI RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord EB FalconV81611st1st
1995Australia Shell FAI RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord EF Falcon1611st1st
1996Australia Shell FAI RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord EF Falcon1596th6th
1997Australia Shell FAI RacingAustralia Dick JohnsonFord EL Falcon108DNFDNF
1998Australia Shell FAI RacingAustralia Cameron McConvilleFord EL Falcon1473rd3rd
2001Australia Prancing Horse Racing ScuderiaUnited Kingdom Tom WaringFerrari 360 ChallengeN1611st1st
2002Australia Prancing Horse Racing ScuderiaAustralia Steve BeardsFerrari 360 N-GTG11603rd3rd
2003Australia OzEmail Racing TeamAustralia Brad JonesFord BA Falcon1414th4th
2004Australia OzEmail Racing TeamAustralia Brad JonesFord BA Falcon1607th7th
2005Australia Team BOCAustralia Brad JonesFord BA Falcon1609th9th
2006Australia Team BOCAustralia Brad JonesFord BA Falcon1615th5th
2007Australia Paul Cruickshank RacingAustralia Jonathon WebbFord BF Falcon16012th12th
2011Australia GWS PersonnelAustralia Peter O'DonnellBMW 335iB1316th1st

Complete Bathurst/Eastern Creek 12 Hour results

YearCar#TeamCo-DriversCarClassLapsPos.Class
Pos.
19927Australia Mazda MotorsportAustralia Gregg HansfordMazda RX-7 SPT2455th3rd
19949New Zealand Neville CrichtonAustralia Alan Jones
New Zealand Neville Crichton
BMW M3X120DNFDNF
199517Australia Mazda MotorsportAustralia Dick JohnsonMazda RX-7 SPX4091st1st
200721Australia Century 21Australia Chris Delfsma
Australia Jack Elsegood
Ford BF Falcon XR8D24491
200821Australia Century 21Australia Chris Delfsma
Australia Paul Stubber
Ford BF Falcon XR8D181244
200944Australia Johnson Window FilmAustralia Jim Hunter
Australia Gavin Bullas
Subaru Impreza WRXC85DNFDNF
201020Australia Eastern Creek International KartingAustralia Paul Morris
Australia Garry Holt
BMW 335iB20211
201117Australia Maranello MotorsportAustralia Peter Edwards
Australia Tim Leahey
Ferrari 430 GT3A161DNFDNF
201217Australia Maranello MotorsportAustralia Peter Edwards
Germany Dominik Farnbacher
Denmark Allan Simonsen
Ferrari 458 GT3A114DNFDNF
201388Australia Maranello MotorsportAustralia Peter Edwards
Finland Mika Salo
Denmark Allan Simonsen
Ferrari 458 GT3A111DNFDNF
201488Australia Maranello MotorsportAustralia Craig Lowndes
Australia Peter Edwards
Finland Mika Salo
Ferrari 458 GT3A29611
20158Australia Flying B MotorsportAustralia David Brabham
Australia Peter Edwards
Bentley Continental GT3AA254DNFDNF
Notes

^1 – The 1995 race was staged at Eastern Creek Raceway as the 1995 Eastern Creek 12 Hour. All other races were held at the Mount Panorama Circuit.

Complete Bathurst 24 Hour results

YearTeamCo-DriversCarClassLapsPos.Class
Pos.
2002Australia Prancing Horse Racing ScuderiaAustralia Brad Jones
Australia Paul Morris
Australia John Teulan
Ferrari 360 N-GT196DNFDNF
2003Australia Prancing Horse Racing ScuderiaAustralia Neil Crompton
Australia Greg Crick
Indonesia Maher Algadrie
BMW M3 GTRA131DNFDNF

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