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1996 Tickford 500

1996 Tickford 500

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The 1996 Tickford 500 was an endurance motor race for 5.0 Litre Touring Cars complying with CAMS Group 3A regulations.[1] The event was held at the Sandown International Motor Raceway in Victoria, Australia on 8 September 1996. Race distance was 161 laps of the 3.1 km circuit, a total of 499 km. It was the 31st running of the Sandown touring car endurance race. 25,000 spectators attended the race.[2]

Track map of the Sandown Raceway

The race was won by Craig Lowndes and Greg Murphy driving a Holden VR Commodore.

Results

Craig Lowndes and Greg Murphy won the race driving a Holden VR Commodore for the Mobil Holden Racing Team. The picture above is of Lowndes in a Mobil Holden Racing Team Holden VR Commodore at a round of the 1996 Australian Touring Car Championship.
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Race statistics

See also

1996 Australian Touring Car season

References

  1. [1]
    The race report in Australian Auto Action refers to the cars as Group A cars. The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport defines the cars in the 1996 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport under the name Group 3A 5.0 Litre Touring Cars.
  2. [2]
    Lowndes banishes the nightmare, Australian Auto Action, September 12-18 1996, pages 42 to 46
  3. [3]
    Tickford 500 entry list, Official program, Tickford 500 Sandown, September 5-8 1996, as published in Australian Auto Action, 5–11 September 1996

Further reading

  • Redemption, Tickford Sandown 500, The Great Race 1996, Chevron Publishing Group, pages 46 to 55
Preceded by Sandown 500
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