The 1988 Lucas Supersprint (historically known as the 1988 360 km of Sandown Park) was the eleventh and final round of the 1988 World Sports-Prototype Championship. It took place at Sandown Raceway, Victoria, Australia on 20 November 1988.

Due to being a short sprint and thus having a smaller points scale for the championship, several teams, most notably the Porsches of Brun Motorsport, Joest Racing, Kremer Racing, and Richard Lloyd Racing, opted not to attend this event.

Unlike the previous World Endurance Championship race held at Sandown in 1984 which included an invitation class for cars that competed in the Australian GT and Sports Car championships, the Lucas Supersprint was open to those who complied with WSPC rules, with only the Group C1 and C2 classes being represented. The only local entry was the Bernie van Elsen entered Veskanda C1 Chevrolet driven by touring car stars John Bowe and Dick Johnson (Bowe was the car's driver when it dominated the 1986 Australian Sports Car Championship). The car was able to race as although it had been built to conform to Australia's Group A Sports Car rules, it also met the FIA's Group C regulations. As its name suggested, the Australian Veskanda was a Group C1 (outright) car, although local television broadcasters ABC erroneously labeled it as a Group C2 car.

Official results Qualifying Results Pos. Class No EntrantOfficial Programme, Castrol 500, Sandown, September 9 (1984) Car Time Pole C1 61 Team Sauber Mercedes Sauber C9 Mercedes-Benz 1:28.620 2 C1 62 Team Sauber Mercedes Sauber C9 Mercedes-Benz 1:29.980 3 C1 2 Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing Jaguar XJR-9 1:30.200 4 C1 1 Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing Jaguar XJR-9 1:30.950 5 C2 111 Spice Engineering Spice SE88C Ford 1:34.950 6 C1 20 Team Davey Porsche 962C 1:35.030 7 C2 107 Chamberlain Engineering Spice SE88C Ford 1:35.500 8 C1 26 Bernie van Elsen Veskanda C1 Chevrolet 1:35.510 9 C2 103 Spice Engineering Spice SE88C Ford 1:35.650 10 C2 121 Cosmik GP Motorsport Spice SE87C Ford 1:36.230 11 C2 127 Chamberlain Engineering Spice SE86C Hart 1:36.300 12 C2 115 ADA Engineering ADA 03 Ford 1:37.110 13 C2 109 Kelmar Racing Tiga GC288 Ford 1:37.410 14 C1 40 Swiss Team Salamin Porsche 962C 1:40.050 15 C2 178 Automobiles Louis Descartes ALD 04 BMW 1:41.810 16 C2 26 MT Sport Racing Argo JM19C Ford 1:44.340 17 C2 198 Roy Baker Racing Tiga GC286 Ford 1:44.850 18 C2 183 Walter Maurer Racing Maurer Lotec C87 BMW 1:45.340

Race Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of the winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Laps Grid Engine 1 C1 61 Team Sauber Mercedes Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass Sauber C9 93 1 Mercedes-Benz M117 5.0L Turbo V8 2 C1 62 Team Sauber Mercedes Mauro Baldi Stefan Johansson Sauber C9 93 2 Mercedes-Benz M117 5.0L Turbo V8 3 C1 1 Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing Martin Brundle Eddie Cheever Jaguar XJR-9 93 4 Jaguar 7.0L V12 4 C1 2 Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing Jan Lammers Johnny Dumfries Jaguar XJR-9 92 3 Jaguar 7.0L V12 5 C2 111 Spice Engineering Ray Bellm Gordon Spice Spice SE88C 88 5 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 6 C1 20 Team Davey Neil Crang Tim Lee-Davey Porsche 962C 88 6 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 7 C2 115 ADA Engineering Arthur Abrahams John Smith ADA 03 88 12 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 8 C2 109 Kelmar Racing Ranieri Randaccio Stefano Sebastiani Tiga GC288 84 13 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 9 C2 127 Chamberlain Engineering Andrew Miedecke Nick Adams Spice SE86C 82 11 Hart 418T 1.8L Turbo I4 10 C2 183 Walter Maurer Racing Helmut Gall Walter Maurer Maurer Lotec C87 ? 77 18 BMW 2.0L Turbo I4 11 C2 178 Automobiles Louis Descartes Michel Lateste Louis Descartes ALD 04 76 15 BMW M80 3.5L I6 12NC C2 198 Roy Baker Racing Michael Hall John Bartlett Tiga GC286 56 17 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 13NC C2 103 Spice Engineering Eliseo Salazar Thorkild Thyrring Spice SE88C 54 9 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 14DNF C2 121 Cosmik GP Motorsport Philippe de Henning Costas Los Spice SE87C 87 10 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 15DNF C2 124 MT Sport Racing Jean Messaoudi Pierre-Francois Rousselot Argo JM19C 77 16 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 16DNF C1 40 Swiss Team Salamin Giovanni Lavaggi Antoine Salamin Porsche 962C 41 14 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 17DNF C2 107 Chamberlain Engineering Claude Ballot-Léna Jean-Louis Ricci Spice SE88C 14 7 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 DSQ† C1 26 Bernie van Elsen John Bowe Dick Johnson Veskanda C1 87 8 Chevrolet 6.0L V8

† - The #26 Veskanda-Chevrolet of John Bowe and Dick Johnson was disqualified for using more fuel than the regulations allowed.

Statistics Pole Position - Jean-Louis Schlesser - Team Sauber Mercedes - 1:28.620 Fastest Lap - Jean-Louis Schlesser - Team Sauber Mercedes - 1:33.580 Average Speed - 144.355 km/h

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