The 1994 Sandown 500 was an endurance motor race for Group 3A Touring Cars and selected production cars held at the Sandown circuit in Victoria, Australia on 4 September 1994. The event was staged over 161 laps of the 3.10 km circuit, a total distance of 499 km. It was the 29th race in a sequence of annual endurance races held at Sandown.
Dick Johnson and John Bowe won the race in their Dick Johnson Racing Ford EB Falcon. Second was the Gibson Motorsport Holden VP Commodore of Mark Skaife and Jim Richards, while third was the Perkins Engineering Commodore of Larry Perkins and Gregg Hansford. After first racing in the "Sandown 500" in 1977 when the race was known as the Hang Ten 400, Dick Johnson scored his first win in the classic.
The race was notable as it marked the debut race of future three-time Supercars champion Craig Lowndes.
Results Pos.Australian Motor Racing Year, 1994/95 Class No.Official Program, Sandown 500, Sunday, 4 September 1994, as published in Australian Auto Action, 1 September 1994 Entrant Drivers Car Laps 1 V8 17 Shell FAI Racing Dick Johnson John Bowe Ford EB Falcon 161 2 V8 2 Winfield Racing Mark Skaife Jim Richards Holden VP Commodore 161 3 V8 11 Castrol Perkins Racing Team Larry Perkins Gregg Hansford Holden VP Commodore 161 4 V8 25 Benson & Hedges Racing Tony Longhurst Charlie O'Brien Holden VP Commodore 161 5 V8 015 Holden Racing Team Brad Jones Craig Lowndes Holden VP Commodore 161 6 V8 05 Holden Racing Team Tomas Mezera Peter Brock Holden VP Commodore 161 7 V8 7 Coca-Cola Racing Win Percy Russell Ingall Holden VP Commodore 159 8 V8 18 Shell FAI Racing Allan Grice Steven Johnson Ford EB Falcon 159 9 V8 1 Peter Jackson Racing Glenn Seton Paul Radisich Ford EB Falcon 158 10 V8 47 Daily Planet Racing John Trimbole Steve Harrington Holden VP Commodore 157 11 V8 12 Ampol Max 3 Racing Bob Jones Troy Dunstan Holden VP Commodore 156 12 V8 39 Anderson Consulting / Protech Chris Smerdon Cameron McConville Holden VP Commodore 155 13 V8 24 Pinnacle Motorsport Greg Crick Tony Scott Holden VP Commodore 154 14 V8 26 Don Watson Transport Don Watson Ian Love Holden VP Commodore 154 15 Prod. 9 Neville Crichton Neville Crichton Mark Brame BMW M3 141 16 Prod. 70 BP Mazda Motorsport Garry Waldon Colin Bond Mazda RX-7 140 17 Prod. 34 Garry Rogers Motorsport Steven Richards Garry Rogers Porsche 968CS 140 18 V8 28 Playscape Racing Kevin Waldock Michael Preston Ford EB Falcon 133 19 Prod. 8 Volvo Cars Australia Pty Ltd Jan Lammers Kent Youlden Volvo 850 T-5 132 20 Prod. 19 Murray Carter Murray Carter Terri Sawyer Nissan Pulsar SSS 129 21 Prod. 61 Falken Tyres Keith Carling Kevin Burton Mazda RX-7 126 22 Prod. 41 Danny Bogut Danny Bogut Ian Sawtell Mazda 626 123 DNF V8 30 Peter Jackson Racing Alan Jones David Parsons Ford EB Falcon 147 DNF V8 44The Richards/Rogers Porsche and the Ayoub/Conway Holden were not listed in the Official Program Group Motorsport George Ayoub Mike Conway Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 130 NC Prod. 33 David Sala David Sala Steve Swaine Holden VP Commodore SS 113 NC V8 23 Diet-Coke Racing Paul Morris Geoff Brabham Holden VP Commodore 94 DNF V8 16 Australian Boat Manufacturers Graham Blythman Stephen Renshaw Holden VP Commodore 56 DNF V8 31 Malcolm Stenniken Brett Youlden Malcolm Stenniken Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 34 DNF V8 4 Coca-Cola Racing Wayne Gardner Neil Crompton Holden VP Commodore 27
Notes Pole position: Peter Brock, 1m 22.8269s Race time of winning car: 3h 34m 14.4198s Fastest lap: Dick Johnson / John Bowe, 1m 14.0747s
See also 1994 Australian Touring Car season
References
External links Colin Young, Bowe goes charging to takeout 500 race, The Age, 5 September 1994, Sport Extra, Page 38, via newsstore.fairfax.com.au As archived at web.archive.org Image of the winning Ford EB Falcon of Dick Johnson and John Bowe, from d3spxwpngnho1k.cloudfront.ne As archived at webarchive.org