The opening three rounds of the championship continued the story of the previous two seasons with the Ford Sierra RS500's of Dick Johnson Racing teammates Dick Johnson (winner of Symmons Plains and Phillip Island) and John Bowe dominating podiums with only the tight nature of the Amaroo Park layout giving another driver a look-in, namely the Nissan Skyline of Jim Richards who held off Bowe in a race long duel to win the season's opening round. Another tight track at Winton Motor Raceway gave Richards his second victory of the year with team-mates Tony Longhurst and Alan Jones putting their Benson & Hedges Sierras ahead of the DJR pair onto the podium (the Longhurst Sierra's were generally acknowledged as most powerful of the Blue Oval's cars at some 590 bhp (440 kW; 598 PS), though the extra power usually hurt the Sierra's skinny rear tyres and as team manager Frank Gardner put it a year later, "We usually started at the front and worked our way back"). Lakeside Raceway saw a complete upset with veteran Colin Bond winning his first ATCC race since 1978 from former teammate Peter Brock in his Mobil 1 Sierra and Holden Racing Team driver Win Percy in what would prove be Holden's only podium finish of the season. Englishman Percy, a former three time British Touring Car Champion, had taken over the role of team manager and lead driver of the HRT in 1990 and was contesting his first ATCC.
Colin Bond made it two in a row at Mallala after Mark Skaife's spectacular debut of Nissan's new 640 bhp (477 kW; 649 PS), 4WD, twin turbo Skyline R32 GT-R, which was nicknamed "Godzilla", ended with a broken hub after storming to the lead in the early laps. As at Lakeside, Bond's steady, though unspectacular race pace paid off and as others fell away, his Caltex Sierra emerged in front. Peter Brock broke through for his first victory of the year at Wanneroo despite driving with falling turbo boost pressure for the last half of the race which actually helped minimise his tyre wear, while a broken axle to Johnson at Wanneroo saw his points lead surrendered to Richards who finished fourth in his first race of the new GT-R.
Ahead of the Oran Park Raceway Grand Finale, Richards held a three-point lead over two-time defending champion Johnson, with Bond and Brock still a chance being eleven and twelve points behind respectively. Bowe, winless despite his form, was too far behind even if he won and all other contenders retired. Richards, again in the GT-R, dominated Oran Park, making the points calculations irrelevant. Second place allowed Brock to slip past Johnson and Bond into the series runner's up position. After a poor start by Brock, who proved to be the only Sierra driver capable of matching Richards in the Nissan (though his fastest lap time proved to be almost 2 seconds slower than the Nissan), Richards drove away from the field. Behind Bowe, Longhurst was sixth after an inconsistent season ahead of Glenn Seton's improving Sierra. Percy was the best of the Holdens in eighth ahead of Alan Jones and Gregg Hansford who only had a partial season in Allan Moffat's Eggenberger Motorsport built Sierra.
Points were awarded on a 20–15–12–10–8–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first ten outright positions in each race.[15] The best seven race results counted for each driver's total.[15]
^ abGraham Howard, Stewart Wilson & David Greenhalgh, The official history, Australian Touring Car Championship - 50 Years, page 305
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1990, australian, touring, championship, previous, 1989, next, 1991, cams, sanctioned, australian, motor, racing, title, open, group, touring, cars, championship, which, 31st, australian, touring, championship, promoted, shell, ultra, australian, touring, cham. 1990 Australian Touring Car Championship Previous 1989 Next 1991 The 1990 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title open to Group 3A Touring Cars 1 The championship which was the 31st Australian Touring Car Championship 2 was promoted as the Shell Ultra Australian Touring Car Championship 3 It began on 25 February 1990 at Amaroo Park and ended on 15 July at Oran Park Raceway after eight rounds 4 The title was won by Jim Richards his third Australian Touring Car Championship victory Richards drove for Nissan Motorsport Australia utilising both Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS R and the new Skyline R32 GT R during one of the most competitive seasons in the history of the championship Contents 1 Teams and drivers 2 Season review 3 Results and standings 3 1 Race results 3 2 Championship standings 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksTeams and drivers edit nbsp Jim Richards won the championship driving a Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS R car pictured above in 2014 and a Nissan Skyline R32 GT R nbsp Dick Johnson placed third driving a Ford Sierra RS500 car pictured in 2017 The following drivers and teams competed in the 1990 Australian Touring Car Championship Team Entrant Car No Driver Nissan Motorsport Australia Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS RNissan Skyline R32 GT R 2 nbsp Jim Richards 3 nbsp Mark Skaife Caltex CXT Racing Ford Sierra RS500 4 nbsp Ken Mathews 8 nbsp Colin Bond Mobil 1 Racing Ford Sierra RS500 05 nbsp Peter Brock 6 nbsp Andrew Miedecke 26 nbsp Tony Noske Allan Moffat Enterprises Ford Sierra RS500 9 nbsp Gregg Hansford Perkins Engineering Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 11 nbsp Larry Perkins 31 nbsp Tommy Suharto 5 John Holmes Motorsport Ford Sierra RS500 12 nbsp Ray Lintott Bob Holden Motors Toyota Sprinter AE86 13 nbsp Mike Conway nbsp Bob Holden Toyota Corolla E80 74 nbsp Phil Alexander nbsp Keith McCulloch Toyota Corolla E80 75 nbsp Dennis Rogers Bob Holden Motors Toyota Sprinter AE86 13 nbsp Tim Hall Murray Carter Ford Sierra RS500 14 nbsp Murray Carter Toyota Team Australia Toyota Supra Turbo A 15 nbsp John Smith Toyota Corolla FX GT 70 nbsp Neal Bates 71 nbsp John Faulkner Holden Racing Team Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 16 nbsp Win Percy nbsp Neil Crompton Shell Ultra Hi Racing Ford Sierra RS500 17 nbsp Dick Johnson 18 nbsp John Bowe Phil Ward Racing Mercedes Benz 190E 2 3 16 19 nbsp Phil Ward Benson amp Hedges Racing Ford Sierra RS500 20 nbsp Alan Jones 25 nbsp Tony Longhurst 62 nbsp Neville Crichton Bob Forbes Racing Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 21 nbsp Mark Gibbs Lusty Engineering Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 22 nbsp Graham Lusty Chris Lambden Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS R 23 nbsp Chris Lambden Jagparts Racing Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 24 nbsp Gerald Kay Terry Finnigan Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 27 nbsp Terry Finnigan nbsp Geoff Leeds Lawrie Nelson Ford Mustang 29 nbsp Lawrie Nelson Peter Jackson Racing Ford Sierra RS500 30 nbsp Glenn Seton 35 nbsp Drew Price nbsp George Fury Lansvale Racing Team Holden VL Commodore SS Group A 32 nbsp Trevor Ashby nbsp Steve Reed Pro Duct Motorsport Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 33 nbsp Bob Pearson nbsp Marc Ducquet Ray Gulson BMW 635 CSi 34 nbsp Ray Gulson Ian Carrig BMW 635 CSi 36 nbsp Ian Carrig Maurice Pickering Holden VK Commodore SS Group A 36 nbsp Maurice Pickering Brian Callaghan Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 37 nbsp Brian Callaghan Holden VK Commodore SS Group A 43 nbsp Brian Callaghan Jr Tony Mulvihill Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 41 nbsp Tony Mulvihill Matt Wacker Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 42 nbsp Matt Wacker Paul Trevathan Holden VL Commodore SS Group A 44 nbsp Paul Trevathan Lester Smerdon Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 45 nbsp Lester Smerdon nbsp Graham Jonsson Llynden Reithmuller Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 46 nbsp Llynden Reithmuller Garry Willmington Performance Toyota Supra Turbo 47 nbsp Garry Willmington M3 Motorsport BMW M3 52 nbsp John Cotter 53 nbsp Peter Doulman Mike Twigden BMW 323i 53 nbsp Mike Twigden Playscape Racing Ford Sierra RS500 55 nbsp Kevin Waldock Reda Awadullah Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 69 nbsp Reda Awadullah David Sala Toyota Corolla E80 72 nbsp Richard Vorst nbsp David Sala Alf Grant Racing Toyota Corolla 74 nbsp Alf Grant 74 nbsp Tim Grant Bob Holden Motors Toyota Corolla 76 nbsp Matthew Springer Geoff Full Toyota Sprinter AE86 78 nbsp Geoff Full Daryl Hendrick Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 86 nbsp Daryl Hendrick Alf Barbagallo Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 96 nbsp Alf Barbagallo Car Trek Racing Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 98 nbsp Bob Jones 99 nbsp Greg Crick nbsp Joe SommarivaSeason review edit nbsp Jim Richards Nissan Skyline GT R leads the opening lap of the Oran Park round of the 1990 Australian Touring Car Championship from Tony Longhurst Ford Sierra RS500 John Bowe Ford Sierra RS500 Alan Jones Ford Sierra RS500 Dick Johnson Ford Sierra RS500 and Peter Brock Ford Sierra RS500 The opening three rounds of the championship continued the story of the previous two seasons with the Ford Sierra RS500 s of Dick Johnson Racing teammates Dick Johnson winner of Symmons Plains and Phillip Island and John Bowe dominating podiums with only the tight nature of the Amaroo Park layout giving another driver a look in namely the Nissan Skyline of Jim Richards who held off Bowe in a race long duel to win the season s opening round Another tight track at Winton Motor Raceway gave Richards his second victory of the year with team mates Tony Longhurst and Alan Jones putting their Benson amp Hedges Sierras ahead of the DJR pair onto the podium the Longhurst Sierra s were generally acknowledged as most powerful of the Blue Oval s cars at some 590 bhp 440 kW 598 PS though the extra power usually hurt the Sierra s skinny rear tyres and as team manager Frank Gardner put it a year later We usually started at the front and worked our way back Lakeside Raceway saw a complete upset with veteran Colin Bond winning his first ATCC race since 1978 from former teammate Peter Brock in his Mobil 1 Sierra and Holden Racing Team driver Win Percy in what would prove be Holden s only podium finish of the season Englishman Percy a former three time British Touring Car Champion had taken over the role of team manager and lead driver of the HRT in 1990 and was contesting his first ATCC Colin Bond made it two in a row at Mallala after Mark Skaife s spectacular debut of Nissan s new 640 bhp 477 kW 649 PS 4WD twin turbo Skyline R32 GT R which was nicknamed Godzilla ended with a broken hub after storming to the lead in the early laps As at Lakeside Bond s steady though unspectacular race pace paid off and as others fell away his Caltex Sierra emerged in front Peter Brock broke through for his first victory of the year at Wanneroo despite driving with falling turbo boost pressure for the last half of the race which actually helped minimise his tyre wear while a broken axle to Johnson at Wanneroo saw his points lead surrendered to Richards who finished fourth in his first race of the new GT R Ahead of the Oran Park Raceway Grand Finale Richards held a three point lead over two time defending champion Johnson with Bond and Brock still a chance being eleven and twelve points behind respectively Bowe winless despite his form was too far behind even if he won and all other contenders retired Richards again in the GT R dominated Oran Park making the points calculations irrelevant Second place allowed Brock to slip past Johnson and Bond into the series runner s up position After a poor start by Brock who proved to be the only Sierra driver capable of matching Richards in the Nissan though his fastest lap time proved to be almost 2 seconds slower than the Nissan Richards drove away from the field Behind Bowe Longhurst was sixth after an inconsistent season ahead of Glenn Seton s improving Sierra Percy was the best of the Holdens in eighth ahead of Alan Jones and Gregg Hansford who only had a partial season in Allan Moffat s Eggenberger Motorsport built Sierra For the first time since the ATCC changed from a single race to a series of races in 1969 the ATCC did not appear in Melbourne with neither Sandown or Calder hosting a round The Phillip Island circuit revived in 1989 for the Australian motorcycle Grand Prix which was a round of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle World Championship held its first ATCC race since 1977 Results and standings editRace results edit The 1990 Australian Touring Car Championship consisted of 8 rounds with one race per round 4 Each race was slightly under one hour in duration Rd Circuit Location state Date Winning driver Car Team Report 1 Amaroo Park Raceway 6 Sydney New South Wales 23 25 Feb nbsp Jim Richards Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS R Nissan Motorsport Australia 7 2 Symmons Plains Raceway Launceston Tasmania 9 11 Mar nbsp Dick Johnson Ford Sierra RS500 Shell Ultra Hi Racing 8 3 Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit Phillip Island Victoria 23 25 Mar nbsp Dick Johnson Ford Sierra RS500 Shell Ultra Hi Racing 9 4 Winton Motor Raceway Benalla Victoria 6 8 Apr nbsp Jim Richards Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS R Nissan Motorsport Australia 10 5 Lakeside International Raceway Brisbane Queensland 4 6 May nbsp Colin Bond Ford Sierra RS500 Caltex CXT Racing 11 6 Mallala Motor Sport Park Mallala South Australia 8 10 Jun nbsp Colin Bond Ford Sierra RS500 Caltex CXT Racing 12 7 Wanneroo Park Perth Western Australia 22 24 Jun nbsp Peter Brock Ford Sierra RS500 Mobil 1 Racing 13 8 Oran Park Raceway Sydney New South Wales 13 15 Jul nbsp Jim Richards Nissan Skyline R32 GT R Nissan Motorsport Australia 14 Championship standings edit Points were awarded on a 20 15 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1 basis for the first ten outright positions in each race 15 The best seven race results counted for each driver s total 15 Pos Driver Car Ama Sym Phi Win Lak Mal Wan Ora Pts 1 Jim Richards Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS R Nissan Skyline R32 GT R 1st 7th 3rd 1st 5th 3rd 4th 1st 102 106 2 Peter Brock Ford Sierra RS500 5th 2nd 19th 9th 2nd 4th 1st 2nd 85 3 Dick Johnson Ford Sierra RS500 3rd 1st 1st 5th 7th 2nd Ret 7th 83 4 Colin Bond Ford Sierra RS500 9th 6th 4th 8th 1st 1st 3rd 4th 81 83 5 John Bowe Ford Sierra RS500 2nd 3rd 2nd 6th 4th 14th 6th 5th 72 6 Tony Longhurst Ford Sierra RS500 4th Ret 9th 2nd 8th 5th Ret 9th 40 7 Glenn Seton Ford Sierra RS500 12th 4th Ret 4th 9th Ret 2nd Ret 37 8 Win Percy Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 14th 9th 7th Ret 3rd 5th 6th 32 9 Alan Jones Ford Sierra RS500 8th 12th 6th 3rd Ret Ret 10th Ret 22 10 Gregg Hansford Ford Sierra RS500 6th 8th 5th 11th Ret 17 11 Larry Perkins Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 11th 10th 8th 7th 14th 7th 7th Ret 16 12 Andrew Miedecke Ford Sierra RS500 7th 5th 10th 12th 11th Ret 13 13 George Fury Ford Sierra RS500 3rd 12 14 Mark Skaife Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS R Nissan Skyline R32 GT R Ret DNS Ret 6th Ret Ret 8th 9 15 Neil Crompton Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 6th 6 16 Kevin Waldock Ford Sierra RS500 16th 11th 15th 13th Ret 8th 8th Ret 6 17 Chris Lambden Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS R 15th 13th 14th 14th 10th 9th 11th 10th 4 18 Neville Crichton Ford Sierra RS500 9th 2 19 Mark Gibbs Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 10th 10th 22nd 22nd 2 20 Gerald Kay Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 21st 15th 11th 20th 17th 10th Ret DNS 1 Pos Driver Car Ama Sym Phi Win Lak Mal Wan Ora Pts Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non points finish Non classified finish NC Purple Retired Ret Red Did not qualify DNQ Did not pre qualify DNPQ Black Disqualified DSQ White Did not start DNS Withdrew WD Race cancelled C Blank Did not practice DNP Did not arrive DNA Excluded EX See also edit1990 Australian Touring Car seasonReferences edit Conditions for Australian Titles 1990 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport pages 172 amp 173 Australian Titles docs cams com au as archived at web archive org Official Souvenir Programme Shell Ultra Australian Touring Car Championship Round 6 Mallala Motor Sport Park 9 10 June 1990 a b Australian Motor Racing Year 1990 91 pages 278 amp 279 Clarke Andrew August 1990 Clarke Andrew ed Nissan s First Richards Third Racing Car News Hornsby Chevron Publishing Group 42 Program Amaroo Park Raceway Sunday 25 February 1990 1990 ATCC Round 1 highlights 1990 ATCC Round 2 full race 1990 ATCC Round 3 full race 1990 ATCC Round 4 full race 1990 ATCC Round 5 full race 1990 ATCC Round 6 full race 1990 ATCC Round 7 full race 1990 ATCC Round 8 full race a b Graham Howard Stewart Wilson amp David Greenhalgh The official history Australian Touring Car Championship 50 Years page 305External links editShell Ultra Australian Touring Car Championship 1990 touringcarracing net 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