1998 Tickford 500

The 1998 Tickford 500 was the 33rd running of the Sandown 500 touring car endurance race. It was held on September 12, 1998 at the Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria.

Class Structure

While still following long-term plans to abandon class structures within V8Supercar, a class was instigated for the 1998 endurance races allowing smaller teams to save considerable budget by running a Dunlop control tyre, indicated here by CT. Most teams, particularly the professional teams, preferred to race with freedom of tyre choice, indicated by the class OC.

Top ten shootout

Post-qualifying shootout results as follows: [cite web | url=http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?13/09/1998.SAND.Q5 | title=Tickford 500 Sandown 1998 Sandown International Motor Raceway Tickford 500 Top Ten Shootout | publisher=National Software | date=September 13 1998 | accessdate=2008-06-03]

Official results

Race results as follows: [cite web | url=http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?04/10/1998.ARDC.E6 | title=Tickford 500 Sandown 1998 Sandown International Motor Raceway Tickford 500 | publisher=National Software | date=September 14 1998 | accessdate=2008-06-03]

tatistics

* Provisional Position - #1 Mark Skaife - 1:11.9148
* Pole Position - #50 Greg Murphy - 1:22.3834
* Fastest Lap - #4 Jason Bright - 1:13.2534
* Average Race Speed - 121km/h

References

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External links

* [http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?13/09/1998.SAND Official race results]
* [http://www.v8supercar.com.au/ Official V8 Supercar website]
* [http://www.camsmanual.com.au/pdf/records/1403%20Australian%20titles%20Q307.pdf CAMS Manual reference to Australian titles]