2002 Sandown 500

The 2002 Sandown 500 was an Australian motor race for produtction based Sports cars and drew its teams from those competing in the Australian Nations Cup Championship and Australian GT-Production Car Championship. It was the second Sandown 500 since the former touring car endurance race was revived for Production Sports Cars and would be the last as Sandown would regain the rights to the 500 kilometre V8 Supercar race the following year.

It was the 35th touring car endurance race to be held at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was held over the weekend of September 8, 2002.

andown 500 Top Gun Challenge

After qualifying was completed the fastest ten cars competed in a one-lap runoff for the top ten grid positions. Runoff results as follows:cite web | url=http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?08/09/2002.SAND.Q9 | title=Sandown 500 Sandown International Motor Raceway Sandown 500 Top Gun Challenge | publisher=National Software | date=September 7 2002 | accessdate=2008-08-02]

Official results

Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC). Race results as follows:cite web | url=http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?08/09/2002.SAND.E12 | title=Sandown 500 Sandown International Motor Raceway 2002 Sandown 500 | publisher=National Software | date=September 8 2002 | accessdate=2008-08-02]

tatistics

* Provisional Pole Position - #5 Jim Richards - 1:21.4133 [cite web | url = http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?08/09/2002.SAND.Q4 | title = Sandown 500 Sandown International Motor Raceway Sandown 500 Qualifying 1 | publisher = Natsoft | date = 2002-09-07 | accessdate = 2008-08-02]
* Pole Position - #17 Sam Newman - 1:18.5170
* Fastest Lap - #5 Jim Richards - 1:13.8765
* Race Average Speed - 139kph

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