1976 Australian Tourist Trophy
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The 1976 Australian Tourist Trophy was a motor race staged at the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, Australia on 21 November 1976.[1] It was open to Group A Sports Cars [2] and was recognized by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as an Australian national title.[2] The race, which was the fourteenth Australian Tourist Trophy,[3] was won by Stuart Kostera of Western Australia,[4] driving an Elfin MS7.[1]
Results
| Position [5] | Driver [5] | No. | Car [5] | Entrant [5] | Laps [5] |
| 1 | Stuart Kostera | 1 [6] | Elfin MS7 Repco Holden [7] | Kostera Racing | 30 |
| 2 | Barry Singleton | 6 [8] | McLaren M8 | Barry Singleton Motors | 30 |
| 3 | Alan Hamilton | Porsche 934 | Jag Team Porsche | 30 | |
| 4 | Rusty French | de Tomaso Pantera | Holley Performance | 29 | |
| 5 | Geoff Walker | GP Datsun | Geoff Walker | 27 | |
| 6 | Tony Rees | Farrell Clubman [9] | Tony Rees | 26 | |
| 7 | Dale Kendall | WDC1 | Dale Kendall | 24 | |
| ? | D Hogan | Triton | |||
| ? | J White | Bolwell | |||
| ? | M Scorer | Austin-Healey Sprite | |||
| ? | M Wilson | Clubman | |||
| ? | T Crozier | Farrell | |||
| ? | D Phillips | Lotus 23 | |||
| ? | W De Rose | Pegasus | |||
| ? | G Stolle | Gordon | |||
| ? | C Hocking | Gordon | |||
| NC | Jim Phillips | Rennmax Repco | |||
| NC | Eric Boord | Boral | |||
| DNF | Greg Doidge | Elfin 360 | |||
| DNF | P Gibson | Rennmax | |||
| DNF | K Walters | Gissing | |||
| DNF | R Wemyss | Farrell | |||
| DNF | Peter Jones | Cheetah | Motor Improvements Team Toyota | ||
| DNF | A Newton | Hossack | |||
| DNF | Geoff Watson | Watson Corolla | Geoff Watson | ||
| DNF | K Norden | Elfin | 1 | ||
| DNF | V Butler | Lotus 23B | 1 | ||
| DNF | Ian Burrell | Rennmax | 1 | ||
| DNS | J Allison | Allison | |||
| DNS | B Bignell | Lotus 23B | |||
| DNS | G Docker | Bolwell | |||
| DNS | C Trengrove | ASP | |||
| DNS | P Trevethan | MGB V8 | |||
| DNS | L Gribble | Grimas | |||
| DNS | Alan Newton | R&T Chevrolet |
Key:
- NC = Not classified
- DNF = Did not finish
- DNS = Did not start
Race Statistics
- Race distance: 30 laps, 88.2 miles, 141.9 km [5]
- Pole position: Jim Phillips, 1:48.6 [5]
- Number of starters: 28 [10]
- Number of finishers: Not yet ascertained
- Race time of winning car: 57:37.9 [5]
- Fastest lap: Jim Phillips, 1:48.8 [5]
References & notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sports Cars, Evan Green, Evan Green’s World of Motor Sport, 1977, page 28
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Australian Title Conditions, 1976 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 84
- ↑ Australian Titles, 2002 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 14-5
- ↑ Series to Crawford, The Age, Monday, 22 November 1976, page 26
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Kostera buys the favourite, Racing Car News, January 1977, pages 30 to 33
- ↑ Australian Competition Yearbook, 1977 Edition, page 61
- ↑ Results in Racing Car News list Kostera's car as an Elfin MS7. Graham Howard in his article "Elfins: the beautiful cars that keep winning" in Australian Motor Racing Yearbook 1982/83 pages 46 to 58, states that the one-off Elfin MS7 was powered by a Repco Holden engine
- ↑ B. Singleton - McLaren - Phillip Island - 21st November 1976, autopics.com.au Retrieved on 22 July 2014
- ↑ Jim Shepherd, A History of Australian Motor Sport, 1980, page 183
- ↑ The Grid Line-up, as published in Racing Car News, January 1977, page 33, shows 35 cars including seven which are listed as DNS (Did Not Start).
