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1978 Australian Sports Car Championship

The 1978 Australian Sports Car Championship was an Australian motor racing competition for Group D Production Sports Cars. It was sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as an Australian National Title and it was the tenth Australian Sports Car Championship.

The championship was won by Ross Mathiesen driving a Porsche Carrera.

Calendar

The championship was contested over a four-round series.

4	Winton	Victoria	20 August	Two heats	Ross Mathiesen	Porsche Carrera

Classes

Cars competed in two engine displacement classes.

Up to and including 2000cc
Over 2000cc

Points system

Championship points were awarded at each round on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the first six finishers in each class, and on a 4-3-2-1 to the first four finisher outright, irrespective of class.

At rounds which were contested over two heats, round placings were determined by allocating "points" to the first fourteen placegetters in each heat on a 20-16-13-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. Where more than one driver attained the same total, the relevant round placing was awarded to the driver gaining the higher place in the last heat. Actual championship points were then awarded based on the calculated round placings.

Championship results

=	Gary Ryan	Triumph Spitfire		Up to 2000cc	-	-	-	1	1

References

Conditions for Australian Titles in the 1978 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport refers to “Sports Cars complying with Group D”. Classifications on page 240 of the 1978 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport refers to “Production Sports Cars (Group D)"
Conditions for Australian Titles, 1978 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, pages 84 to 86
Records, Titles and Awards, 2006 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 14-6
Australian Sports Car Championship, Australian Competition Yearbook, Number 8, 1979, pages 65 to 67
Official Programme, Lakeside International Raceway, Sunday, April 2, 1978
Official Programme, Calder, 19 March 1978
Round points calculated by applying the points system, as published in the 1978 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, to the round results, as published in Australian Competition Yearbook Number 8
Australian Competition Yearbook has Allan Edwards, Official Programme, Calder, 19 March 1978 has Alan Edwards
Australian Competition Yearbook has Ray Julien, Official Programme, Calder, 19 March 1978 has Ray Julian
Australian Competition Yearbook has Neil Swingler, Official Programme, Calder, 19 March 1978 has Neal Swingler
Australian Competition Yearbook Number 8 indicates that Kennedy competed in the Up to 2000cc class at Calder and Lakeside, notwithstanding Triumph’s TR5 model being powered by a 2500cc engine.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20231220100304/https://wwwbollyblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/no-sr6-here.html No SR6 here, wwwbollyblog.blogspot.com, as archived at web.archive.org]

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