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1979 Australian Sports Car Championship

The 1979 Australian Sports Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Group D Production Sports Cars. It was the eleventh Australian Sports Car Championship and the fourth to be restricted to cars complying with Group D regulations.

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

Schedule

The championship was contested over four rounds.

4	Calder	Victoria	25 November	One race	John Gourlay	Bolwell Nagari

Class structure

Cars competed in two engine capacity classes:

Up to and including 2000cc
Over 2000cc

Points system

Championship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six places in each class at each round and on a 4-3-2-1 basis for the first four outright places at each round.

For Round 1, the round results, on which championship points were awarded, were determined by allocating race points on a 20-16-13-11-10-9-8-9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 for the first 14 outright places in each race and aggregating the points for each driver. Where more than one driver attained the same total, the superior round position was awarded to the higher placed driver in the second race.

Results

Position	Driver	Car	Bas.	Cal.	Win.	Cal.
Ross Mathieson	Porsche Carrera	6	13	13	6	38
Peter Fitzgerald	Porsche Carrera	13	6	9	9	37
Bernie Bisseling	Lotus 47	9	9	1	6	25
John Gourlay	Bolwell Nagari	9	-	-	13	22
Rex Colliver	Lotus 47	4	-	4	9	17
Tim Briglia	Lotus Elan	-	4	9	4	17
Murray Bryden	Lotus Elan	6	6	-	-	12
Chris Swingler	Triumph TR7	3	3	2	3	11
John Latham	Bolwell Nagari	-	-	6	4	10
Warwick Henderson	Chevrolet Corvette C3	-	9	-	-	9
Neal Swingler	Triumph GT6	2	4	-	-	6
Paul Trevathan	MGB GT V8	-	4	-	-	4
Barry Main	Bolwell Nagari	1	3	-	-	4
Alan Edwards	Bolwell Nagari	-	-	4	-	4
Dick Smith	Lotus Super Seven	-	3	-	-	3
Ross Bond	Bolwell Nagari	2	-	-	-	2
Gordon Dobie	Datsun 2000	-	2	-	-	2
Steve Wherrett	Chevrolet Corvette	-	-	2	-	2
Allan Hanns	Bolwell Nagari	-	-	-	2	2
Tim Edmonds	MGB	1	-	-	-	1
Peter Boston	Austin-Healey 100	-	1	-	-	1
Geoff Dennis	Triumph GT6	-	1	-	-	1
Ranald MacLurkin	TVR Griffith	-	-	1	-	1

References

CAMS Manual of Motor Sport 1979, page 96
CAMS Manual of Motor Sport 2002, page 14-6
Australian Motor Racing Yearbook, 1979/80, pages 190-193
Steve Chopping, Fitzgerald opens twice, Racing Car News, June 1979, pages 38 & 39
Greg Stanfield, Sports spectacular at Calder, Racing Car News, July 1979, pages 58 & 59
Greg Stanfield, Engel, Mathieson weather the storms, Racing Car News, September 1979, pages 60 & 61
Program, Calder Raceway, November 25th (1979)
CAMS Manual of Motor Sport 1979, pages 94-95
Jim Shepherd, A History of Australian Motor Sport, 1980, pages 179-180
Points per round for the top nine drivers are based the points table published in Australian Motor Racing Yearbook 1979/80, page 193. Points per round for the other drivers are derived from pointscore listings published with respective reports for each round in Racing Car News magazines.
Totals from points table for top 9 drivers in Australian Motor Racing Yearbook 1979/80, page 193, plus points listing in Jim Shepherd, A History of Australian Motor Sport, 1980, page 180
Greg Stanfield, Mathieson's title by a point!, Racing Car News, January 1980, pages 26 & 27

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