Season Review
The opening three rounds of the series continued the story of the previous two seasons with the Ford Sierra RS500's of Dick Johnson Racing team mates Dick Johnson (winner of Symmons Plains and Phillip Island) and John Bowe dominating podiums with only the tight nature of the Amaroo Park layout giving another driver a look-in, namely the Nissan Skyline of Jim Richards who held off Bowe in a race long duel to win the season's opening round. Another tight track at Winton Motor Raceway gave Richards his second victory of the year with team-mates Tony Longhurst and Alan Jones putting their Benson & Hedges Sierras ahead of the DJR pair onto the podium (the Longhurst Sierra's were generally acknowledged as most powerful of the Blue Oval's cars at some 590 bhp (440 kW; 598 PS)). Lakeside Raceway saw a complete upset with Colin Bond winning from Peter Brock in his Mobil Sierra and HRT driver Win Percy in what would prove be Holden's only podium finish of the season.
Colin Bond made it two in a row at Mallala after Mark Skaife's spectacular debut of Nissan's new 4WD, twin turbo Skyline R32 GT-R, which was nicknamed Godzilla, ended with a broken hub after storming to the lead in the early laps. As at Lakeside, Bond's steady, though unspectacular race pace paid off and as others fell away, his Caltex Sierra emerged in front. Peter Brock broke through for his first victory of the year at Wanneroo, while a broken axle to Johnson saw his points lead surrendered to Richards who finished fourth in his first race of the new GT-R. Ahead of the Oran Park Raceway finale Richards held a three point lead over Johnson, with Bond and Brock still in it, eleven and twelve points behind. Bowe, winless despite his form, was too far behind. Richards, again in the GT-R, dominated Oran Park, making the points calculations irrelevant. Second place allowed Brock to slip past Johnson and Bond into the series runner's up position. Behind Bowe, Longhurst was sixth after an inconsistent season ahead of Seton's Sierra. Percy was the best of the Holdens in eighth ahead of Jones and Gregg Hansford who only had a partial season in Allan Moffat's Sierra.
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