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46-454: Since its first running in 1972, the race has been won by international touring car greats such as Tom Walkinshaw , Johnny Cecotto , Roberto Ravaglia , Emanuele Pirro , Joachim Winkelhock and Andy Priaulx . Historically it is also one of the most popular races of the weekend as it featured cars that are commonly seen on the Hong Kong and Macau roads. Since 2018, it has been run under

92-660: A 4.9-litre V8 Holden VL Commodore SS Group A , but withdrew before the first race at Monza in protest at the US$ 60,000 entrance fee imposed by Bernie Ecclestone who had put in charge of the WTCC by the FIA . Walkinshaw and Jeff Allam appeared with the car at the Nürburgring round of the championship but the car was uncompetitive against the new Ford Sierra RS Cosworths and BMW M3s , retiring with brake problems. In 1988 TWR developed

138-535: A bid to win the Australian classic. The three ETCC Jags were brought out of retirement and shipped to Bathurst with the help of "Jaguar Rover Australia" (JRA) and proceeded to dominate practice and qualifying, with Walkinshaw claiming pole position, Jeff Allam claiming second spot on the grid and provisional pole sitter John Goss starting 6th. Driving with regular ETCC co-driver Win Percy , Walkinshaw finished 3rd in

184-501: A broken drivers seat which had to be held in place by cable ties attached to the roll cage. The Rovers, with sponsorship from Bastos/ Texaco , were again the TWR cars for the renamed ETCC (which had become the FIATCC in 1986 in anticipation of the 1987 World Touring Car Championship ). Walkinshaw was again a favourite to take out the title, but once again would finish 3rd. Co-driver Win Percy

230-575: A point scoring round for the Asian Touring Car Championship from 2000 to 2003. From 2005 to 2019, it was the final round of the World Touring Car Championship. It often attracts local drivers competing alongside the series regulars, such as André Couto and Ao Chi Hong . The race has run to different touring car rules as European touring car championships went through their own changes. The race

276-453: A race entrant was entitled to lodge protests under the rules of the meeting. In an ironic twist to Walkinshaw's last race meeting as a driver, the three HSV team cars, including the team's spare car, were found to have illegal modifications to the steering racks after a counter-protest by Dick Johnson Racing team manager Neal Lowe , though no action was taken as the spare car didn't start the race and both race cars failed to finish. Following

322-575: The BMW M3 Evo and Ford Sierra RS500 that dominated the grids and results. The Macau Grand Prix 's Guia Race , the Spa 24 Hours and the 24 Hours Nürburgring were the only international touring car races during those years. With the success and popularity of Supertouring in many national championships, the FIA organised the one-round Super Touring World Cup for these cars, between 1993 and 1995. In 1996,

368-526: The Bathurst 1000 . After qualifying in 10th spot, Walkinshaw never left the starting line after transmission failure and was hit from behind by a Chevrolet Camaro . Several cars also joined the crash causing the race to be red flagged and restarted 30 minutes later (the first restart in the race's history). In 1985, Jaguar retired the XJS from Group A racing and TWR was forced to use the cars they'd been racing in

414-664: The British Touring Car Championship , the 3.5-litre V8 Rover Vitesse in the European Touring Car Championship . Walkinshaw and Percy won 6 of the 14 races in the championship but could only finish the championship 3rd behind the Eggenberger Volvo 240T 's of Gianfranco Brancatelli and Thomas Lindström. With Australia's move to Group A in 1985, Walkinshaw vowed to return to Bathurst with his ETCC Jaguars in

460-734: The Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV and Walkinshaw again teamed with Jeff Allam at the RAC Tourist Trophy at Silverstone . Although still not a match for the Ford Sierra RS500s , Walkinshaw qualified the Commodore in 9th place. The pair finished the race in 15th place following various problems with the car. Tom Walkinshaw's last race as a driver was the 1988 Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst. In partnership with Australian Larry Perkins , TWR shipped

506-508: The March 'works' team, where he broke his ankle in a racing accident. Continuing his career despite this setback, he drove in many classes, including Formula 5000 and Formula Two . Ford hired Walkinshaw to drive a Capri on the British Touring Car Championship circuit in 1974. This resulted in him winning his class that year. In 1976 Walkinshaw established Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR), continuing to drive for his own team. He competed in

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552-499: The 1976 World Championship for Makes, sharing a Hermetite-sponsored BMW 3.5 CSL with John Fitzpatrick. The pair achieved several good results including a dramatic victory, by just 1.3 seconds, in the Silverstone 6 Hours. In 1984 he won the European Touring Car Championship in a 5.3-litre, V12 Jaguar XJS . In September 1984, Walkinshaw had teamed up with Australian driver John Goss to drive an Australian Group C spec XJS in

598-463: The 1986 Fuji InterTEC 500 and the XJS' final race, the 1987 Wellington 500 . After some engine work which lifted the V12's power output to 500 hp (373 kW; 507 PS), Walkinshaw proved that the 1984 spec Jags were still competitive in 1986 by qualifying on pole at the fast Fuji circuit in front of the new Nissan Skyline RS DR30s and Holden VK Commodore SS Group As . Walkinshaw comfortably led

644-523: The 1995 Formula One World Championship. He was involved in the recruitment of Michael Schumacher by Benetton after the German's Formula One debut with the Jordan team. As engineering director, his role also came under scrutiny when the team was investigated for suspected technical infringements during the 1994 season , including the potential use of banned electronic aids and unauthorised modifications to

690-457: The 3 victories each by Giovanardi and Larini, but lost the title to Giovanardi due to several retirements that he had during the season. In 2002, due to high costs FIA decided to let Super Touring make way for the new class Super 2000 and named the new series FIA ETCC, using Super 2000 rules. This new category provoked much interest and saw participation from Alfa Romeo 156 GTA and BMW 320i , Volvo S60 and SEAT Toledo Cupra . Alfa Romeo won

736-679: The Arrows team ran out of money. This led to the Australian arm of the operation being bought by Holden . However, since the practice of teams being owned by manufacturers in the Supercars Championship was banned, Holden had to divest the team's assets and sell the Holden Racing Team to lead driver Mark Skaife , and K-Mart Racing (later HSV Dealer Team ) to John and Margaret Kelly (the parents of V8 Supercar drivers Todd and Rick ). In 2005 Tom Walkinshaw returned to

782-627: The ETCC Commodore to Australia for the race as part of the Holden Special Vehicles team. Following a messy lead up to the race, which included Walkinshaw illegally protesting the five leading Australian built Sierras, Walkinshaw and Allam qualified in 13th place (slower than the Perkins Engineering built team car), and was the second retirement after just 5 laps with rear suspension failure. Walkinshaw himself

828-549: The FIA promoted the DTM , which already had races outside Germany in its calendar, to International Touringcar Championship (ITC), but once more escalating costs ended the series after two seasons. In 2000, the Italian Superturismo Championship was promoted to Euro STC . The series was made up mostly of Italian drivers from the former Italian Campeonato Superturismo and teams plus some other coming from

874-559: The FIA replaced Groups 1 and 2 with Group N and Group A . The first one was mainly ignored by the ETCC entrants, all cars going the Group A route. BMW and Alfa Romeo prepared regular touring cars for the championship, but it was the big-engined Tom Walkinshaw Racing prepared Jaguar XJS and Rover 3500 Vitesse that would be more competitive in the years to come, fighting against the BMW 635 CSi ,

920-589: The German Super Tourenwagen Cup . In the first season of Euro STC, six rounds were in Italy while the other four were in Austria, (A1 Ring), Hungary (Hungaroring), Czech Republic (Brno) and Slovenia (Ljubljana). The series was very balanced with four drivers winning five races apiece (Giovanardi, Kox, Morbidelli and Colciago) with four manufacturers (Alfa Romeo, Honda, BMW, Audi). At the end of

966-541: The Népliget (People's Park) in Budapest counted towards the ETCC, which was won by German Peter Nöcker and his Jaguar. In 1968, the regulations were changed to allow Group 5 cars to participate, however these highly modified Special Touring Cars would only be eligible for two years. In 1970 the series name was changed from European Touring Car Challenge to European Touring Car Championship . Group 2 again became

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1012-727: The TCR championship banner, first as World Touring Car, then China Touring Car from 2020 to 2022. In 2023, it was part of the TCR World Tour , as the final round, with the top 8 TCR Asia Challenge drivers calculated by points be part of the race. Prior to being a World Touring Car Championship round, the Guia Race had previously been an FIA Championship round. In 1994, it was a round of the Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship . The race also acted as

1058-620: The Tooheys 1000, Walkinshaw retired from driving to concentrate on the management of TWR's increasing motorsports portfolio. In 1975 Walkinshaw established Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR), a group whose business was the manufacture and design of racing and road cars. TWR ran touring car programmes in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. In 1983 the TWR team took eleven wins in eleven races in the British Saloon Car Championship running Rover Vitesses, before being stripped of

1104-601: The V8 Supercars Australia and began a new relationship with his former teams, helping lead Holden to its first series win since 2002 through driver Rick Kelly (2006) and Garth Tander (2007). In late 2006 Walkinshaw Performance bought the small Australian sports car manufacturer Elfin Cars . In 2007 Walkinshaw Performance acquired a 50% stake in the Holden Racing Team, and in 2008 fully re-acquired

1150-744: The best representatives from national championships running to Super 2000, Super Production and Super 1600 regulations in the Baltic States, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Starting in 2010 the ETCC will once again become a multi event racing series. Four events of two races each are set to be held in Portugal, Italy, Austria and Germany at the Circuito Vasco Sameiro in Braga,

1196-739: The deal. Instead he bought the Arrows team, achieving a coup for the 1997 Formula One season by recruiting reigning world champion Damon Hill to his squad. In 1997 Walkinshaw was voted Autocar Man of the Year. By this stage the TWR Group employed 1500 employees in the UK, Sweden, Australia and the United States. At the time, Walkinshaw was also managing director of Arrows Grand Prix International. His TWR racing group went into liquidation in 2002 after

1242-857: The descendant of the Australian arm of Tom Walkinshaw Racing . The team is co-owned by Andretti Autosport and United Autosports and races in the Australian Supercars Championship . Sean as a racing driver who competes regularly in GT racing , most often in GT3 spec series like GT World Challenge Europe . Results sourced from Driver Database and History of Touring Car Racing. ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1973–1990 in class) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded ?–1989 in class) † Events with 2 races staged for

1288-571: The different classes. ‡ Ineligible to score points. ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) † Not eligible for series points ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) https://www.topgear.com/car-news/motorsport/tom-walkinshaw-racing-restablished-make-new-high-performance-road-cars European Touring Car Championship The European Touring Car Championship

1334-437: The first two championships with Fabrizio Giovanardi and Gabriele Tarquini while in the last season the title was won by Andy Priaulx and his BMW. The series became popular with the public due to the intense competition and Eurosport live broadcasts. For this reason in 2005, the ETCC was promoted to WTCC status. The European Touring Car title was given from 2005 until 2009 to a once a year European Touring Car Cup , with

1380-437: The principle category although Group 2 regulations were now much more liberal in nature than the old Group 2. Following the 1973 oil crisis the next two seasons had few entrants. It was only in 1977 that the situation was normalised with the return of factory teams. Rules allowed Group 2 and Group 1B "National" cars to compete together, with BMW 3.0 Coupé CSL and Capri RS remaining the most competitive entries. In 1982,

1426-471: The race after leading for over ⅔ distance following a split oil line late in the race. The Allam/ Ron Dickson car was out after 3 laps with engine failure when broken glass from the cars right headlight got sucked into the intake system, while the Goss/ Armin Hahne car would win for TWR after having to battle for over 100 laps of the 6.172 km (3.835 mi) long Mount Panorama Circuit with

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1472-468: The race for the first 6 laps from teammate Jeff Allam and Australian Peter Brock in his Holden Dealer Team VK Commodore before retiring with no oil pressure. After entering into a partnership with Australian car manufacturer Holden in February 1987 (at the expense of Brock's HDT Special Vehicles operation), Walkinshaw fully intended to compete in the inaugural World Touring Car Championship driving

1518-537: The refuelling apparatus used on the cars. Although illegal software was found in the Benettons, the FIA had no evidence that it had ever been used in a race and no action was taken against the team. For 1995 Walkinshaw bought 50% of the Ligier team from Benetton team principal Flavio Briatore . His intention was to take over the team completely, but he was unable to purchase 100% of the team and therefore pulled out of

1564-413: The team from Skaife. 2009 saw the debut of Walkinshaw Racing a two car operation known individually as Bundaberg Red Racing and Team Autobarn . Walkinshaw died on Sunday 12 December 2010, aged 64, from complications arising from cancer. He is survived by his son Fergus Walkinshaw from his first marriage, and his second wife Martine Walkinshaw and their sons Ryan and Sean. Walkinshaw's memorial service

1610-616: The team owners organisation for the Aviva Premiership . Walkinshaw was born at Mauldslie Farm, near Penicuik , Midlothian, Scotland. He began racing in 1968, starting in an MG Midget , before moving on to a Lotus Formula Ford car. The following year he won the Scottish FF1600 title at the wheel of a Hawke. In 1970, he entered the British Formula Three championship with Lotus. He later moved to

1656-548: The title for a technical infringement. TWR also ran a Jaguar XJ-S ETCC touring car programme before taking on their World Sportscar Championship programme. In six years the programme won Le Mans twice and the World Championships three times. The same team brought engineer Ross Brawn to prominence. In 1991 Walkinshaw was recruited as engineering director of the Benetton F1 team which subsequently won

1702-439: The trophies to the race winners on the podium since the sponsorship began. After the "official" inaugural race in 1972 Tom Walkinshaw Thomas Dobbie Thomson Walkinshaw (14 August 1946 – 12 December 2010) was a British racing car driver from Scotland and the founder of the racing team Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR). He was also involved in professional rugby union , as owner of Gloucester Rugby , and chairman of

1748-419: The turbocharged Volvo 240T and Ford Sierra Cosworth as well as (from 1986) Australian manufacturer Holden and its V8 powered Commodore . The championship was cancelled after the end of the 1988 season, due to escalating costs (a one-off World Touring Car Championship in 1987 also exacerbated the problem). By then, the FIA had allowed "Evolution" models to be homologated, and it was special cars such as

1794-511: The year Giovanardi was able to win the title beating Kox in last round. In 2001, this series became the FIA 2001 European Super Touring Championship , with an extra class for Super Production cars alongside the main Super Touring class. As the former year also this one was very fought and attractive riveting thanks to the battle between Alfa drivers' Giovanardi and Larini and Honda driver Tarquini. Tarquini won 9 of 20 races, compared with

1840-537: The years, from the 30 lapper back in the Group A era to the current, double race format with each race lasting 9 laps. Prior to becoming a round of the WTCC in 2005, the race was staged over two legs, with the winner being declared as the driver with the best time aggregated from both legs. The race has been sponsored by the Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau (STDM) since 2004. STDM boss Stanley Ho has presented

1886-562: Was an international touring car racing series organised by the FIA . It had two incarnations, the first one between 1963 and 1988, and the second between 2000 and 2004. In 2005 it was superseded by the World Touring Car Championship , and replaced by the European Touring Car Cup between 2005 and 2017 when became also defunct. The European Touring Car Challenge , as it was originally known,

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1932-480: Was created in 1963 by Willy Stenger at the behest of the FIA. Cars competed under FIA Group 2 Improved Touring Car regulations which allowed a variety of touring cars of different sizes and engine displacements to race together, from the small Fiat 600 and Mini to the large Jaguar Mark 2 and Mercedes-Benz 300SE In 1963 races and hillclimbing events at Nürburgring , Mont Ventoux , Brands Hatch , Mallory Park , Zolder , Zandvoort , Timmelsjoch and even in

1978-593: Was cross-entered in the Perkins/ Denny Hulme car and drove the car later in the race. The car was retired with engine failure after 137 laps while in 2nd place. Walkinshaw's protest against the Sierras was later found to be illegal because Perkins Engineering was the entrant for the HSV team and not TWR. The stewards of the meeting had erred in letting Walkinshaw lodge the protest under TWR's FIA licence as only

2024-471: Was held at Gloucester Cathedral on 4 February 2011. Fergus Walkinshaw, who has been racing since 11 years old, inclusive of Ginetta Juniors and GTSupercup, has followed in his fathers footsteps and has restarted TWR in October 2023. Ryan and Sean followed their father into motorsport, Ryan in management as one of the team principals of the racing team that wears the family name, Walkinshaw Andretti United ,

2070-574: Was originally announced as the 1986 champion before results from earlier races were amended following protest hearings. Walkinshaw had intended to return to Bathurst in 1986 with the V12 Jaguars but withdrew when JRA refused to help with funds following a downturn in the Australian car market. With sponsorship from the NZ based Strathmore Group, Walkinshaw took the Jaguars to Japan and New Zealand for

2116-509: Was run to European Group 5 regulations in the early eighties, then adopted FIA Group A rules between 1983 and 1990. It then ran to DTM rules from 1991 to 1993 before changing to Super Touring rules in 1994. From 2000, it started using Super Production regulations until 2004, when it sampled Super 2000 machinery before being upgraded to a round of the FIA WTCC. Since 2018, it has been run to TCR regulations. The race has changed in format over

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