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13-405: The event was staged over a three-day weekend, from Friday to Sunday. Three thirty-minute practice sessions were held, two on Friday, one of them was a co-driver session, and one on Saturday. Saturday featured a three-part qualifying session which decides the grid positions for the following 110 kilometre race. Two separated ten-minute qualifying sessions were held on Sunday, which decided the grid for

26-581: The Australian Touring Car Championship , which later became known as V8 Supercars . From 1972 to 1974, Allan Moffat won three consecutive event wins at the circuit, while in 1976 and 1977 Sandown hosted both a sprint round and the Sandown 500 as part of each championship. In 1978, five-time champion Ian Geoghegan won his last championship round in a Bob Jane Racing entry. Throughout the 1980s, Dick Johnson tied Moffat as

39-522: The Ford AU Falcon a round win in the last event of its largely unsuccessful era as the pre-eminent Ford model. Meanwhile, in 1999 the annual 500 kilometre endurance race left Sandown and moved to Queensland Raceway , with the endurance events also joining the championship calendar for the first time since 1977. With the 500 kilometre endurance race and the Bathurst 1000 now regular fixtures of

52-475: The Melbourne 400 after the postponement of the 2021 Australian Grand Prix . Shane van Gisbergen won all three races, including the first from 17th on the grid, only two weeks after breaking his collarbone in a mountain biking accident. 1964 Sandown 6 Hour International The 1964 Sandown 6 Hour International was an endurance race for saloon cars complying with FIA Group 1 regulations. The event

65-469: The 500 was again scheduled to be moved, this time to The Bend Motorsport Park , which itself was not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Because of this, Sandown was initially scheduled to host its first sprint event since 2011, but the event was also later cancelled altogether due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Sandown was initially given reserve status on the 2021 calendar , and was then scheduled to replace

78-462: The championship, when the Sandown 500 returned to the calendar from 2003 to 2007, the sprint round became obsolete. The sprint round then returned from 2008 to 2011 in the period in which the Phillip Island 500 replaced Sandown's endurance race. In the final sprint round to date in 2011, Will Davison won the round despite only finishing fourth and third in a rain-affected weekend. In 2020,

91-495: The following 110 km races. Opened in 1962, Sandown Raceway has traditionally been known as the host of endurance races, the first of which was held in 1964 , an event which later evolved into the Sandown 500 event. As well as this, Sandown has a long history of hosting sprint rounds of the championship with the circuit hosting the most rounds in championship history. Sandown held its first championship sprint round in 1965, as

104-463: The most successful driver at the event with four wins. Dick Johnson's eponymous team won three further events in 1992, 2000 and 2010. In 2000, Steven Ellery won his only career race at the event. The 2001 and 2002 events were the final events of each championship, however in both years the championship had already been decided by the time of the Sandown round. In 2001, Todd Kelly scored his first championship round win. In 2002, Marcos Ambrose gave

117-447: The only event of the 1965 Australian Touring Car Championship . The race was won by Norm Beechey , who won by over a lap despite starting from towards the back of the grid after mechanical problems in qualifying. Sandown would not hold another championship event until 1970, when the series had expanded to seven rounds. Since then, in various forms and with the exception of 1975, 1990 and 1993, Sandown has been included in every running of

130-404: The race and 28 cars were classified as finishers. FIA Group 1 In international motorsport , Group 1 referred to FIA regulations for cars in touring car racing and rallying . Throughout its existence the group retained a definition of being standard, series production touring cars , and of having a character of being unmodified or not specifically prepared for racing. The class

143-522: The same definitions. In 1966 the FIA categories were restructured and Group 1 were placed in Category A, Production Cars, with Category B and C used for Sports and Racing cars respectively. Group 1 essentially remained the same in character but with a heightened production requirement of 5000 cars. In 1982 the numbered groups were replaced by Groups N, A, B, C, D and E. This motorsport-related article

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156-521: Was held at the Sandown Park circuit in Victoria , Australia on 29 November 1964 and was the genesis of what is now known as the Sandown 500 . The race was won by Roberto Bussinello and Ralph Sachs, driving an Alfa Romeo Giulia TI Super . Entries competed in seven classes as follows: Class G was for entries which were modified to FIA Group 2 specifications. There were 37 starters in

169-533: Was introduced in the then new Appendix J of the International Sporting Code in 1954 and was replaced by Group N in 1982. From its inception in 1954 until 1965, Group 1, officially documented at first as the first group , was included in Category I (or A), Touring Cars, with a production requirement of between 600 and 1000 cars in a 12 month period. The two categories had up to six groups in this time era, but not consistently or retaining

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