1991 Australian Touring Car Championship

The 1991 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship was the 32nd running of the Australian Touring Car Championship. It began on February 24, 1991 at Sandown Raceway and ended on August 11 at Oran Park Raceway after nine rounds. Teams and drivers The following drivers and teams competed in the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship. The series consisted of nine rounds of with one race per round, at slightly under one hour long in duration. Team Manufacturer Car model No Driver Nissan Motorsport Australia Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R 1 Jim Richards 2 Mark Skaife Lansvale Racing Team Holden Commodore VN SSGroupA 3 Trevor Ashby Steve Reed Bob Forbes Motorsport Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R 4 Mark Gibbs Holden Commodore VL SSGroupA SV Commodore VN SSGroupA 21 Advantage Racing Perkins Engineering Holden Commodore VN SSGroupA 05 Peter Brock 11 Larry Perkins Alf Grant Racing Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R 6 Tim Grant Caltex CXT Racing Ford Sierra RS500 8 Colin Bond Bob Holden Motors Toyota Toyota Corolla 13 Bob Holden 75 Frank Binding 76 Mike Conway Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VN SSGroupA 16 Win Percy Allan Grice Dick Johnson Racing Ford Sierra RS500 17 Dick Johnson 18 John Bowe Tony Longhurst Racing BMW BMW M3 Evolution 20 Alan Jones 25 Tony Longhurst Terry Finnigan Holden Commodore VL SSGroupA SV Commodore VN SSGroupA 27 Terry Finnigan Playscape Racing Ford Sierra RS500 28 Kevin Waldock Glenn Seton Racing Ford Sierra RS500 30 Glenn Seton Toyota Team Australia Toyota Corolla FX-GT 31 John Faulkner Pro-Duct Motorsport Holden Commodore VN SSGroupA 33 Bob Pearson Brian Bolwell Ford Sierra RS500 43 Brian Bolwell 44 Mike Twigden Peter Verheyen Toyota Sprinter 48 John Vernon Peter Verheyen M3 Motorsport BMW M3 52 John Cotter 53 Peter Doulman PACE Racing Holden Commodore VL SSGroupA SV Kevin Heffernan Warren Jonsson Holden Commodore VL SSGroupA SV Warren Jonsson Wayne Park Holden Commodore VL SSGroupA SV Wayne Park David Sala Toyota Corolla David Sala Dave Thomas Toyota Corolla Dave Thomas Ivan Tighe Toyota Sprinter AE86 Dean Tighe Season Review Results and Standings Race Calendar The 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship consisted of nine rounds. Rd. Race Title Circuit City / State Date Winner Team Report 1 Sandown Sandown Raceway Melbourne, Victoria 22 - 24 Feb Jim Richards Nissan Motorsport Australia 2 Symmons Plains Symmons Plains Raceway Launceston, Tasmania 8 - 10 Mar Jim Richards Nissan Motorsport Australia 3 Wanneroo Barbagallo Raceway Perth, Western Australia 12 - 14 Apr Mark Skaife Nissan Motorsport Australia 4 Lakeside Lakeside International Raceway Brisbane, Queensland 26 - 28 Apr Jim Richards Nissan Motorsport Australia 5 Winton Winton Motor Raceway Winton, Victoria 3 - 5 May Jim Richards Nissan Motorsport Australia 6 Amaroo Amaroo Park Sydney, New South Wales 31 May - 2 Jun Tony Longhurst Tony Longhurst Racing 7 Mallala Mallala Motorsport Park Adelaide, South Australia 21 - 23 Jun Mark Skaife Nissan Motorsport Australia 8 Lakeside Lakeside International Raceway Brisbane, Queensland 12 - 14 Jul Tony Longhurst Tony Longhurst Racing 9 Oran Park Oran Park Raceway Sydney, New South Wales 9 - 11 Aug Mark Skaife Nissan Motorsport Australia Drivers Championship Points were awarded 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 based on the top ten race positions. The pointscore system allowed a driver to drop his worst result. Pos Driver Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Rd 8 Rd 9 Pts 1 Jim Richards 1st 1st 2nd 1st 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd Ret 137 2 Mark Skaife 2nd 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd 1st 5th 1st 132(142) 3 Tony Longhurst 9th 4th 3rd 3rd 4th 1st 3rd 1st 3rd 108(110) 4 Alan Jones 6th 9th 5th 5th 5th 5th 10th 2nd 2nd 70(71) 5 Glenn Seton Ret 3rd 4th 4th 3rd 12th 5th 5th 4th 70 6 Peter Brock 7th 7th 9th 6th 9th 6th 6th 6th 7th 38(40) 7 John Bowe 3rd 11th 8th 10th 7th 4th 7th Ret Ret 34 8 Win Percy 5th Ret Ret 11th 6th 8th 4th 8th 30 9 Dick Johnson 4th 5th Ret 9th 11th 7th 8th Ret 11th 27 10 Colin Bond 11th 6th 6th 7th 8th 10th 9th 7th Ret 26 11 Larry Perkins 14th 8th 7th 8th 10th 9th 11th 12th 6th 19 12 Mark Gibbs 10th 12th Ret 10th 5th 10 13 Kevin Waldock 8th 10th 12th 13th 4 13 Terry Finnigan 12th 13th 13th 11th 9th 9th 4 15 Allan Grice 8th 3 16 John Cotter 16th 10th 1 Pos Driver Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Rd 8 Rd 9 Pts Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) External links Offical V8 Supercar site Contains historical ATCC information.