2001 Clarion Sandown 500

The 2001 Clarion Sandown 500 was a motor race for production-based Nations Cup cars and GT Production cars. The race, which was the 34th Sandown 500 endurance race, was held at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 16 September 2001. It was the first Sandown 500 held since 1998 when it was contested by V8 Supercars.

The race was won by John Bowe and Tom Waring driving a Ferrari 360 Challenge for Prancing Horse Racing.

Classes

Cars competed in four classes:

• Nations Cup
• GT Production Class A
• GT Production Class B
• GT Production Class C

Budweiser Top Gun Challenge

After qualifying was completed the fastest ten cars competed in a one-lap runoff for the top ten grid positions. Runoff results as follows:

Official results

Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC). Race results as follows:

Statistics

• Provisional Pole Position - #666 Paul Stokell - 1:16.4012
• Pole Position - #43 Jim Richards - 1:16.9760
• Fastest Lap - #7 D'arcy Russell - 1:17.7024
• Race Average Speed - 143.22 km/h

References

External links

• 2001 Sandown 500, www.youtube.com
• Images from the 2001 Clarion Sandown 500 Retrieved from web.archive.org on 19 January 2009