# 1987 Bob Jane T-Marts 500

The 1987 Bob Jane T-Marts 500 was the ninth round of the 1987 World Touring Car Championship. The race, which was open to Group A Touring Cars, was held on 11 October 1987 at Calder Park Raceway in outer Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on the rarely used combined circuit which incorporated both the recently redeveloped (1986) road course and the newly completed, high banked (24°) NASCAR-style “Thunderdome” oval.
The combined oval/road course was 4.216 km (2.620 mi) long and the race was run over 120 laps.
The race was won by Steve Soper and Pierre Dieudonné driving a Ford Sierra RS500 for the Ford Texaco Racing Team. Both Klaus Ludwig's pole time of 1:42.92 and Andrew Miedecke's fastest race lap of 1:45.03 in their respective Ford Sierra RS500's were faster than the pole time set in the only other Group A Touring Car race held on the combined oval/road course, the Yokohama/Bob Jane T-Marts 300 held two months previously on 9 August.

## Classes

Cars competed in three classes based on engine capacity.
* Class A: Over 2500cc
* Class B: 1601-2500cc
* Class C: Up to 1600cc

## Results

| Pos | Class | No. | Entrant | Drivers | Car | Laps | Qual Pos | Series Points |
| 1 | A | 6 | Ford Texaco Racing Team | Steve Soper Pierre Dieudonné | Ford Sierra RS500 | 120 | 2 | 40 |
| 2 | B | 46 | BMW Motorsport / Schnitzer Team | Emanuele Pirro Roberto Ravaglia | BMW M3 | 120 | 9 | 35 |
| 3 | B | 40 | BMW Motorsport / Schnitzer Team | Markus Oestreich Roland Ratzenberger | BMW M3 | 120 | 16 | 27 |
| 4 | B | 42 | BMW Motorsport / CiBiEmm | Johnny Cecotto Gianfranco Brancatelli | BMW M3 | 119 | 7 | 22 |
| 5 | A | 15 | Peter Jackson Nissan Racing | Glenn Seton George Fury | Nissan Skyline RS DR30 | 119 | 11 | |
| 6 | A | 11 | Perkins Engineering | Larry Perkins Denny Hulme | Holden VL Commodore SS Group A | 118 | 6 | |
| 7 | B | 47 | BMW Motorsport / Schnitzer Team | Anette Meeuvissen Mercedes Stermitz | BMW M3 | 117 | 18 | |
| 8 | A | 05 | Mobil HDT Racing | Peter Brock David Parsons | Holden VL Commodore SS Group A | 116 | 8 | |
| 9 | A | 16 | Mitsubishi Ralliart Aust. | Gary Scott Akihiko Nakaya | Mitsubishi Starion | 115 | 14 | |
| 10 | A | 26 | Kalari Transport Services | Tony Noske Gary Rush | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 114 | 25 | |
| 11 | A | 10 | Mobil HDT Racing | Peter McLeod Neil Crompton | Holden VL Commodore SS Group A | 114 | 19 | |
| 12 | A | 7 | Ford Texaco Racing Team | Klaus Ludwig Klaus Niedzwiedz | Ford Sierra RS500 | 113 | 1 | 23 |
| 13 | A | 18 | Shell Ultra Hitech Racing | Charlie O'Brien Neville Crichton Dick Johnson | Ford Sierra RS500 | 113 | 12 | |
| 14 | A | 23 | Jagparts Racing | Alf Grant Gerald Kay | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 108 | 28 | |
| 15 | A | 22 | Lusty Engineering Pty. Ltd. | Graham Lusty John Lusty | Holden VL Commodore SS Group A | 107 | 26 | |
| 16 | C | 100 | Alfa Romeo | Giorgio Francia Daniele Toffoli | Alfa Romeo 33 | 100 | 32 | 26 |
| 17 | A | 14 | Netcomm (Aust.) Racing | Murray Carter Denis Horley Steve Masterton | Nissan Skyline RS DR30 | 94 | 17 | |
| DNF | A | 31 | Cullen Supa Salvage | Warren Cullen Gary Sprague Gary Cooke | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 104 | 20 | |
| DNF | A | 27 | Ray Gulson | Ray Gulson Graham Gulson Bryan Thomson | BMW 635 CSi | 99 | 29 | |
| DNF | A | 2 | Bob Jane T-Marts | Allan Grice Win Percy | Holden VL Commodore SS Group A | 81 | 10 | |
| DNF | B | 44 | JPS Team BMW | Jim Richards Tony Longhurst | BMW M3 | 73 | 13 | |
| DNF | B | 43 | BMW Motorsport | Winni Vogt Altfrid Heger | BMW M3 | 70 | 15 | |
| DNF | C | 91 | Toyota Team Australia | John Faulkner Drew Price | Toyota Corolla GT | 67 | 31 | |
| DNF | A | 35 | Oxo Supercube Motorsport | Andrew Miedecke Don Smith | Ford Sierra RS500 | 58 | 3 | |
| DNF | A | 29 | Mulvihill Racing | Barry Jones Ken Mathews | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 46 | 27 | |
| DNF | B | 62 | Thomas von Loewis of Menar | Thomas von Löwis of Menar Leopold von Bayern | BMW M3 | 44 | 23 | |
| DNF | A | 24 | | Keiran Wills Philip Henley | Nissan Skyline RS DR30 | 42 | 21 | |
| DNF | A | 17 | Shell Ultra Hitech Racing | Dick Johnson Gregg Hansford | Ford Sierra RS500 | 25 | 4 | |
| DNF | A | 9 | Allan Moffat Racing | Andy Rouse Allan Moffat Thierry Tassin | Ford Sierra RS500 | 21 | 5 | |
| DNF | A | 4 | Pro Team Italia | Marco Gunella Nicola Tesini Stefano Livio | Maserati Biturbo | 18 | 30 | |
| DNF | A | 1 | Pro Team Italia | Armin Hahne Kevin Bartlett | Maserati Biturbo | 17 | 22 | |
| DNF | A | 3 | R. G. Lanyon | Mike Freeman Bruce Williams Peter Fitzgerald | Holden VK Commodore SS Group A | 17 | 24 | |
| DNQ | A | 28 | Lawrie Nelson | Lawrie Nelson Bryan Thomson | Ford Mustang GT | - | - | |

## Statistics

* Pole Position – #7 Klaus Ludwig – 1.42.92
* Fastest Lap – #35 Andrew Miedecke – 1:45.03
* Average Speed – 139.916 km/h