page_title: 1983 James Hardie 1000
section_title: Class structure
hierarchical_section_title: 1983 James Hardie 1000 / Class structure
caption_attribution_description: English: BMW 635 CSi Group C Touring Car at the 2015 Adelaide Motorsport Festival. Jim Richards, one of the car's original drivers, is at the wheel.
context_page_description: The 1983 James Hardie 1000 was a motor race for Group C Touring Cars contested at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia on 2 October 1983. It was the 24th "Bathurst 1000" and the third to carry the James Hardie 1000 name. The race, which was Round 4 of the 1983 Australian Endurance Championship, was contested over 163 laps of the 6.172 km circuit, a total distance of 1006.036 km.
  The Holden Dealer Team took a controversial, but legal victory with the team's second Holden VH Commodore SS driven by John Harvey, Peter Brock and Larry Perkins. Harvey and Phil Brock qualified the car but after the #05 car blew its engine on lap 8, Peter Brock and Perkins transferred themselves into Harvey's car. Phil Brock never drove the car on race day and was forced to spectate as his three teammates won the race in the car he qualified in, a decision he claimed was made by Perkins as team manager despite Perkins being the slowest qualifier of the quartet and despite it also being legal for four drivers to drive one car.
context_section_description: Entries were divided into two classes based on engine capacity:
caption: Jim Richards and Frank Gardner shared a BMW 635 CSi, but did not finish. (Car pictured in 2015)
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