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The 1975 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title open to Group C Touring Cars. [1] The championship began at Symmons Plains and ended at Lakeside after seven rounds. [2]
Sandown Raceway has hosted the most events, with 51, while Wanneroo Raceway, Perth has hosted the most individual races, with 94. 82 different drivers have won an ATCC/Supercars championship race. Jamie Whincup has won the most championship races, with 124 victories.
The Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) is a touring car racing award held in Australia since 1960. The series itself is no longer contested, but the title lives on, with the winner of the Repco Supercars Championship awarded the trophy and title of Australian Touring Car Champion.
Note: The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport awarded the Australian Touring Car Championship title to the winner of the V8 Supercar Championship Series from 1999 to 2010, and to the winner of the International V8 Supercars Championship since 2011.
The 1978 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title open to Group C Touring Cars. [1] The title, which was the 19th Australian Touring Car Championship, [2] was won by Peter Brock. [3]
Allan Moffat's victory in the opening round at Calder Park created history as the Canadian became the first non-Australian born driver to win an ATCC race. It was the first of an eventual 32 ATCC round wins for Moffat before his final win in Round 3 of the 1984 championship at Wanneroo Park.
The championship began at Symmons Plains on 29 February and ended at Phillip Island on 28 November in the longest season in the history of the series. 1976 saw a substantial change to the ATCC calendar which was expanded to eleven rounds, incorporating the end-of-season long distance Australian Championship of Makes races for the first time.
1972 would be the final time the Improved Production cars would contest the ATCC. From 1973, CAMS introduced a new production based Group C touring car formula. Outright cars like the Ford Mustangs , Chevrolet Camaros , Norm Beechey 's Holden Monaro and Ian Geoghegan 's Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase III would be replaced with production based Ford ...