1988 360 km of Sandown Park

July 2021 January 2012 thumb|250px|Layout of the Sandown Raceway international circuit (1984-1998) The 1988 Lucas Supersprint (historically known as the 1988 360 km of Sandown Park) was the eleventh and final round of the 1988 World Sports-Prototype Championship. It took place at Sandown Raceway, Victoria, Australia on 20 November 1988. Due to being a short sprint and thus having a smaller points scale for the championship, several teams, most notably the Porsches of Brun Motorsport, Joest Racing, Kremer Racing, and Richard Lloyd Racing, opted not to attend this event. Unlike the previous World Endurance Championship race held at Sandown in 1984 which included an invitation class for cars that competed in the Australian GT and Sports Car championships, the Lucas Supersprint was open to those who complied with WSPC rules, with only the Group C1 and C2 classes being represented. The only local entry was the Bernie van Elsen entered Veskanda C1 Chevrolet driven by touring car stars John Bowe and Dick Johnson (Bowe was the car's driver when it dominated the 1986 Australian Sports Car Championship). The car was able to race as although it had been built to conform to Australia's Group A Sports Car rules, it also met the FIA's Group C regulations. As its name suggested, the Australian Veskanda was a Group C1 (outright) car, although local television broadcasters ABC erroneously labeled it as a Group C2 car. Official results Qualifying Results Pos. Class No EntrantOfficial Programme, Castrol 500, Sandown, September 9 (1984) Car Time Pole C1 61 SWI Team Sauber Mercedes Sauber C9 Mercedes-Benz 1:28.620 2 C1 62 SWI Team Sauber Mercedes Sauber C9 Mercedes-Benz 1:29.980 3 C1 2 GBR Silk Cut JaguarGBR Tom Walkinshaw Racing Jaguar XJR-9 1:30.200 4 C1 1 GBR Silk Cut JaguarGBR Tom Walkinshaw Racing Jaguar XJR-9 1:30.950 5 C2 111 GBR Spice Engineering Spice SE88C Ford 1:34.950 6 C1 20 GBR Team Davey Porsche 962C 1:35.030 7 C2 107 GBR Chamberlain Engineering Spice SE88C Ford 1:35.500 8 C1 26 AUS Bernie van Elsen Veskanda C1 Chevrolet 1:35.510 9 C2 103 GBR Spice Engineering Spice SE88C Ford 1:35.650 10 C2 121 GBR Cosmik GP Motorsport Spice SE87C Ford 1:36.230 11 C2 127 GBR Chamberlain Engineering Spice SE86C Hart 1:36.300 12 C2 115 GBR ADA Engineering ADA 03 Ford 1:37.110 13 C2 109 ITA Kelmar Racing Tiga GC288 Ford 1:37.410 14 C1 40 SWI Swiss Team Salamin Porsche 962C 1:40.050 15 C2 178 FRA Automobiles Louis Descartes ALD 04 BMW 1:41.810 16 C2 26 FRA MT Sport Racing Argo JM19C Ford 1:44.340 17 C2 198 GBR Roy Baker Racing Tiga GC286 Ford 1:44.850 18 C2 183 FRG Walter Maurer Racing Maurer Lotec C87 BMW 1:45.340 Race Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of the winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC). Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Laps Grid Engine 1 C1 61 SWI Team Sauber Mercedes FRA Jean-Louis SchlesserFRG Jochen Mass Sauber C9 Michelin 93 1 Mercedes-Benz M117 5.0L Turbo V8 2 C1 62 SWI Team Sauber Mercedes ITA Mauro BaldiSWE Stefan Johansson Sauber C9 Michelin 93 2 Mercedes-Benz M117 5.0L Turbo V8 3 C1 1 GBR Silk Cut JaguarGBR Tom Walkinshaw Racing GBR Martin BrundleUSA Eddie Cheever Jaguar XJR-9 Dunlop 93 4 Jaguar 7.0L V12 4 C1 2 GBR Silk Cut JaguarGBR Tom Walkinshaw Racing NED Jan LammersGBR Johnny Dumfries Jaguar XJR-9 Dunlop 92 3 Jaguar 7.0L V12 5 C2 111 GBR Spice Engineering GBR Ray BellmGBR Gordon Spice Spice SE88C Goodyear 88 5 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 6 C1 20 GBR Team Davey AUS Neil CrangGBR Tim Lee-Davey Porsche 962C Dunlop 88 6 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 7 C2 115 GBR ADA Engineering AUS Arthur AbrahamsAUS John Smith ADA 03 Goodyear 88 12 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 8 C2 109 ITA Kelmar Racing ITA Ranieri RandaccioITA Stefano Sebastiani Tiga GC288 Avon 84 13 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 9 C2 127 GBR Chamberlain Engineering AUS Andrew MiedeckeGBR Nick Adams Spice SE86C Avon 82 11 Hart 418T 1.8L Turbo I4 10 C2 183 FRG Walter Maurer Racing FRG Helmut GallFRG Walter Maurer Maurer Lotec C87 ? 77 18 BMW 2.0L Turbo I4 11 C2 178 FRA Automobiles Louis Descartes FRA Michel LatesteFRA Louis Descartes ALD 04 Avon 76 15 BMW M80 3.5L I6 12NC C2 198 GBR Roy Baker Racing AUS Michael HallGBR John Bartlett Tiga GC286 Dunlop 56 17 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 13NC C2 103 GBR Spice Engineering Chile Eliseo SalazarDEN Thorkild Thyrring Spice SE88C Goodyear 54 9 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 14DNF C2 121 GBR Cosmik GP Motorsport FRA Philippe de HenningGRE Costas Los Spice SE87C Goodyear 87 10 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 15DNF C2 124 FRA MT Sport Racing FRA Jean MessaoudiFRA Pierre-Francois Rousselot Argo JM19C Avon 77 16 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 16DNF C1 40 SWI Swiss Team Salamin ITA Giovanni LavaggiSWI Antoine Salamin Porsche 962C Goodyear 41 14 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 17DNF C2 107 GBR Chamberlain Engineering FRA Claude Ballot-LénaFRA Jean-Louis Ricci Spice SE88C Avon 14 7 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 DSQ† C1 26 AUS Bernie van Elsen AUS John BoweAUS Dick Johnson Veskanda C1 Dunlop 87 8 Chevrolet 6.0L V8 † - The #26 Veskanda-Chevrolet of John Bowe and Dick Johnson was disqualified for using more fuel than the regulations allowed. Statistics Pole Position - Jean-Louis Schlesser - Team Sauber Mercedes - 1:28.620 Fastest Lap - Jean-Louis Schlesser - Team Sauber Mercedes - 1:33.580 Average Speed - 144.355 km/h References Sources Australian Motor Racing Year, 1988/89 18 http://wsrp.ic.cz/wsc1988.html#11 FIA World Sports-Prototype Championship 1988 World Sports Racing Prototypes 2 October 2005 2008-01-20 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080426155510/http://wsrp.ic.cz/wsc1988.html 26 April 2008 http://www.teamdan.com/archive/wsc/1988/88sandown.html 1988 Sandown Park Supersprint Team Dan Motorsport Almanac 30 December 2003 2008-01-20 http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/Sandown_Park-1988-11-20-photo.html Sandown Park 360km 1988 (Photo Archive) Racing Sports Cars 11 June 2006 2008-01-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20080108085458/http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/Sandown_Park-1988-11-20-photo.html 8 January 2008 dead 1988 World Sportscar Championship 1988 1000km of Fuji None Sandown Sandown Category:Motorsport at Sandown