• Source: 2002 Sandown 500

The 2002 Sandown 500 was an Australian motor race for Production Cars which drew its entries from those competing in the Australian Nations Cup Championship and Australian GT Production Car Championship. It was the second Sandown 500 since the former touring car endurance race was revived for production cars and would be the last as Sandown would regain the rights to the 500 kilometre V8 Supercar race the following year.
The race, which was the 35th Sandown 500 endurance race was held at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 8 September 2002. It was won by Paul Stokell and Anthony Tratt driving a Lamborghini Diablo GTR.




Classes


Cars competed in four classes:

Nations Cup Group 1
Nations Cup Group 2
GT Production Class A
GT Production Class B




Sandown 500 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:
Weather conditions were threatening when the runoff started. Former Australian rules football player turned media personality Sam Newman, who by his own admission was not even a good race driver, let alone a professional one, was the first driver out to set a time in the runoff in his Class G2 Ferrari 360 Challenge. As it turned out, his was the only lap run in dry conditions as the rain started almost as he crossed the finish line. His lap ended up being the fastest by 6.0448 seconds.




Official results


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




Statistics


Provisional Pole Position - #5 Jim Richards - 1:21.4133
Pole Position - #17 Sam Newman - 1:18.5170
Fastest Lap - #5 Jim Richards - 1:13.8765
Race Average Speed - 139 km/h




References






External links


2002 Sandown 500, www.procar.com.au via web.archive.org
David Twomey, Lambo Charges to 500 Victory, www.sports-racer.com, as archived at web.archive.org

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