Track map for Oran Park--Grand Prix circuit

The 1985 Pepsi 250 was an endurance race for

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held at the

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on 18 August 1985. The race was the second round of the

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. It was held over 100 laps of the circuit for a total of . The field was divided into three classes according to engine displacement. *Class A : 3001cc to 6000cc *Class B : 2001cc to 3000cc *Class C : Up to 2000cc The

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's golden season continued as Jim Richards drove his

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to a second straight AEC win after winning the opening round at

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. Unlike the 1985 Australian Touring Car Championship and at Amaroo though, Richards did not have it all his own way. The 1 August homologation had seen the

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back into winning contention and it was only a broken stub axle on lap 88 that resulted in the car losing a wheel which saw pole sitter and runaway leader Dick Johnson give up his stranglehold on the race (sturdier axle stubs had been homologated for the Mustang and the Palmer Tube Mills team had the new items, but did not have time pre-race to fit them to the car). Richards won the race by a lap from

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in his Mobil Holden Dealer Team VK Commodore with the Volvo 240T of

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finishing third. Francevic's 3rd place also saw him win Class B. Dick Johnson showed the benefit of the homologation gain, putting his Mustang on pole with a time of 1:15.1, some 1.2 seconds faster than his pole time at the circuit for the final round of the ATCC just over a month earlier.

Results

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Notes

* Pole Position: #17 Dick Johnson,

- 1:15.1 * Fastest Lap: N/A * Race Time: 2:12:07.2

References

{{Reflist *Australian Motor Racing Year, 1985/86 *James Hardie 1000, 1985/86 *The Australian Racing History of Ford, 1989 *The Official Racing History of Holden, 1988 Pepsi 250