1995 Australian Touring Car Season
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The 1995 Australian Touring Car season was the 36th year of touring car racing in Australia since the first runnings of the
Australian Touring Car Championship 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 troph ...
and the fore-runner of the present day
Bathurst 1000 The Bathurst 1000 (known for sponsorship reasons as the Repco Bathurst 1000) is a Touring car racing, touring car race held annually on the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is currently run as part of the Supe ...
, the Armstrong 500. Two major touring car categories raced in Australia during 1995, V8 Supercar and Super Touring. Between them there were 24 touring car race meetings held during 1995; a ten-round series for V8 Supercars, the 1995 Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC); an eight-round series for Super Touring, the
1995 Australian Super Touring Championship The 1995 Australian Super Touring Championship was a Confederation of Australian Motor Sport, CAMS sanctioned motor racing championship for 2 Litre Super Touring Cars. It was the third series for 2 litre Super Touring Cars to be contested in Aust ...
(ASTC); support programme events at the 1995 Australian Grand Prix and 1995 Indycar Australia, two stand alone long-distance races, nicknamed 'enduros'; the fourth and final running of the Winfield Triple Challenge at Eastern Creek Raceway and the TAC Peter Brock Classic held at
Calder Park Raceway Calder Park Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The complex includes a dragstrip, a road circuit with several possible configurations, and the "Thunderdome", a high-speed banked oval equipped to race either clo ...
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Results and standings


Race calendar

The 1995 Australian touring car season consisted of 24 events.


Winfield Triple Challenge

Held at Eastern Creek Raceway this was a pre-season race meeting which featured
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and
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as well as touring cars to complete the '' Winfield Triple Challenge''.


Australian Touring Car Championship


Australian Super Touring Championship


Gold Coast Super Touring Cup

This meeting was a support event of the 1995 Indycar Australia at the
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, and considered part of the
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history.


Sandown 500


Tooheys 1000


Clipsal 2.0L Super Touring Car Trophy

This meeting was a support event of the 1995 Australian Grand Prix.


EDS Five-Litre V8 Touring Cars

This meeting was a support event of the 1995 Australian Grand Prix.


TAC Peter Brock Classic Super Touring

This meeting was a one-off celebration of the career of
Peter Brock Peter Geoffrey Brock (26 February 1945 – 8 September 2006), known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain", or simply "Brocky", was an Australian motor racing driver. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, al ...
held at
Calder Park Raceway Calder Park Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The complex includes a dragstrip, a road circuit with several possible configurations, and the "Thunderdome", a high-speed banked oval equipped to race either clo ...
.


TAC Peter Brock Classic

This meeting was a one-off celebration of the career of
Peter Brock Peter Geoffrey Brock (26 February 1945 – 8 September 2006), known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain", or simply "Brocky", was an Australian motor racing driver. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, al ...
held at
Calder Park Raceway Calder Park Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The complex includes a dragstrip, a road circuit with several possible configurations, and the "Thunderdome", a high-speed banked oval equipped to race either clo ...
.


References

Linked articles contain additional references. {{Australian Touring Car Racing Australian Touring Car Championship Supercar seasons
Touring Cars Touring car racing is a motorsport road racing competition that uses race-prepared touring cars. It has both similarities to and significant differences from stock car racing, which is popular in the United States. While the cars do not move a ...
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