2002 Australian Super Touring Series

2002 Australian Super Touring Series

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The 2002 Australian Super Touring Car Series was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing competition open to Super Touring Cars. It was the tenth running of an Australian series for Super Touring Cars and the second to be contested under the Australian Super Touring Series name. The series began on 24 March 2002 at Oran Park Raceway and ended on 24 November 2002 at Oran Park Raceway after five rounds. It would be the final season for such touring cars until the 2019 TCR Australia Touring Car Series, which is a contemporary take on the four-cylinder touring car formula.

Future Touring Cars

The grids for the 2002 championship were bolstered with cars from the Future Touring Car category. This category, which catered for V8 powered cars that had competed previously in AUSCAR racing, made its debut in a support event to the 1999 Bathurst 500. While the Future Touring Cars and the Super Touring Cars raced together in the same events, drivers competed for two separate titles with separate points scoring for each category.

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers competed in the 2002 Australian Super Touring Championship.

Team	Manufacturer	Car model	No	Driver
Mumbo Racing	Nissan	Primera	2	David Towe
	Ford	Mondeo	12	Sam Dale
MPD Racing	BMW	318is	3	Luke Searle
Team MGM	Alfa Romeo	155 TS	7	Andre Morgan
Justin Wade	Peugeot	405 Mi16	10	Craig Neilson
OMP Racing	Nissan	Primera	21	Andrew Haberfield
SAE Racing	BMW	320i	30	Alan Gurr
Knight Racing	Ford	Mondeo	31	Grant Johnson Matthew Fox
			88	Peter Hills
TC Motorsport	Peugeot	406	35	Ric Shaw
Hi-Tech Motorsport	Nissan	Primera	69	Matthew Fox
Motorsport Developments	Toyota	Carina	77	Malcolm Rea
			99	Claude Elias Carlos Rolfo
	Peugeot	405 Mi16
Phoenix Motorsport	Toyota	Camry	95	Jamie Miller
Redline Motorsport	Toyota	Camry	96	Michael Kerslake
	Hyundai	Lantra	97	Paul Leabeater

Race Calendar

The 2002 Australian Super Touring Championship was contested over a five-round series, with three races held each round.

Rd./Race	Circuit	Location & State	Date	Winner	Team
1/1	Oran Park Raceway	Sydney, New South Wales	24 Mar 2002	Peter Hills	Knight Racing
1/2	Oran Park Raceway	Sydney, New South Wales	24 Mar 2002	Alan Gurr	Knight Racing
1/3	Oran Park Raceway	Sydney, New South Wales	24 Mar 2002	Alan Gurr	Knight Racing
2/1	Mallala Motor Sport Park	Adelaide, South Australia	21 Apr 2002	Alan Gurr	Knight Racing
2/2	Mallala Motor Sport Park	Adelaide, South Australia	21 Apr 2002	Alan Gurr	Knight Racing
2/3	Mallala Motor Sport Park	Adelaide, South Australia	21 Apr 2002	Alan Gurr	Knight Racing
3/1	Queensland Raceway	Ipswich, Queensland	23 Jun 2002	Alan Gurr	Knight Racing
3/2	Queensland Raceway	Ipswich, Queensland	23 Jun 2002	Alan Gurr	Knight Racing
3/3	Queensland Raceway	Ipswich, Queensland	23 Jun 2002	Alan Gurr	Knight Racing
4/1	Wakefield Park	Goulburn, New South Wales	29 Sep 2002	Alan Gurr	Knight Racing
4/2	Wakefield Park	Goulburn, New South Wales	29 Sep 2002	Alan Gurr	Knight Racing
4/3	Wakefield Park	Goulburn, New South Wales	29 Sep 2002	Alan Gurr	Knight Racing
5/1	Oran Park Raceway	Sydney, New South Wales	24 Nov 2002	Peter Hills	Knight Racing
5/2	Oran Park Raceway	Sydney, New South Wales	24 Nov 2002	Alan Gurr	Knight Racing
5/3	Oran Park Raceway	Sydney, New South Wales	24 Nov 2002	Luke Searle	MPD Racing

Results

Drivers Championship

Pos Driver ORA 1 ORA 2 ORA 3 MAL 1 MAL 2 MAL 3 QLD 1 QLD 2 QLD 3 WAK 1 WAK 2 WAK 3 ORA 4 ORA 5 ORA 6 Pts 1 Alan Gurr DSQ 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd 1st 2nd 283 2 Peter Hills 1st DNS Ret 2nd 2nd 2nd 6th 4th 2nd 2nd 6th 2nd 1st 2nd 5th 236 3 Andre Morgan 4th 6th 3rd 3rd 4th 4th 4th Ret DNS 5th 5th 3rd DNS DNS DNS 165 4 Paul Leabeater 6th 4th 4th Ret DNS DNS 3rd 6th 7th Ret 4th 5th 4th Ret DNS 145 5 Grant Johnson 2nd 2nd 5th Ret 3rd 3rd 2nd 2nd 9th Ret DNS DNS 138 6 Sam Dale 5th Ret DNS Ret 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd DNS Ret 4th 5th 120 7 Malcolm Rea 9th 5th 6th 4th 5th 5th DNS 9th 6th 119 8 Luke Searle 5th 5th Ret 3rd 3rd 1st 88 9 Michael Kerslake 8th Ret DNS 7th 8th 5th Ret DNS DNS 56 10 Claude Elias 7th 7th DNS 7th 7th Ret 56 11 Ric Shaw 3rd 3rd 2nd 56 12 Clayton Pyne 4th 2nd 4th 53 13 Andrew Haberfield 4th 7th 4th 48 14 Matthew Fox Ret DNS DNS 5th 5th 3rd 48 15 Craig Neilson 9th 10th 8th 33 16 Carlos Rolfo 5th DNS DNS Ret Ret DNS 16 17 David Towe Ret DNS DNS 0 Pos Driver ORA 1 ORA 2 ORA 3 MAL 1 MAL 2 MAL 3 QLD 1 QLD 2 QLD 3 WAK 1 WAK 2 WAK 3 ORA 4 ORA 5 ORA 6 Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)

See also

• 2002 Australian Touring Car season

External links

• 2002 Racing Results Archive