The 1976 Rover 500K was an endurance race for Group C

Group C (Australia)

In relation to Australian motorsport, Group C refers to either of two sets of regulations devised by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport for use in Australian touring car racing from 1965 to 1984...

 Touring Cars. The race was held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit

Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit

The Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit is a motor racing racing circuit on Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia. The circuit was opened in 1956.-Road circuit:...

 in Victoria on 28 November 1976 over 106 laps, totalling 501.4 kilometers. The Rover 500K

Phillip Island 500K

The Phillip Island 500K is an endurance motor race held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Victoria, Australia. It has been contested each year from 1971 to 1977 and from 2008 to date....

 was Round 4 of the 1976 Australian Championship of Makes

Australian Manufacturers' Championship

The Australian Manufacturers' Championship is a motor racing title awarded by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport to the winning car manufacturer in a series of races held throughout Australia...

 and Round 11 of the 1976 Australian Touring Car Championship

1976 Australian Touring Car Championship

The 1976 Australian Touring Car Championship was a series of motor races for Touring cars conforming to the Australia Group C touring car regulations. It was the 17th running of the Australian Touring Car Championship. It began at Symmons Plains Raceway on 29 February and ended at Phillip Island...

.

The race was notable for being Colin Bond

Colin Bond

Colin John Bond is a retired Australian racing driver. Bond reached the highest levels in Australian motorsport in 1969 when he was recruited by Harry Firth to the newly formed Holden Dealer Team...

's last drive for the Holden Dealer Team

Holden Dealer Team

The Holden Dealer Team was Holden’s semi-official racing team from 1969 until 1987, primarily contesting Australian Touring Car events but also rallying, rallycross and sports sedans during the 1970s...

 after more than seven years in their lineup. Bond won the race from Charlie O'Brien

Charlie O'Brien (racing driver)

This article is about the Australian racing driver. For other people, see Charles O'Brien.Charles Lindsay O'Brien is a former Australian race car driver. From 1976 to 2003, he held the record for being the youngest winner of an Australian Touring Car Championship round.-Career results:-References:...

, the driver who would replace him in 1977. In a generally poorly attended entry the pair finished four laps ahead of Peter Janson, providing a clean sweep of the podium positions for Holden Torana

Holden Torana

The Holden Torana is a car which was produced by General Motors–Holden's , the Australian subsidiary of General Motors from 1967 to 1980. The name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning "to fly". The first Torana appeared in 1967 and was a four-cylinder compact vehicle that had its origins in the...

 drivers.

Class structure

Cars competed in four classes, the aim of which was to group some cars together that the might compete directly against cars that they compete with in the marketplace:

• Class A : Up to 1300cc
• Class B : 1301–2000cc
• Class C : 2001 – 3000cc
• Class D : Over 3000cc

Results

Results were as follows:
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Position	Drivers	No.	Car	Entrant	Laps
1	Colin Bond Colin Bond Colin John Bond is a retired Australian racing driver. Bond reached the highest levels in Australian motorsport in 1969 when he was recruited by Harry Firth to the newly formed Holden Dealer Team...	1	Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34	Marlboro Holden Dealer Team Holden Dealer Team The Holden Dealer Team was Holden’s semi-official racing team from 1969 until 1987, primarily contesting Australian Touring Car events but also rallying, rallycross and sports sedans during the 1970s...	106
2	Charlie O'Brien Charlie O'Brien (racing driver) This article is about the Australian racing driver. For other people, see Charles O'Brien.Charles Lindsay O'Brien is a former Australian race car driver. From 1976 to 2003, he held the record for being the youngest winner of an Australian Touring Car Championship round.-Career results:-References:...	8	Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34	Tweed Motors	106
3	Peter Janson		Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34	Captain Peter Janson	102
4	Garth Wigston		Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34	Roadways Racing	102
5	Allan Grice Allan Grice Allan Maxwell Grice OAM , known to motor-racing fans as Gricey, is an Australian former racing driver and politician, most famous for twice winning the prestigious Bathurst 1000 , and as a privateer driver of a Holden in the Australian Touring Car Championship.Grice also had a successful second...		Mazda RX-3 Mazda RX-3 The Mazda RX-3 is an automobile sold in the 1970s. It was intended to be smaller and sportier than its brother, the RX-2/Capella Rotary. In 1972 all rotary engines had their die-cast rotor housing coated with a new process: The new Transplant Coating Process featured sprayed-on steel which is...	Craven Mild Racing	101
6	Lou Stoopman Martin Power		Holden LJ Torana GTR XU-1		95
Class A : Up to 1,300 cc
1	Roger Bonhomme		Honda Civic		92
2	Ray Farrar John Millard		Ford Escort GT		89
3	Max McGinley		Honda Civic		86
4	Bronwyn Taylor Frank Brewster		Honda Civic		82
5	Geoff Wade		Ford Escort 1300		75
Class B : 1,301 to 2,000 cc
1	Frank Porter		Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT	Clemens Motors	94
2	Chris Heyer		Volkswagen Golf Volkswagen Golf Mk1 In May 1974, Volkswagen presented the first-generation Golf as a modern front-wheel-drive, hatchback replacement for the Volkswagen Beetle.-History:...		92
3	Tony Niovanni		Holden Gemini SL		87
4	Graham Harrison Warwick Henderson		Alfa Romeo GTV		67
Class C : 2,001 to 3,000 cc
1	Allan Grice Allan Grice Allan Maxwell Grice OAM , known to motor-racing fans as Gricey, is an Australian former racing driver and politician, most famous for twice winning the prestigious Bathurst 1000 , and as a privateer driver of a Holden in the Australian Touring Car Championship.Grice also had a successful second...		Mazda RX-3 Mazda RX-3 The Mazda RX-3 is an automobile sold in the 1970s. It was intended to be smaller and sportier than its brother, the RX-2/Capella Rotary. In 1972 all rotary engines had their die-cast rotor housing coated with a new process: The new Transplant Coating Process featured sprayed-on steel which is...	Craven Mild Racing	101
2	Bob Nissen		Ford Capri V6		93
3	Geoff Newton		Ford Capri V6		93
Class D : Over 3,000 cc
1	Colin Bond Colin Bond Colin John Bond is a retired Australian racing driver. Bond reached the highest levels in Australian motorsport in 1969 when he was recruited by Harry Firth to the newly formed Holden Dealer Team...	1	Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34	Marlboro Holden Dealer Team Holden Dealer Team The Holden Dealer Team was Holden’s semi-official racing team from 1969 until 1987, primarily contesting Australian Touring Car events but also rallying, rallycross and sports sedans during the 1970s...	106
2	Charlie O'Brien Charlie O'Brien (racing driver) This article is about the Australian racing driver. For other people, see Charles O'Brien.Charles Lindsay O'Brien is a former Australian race car driver. From 1976 to 2003, he held the record for being the youngest winner of an Australian Touring Car Championship round.-Career results:-References:...	8	Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34	Tweed Motors	106
3	Peter Janson		Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34	Peter Janson	102
4	Garth Wigston		Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34	Roadways Racing	102
5	Lou Stoopman Martin Power		Holden LJ Torana GTR XU-1		95
6	John Pollard		Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34		95
7	David Langman Bernie McClure		Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34		95
Retirements
DNF	Bill Evans		Datsun 1200
DNF	Jim Murcott		Ford Escort RS2000 “MkI”
DNF	Peter Brock Peter Brock Peter Geoffrey Brock, AM otherwise known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain" or simply as "Brocky" was one of Australia's best-known and most successful motor racing drivers. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other...	5	Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34	Team Brock Team Brock There are several Australian motor racing teams which have been called Team Brock.* Paul Weel Racing - Team Brock identity from 2003.* Rod Nash Racing - Team Brock identity from 2002.* Team Brock - Short lived Group C team from 1976/77....
DNF	Terry Wade		Triumph Dolomite Sprint
DNF	John Harvey	2	Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34	Marlboro-Holden Dealer Team Holden Dealer Team The Holden Dealer Team was Holden’s semi-official racing team from 1969 until 1987, primarily contesting Australian Touring Car events but also rallying, rallycross and sports sedans during the 1970s...
DNF	Murray Carter Murray Carter Murray Carter is an Australian racing driver. For many years a stalwart of the Australian Touring Car Championship Carter has had one of the longest racing careers of any driver in Australian history, continuing to race into his late 70s.-Racing history:One of a generation of racing drivers that...		Ford XB Falcon GT Hardtop Ford XB Falcon The Ford XB Falcon is a car which was produced by Ford Australia between 1973 and 1976 and was built exclusively in Australia. It bore minor cosmetic differences to the preceding model, the XA, aimed at giving the car a more muscular stance...	Brian Wood Ford
DNF	Jim Stewart		Morris Mini Clubman GT
DNF	Jim Keogh		Ford XB Falcon GT Hardtop Ford XB Falcon The Ford XB Falcon is a car which was produced by Ford Australia between 1973 and 1976 and was built exclusively in Australia. It bore minor cosmetic differences to the preceding model, the XA, aimed at giving the car a more muscular stance...
DNF	Geoff Moran		Ford Capri V6
DNF	Bob Morris		Triumph Dolomite Sprint	Ron Hodgson Motors
DNF	Lawrie Nelson		Ford Capri V6	Capri Components
DNF	Wayne Mitchell		Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34
DNF	James Laing-Peach		Triumph Dolomite Sprint