1978 Australian Championship of Makes
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The 1978 Australian Championship of Makes
was a CAMS
sanctioned national motor racing title for car manufacturers.
The championship was contested over a five round series.
All rounds were contested by Group C Touring Cars which competed in three classes according to engine capacity.
Championship points were awarded at each round on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six places in each class.
Only the best placed car from each manufacturer in each class was eligible to score points and points could not be aggregated across classes.
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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...
was a CAMS
Confederation of Australian Motor Sport
The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport , has been the governing body of Australian motorsport since 1953. It is affiliated with the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile ....
sanctioned national motor racing title for car manufacturers.
The championship was contested over a five round series.
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, 30 July - Round 2, Hang Ten 400Sandown 500The Sandown 500 is an endurance motor race staged at the Sandown Raceway, near Melbourne in Victoria, Australia between 1964 and 2011. It was typically held in September, the month before Australia’s premier endurance race, the Bathurst 1000. The “500” was not run in 1966, 1967, 1999, 2000, 2008,...
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, 10 September - Round 3, Rothmans 250, Adelaide International RacewayAdelaide International RacewayThe Adelaide International Raceway is a permanent circuit owned by Australian Motorsport Club Limited under the auspices of the Bob Jane Corporation. It is located on Port Wakefield Road at Virginia, a small town just north of Adelaide, South Australia, and is round the corner from Speedway City...
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, 22 October - Round 4, Rothmans 300, Surfers Paradise, QueenslandQueenslandQueensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
, 5 November - Round 5, McEwan Spanners Twin 250, CalderCalder Park RacewayCalder Park Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The complex includes a drag strip, a road circuit with several possible configurations, and the "Thunderdome", a high-speed banked oval equipped to race either clockwise or counter-clockwise .-History:Calder Park...
, Victoria, 2 & 3 December
All rounds were contested by Group C Touring Cars which competed in three classes according to engine capacity.
- Up to 2000cc
- 2001 to 3000cc
- 3001 to 6000cc
Championship points were awarded at each round on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six places in each class.
Only the best placed car from each manufacturer in each class was eligible to score points and points could not be aggregated across classes.
Results
| Position | Make & Model | Class | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Rd 4 | Rd 5 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ford Escort | Up to 2000cc | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 45 |
| 2 | 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... |
3001 to 6000cc | 9 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 42 |
| Ford Capri Ford Capri Ford Capri was a name used by the Ford Motor Company for three different automobile models. The Ford Consul Capri coupé was produced by Ford of Britain between 1961 and 1964. The Ford Capri coupé was produced by Ford of Europe from 1969 to 1986... |
2001 to 3000cc | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 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... |
2001 to 3000cc | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 23 |
| 5 | Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV Alfa Romeo Sprint GT (Veloce) The Alfa Romeo 105/115 series Coupés were a range of cars made by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1963 until 1977. They were the successors to the celebrated Giulietta Sprint coupé and used a shortened floorpan from the Giulia Berlina car.... |
Up to 2000cc | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 20 |
| 6 | Ford Falcon XB GT, Falcon XC Hardtop & Falcon XC Cobra Ford Falcon (Australia) The Ford Falcon is a full-size car which has been manufactured by Ford Australia since 1960. Each model from the XA series of 1972 onward has been designed, developed and built in Australia and/or New Zealand, following the phasing out of the American Falcon of 1960–71 which had been re-engineered... |
3001 to 6000cc | - | 1 | 9 | 2 | - | 12 |
| Toyota Celica GT Toyota Celica The Toyota Celica name has been applied to a series of coupes made by the Japanese company Toyota. The name is ultimately derived from the Latin word coelica meaning "heavenly" or "celestial".... |
Up to 2000cc | - | 6 | - | 6 | - | ||
| 8 | BMW 2002 | Up to 2000cc | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | 5 |
| 9 | Triumph Dolomite Triumph Dolomite The Triumph Dolomite was a popular small saloon car produced by the Triumph Motor Company division of the British Leyland Corporation in Canley, Coventry between October 1972 and August 1980.-History:... |
Up to 2000cc | - | - | 4 | - | - | 4 |
| 10 | Holden Gemini Isuzu Gemini General Motors sought a replacement for their world car T-body Kadett / Gemini, and this time, instead of building one design on several continents, they decided to build a world car in one location and export it to several continents... |
Up to 2000cc | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 |
| Honda Civic Honda Civic The Honda Civic is a line of subcompact and subsequently compact cars made and manufactured by Honda. The Civic, along with the Accord and Prelude, comprised Honda's vehicles sold in North America until the 1990s, when the model lineup was expanded... |
Up to 2000cc | - | - | - | - | 2 |
External links
- Australian Titles Retrieved from CAMS Online Manual of Motor Sport on 12 September 2008