1994 ATCC Lakeside round
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| Round 5 of 10 in the 1994 Australian Touring Car Championship | ||||||||||||||
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| Date | 22-24 April 1994 | |||||||||||||
| Location | Brisbane, Queensland | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Lakeside International Raceway | |||||||||||||
| Weather | Fine | |||||||||||||
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The 1994 Lakeside ATCC round was the fifth round of the 1994 Australian Touring Car Championship. It was held on the weekend of 22 to 24 April at Lakeside International Raceway in Brisbane, Queensland.
The hometown hero Dick Johnson kicked the season off in fine style by winning the first race of the weekend. However, it would turn out to be a weekend of mixed fortunes for Dick Johnson Racing. Teammate Bowe retired from the first race after contact with Glenn Seton and Tomas Mezera. The second race saw multiple front-runners, including Johnson, retire after running afoul of a major oil spill at the final corner.
The second race of the weekend was won by Larry Perkins. This, coupled with the second-placing in the first race gifted Perkins the overall round victory while the Gibson Motorsport duo of Jim Richards and championship leader Mark Skaife rounded out the podium.
Background
The event was held on the weekend of 22 to 24 April 1994. It was the 25th ATCC/V8 Supercar event to be held at Lakeside Raceway and consisted of two 28 lap races. The Dash for Cash sprint race used for the first four races of the season was discontinued ahead of the fifth round at Lakeside.
Entry list
A total of 20 drivers were entered into the weekend. With the exception of Kevin Heffernan who ran the Holden Commodore (VL) SS Group A SV, the grid comprised either of the VP Holden Commodore or the EB Ford Falcon.
Race results
Qualifying
Peter Brock took his first pole position of the year and the second for the Holden Racing Team. Just one-tenth behind was John Bowe and two-tenths behind was team-mate, Tomas Mezera.
Race 1
A dramatic start to the first race saw Dick Johnson beating Glenn Seton off the start and a tangle between Brock and Longhurst, which subsequently led to their retirements from the race. With Longhurst blocking the circuit, the race was restarted. On the restart, Seton beat Johnson off the start, only to be passed by Johnson several laps later. As Seton started to struggle with tyres, a train of Bowe, Jones, and Perkins caught up with him. After trying to pass Seton down the bottom of the hill into the last corner, Bowe tagged the back of Seton, sending him into a spin. Bowe subsequently incurred damage, leading to a flat tyre. As he limped around the circuit, he was hit by Tomas Mezera on turn four. This catapulted Mezera into the guardrail, taking him out of the race and causing extensive damage to both cars. Up the front, it was a clean performance from Dick Johnson as he took his first race win of the season, with Perkins second and Jim Richards in third.
Race 2
After bogging down at the start, Johnson wasted his front row start and found himself in fourth by the end of the first lap. After a couple of laps, Johnson began to climb back up the order and began to chase down race leader, Perkins. Toward the middle of the race, Neil Schembri blew his engine, laying down a trail of oil down the hill into the final corner. The smoke plume left meant that some of the leading drivers couldn't see the oil. The first driver to spin out was Dick Johnson, followed by Alan Jones, and finally Wayne Gardner. Toward the end of the race, Jim Richards began to rapidly close in on the back of Perkins. Though it proved not be enough. Perkins took the win, with Richards in second and Brock in third after a storming drive from the back of the grid.
Championship standings
- Drivers' Championship standings
| Pos. | No. | Driver | Team | Points | |
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1 | 2 |  Mark Skaife |
Gibson Motorsport | 184 |
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2 | 1 | Glenn Seton |
Glenn Seton Racing | 119 |
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2 | 05 | Peter Brock |
Holden Racing Team | 119 |
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4 | 6 |  Jim Richards |
Gibson Motorsport | 88 |
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5 | 11 | Larry Perkins |
Perkins Engineering | 77 |
References
- ↑ "1994 Lakeside #1". racing-reference.info. 1994-04-24. Retrieved 2016-11-24.
- ↑ "1994 Australian Touring Car Lakeside (Race 1)". Racing Years. Retrieved 2026-11-01.
- ↑ "1994 Lakeside #2". racing-reference.info. 1994-04-24. Retrieved 2016-11-24.
- ↑ "1994 Australian Touring Car Lakeside (Race 2)". Racing Years. Retrieved 2026-11-01.
External links
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