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1987 Bob Jane T-Marts 500
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The 1987 Bob Jane T-Marts 500 was the ninth round of the 1987 World Touring Car Championship.[1] The race, which was open to Group A Touring Cars,[2] was held on 11 October 1987 at Calder Park Raceway in outer Melbourne, Victoria, Australia[2] on the rarely used combined circuit which incorporated both the recently redeveloped (1986) road course and the newly completed, high banked (24°) NASCAR-style “Thunderdome” oval.
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![]() Round 9 of 11 in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship at Calder Park Raceway in Melbourne, Australia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 11 October, 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course | Calder Park Raceway 4.216 kilometres (2.620 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The combined oval/road course was 4.216 km (2.620 mi) long and the race was run over 120 laps.
The race was won by Steve Soper and Pierre Dieudonné driving a Ford Sierra RS500 for Eggenberger Motorsport. Both Klaus Ludwig's pole time of 1:42.92 and Andrew Miedecke's fastest race lap of 1:45.03 in their respective Ford Sierra RS500's were faster than the pole time set in the only other Group A Touring Car race held on the combined oval/road course, the Yokohama/Bob Jane T-Marts 300 held two months previously on 9 August.