To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

1981 Australian Formula 2 Championship

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 1981 Australian Formula 2 Championship was an Australian motor racing competition open to Australian Formula 2 racing cars.[1] It was the 14th Australian Formula 2 Championship to be awarded by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport.[2]

The title was won by John Smith driving a Ralt RT1 Ford.

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/3
    Views:
    20 684
    29 585
    22 262
  • 1981 Austrian Grand Prix (full race)
  • 1981 San Marino Grand Prix (full race)
  • 1981 German Grand Prix (full race)

Transcription

Calendar

John Smith won the 1981 Australian Formula 2 Championship in a Ralt RT1, similar to that pictured above.

The championship was contested over a six-round series.[3]

Rd[3] Name Circuit[3] Date[3] Winning driver[3] Car[3]
1 Winton 1 March John Smith Ralt RT1 Ford
2 Oran Park 3 May John Smith Ralt RT1 Ford
3 Amaroo Park 24 May John Smith Ralt RT1 Ford
4 Sandown Park 5 July Russell Norden Arbyen 793 Volkswagen
5 Adelaide International Raceway 25 October Lucio Cesario Ralt RT3 Volkswagen
6 EON FM Trophy[4] Calder 8 November Lucio Cesario Ralt RT3 Volkswagen

All rounds were staged over two heats except for the final round at Calder, which was contested as a single race.[3]

Points system

Championship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six positions at each round.[1]
Where a round was contested over two heats, points were allocated on a 20-16-13-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for the first 14 positions in each heat and then aggregated for each driver to determine the first six positions for the round.[1]

Results

Position[3] Driver[3] No.[5][6] Car[3][5][6][4][7] Entrant[5][6][4][7] Win[3] Ora[3] Ama[3] San[3] Ade[3] Cal[3] Total[3]
1 John Smith 71 Ralt RT1 Ford Ralt Australia 9 9 9 4 - - 31
2 Richard Davison 1 Hardman JH1 Ford Paragon Shoes Pty Ltd 1 6 6 - - 6 19
= Peter Macrow 25 Cheetah Mk 7 Isuzu Peter Macrow 2 - 4 3 6 4 19
4 Lucio Cesario 16 Ralt RT3 Volkswagen Formula 1 Automotive - - - - 9 9 18
5 Bob Prendegast 40 Cheetah Mk 7 Volkswagen Rugolo Motor Body Works 6 - 2 6 3 - 17
6 Russell Norden 5 Arbyen 793 Volkswagen Bonds Coats Patons Ltd 3 - - 9 4 - 16
7 Graham Watson 9 Ralt RT3 Volkswagen Ralt Australia - 4 3 - - - 7
= Bob Power 79 Kaditcha A80B Ford Bob Power 4 1 - - 2 - 7
9 John Bowe 33 Elfin GE Two-25 Volkswagen Chris Leach Racing - 3 1 - - - 4
10 Peter Glover 13 Cheetah Mk 7 Isuzu Peter Glover - - - - - 3[8] 3[9]
= Hugh Gartley 92 Cheetah Mk 7 Toyota Hugh Gartley - - - - 1 2 3
12 Andrew Newton 7 Hardman JH1 Ford Clive Millis Motors - - - 2 - - 2
= Chris Hocking 74 Cheetah Mk 7 Volkswagen Chris Hocking - 2 - - - - 2
14 Grahame Blee 2 Cheetah Mk 6 GE Ford Grahame Blee - - - 1 - - 1
= Peter Hopwood 22 Cheetah Mk 6 Ford John Thompson Sports Cars - - - - - 1 1

Notes & references

  1. ^ a b c 1981 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, Conditions for Australian Titles, pages 91-93
  2. ^ 2002 Manual of Motor Sport, Confederation of Australian Motor Sport Ltd, Records Titles and Awards, page 14-6
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Australian Motor Racing Yearbook, 1981/82, Australian Formula 2 Championship, pages 150-163
  4. ^ a b c Racing Car News, December 1981, page 10
  5. ^ a b c Official Programme, Winton, Sunday, 1 March 1981
  6. ^ a b c Souvenir Programme, Adelaide International Raceway, Sunday, 25 October 1981
  7. ^ a b Racing Car News, January 1982, page 40
  8. ^ Glover is shown in Australian Motor Racing Yearbook 1981/82 as placing fourth at Calder but he is not shown in the Points Score Table in the same publication.
  9. ^ Glover is not shown in the Points Score Table in Australian Motor Racing Yearbook 1981/82 but is shown in the Final Pointscore listing in Racing Car News, December 1981, page 10 as having scored 3 points.
This page was last edited on 20 January 2022, at 07:33
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.