1988 360 km of Sandown Park explained

The 1988 Lucas Supersprint was the eleventh and final round of the 1988 World Sports-Prototype Championship. It took place at Sandown Raceway, Victoria, Australia on 20 November 1988.

Due to being a short sprint and thus having a smaller points scale for the championship, several teams, most notably the Porsches of Brun Motorsport, Joest Racing, Kremer Racing, and Richard Lloyd Racing, opted not to attend this event.

Unlike the previous World Endurance Championship race held at Sandown in 1984 which included an invitation class for cars that competed in the Australian GT and Sports Car championships, the Lucas Supersprint was open to WSPC cars only. The only local entry was the Bernie van Elsen entered Veskanda Chevrolet driven by touring car stars John Bowe and Dick Johnson (Bowe was the car's driver when it dominated the 1986 Australian Sports Car Championship). The car was able to race as although it had been built to conform to Australia's Group A Sports Car rules, it also met the FIA's Group C rules as well as conforming to IMSA regulations.

Official results

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of the winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre	Laps	Grid
Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Engine	Tyre	Laps	Grid
1	C1	61	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass	Sauber C9		93	1
1	C1	61	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass	Mercedes-Benz M117 5.0L Turbo V8		93	1
2	C1	62	Team Sauber Mercedes	Mauro Baldi Stefan Johansson	Sauber C9		93	2
2	C1	62	Team Sauber Mercedes	Mauro Baldi Stefan Johansson	Mercedes-Benz M117 5.0L Turbo V8		93	2
3	C1	1	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Martin Brundle Eddie Cheever	Jaguar XJR-9		93	4
3	C1	1	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Martin Brundle Eddie Cheever	Jaguar 7.0L V12		93	4
4	C1	2	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Jan Lammers Johnny Dumfries	Jaguar XJR-9		92	3
4	C1	2	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Jan Lammers Johnny Dumfries	Jaguar 7.0L V12		92	3
5	C2	111	Spice Engineering	Ray Bellm Gordon Spice	Spice SE88C		88	5
5	C2	111	Spice Engineering	Ray Bellm Gordon Spice	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		88	5
6	C1	20	Team Davey	Neil Crang Tim Lee-Davey	Porsche 962C		88	6
6	C1	20	Team Davey	Neil Crang Tim Lee-Davey	Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6		88	6
7	C2	115	ADA Engineering	Arthur Abrahams John Smith	ADA 03		88	12
7	C2	115	ADA Engineering	Arthur Abrahams John Smith	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		88	12
8	C2	109	Kelmar Racing	Ranieri Randaccio Stefano Sebastiani	Tiga GC288		84	13
8	C2	109	Kelmar Racing	Ranieri Randaccio Stefano Sebastiani	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		84	13
9	C2	127	Chamberlain Engineering	Andrew Miedecke Nick Adams	Spice SE86C		82	11
9	C2	127	Chamberlain Engineering	Andrew Miedecke Nick Adams	Hart 418T 1.8L Turbo I4		82	11
10	C2	183	Walter Maurer Racing	Helmut Gall Walter Maurer	Maurer Lotec C87	?	77	18
10	C2	183	Walter Maurer Racing	Helmut Gall Walter Maurer	BMW 2.0L Turbo I4	?	77	18
11	C2	178	Automobiles Louis Descartes	Michel Lateste Louis Descartes	ALD 04		76	15
11	C2	178	Automobiles Louis Descartes	Michel Lateste Louis Descartes	BMW M80 3.5L I6		76	15
12 NC	C2	198	Roy Baker Racing	Michael Hall John Bartlett	Tiga GC286		56	17
12 NC	C2	198	Roy Baker Racing	Michael Hall John Bartlett	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		56	17
13 NC	C2	103	Spice Engineering	Eliseo Salazar Thorkild Thyrring	Spice SE88C		54	9
13 NC	C2	103	Spice Engineering	Eliseo Salazar Thorkild Thyrring	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		54	9
14 DNF	C2	121	Cosmik GP Motorsport	Philippe de Henning Costas Los	Spice SE87C		87	10
14 DNF	C2	121	Cosmik GP Motorsport	Philippe de Henning Costas Los	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		87	10
15 DNF	C2	124	MT Sport Racing	Jean Messaoudi Pierre-Francois Rousselot	Argo JM19C		77	16
15 DNF	C2	124	MT Sport Racing	Jean Messaoudi Pierre-Francois Rousselot	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		77	16
16 DNF	C1	40	Swiss Team Salamin	Giovanni Lavaggi Antoine Salamin	Porsche 962C		41	14
16 DNF	C1	40	Swiss Team Salamin	Giovanni Lavaggi Antoine Salamin	Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6		41	14
17 DNF	C2	107	Chamberlain Engineering	Claude Ballot-Léna Jean-Louis Ricci	Spice SE88C		14	7
17 DNF	C2	107	Chamberlain Engineering	Claude Ballot-Léna Jean-Louis Ricci	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		14	7
DSQ^†	C1	26	Bernie van Elsen	John Bowe Dick Johnson	Veskanda C1		87	8
DSQ^†	C1	26	Bernie van Elsen	John Bowe Dick Johnson	Chevrolet 6.0L V8		87	8

† - The #26 Veskanda-Chevrolet of John Bowe and Dick Johnson was disqualified for using more fuel than the regulations allowed.

Statistics

Pole Position - Jean-Louis Schlesser - Team Sauber Mercedes - 1:28.620
Fastest Lap - Jean-Louis Schlesser - Team Sauber Mercedes - 1:33.580
Average Speed - 144.355 km/h

References

Book: Australian Motor Racing Year, 1988/89 . 18.
Web site: FIA World Sports-Prototype Championship 1988 . World Sports Racing Prototypes . 2 October 2005 . 2008-01-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080426155510/http://wsrp.ic.cz/wsc1988.html . 26 April 2008 .
Web site: 1988 Sandown Park Supersprint . Team Dan Motorsport Almanac . 30 December 2003 . 2008-01-20.
Web site: Sandown Park 360km 1988 (Photo Archive) . Racing Sports Cars . 11 June 2006 . 2008-01-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080108085458/http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/Sandown_Park-1988-11-20-photo.html . 8 January 2008 . dead .