1980 Hardie-Ferodo 1000
Pos No Entrant Driver Car Time
Pole 9 Nine Network Racing Team Kevin Bartlett Chevrolet Camaro Z28 2:20.972
2 17 Palmer Tube Mills Dick Johnson Ford XD Falcon 2:21.117
3 05 Marlboro Holden Dealer Team Peter Brock Holden VC Commodore 2:21.815
4 25 Marlboro Holden Dealer Team John Harvey Holden VC Commodore 2:23.005
5 6 Craven Mild Racing Allan Grice Holden VC Commodore 2:23.650
6 7 Channel 7 Breville Racing Bob Morris Ford XD Falcon 2:23.850
7 10 Roadways Gown-Hindhaugh Charlie O'Brien Holden VC Commodore 2:24.038
8 4 Cadbury Schweppes Pty Ltd Larry Perkins Holden VC Commodore 2:25.505
9 1 Federation Insurance - Unipart Allan Moffat Ford XD Falcon 2:26.596
10 16 Greater Pacific Finance Coy Garry Rogers Holden VC Commodore 2:27.452
Hardies Heroes
The 1980 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 was the 21st running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race. It was held on 5 October 1980 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia. The race was open to cars eligible under the locally developed CAMS Group C Touring Car regulations with four engine capacity based classes. Peter Brock and Jim Richards won their third consecutive Bathurst 1000 debuting the Holden Commodore for the Holden Dealer Team. In taking a one lap win over Peter Janson and Larry Perkins, Brock won his fifth Bathurst 1000, breaking the record for most wins in the history of the race. Janson and Perkins finished second for the second successive year and finished three laps ahead of Ian Geoghegan and Paul Gulson as Commodores filled the first seven positions. The race is most famous for the retirement of the Ford Falcon of Dick Johnson. The 1980 Australian Touring Car Championship had featured one of the smallest fields in its then twelve years as a multi-race championship. The championship was dominated by Brock, with only two or three other cars competitive, including the Chevrolet Camaro Z28 of Kevin Bartlett. The emergence of hard charging Ford privateer Johnson into a race winning threat just one month prior to Bathurst revitalised interest, more so when Johnson qualified on the front row of the grid, alongside the pole-setting Camaro of Bartlett, and ahead of Brock. Johnson ran away from the field at the start and Brock dropped a lap behind Johnson after a clash with a back-marker Holden Gemini. Johnson crashed heavily into the wall just after the Cutting on lap 17 after clipping a large rock on the track when presented with no other options as a slow-moving tow truck carrying a dead-car blocked the other side of the track.