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The 1965 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title open to Group C Improved Production Touring Cars.〔Conditions for Australian Titles, 1965 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, pages 66-71〕 It was contested over a single 40 lap, 124 km race 〔Graham Howard , Stewart Wilson, David Greenhalgh, The thunder of V8s, The official history - Australian Touring Car Championship - 50 Years, 2011, pages 58-63〕 staged at the Sandown Park circuit 〔Beechey Wins Touring Car Championship, Australian Motor Manual, June 1965, page 52〕 in Victoria, Australia on 11 April 1965.〔 It was the sixth Australian Touring Car Championship title to be awarded and the first to be contested by cars complying with Group C regulations. The championship was won by Norm Beechey driving a Ford Mustang, the first ATCC victory to be achieved with a V8-engined car and the first of five ATCC titles to be won with Ford Mustangs. It was Beechey's first Australian Touring Car Championship victory. ==Race summary== The change in regulations from Appendix J to Group C had disadvantaged most heavily those driving Holdens, like Norm Beechey and Brian Muir, and Bob Jane's Jaguar, as the practice of overboring engines was effectively outlawed, making 4.1 litre Jaguars and 3.4 litre Holdens ineligible. Bob Jane took pole position in his Mustang which had been acquired only weeks prior to the race after Beechey's early season form had demonstrated the clear superiority of a Mustang over the class leading Ford Cortinas and Morris Cooper S racers. After Beecheys had mechanical problems in practice second fastest was the Ford Galaxie of John Reaburn, four second slower than Jane. Jane won the start with Muir up to second ahead of Reaburn, Ian Geoghegan in his Ford Cortina and Beechey was quickly up to fifth from his rear of grid start. Beechey was leading by lap seven. By then Reaburn was fading with brake problems and Jane was starting to overheat. He pitted to retire on lap 23. Geoghegan battled with Jim McKeown for second after Beechey backed of once he had lapped the field. McKeown had engone failure in the late running in his Cortina, leaving Geoghegan second. Muir and rookie Canadian Allan Moffat in his Cortina fought over third until Muir picked up the pace late in the race to secure third. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1965 Australian Touring Car Championship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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