In a 2013 interview, Australian sports car champion Alan Hamilton spoke of his involvement with the series – turning over his Noble Park facility to the competing teams. Hamilton states that the Rothmans Porsche team simply started the trio of 956s up, left the workshop and drove the five or so kilometres down Princes Highway to the track, along with a Volkswagen Kombi support car which is photographed blocking traffic in order to let the race cars make a U-turn.
As for the actual race: One of the 956s piloted by Stefan Bellof took pole position with a qualifying time of 1:31.6 – shattering the previous lap record held by our own John Bowe, who set a 1:36.9 at the wheel of a Ralt RT4/85 Formula Mondial earlier that year during the final round of the Australian Driver’s Championship. One of the other Rothman team 956s qualified second with a time of 1:32.3 helmed by Jochen Mass.
The three Rothman team Porsches came first, second and eighth respectively.
