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Historic Sandown 2009 - 6-7-8th November

Biante Touring Cars

in thundering Historic Sandown finale

The thundering Biante Touring Car Masters will be on the grid for the first time at Melbourne’s major historic race meeting, Historic Sandown, over the November 6-8 weekend this year.

Up to 35 V8 Mustangs, Falcons, Holdens and Camaros and a pack of rapid Porsches and Toranas will compete in the seventh and final round of the 2009 Biante Touring Car Masters series, which like Historic Sandown, is sponsored by Shannons Insurance.

It is hoped the category’s guest appearance may become a regular feature of Historic Sandown meetings, which are organised by the Victorian Historic Racing Register.

Touring car greats Jim Richards, John Bowe, Steven Richards and Glenn Seton are amongst top drivers who have competed in the Biante series, which has become one of Australia’s most popular categories in just a few years.

At Sandown the Biante cars will join bumper fields of Group N Historic touring cars from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, plus events for Group C and Group A touring cars from the 1970s and 1980s on the most exciting touring car programme ever presented at the annual Historic meeting.

Big fields of thundering V8-engined Formula 5000 open wheelers and celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the Holden Dealer Team and the Datsun 240Z will be other highlights of the three-day programme, while up to 60 Formula Ford open wheels are expected to race on the 40th anniversary of the category’s Australian birth at Sandown in 1969.

While the Biante touring cars are all pre-1974 touring cars and look outwardly similar to their historic racing brothers, they are allowed much greater technical freedoms and do not have to be an authentic representation of cars that raced in the era like the Group N, C and A cars.

They usually perform to large crowds as a principal support category of the V8 Supercars Championship and their debut appearance at Historic Sandown programme should be no exception.

“The Biante series has a huge national following and the opportunity to be a guest event at Historic Sandown is a win-win for both,” said Biante Touring Car Masters director, Chris Stillwell.

“We are in the entertainment business and this will give touring car enthusiasts a fantastic programme.”

The Biante Touring Car Masters cars will have two practice sessions on Friday November 6, qualifying and one race on Saturday November 7 and two races on Sunday November 8 – one of them a reverse grid race for the top eight competitors.

For further Sandown Historic information visit www.vhrr.com

For media information and reproduction quality images, contact Michael Browning on 0418 324 328.

Historic Sandown 7th 8th & 9th November 2009

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