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1984 Australian Endurance Championship

motor racing competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ4581570 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1984 Australian Endurance Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing competition open to Group C Touring Cars. The championship, which was the fourth Australian Endurance Championship, was contested over a five-round series. Titles were awarded for both Drivers and Makes with Allan Moffat winning the Drivers title and Mazda winning the Makes award.

Calendar

The championship was contested over a five-round series with one race per round.

Classes

Cars competed in two classes:

Up to 3000 cc

Over 3000 cc

Points system

Drivers Championship points were awarded to the drivers of the cars filling the first twenty places in each round, with the actual points allocation dependent on the class in which the car was competing.

Makes Championship points were awarded on the same basis but only for the highest scoring car of each make.

Championship results

Drivers

Note: Only the top five pointscorers are shown.

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This entry incorporates text from “1984 Australian Endurance Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.