2010 Touring Car Masters
{{Short description|Australian motor racing competition}}
{{Motorsport season
| series = Touring Car Masters
| year = 2010
| previouslink = 2009 Biante Touring Car Masters
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The 2010 Touring Car Masters was Australian motor racing competition for Touring Cars.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140929053108/http://www.touringcarmasters.com.au/History/documents/2010_Aust_TouringCarMasters_Sport-TechRegs-2.pdf 2010 Touring Car Masters Sporting Regulations, www.touringcarmasters.com.au, as archived at web.archive.org] The series was open to models manufactured between 1 January 1963 and 31 December 1973 and to specific models manufactured between 1 January 1974 and 31 December 1976. It was sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) as a National Series and ‘Australian Classic Touring Cars’ was appointed by CAMS as the Category Manager. The series was the fourth annual Touring Car Masters.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110706112842/http://www.touringcarmasters.com.au/History/seriesInformation.html Series History, www.touringcarmasters.com.au, as archived at web.archive.org]
Jim Richards (Ford Falcon Sprint) won Group 1, Bernie Stack (Porsche 911 RS) was victorious in Group 2 and Tony Karanfilovski (Alfa Romeo GTAm) secured the Group 3 award.
Calendar
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The series was contested over eight rounds.[http://www.touringcarmasters.com.au/Results/2010/Overall.html Series Results 2010, www.touringcarmasters.com.au] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100518124454/http://www.touringcarmasters.com.au/Results/2010/Overall.html |date=2010-05-18 }} Retrieved on 2 July 2012, page no longer available
Note:
- Race 2 of Round 6 at Symmons Plains was cancelled due to scheduling issues brought about by damage caused to the safety fencing during the previous race.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120410195245/http://www.touringcarmasters.com.au/index1.php?p=550 Bowe wins in shortened round at Symmons Plains, www.touringcarmasters.com.au, as archived at web.archive.org]
- Race 2 of Round 7 at Sandown was cut short due to an accident and was deemed a non-event.
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Classes
Cars competed in three Groups based on engine capacity:
- Group 1: Over 5100cc (plus Ford Falcon Sprint and Holden Torana SL/R 5000)
- Group 2: Over 2001cc and up to 5099cc
- Group 3: Up to 2000cc
Points system
Series points were awarded on the following basis within each Group at each race.
Series standings
| class="wikitable" |
| style="font-weight:bold" width="44" height="14" | Group 1
| | align="center" | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| style="font-weight:bold" |
| height="14" align="center" | 1
| align="center" | 2 | Shannons Insurance | align="center" | 164 | align="center" | 82 | align="center" | 180 | align="center" | 141 | align="center" | 168 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 116 | align="center" | 168 | align="center" | 1019 |
| height="14" align="center" | 2
| Gavin Bullas | align="center" | 16 & 1 | Rain City Racing | align="center" | 150 | align="center" | 108 | align="center" | 164 | align="center" | 156 | align="center" | 160 | align="center" | (45) | align="center" | 48 | align="center" | 172 | align="center" | 1003 |
| height="14" align="center" | 3
| align="center" | 18 | WesTrac Cat | align="center" | 129 | align="center" | 180 | align="center" | 108 | align="center" | 180 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 120 | align="center" | 60 | align="center" | 156 | align="center" | 933 |
| height="14" align="center" | 4
| Andrew Miedecke | align="center" | 95 | WesTrac Cat | align="center" | (168) | align="center" | 145 | align="center" | 132 | align="center" | 60 | align="center" | 112 | align="center" | 89 | align="center" | 104 | align="center" | 152 | align="center" | 794 |
| height="14" align="center" | 5
| align="center" | 11 | Phil Morris | align="center" | 24 | align="center" | 133 | align="center" | 123 | align="center" | 125 | align="center" | 135 | align="center" | 100 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 120 | align="center" | 760 |
| height="14" align="center" | 6
| Steve Mason | align="center" | 3 | Hercules Engines | align="center" | 135 | align="center" | 36 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 98 | align="center" | 123 | align="center" | 100 | align="center" | 104 | align="center" | 70 | align="center" | 666 |
| height="14" align="center" | 7
| Bill Pye | align="center" | 15 | Bill Pye | align="center" | 105 | align="center" | 126 | align="center" | 114 | align="center" | 72 | align="center" | 138 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 45 | align="center" | 600 |
| height="14" align="center" | 8
| Brad Tilley | align="center" | 28 | Tilleys Automotive | align="center" | 142 | align="center" | 36 | align="center" | 145 | align="center" | 148 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 99 | align="center" | 570 |
| height="14" align="center" | 9
| Graham Alexander | align="center" | 57 | Corio Auto Parts | align="center" | 69 | align="center" | 120 | align="center" | 51 | align="center" | 120 | align="center" | 54 | align="center" | 78 | align="center" | 39 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 531 |
| height="14" align="center" | 10
| Brett Youlden | align="center" | 56 | Driving Force / Rare Spares | align="center" | 30 | align="center" | 63 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 93 | align="center" | 142 | align="center" | 98 | align="center" | 90 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 516 |
| height="14" align="center" | 11
| Mark King | align="center" | 8 | Waddington Racing / Kings Springs | align="center" | 30 | align="center" | 92 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 72 | align="center" | 120 | align="center" | 45 | align="center" | 84 | align="center" | 66 | align="center" | 509 |
| height="14" align="center" | 12
| George Nittis | align="center" | 83 | Ocean Seafoods | align="center" | 41 | align="center" | 72 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 35 | align="center" | 59 | align="center" | 69 | align="center" | 57 | align="center" | 84 | align="center" | 396 |
| height="14" align="center" | 13
| Matt O'Brien | align="center" | 27 | Australian Web Insurance | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 60 | align="center" | 17 | align="center" | 93 | align="center" | 30 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 57 | align="center" | 117 | align="center" | 374 |
| height="14" align="center" | 14
| Alastair MacLean | align="center" | 14 | Dukes Body Works | align="center" | 117 | align="center" | 60 | align="center" | 87 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 33 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 297 |
| height="14" align="center" | 15
| Nigel Benson | align="center" | 22 | PRT Race Fabrication | align="center" | 45 | align="center" | 21 | align="center" | 75 | align="center" | 57 | align="center" | 30 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 45 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 273 |
| height="14" align="center" | 16
| Tony Hunter | align="center" | 10 | Sunliner RV | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 27 | align="center" | 30 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 99 | align="center" | 78 | align="center" | 36 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 270 |
| height="14" align="center" | 17
| Tony Edwards | align="center" | 9 | Romac UPC / Competition Engineering | align="center" | 42 | align="center" | 90 | align="center" | 132 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 264 |
| height="14" align="center" | 18
| Steve Makarios | align="center" | 99 | 351 Motorsport | align="center" | 90 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 78 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 75 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 243 |
| height="14" align="center" | 19
| Doug Westwood | align="center" | 62 | Falcon Fire Protection | align="center" | 27 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 99 | align="center" | 46 | align="center" | 24 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 33 | align="center" | 229 |
| height="14" align="center" | 20
| Michael Acheson | align="center" | 55 | Chrysler VH Valiant Charger E55Image at [https://www.flickr.com/photos/hdrive/5334622259/in/photostream/ www.flickr.com] shows this to be a VH series Chrysler Valiant Charger | Signwise Enterprises | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 48 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 54 | align="center" | 93 | align="center" | 195 |
| height="14" align="center" | 21
| Keith Kassulke | align="center" | 9 | Upstream Printing Solutuions | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 41 | align="center" | 24 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 33 | align="center" | 90 | align="center" | 188 |
| height="14" align="center" | 22
| Bob Middleton | align="center" | 85 | Whiteline Transport Racing | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 57 | align="center" | 21 | align="center" | 75 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 21 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 174 |
| height="14" align="center" | 23
| Garry Treloar | align="center" | 20 | Treloar Roses | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 78 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 78 |
| height="14" align="center" | 24
| Elliot Barbour | align="center" | 74 | Jenny Barbour & Associates | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 34 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 34 |
| height="14" align="center" | 25
| Wayne Mercer | align="center" | 74 | Lyndways Builders | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 21 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 21 |
| style="font-weight:bold" height="14" | Group 2
| | align="center" | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| style="font-weight:bold" |
| height="14" align="center" | 1
| Bernie Stack | align="center" | 36 | Gawler Body Works | align="center" | 180 | align="center" | 172 | align="center" | 138 | align="center" | 176 | align="center" | 108 | align="center" | 116 | align="center" | (101) | align="center" | 172 | align="center" | 1062 |
| height="14" align="center" | 2
| Cameron Tilley | align="center" | 60 | Tilleys Automotive | align="center" | (48) | align="center" | 94 | align="center" | 180 | align="center" | 172 | align="center" | 120 | align="center" | 104 | align="center" | 108 | align="center" | 176 | align="center" | 954 |
| height="14" align="center" | 3
| Chris Stillwell | align="center" | 6 | Stillwell Motorsport | align="center" | 132 | align="center" | 160 | align="center" | 152 | align="center" | 93 | align="center" | 164 | align="center" | 116 | align="center" | (60) | align="center" | 87 | align="center" | 904 |
| height="14" align="center" | 4
| Ian McAlister | align="center" | 5 | McAlister Ford | align="center" | 139 | align="center" | 139 | align="center" | 168 | align="center" | 148 | align="center" | 149 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 97 | align="center" | 48 | align="center" | 888 |
| height="14" align="center" | 5
| John Nelson | align="center" | 91 | Nelson Architects | align="center" | 136 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 114 | align="center" | 129 | align="center" | 75 | align="center" | 78 | align="center" | 81 | align="center" | 129 | align="center" | 742 |
| height="14" align="center" | 6
| Gary O'Brien | align="center" | 19 | Panels & Performance | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 81 | align="center" | 66 | align="center" | 149 | align="center" | 49 | align="center" | 84 | align="center" | 96 | align="center" | 126 | align="center" | 651 |
| height="14" align="center" | 7
| Greg Keene | align="center" | 33 & 26 | SportsMed & Toshiba / Copyworld | align="center" | 99 | align="center" | 93 | align="center" | 72 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 126 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 102 | align="center" | 156 | align="center" | 648 |
| height="14" align="center" | 8
| Mick Wilson | align="center" | 43 | Chrysler VH Valiant Charger R/T | Treloar Roses / Mick Wilson Plumbing | align="center" | 78 | align="center" | 114 | align="center" | 123 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 149 | align="center" | 93 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 87 | align="center" | 644 |
| height="14" align="center" | 9
| Rory O'Neill | align="center" | 13 | The Wine Underground | align="center" | 126 | align="center" | 78 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 111 | align="center" | 102 | align="center" | 72 | align="center" | 72 | align="center" | 75 | align="center" | 636 |
| height="14" align="center" | 10
| Amanda Sparks | align="center" | 33 | SportsMed | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 105 | align="center" | 120 | align="center" | 114 | align="center" | 87 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 426 |
| height="14" align="center" | 11
| Trevor Talbot | align="center" | 76 | Dukes Body Works | align="center" | 56 | align="center" | 116 | align="center" | 145 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 42 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 359 |
| height="14" align="center" | 12
| Ross Almond | align="center" | 26 | Toshiba / Copyworld | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 102 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 39 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 141 |
| height="14" align="center" | 13
| Garry Treloar | align="center" | 21 | Chrysler VH Valiant Charger R/T | Treloar Roses | align="center" | 75 | align="center" | 36 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 111 |
| height="14" align="center" | 14
| Graeme Cook | align="center" | 61 | Racemoves / Buik Motorworks | align="center" | 164 | align="center" | -60 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 104 |
| style="font-weight:bold" height="14" | Group 3
| | align="center" | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| style="font-weight:bold" |
| height="14" align="center" | 1
| Tony Karanfilovski | align="center" | 88 | TIFS - Wharehousing & Distribution | align="center" | 120 | align="center" | 172 | align="center" | 180 | align="center" | 176 | align="center" | 172 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 112 | align="center" | 180 | align="center" | 1112 |
| height="14" align="center" | 2
| Phillip Showers | align="center" | 4 | Northern BM P/L | align="center" | 168 | align="center" | 176 | align="center" | (112) | align="center" | 172 | align="center" | 172 | align="center" | 120 | align="center" | 120 | align="center" | 168 | align="center" | 1096Both www.touringcarmasters.com and The Annual gave a total of 1208 points for Phillip Showers, although the former notes that he dropped a round score of 112 points. |
| height="14" align="center" | 3
| Cameron Mason | align="center" | 7 | Steve Mason Family Cars | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 52 | align="center" | 160 | align="center" | 112 | align="center" | 104 | align="center" | 104 | align="center" | 532 |
| height="14" align="center" | 4
| Jason Humble | align="center" | 7 | Steve Mason | align="center" | 164 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 0 | align="center" | 164 |
Note:
- Each driver was required to drop points from one round of the series. Points which were not retained are shown in the above table within brackets.
- Due to an engine irregularity, Andrew Miedecke nominated Adelaide as the round for which his points would be dropped.