Adelaides V8 Heroes "1999" Traditional Cache

1999 Sensational Adelaide 500 Winner

Craig Lowndes in a VT Holden Commodore

The 1999 Sensational Adelaide 500 was the first running of the Adelaide 500 race, the first motor racing meeting held on the Adelaide Streets Circuit since the 1995.

Racing was held form Friday 9 April until Sunday 11 April 1999. The race was held for V8 Supercars and was Round 2 of the 1999 Shell Championship Series. The format, unique to V8 Supercar and loosely similar to the Pukekohe 500 format, consisted of two 250 km races.
The original format called for the two races to form a single race, separated by an overnight rest at half distance, however with several significant competitors retiring from the first leg a change to the regulations was announced on the Saturday evening, allowing retired cars to be repaired and restarted for Sunday's Leg 2.

 

Pos	No	Driver	Leg 1 Points	Leg 2 Points	Total Points
1	1	Craig Lowndes	100	200	300
2	12	Greg Murphy	84	184	268
3	8	Russell Ingall	80	168	248
4	4	Jason Bright	68	176	244
5	5	Glenn Seton	92	128	210
6	7	Steven Richards	36	160	196
7	99	Mark Noske	44	152	196
8	40	Cameron McLean	76	104	180
9	600	John Bowe	40	112	152
10	11	Larry Perkins		144	144
11	35	Jason Bargwanna		136	136
12	50	Michael Donaher	52	80	132
13	17	Dick Johnson	4	120	124
14	6	Neil Crompton	2	96	98
15	34	Garth Tander	88	8	96
16	19	Wayne Gardner		88	88
17	72	David Parsons	32	56	88
18	26	Peter Doulman	28	48	76
19	28	Rodney Forbes		72	72
20	3	Trevor Ashby	56	16	72
21	10	Mark Larkham	72		72
22	39	Chris Smerdon		64	64
23	32	Tomas Mezera	24	40	64
24	25	Tony Longhurst	64		64
25	2	Mark Skaife	60		60
26	16	Dugal McDougall	48		48
27	48	D'arcy Russell	16	24	40
28	54	Simon Emerzidis		32	32
29	79	Mike Conway	20		20
30	14	Mike Imrie	12		12
31	46	John Faulkner	8		8
32	134	Alan Heath		4	4
DNF	18	Paul Radisich
DNF	55	Rod Nash
DNF	98	Kerryn Brewer
DNF	52	Barry Morcom
DNF	24	Paul Romano
DNF	22	Danny Osborne
DNF	70	John Briggs
DNS	84	Daniel Miller