1971 Australian Touring Car Championship

Defending champion Norm Beechey finished fifth in the series, suffering from reliability problems with his Holden HT Monaro GTS350.

Allan Moffat came out with twenty minutes remaining and equalled Jane's time and was set to go faster until he ran off the circuit and damaged his front spoiler.

In response, Jane set a time of 1:00.3 to take pole position ahead of Moffat, Ian Geoghegan and Norm Beechey.

[5] The race was held in wet conditions and Jane and Geoghegan led away from the line after Moffat made a bad gear change.

With the track drying out, Geoghegan took fourth place back from McKeown on lap 27, with the latter suffering from a clutch problem.

[5] After dominating the opening round of the championship both Bob Jane and Allan Moffat retired from the Calder race.

Moffat finally stopped on the last lap and, with the oil cooler line adjudged as no risk, went on to take victory.

This gave the victory to Jane, who had stayed ahead of Geoghegan despite his problem, while Jim McKeown completed the podium.

Ian Geoghegan applied pressure to Jane late in the race but was unable to pass him, finishing three-tenths of a second behind.

Jim McKeown and Brian Foley finished fourth and fifth respectively, one lap down on Jane, while local driver Graham Bishop took the final point in sixth place.

Moffat built a small lead in the opening laps, but once Jane passed Geoghegan the gap began to close.

A spectator then drove a Valiant Pacer road car onto the circuit, entering at the Esses and pulling up at the entry to the pit lane.

Jane held on to take the race win and the championship, while Moffat's second place saw him overtake Geoghegan, who finished third, for the runner-up spot in the points standings.