1987 James Hardie 1000

The 1987 James Hardie 1000 was the eighth round of the FIA's inaugural World Touring Car Championship, the first round to be held in the southern hemisphere. The race was held for cars eligible for Group A touring car regulations. It was the 25th anniversary of the original touring car endurance race held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in 1963. It was the 28th race that traces its lineage back to the 1960 Armstrong 500 held at Phillip Island. It was held on October 4, 1987 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst.

The races was shortened from 163 laps to 161 when the track was slightly lengthened by the addition of the chicane called Caltex Chase. The chicane was built in response to the death of Mike Burgmann in the previous year's race.

The race was won by the Ford supported Eggenberger Motorsport team, finishing first and second with Steve Soper and Pierre Dieudonné taking the chequered flag two laps ahead of team mates Klaus Ludwig and Klaus Niedzwiedz. Third was the best of the locally based teams, the Holden Dealer Team Commodore driven by Peter McLeod and Peter Brock and David Parsons.

Division two was another 1-2 result, for the Australian BMW team, JPS Team BMW, Jim Richards and Tony Longhurst leading home team mates Robbie Francevic and the teams engine builder come driver Ludwig Finauer who finished ahead of the first of the BMW Europe cars, the CiBiEmme team of Johnny Cecotto and Gianfranco Brancatelli, who were also the leading registered World Touring Car Championship team, matching the worst performance by the WTCC teams in the season opening Monza 500.

Division three had only one finisher, last car on the road the Bob Holden Motors Toyota Sprinter driven by Bob Holden, Garry Willmington and Bryan Bate. At the time that both of the Team Toyota Australia cars that were leading the class crashed out on the top of The Mountain, Bob Holden's car was some 20 laps behind having had numerous early problems.

Post-race protests blighted the results, which were not finalised until well into 1988 as the Eggenberger team appealed their disqualification as far as the appeals process allowed, the FIA's court of appeal. Eventually the disqualification, for illegally modified front wheel arch guards, which allowed the team to race on taller tires, was upheld and McLeod, Brock and Parsons were declared race winners. It was a record ninth Bathurst 1000 victory for Brock and his final victory in the race.