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Originally Posted by nzduck
Andy
I think that your car was one of two built for our Schedule S Touring Car Class in the early to mid nineties. The team was owned by Bruce Miles and had Castrol support. As I recall there was a great amount of controversy on some technical aspects of the cars. The drivers were Julian Bailey and Greg Brinck from memory. Schedule S was below Super Touring in specification and was our national touring car class from the 1993 till 2002 when the NZV8 class took over this role. The cars were Castrol sponsored and a number of other Corona's (as the Carina was known here) were built by private entrants. From looking at other notes I have it would appear they may have appeared here in 1995 so maybe your car is not one as described above. We also saw Corona Super Tourers here in the early nineties for the Wellington Street Race which was a round of the FIA Asia Pacific Touring Car series. I think I remember these being Castrol sponsored.
Here are a few links of pictures of similar cars racing later on
http://www.nztouringcars.co.nz/Photo...e10110111.html |
This is excellent info, many thanks, & I suspect that Schedule S is a more likely history of the car rather than it being downgraded from an ST. I would have expected Bailey and Hoy to have used their Tom's built cars in any World Cup races anyway. This one is definately a DCRS car but does have Toyota Team Castrol liveried panels amongst the spares so maybe its one of the cars featured in the gallery. If you have any more info about "Schedule S", I'd be very grateful, Thanks again, Andy