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Round 5, Thruxton, 27 May 1985. Race was stopped and re-started after a multiple car accident on lap 1. My notes say 20 laps, but don't know if that's the originally scheduled distance, or what it ended up as after the re-start- I suspect it's the former, and if so, what was it finally run over?
1./#1/Andy Rouse/Rouse/A/Ford Sierra XR4Ti/30m47.81
2./#11/Neil McGrath/Linden/A/Rover Vitesse/31m17.13
3./#5?/Dave Brodie/Brodie/A/Mitsubishi Starion Turbo/31m45.33
4./#30/Jon Dooley/ARDT/B/Alfa Romeo GTV6/31m48.34- 1st class B
5./#32/Rob Kirby/ARDT/B/Alfa Romeo GTV6/31m53.46
6./#31/Graham Goode/Goode/B/Nissan Bluebird Turbo/31m54.53
7./#69?*/Chris Hodgetts/Brooklyn/C/Ford Escort RS1600i/31m57.15- 1st class C
8./#74/Richard Belcher/Jeffreys/C/Ford Escort RS1600i/32m10.55
9./#2/Pete Hall./Rouse/A/Rover Vitesse/32m12.42
DNF./#66/Alan Curnow/Datapost/C/Ford Escort RS1600i- 9 laps, accident damage (from the first start, or did Curnow have another incident?)
All DNS at the restart, involved in the lap 1 accident:
#7/Barry Sheene/Hughes/A/Toyota Celica Supra (car was written off)
#12/Mike Newman/Burlington/A/BMW 635CSi
#40/Phil Dowsett/Drury/B/Alfa Romeo GTV6
#41/Terry Drury/Drury/B/Alfa Romeo GTV6
#70/Patrick Watts/North Essex/C/Ford Escort RS1600i (another write-off)
#79*/John Morris/Brooklyn/C/Ford Escort RS1600i
*Both Brooklyn Escorts were involved in the shunt and damaged. I won't swear to it without looking it up, but the drivers may have swapped cars to enable Hodgetts to take the re-start in the less-damaged car of the pair- the other car being pretty much a write-off
DNS./#65/Stig Gruen/Gruen/C/Toyota Corolla GT
DNS./#77/Geoff Kimber-Smith//AGK/C/Toyota Corolla GT
(Gruen and GK-S both missed the original start with mechanical problems)
Grid (original)
1- Rouse (XR4Ti/A) 1m31.45
2- McGrath (Rover/A) 1m32.39
3- Brodie (Starion/A) 1m33.24
4- Dooley (GTV6/B) 1m33.50
5- Sheene (Supra/A) 1m33.62
6- Hodgetts (RS1600i/C) 1m33.56
7- Goode (Bluebird Turbo/B) 1m34.66
8- Belcher (RS1600i/C) 1m35.18
9- Hall (Rover/A) 1m35.32
10- Watts (RS1600i/A) ??? (I've got a rogue time of 1m40.34 in my notes, which must be wrong, unless I've got the grid order copied down wrongly)
11- Curnow (RS1600i/C) 1m35.51
12- Newman (635/A) 1m35.73
13- Kirby (GTV6/B) 1m37.90
14- Kimber-Smith (Corolla/C) 1m38.62- DNS, head-gasket
15- Morris (RS1600i/C) 1m39.13
16- Dowsett (GTV6/B) 1m39.15
17- Gruen (Corolla/C) 1m40.57- DNS, transmission
18- Drury (GTV6/B) 1m42.27
Hall's Rover and Newman's 635 both a good couple of seconds off the class pace here, and down amongst the Class C cars. Dowsett's Alfa similarly slow- problems in qualifying?
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