Thank you chunterer, with the hopes of a happy new year to you and all.
The RX-7 looks like a nice solution, but looking over the whole season the car was pretty much a class car. Starting second at Silverstone among the Capris and Rovers was something Win Percy would have done in 1981. My bet is on the BMW 530i.
Could it be that Tom Walkinshaw was looking at the British Leyland Rover contract, upstaging the current operator Dave Price and the Capri fraternity, showing what could be done with an
old BMW 530i. As far as I know, TWR ended up not only running the class A Rovers in 1981, but also taking the class C Audi from Richard Lloyd. ..and continuing very successfully with Mazda.
Jesper