Ford Escort RS1600i/RST Grp A/N

[Jesper OH]

Originally Posted by RemyRS1600i

Hello, I'm new here so don't shoot me if it's in the wrong section...

I am the owner of an ex Group A Escort RSTurbo, wich competed in German touringcar racing in the mid 80's.
I'm searching for some more history about this car and would be very pleased with old pictures of the car in action.

As far as i know, in 1985 the car belongs to Team Ford Grab (Bernhard Grab) drivin by Beate Nodes.
She raced it at;
Zolder (westfalenpokal), 18 August '85
Siegerland (Flughafenrennen), 8 September '85
And the Nurburgring (supersprint), 22 September '85

apparently it was sold to Mohag Motorsport in 1986 and Traudl Klink only raced it once at the Nurburgring (supersprint), 21 September '86

Who has any info about this, or other German Gr.A touringcar RSTurbo's?
I would be very grateful.

Best regards, Remy



I'm adding this into the main thread.
Thanks,
chunterer
forum host.

I was also thinking of Manfred Burkhard racing an RS Turbo only discover that his was entered by HWRT/Walter Wolf. Incidently Nodes and Burkhard co-drove the HWRT car at the Zolder ETCC event on September 29 1985, although non-starting through clutch failure.

Manfred Burkhards made a single DTM start in an RS Turbo in 1986 at the Nürburgring on July 12 classified 20th. In my notes it says this is another HWRT/Wolf entry.
Perhaps a bit interesting is the IRS Motorsport car entered at the 1986 Spa 24h which had Romain Wolff, J.-C. Probst and Manfred Burhard on the driving team. Pure speculation now, but the DTM race was used as a shake down test before selling the car off to IRS for the Spa race three weeks later, but I simply don't know.

Thanks, Remy, for letting us know about your acquisition.

Jesper