1989 Esso RAC British Touring Car Championship - Discussion and results

pimmy · 13 Sep 2017, 17:27 (Ref:3766607)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jesper OH

Round 9 of 13 of the 1989 Esso RAC British Touring Car Championship held on Sunday August 6th 1989 over 20 laps of the 3.085 kms Snetterton circuit.

Pos.

Cl.

#

Driver

Team/sponsor

Cat.

Car

Grid

Time

Fastest lap

Laps

Time

Notes

1.

21

Robb Gravett

Trakstar/Cartel + NEC + Shell

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

1.

1:06,24

1:07,50

20

22:44,75

2.

1

Andy Rouse

Rouse/Kaliber

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

2.

1:07,34

1:07,58

20

22:45,03

3.

7

Tim Harvey

Rouse/Labatt's

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

3.

1:07,34

1:07,61

20

22:45,75

4.

20

Will Hoy

Trakstar/Cartel + NEC + Shell

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

8.

1:08,25

1:07,59

20

22:51,00

5.

6

Laurence Bristow

Rouse/Labatt's

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

7.

1:08,11

1:07,76

20

23:02,23

6.

5

Sean Walker

Goode/FAI + Moss Security

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

5.

1:08,04

1:08,30

20

23:06,53

7.

25

Gerrit van Kouwen

JQF/Fina Unleaded

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

13.

1:08,92

1:08,59

20

23:12,33

8.

19

Dave Brodie

Brodie Brittain/Hillstone

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

9.

1:08,41

1:09,14

20

23:24,78

9.

2

Jerry Mahony

Dowson/Arquati + Evans Halshaw

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

15.

1:09,19

1:09,57

20

23:41,94

10.

17

Mike O'Brien

TDR/Autoglass + Swan National

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

14.

1:09,02

1:09,14

20

23:49,51

11.

3

Graham Goode

Goode/Listerine + Texaco

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

10.

1:08,51

1:10,60

20

23:57,97

12.

1.

32

James Weaver

Prodrive/BMW Finance + Mobil

B

BMW M3 Evolution

17.

1:10,18

1:10,76

19

13.

2.

33

Frank Sytner

Prodrive/BMW Finance + Mobil

B

BMW M3 Evolution

16.

1:09,95

1:11,32

19

14.

3.

35

Ian Forrest

Prodrive/Novafone + Drambuie

B

BMW M3 Evolution

21.

1:12,04

1:12,00

19

15.

4.

44

John Llewellyn

BRR/Neeps

B

BMW M3 Evolution

19.

1:11,57

1:12,32

19

16.

1.

56

John Cleland

Dave Cook/VDS + Mobil

C

Vauxhall Astra GTE 16V

22.

1:12,74

1:14,01

19

17.

2.

58

Louise Aitken-Walker

Dave Cook/VDS + Mobil

C

Vauxhall Astra GTE 16V

18.

3.

57

Jeremy Rossiter

Dave Cook/VDS + Mobil

C

Vauxhall Astra GTE 16V

19.

1.

75

Ray Armes

Goode/PG Tags

D

Honda Civic Si

25.

1:15,24

1:15,59

18

5.

37

Nettan Lindgren

B

BMW M3 Evolution

20.

4.

50

Alan Minshaw

Demon Tweeks/Castrol

C

Volkswagen Golf GTI 16V

88

Tony Crudgington

Crudgington

D

Toyota Corolla GT

77

Geoff Kimber-Smith

Five Star Racing

D

Toyota Corolla GT

unknown

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

11.

unknown

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

12.

unknown

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

18.

24

John Lepp

Trident/Nokia Mobira + Campari

A

Maserati Biturbo

DNF

28

Karl Jones

Asquith/Duckhams

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

6.

1:08,10

1:08,39

16

engine

DNF

4

Mike Newman

Goode/Listerine

A

Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth

4.

1:07,87

1:09,23

3

misfire

Robb Gravett winning his fourth victory of the season but this time it was real close. The Trakstar car running on an unfamiliar Yokohama compound didn't know exactly what to expect from the tyres he raced them only as hard as he had to and had Andy Rouse all over him. Things eased off slightly towards the end as Tim Harvey momentarily went past Rouse on lap 18. In the end status quo remained covering the three some by just a second.
Will Hoy, substituting a recently ankle operated Mike Smith, in the second Trakstar car was a slendid fourth in unfamiliar enviroments from a tyre troubled Laurence Bristow. Sean Walker took the final point in sixth after an early off course excursion. Karl Jones looked set for that point only to blow an engine on lap 17. Gerrit van Kouwen finished seventh in his first try with the now active suspensioned JQF RS500 but with failing boost.
Another Weaver-Sytner show case in Class B with Ian Forrest taking third. John Clark seemed destined for third but a slow puncture caused a spin into retirement. As first privateer John Llewellyn sported a six speed gearbox but that caused him problems in the race leaving him fourth.
In Class C the order was once again John Cleland, Louise Aitken-Walker and Jeremy Rositer in the three Dave Cook Vauxhalls and again Alan Minshaw making sure that any points were distributed.
Ray Armes took another pointless Class D victory, even bothering with rebuilding the car from a Friday practice accident.

Jesper

The three unknown Sierra drivers, in starting order, are: Dave Pinkney, Guy Edwards & Robin Donovan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LrxfbXLvlk

Interesting that as much as track limits are talked about these days, they were giving drivers black & whites back then, too!

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