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Old 17 Dec 2013, 04:30 (Ref:3344849)   #65
Graham Clayton
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Graham Clayton should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
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Originally Posted by William Dale Jr View Post
I'd say you're right. On the Sierra Cosworth video by Duke, Stuart Turner said that the Sierra was chosen because it was really the only available European car; the Granada was too big, the Cortina was on the way out, and the Merkeur (and presumably the Mustang, too) were American cars and using them in Ford's European touring car efforts would have presented the wrong image.
Who decided to homologate the Mustang for Group A racing? Was it Detroit or Ford in the UK?
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