Thread: 1988 Dunlop RAC British Touring Car Championship - Discussion & Results
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Old 11 Jan 2010, 19:15 (Ref:2611805)   #105
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Round 11 of 13 of the 1988 Dunlop RAC British Touring Car Championship scheduled for Monday 29th August 1988 over 20 laps of the 3.975 km Birmingham street circuit. Race cancelled due to delays in the meeting.

Most information taken from 8W: http://8w.forix.com/bsp-88.html

Grid:
pos.class#EntrantDriverCarClassTime
1.1.6Eggenberger MotorsportSteve SoperFord Sierra RS500 CosworthA1:36.48
2.2.22Kaliber FordAndy RouseFord Sierra RS500 CosworthA1:37.97
3.3.21Kaliber FordGuy EdwardsFord Sierra RS500 CosworthA1:39.96
4.4.19Baynard Cars LimitedLaurence BristowFord Sierra RS500 CosworthA1:40.07
5.5.12TWR-Herbie ClipsTom WalkinshawHolden Commodore VL/SSA1m40.??
6.6.16Duckhams Racing with Karl JonesKarl JonesFord Sierra RS500 CosworthA1:40.35
7.7.10Industrial Control Services plcRobb GravettFord Sierra RS500 CosworthA1m40.40
8.8.5Terry Drury RacingTim HarveyFord Sierra RS500 CosworthA1m41.19
9.9.15Listerine Goode RacingGraham GoodeFord Sierra RS500Ano info
10.1.33BMW Finance Racing with Mobil 1Frank SytnerBMW M3B1:41.94
11.108Roger Dowson Engineering/Arquati UKJerry MahonyFord Sierra RS500Ano info
12.1120Soans Ford Dealer-Graham Hathaway RacingGraham HathawayFord Sierra RS500A1m42.81
13.243Godfrey Hall Ltd/John Maguire RacingGodfrey HallBMW M3B 
14.334?BMW Finance Racing with Mobil 1James Weaver?BMW M3Bno info
15.1214Burlington Wallcoverings/Graham Goode RacingMike NewmanFord Sierra RS500A1m43.28
16.444Alan Minshaw/Demon TweeksRoland RatzenbergerBMW M3Bno info
17.532?BMW Finance Racing with Mobil 1Mike Smith?BMW M3Bno info
       
        
18?.13?15Brooklyn MotorsportChris HodgettsFord Sierra RS500A1m43.87
19?1.70TOM'S GB LimitedPhil DowsettToyota Corolla FX/GTDno info
20?1.55John Maguire Racing-David Sutton MotorsportJames SheadVW Golf GTI 16VCno info
21?2.69MIL MotorsportJohn LlewellynToyota Corolla GTDno info
22?2.50Alan Minshaw/Demon TweeksAlan MinshawVW Golf GTi 16vC no info
23?3.77AGK MotorsportGeoff Kimber-SmithToyota Corolla GTDno info
24?3.48Specialist Cars Aberdeen/David Sutton MotorsportAndrew JeffreyVW Golf GTi 16vCno info
25?4.63Tony CrudgingtonTony CrudgingtonToyota Corolla GTDno info
26?5.61CHMS/Willis FaberNick WhaleToyota Corolla GTDno info
DNQ?1Shell-Toyota-MILMark HalesToyota Supra TurboADNQ
DNQ?7AutoglassMike O'BrienHolden Commodore VL/SSADNQ- engine
DNQ 74North Essex MotorsportBarbara CowellFord Escort RS1600iDno info
DNQ 24The Campari Maserati/Trident MotorsportNick MayMaserati BiturboAno time- did not practice?
DNQ 39Terry Drury RacingLionel WiffenFord Escort RS TurboBno time- did not practice?
       

BTW, I owe you guys a big thank you for keep posting last night. It made for quite a lot of updates to my notes today – wonderfull!

Jesper
This is the version of the Birmingham grid I've got, based on the Motoring News report of the event. The main problem with MN BTCC reports that year is they don't include a separate table of the grid, or include qualifying times in the result table, but include them in the narrative report of the qualifying session.

This isn't always helpful, as it makes them harder to follow, they don't always discuss the grid in exact order, or give times and precise grid positions for every driver....

I'm fairly confident about the top 17 (with a couple of exceptions- see below), but the order after that might be a bit more approximate- to almost paraphrase Eric Morecambe, 'I've listed all the right cars, just not neccesarily in the right order'

The DNQs I'm pretty certain of, except that I'm not totally sure whether the Maserati and Wiffen's Escort simply missed the qualifying sessions with problems, or were no-shows altogether- I think it's the former, but I'm working from notes made a couple years ago from an original magazine article that's still in my parents' loft 200 miles away

The one big doubt I've got is the Prodrive M3s, as I have them in a different order to you- I'm sure about Sytner, but my notes have Smith in his regular #32 in 14th, and Will Hoy in #34 in 17th. Of course, we've already seen that Autosport and MN's reports of the same race didn't always agree on who was actually on the grid. I don't know which, if either, the Forix piece is based on- it mentions Smith and Hoy rather than Smith and Weaver but has their respective qualifying positions as Hoy 14th and Smith 17th

Main newsworthy item apart from the race being abandoned (from memory there were some very angry quotes from teams and drivers in the MN report) was probably the almost-debut of the TWR Holden in new evolution form (though I think the Mike O'Brien car ran in the new TWR spec at the previous Brands round??)
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