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Originally Posted by rdmdog
Other interesting numbers games, Ray and Graham Gulson used LPs #11 on their 635CSi one year as they hat sponsorship from AT&T or someone and used the 0011 dial code as their gimmick. IIRC Larry used #10
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It was UTC, but you were spot on about all the other details. It was in 1988 when they didn't actually make the race.
There seem to have been more than a few tie-ins between sponsorship and racing numbers over the years. HRT (#015) and TKR (#021) for telecommunications companies; Brock and Terri Sawyer with #05 and Bryan Sala with #00 for TAC blood-alcohol limits; Tim Slako (#96) and Steve Masterton (#2) for radio stations.
But isn't this sort of thing prohibited in the CAMS NCRs?
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Originally Posted by rdmdog
Didn't HRT start using #1 for the enduro's the same year that CL won the championship too (prior to them being part of the championship).
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Quite a few have done that over the years; Jim Richards in '85 and '90 (although for some reason he went back to #2 for the AGP meeting in 1990, then back to #1 for the Nissan 500 the next Saturday); Glenn Seton in 1997; Lowndes (as you mentioned) in 1998.