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Originally Posted by Tim Wilkinson
I've found the '91 club c'ship previews - Esso "Group N" was new for '90, and ran to basically international grp N rules and allowed slick tyres. It filled a gap between Prodsaloon and group A / Class 2 (supertouring). It also took a lot of the prodsaloon runners! Only the Firestone is referred to, so I think that is what the Uniroyal became - that was drastically down in numbers, half the entry being Suzuki Swifts that would be uncompetitive in the "up to 1600" class if improved to Group N spec.
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Have hunted further, and both Uniroyal and Firestone were running in '89, so what I wrote before was incorrect.
The '89 Firestone was run by BARC, and continued into '90 with Prodsaloon rules.
The '89 Uniroyal was run by BRDC and moved to group N regs and Esso backing in '90. A couple of the Uniroyal front-runners were backed by Firestone, which complicates matters, as Firestone were advertising heavily on the back of prodsaloon success, even if that success was in the "other" championship!