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Originally Posted by Forda
Driver cross-entry was all part of the rules during Group C & Group A, and pretty much all multi-car teams deployed the tactic.
That Brock was the only person locally who could utilise the tactic to win shouldn't be held against him.
On topic and relevant to the 1988 great race, Larry put Walkinshaw into his car towards the end when running 3rd, to give him a win should the race go their way.
He received a blown engine for his trouble...
The prior year the German factory BMW drivers swapped in and out of their team cars so often no one really knew who was in which car at any point in time.
It gave them enough points in the end to claim the WTCC title, something which is never ever complained about on here.
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Originally Posted by racer69
Car swapping was also nothing unique to Bathurst, it was the norm in motor racing around the world.
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As you say, it was fairly widespread practice in Europe- IIRC during the later rounds of the season, with the championship at stake, BMW often cross-entered Ravaglia in both Schnitzer cars, so he could take over whichever was best-placed at the first driver change.
They weren't the only team to swap drivers around between cars either- I can recall Walkinshaw swapping Win Percy into one of the other TWR Rovers for the sake of championship points at least once during the latter part of the '86 ETCC after their car had broken during Tom's opening stint.