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The Dutch polesitter Camaro and the Spice Capri lead the field. Seven Capris, and then the first of the BMW's.
Below: the Camaro and nearly all Capris are already out of sight; but we can recognize three Luigi 530 BMW's and a coupé, the #14 BMW coupé, the second Dutch Camaro, two Kinley cars, and the second pictures shows a Kadett, the DTV Vauxhall, Volkswagens and Alfa's. |
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| The JUMA #2 car, which would finish as #2; Van Hove, Vermeersch and Joosen himself driving. | Funny enough, the #3 Serge Power car would indeed finish third, with Peltier and Nève behind the wheel. | |||||||
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| Luigi car #8 finished... ninth. Most of the cars here had front spoilers, which were allowed in some countries - but not in the UK, GErmany or the Netherlands... | ||||||||
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| Eggenberger entry #15 blew its engine. | ||||||||
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| The French BMW CSi at the pits. It was driven by "Depnic", "Chavan" and Gabreau, who couldn't think of a pseudonym probably. | The polesitter Camaro retired with a broken driveshaft, but this looks like a different problem. | |||||||
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| The Spice Capri III trio: #27 Spice/Pilette in front, followed by #26 Craft/Corbisier and #24 Martin/Tricot - the smoke signalling the eventual retirement? | ||||||||
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| Martin and Tricot retired this Capri... | ... and this Capri retired too. | |||||||
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| ... and then crashed out of the 24 hour race. | ||||||||
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| #26, Craft/Corbisier took the lead... | ||||||||
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| The victorious #27 of Spice and Pilette may look fine in the wet... | ... but they had their share of contact as well. | |||||||
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| This Capri retired. | But there were Escorts also. Good grief, this one isn't in my results. A practice shot maybe? A KWS car for Bienvault, Labonne-Brisson and Maitam. | |||||||
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| This - is another KWS car. | This is the Alfetta of Imbert/Beguin/Martinez. It finished 10th overall and third in class. | |||||||
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| Hadlights ablaze for the #70 car of Slotemaker, van Oostrum and Maasland. They retired after a crash. | 18th overall, fourth in class: the Scirocco of de St. Hubert and Goris. | |||||||
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| Another one not in my results - the Scirocco of Meloni/Berndtson. | 19th, fifth in class: the Scirocco of Jamin/Degey/Vaillant. | |||||||
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| A Golf for a change. De Deyne and compatriots, a retirement. | 14th overall, second in class: the Golf of Borderiou, Migeo and Haezebrouck. | |||||||
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| An Audi which is missing form my records as well (Team Dubois), the #4 BMW behind - a non-finisher. | ||||||||
| Victory for Spice and Ford! | ||||||||