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Pentax Trophy Meeting

Silverstone, Northampton, Great-Britain

Date: 5/10/1980
Track length: 4.719 m
Attendance:
Entries accepted: 35
Starters: 34
Finishers:

Pole position: Allam in 1.41,28
Fastest lap: Rouse in 1.41,79 = 166,89 kmh

Distance: 20 laps
Average speed: 165,07 kmh
Weather: Wet
Ruleset: Group 1B
Car info: 1980 Cars

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At several meetings this year, the Tricentrol RAC British Saloon Car Championship race has provided the best event of the day. Such was indisputably the case at the BRDC's fine Pentax Trophy Meeting at Silverstone last weekend. The Tricentrol event provided some thrilling dices all through the large 34-car field, ending with three of the four classes being settled only on the last lap, and by advantages of less than one second!

The exception, was the 2.3-litre division, which Win Percy once again thoroughly dominated, creating a new class record. He maintained the excellent 100% reliability of his Tom Walkinshaw Racing-prepared Pentax Mazda RX7 and underlining his title-winning form. In the overall stakes, however, a badly worn left rear tyre almost robbed Gordon Spice of his sixth win of the year and saw Andy Rouse close right up onto his team-mates’ tail over the course of the final 2.9 mile lap.

In the hard-fought 1600cc category, Tony Lanfranchi scored another quite brilliant victory, guiding the third of the Akai-Audis to a narrow win over Chris Hodgetts' Toyota, which took the class honours in the championship. Richard Lloyd's Audi was next, while John Morris (VW Scirocco) nearly beat Lloyd!
Finally, the smallest class featured a thrilling dice between Jon Dooley's Alfasud and the Datapost Fiesta of Alan Curnow, the latter coming out on top by a margin of just 0.27s, setting a new class lap record.

Touring Cars class A-D
Pos Pos in class # Team / Entrant
Car- Engine		 Drivers, Nationality Engine
vol. (cc)		 Engine
Type		 Group Distance,
time		 Qualifying position Qualifying time Fastest lap Reason out,
remarks
1 1 1 Gordon Spice Racing
Ford Capri III 3.0S		 Gordon Spice, GB
 2993 V6 D 20 laps, 34.18,93 3 1.41,78 1.42,00  
2 2 2 Gordon Spice Racing
Ford Capri III 3.0S		 Andy Rouse, GB
 2993 V6 D 20 laps, 34.18,45 2 1.41,74 1.41,79  
3 3 3 Equipe Esso
Ford Capri III 3.0S		 Vince Woodman, GB
 2993 V6 D 20 laps, 34.24,86 4 1.41,85 1.41,91  
4 4 4 Equipe Esso
Ford Capri III 3.0S		 Jonathan Buncombe, GB
 2993 V6 D 20 laps, 34.30,26 6 1.42,61 1.42,17  
5 5 18  
Ford Capri III 3.0S		 Dave Brodie, GB
 2993 V6 D 20 laps, 34.49,91 9 1.43,53 1.43,58  
6 1 20 TWR Pentax
Mazda RX-7		 Win Percy, GB
 2 x 573 R2 C 20 laps, 34.59,39 5 1.42,38 1.43,67  
7 6 6 Triplex Esso Motor Team
Rover 3500 SD1		 Rex Greenslade, GB
 3495 V8 D 20 laps, 34.59,61 7 1.43,11 1.43,28  
8 7 5  
Ford Capri III 3.0S		 Charles Sawyer-Hoare, GB
 2993 V6 D 20 laps, 35.22,23 12 1.44,51 1.44,81  
9 2 35 TWR Pentax
Mazda RX-7		 Pete Lovett, GB
 2 x 573 R2 C 20 laps, 35.23,02 10 1.44,21 1.44,72  
10 8 17 Patrick Motorsport/SRG
Rover 3500 SD1		 Brian Muir, AUS
 3495 V8 D 19 laps, 34.19,70 8 1.43,45 1.43,77  
11 3 21 TWR Pentax
Mazda RX-7		 John Morrison, GB
 2 x 573 R2 C 19 laps, 34.20,51 17 1.47,31 1.47,42  
12 9 11 Kamasa Tools
Ford Capri III 3.0S		 Graham Goode, GB
 2993 V6 D 19 laps, 34.26,48 11 1.44,23 1.45,17  
13 1 40 GTI Engineering / Akai
Audi 80 GLE		 Tony Lanfranchi, GB
 1588 L4 B 19 laps, 34.28,21 16 1.47,22 1.47,28  
14 2 46 Hughes of Beaconsfield
Toyota Celica GT		 Chris Hodgetts, GB
 1588 L4 B 19 laps, 34.29,23 14 1.46,73 1.47,24  
15 3 44 GTI Engineering / Akai
Audi 80 GLE		 Richard Lloyd, GB
 1588 L4 B 19 laps, 34.32,05 15 1.47,20 1.47,23  
16 4 52 Morris Vulcan Ltd
VW Golf GTI		 John Morris, GB
 1588 L4 B 19 laps, 34.32,97 18 1.47,75 1.47,35  
17 4 25  
Ford Escort II RS 2000		 Erik Høyer, DK
 1993 L4 C 19 laps, 34.56,47 22 1.49,72 1.49,26  
18 5 43 GTI Engineering / Akai
Audi 80 GLE		 Stirling Moss, GB
 1588 L4 B 19 laps, 34.57,15 19 1.48,14 1.48,95  
19 6 56 The Colt Car Co Ltd
Mitsubishi Lancer		 Barrie Williams, GB
 1597 L4 B 19 laps, 34.57,31 21 1.49,28 1.48,97  
20 7 57 The Colt Car Co Ltd
Mitsubishi Lancer		 David Morgan, GB
 1597 L4 B 19 laps, 34.57,46 20 1.49,17 1.48,94  
21 1 61 Datapost ‘A Royal Mail Service’
Ford Fiesta 1.3		 Alan Curnow, GB
 1298 L4 A 19 laps, 36.03,12 26 1.54,09 1.52,34  
22 2 66 Napolina Alfa Romeo Dealer Team
Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti		 Jon Dooley, GB
 1286 B4 A 19 laps, 36.03,39 23 1.52,54 1.52,41  
23 5 26 Napolina Alfa Romeo Dealer Team
Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV		 Leo Bertorelli, GB
 1962 L4 C 19 laps, 36.05,56 25 1.53,20 1.52,34  
24 8 49  
VW Scirocco GTI		 John Hammersley, GB
 1588 L4 B 18 laps, 35.00,83 31 1.56,87 1.54,91  
25 3 68 Stanfield and White
Talbot Avenger 1300 GT		 John Spiller, GB
 1295 L4 A 17 laps, 34.23,80 32 1.58,22 1.58,73  
26 9 59  
VW Scirocco GTI		 John Tait, GB
 1588 L4 B 17 laps, 35.29,27 33 1.58,72 1.58,71  
27 4 63  
Mini 1275 GT		 Jon Mowatt, GB
 1275 L4 A 11 laps, 34.23,34 34 1.59,82 1.56,20  
DNF   60 Datapost ‘A Royal Mail Service’
Ford Fiesta 1.3		 Richard Longman, GB
 1298 L4 A 14 24 1.52,99 1.52,54 Hatchback door loose
DNF   47  
Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint		 Derrick Brunt, GB
 1498 B4 B 12 30 1.56,01 1.55,04  
DNF   71  
Ford Fiesta 1.3		 Geunda Eadie, GB
 1298 L4 A 12 27 1.54,78 1.54,15  
DNF   72  
Mini 1275 GT		 Tim Goss, GB
 1275 L4 A 10 28 1.55,08 1.54,42  
DNF   70  
Ford Fiesta 1.3		 Terry Nightingale, GB
 1298 L4 A 4 29 1.55,80 1.53,55  
DNF   12 Triplex Esso Motor Team
Rover 3500 SD1		 Jeff Allam, GB
 3495 V8 D 3 1 1.41,28 1.42,52 Engine
DNF   34  
Mazda RX-7		 Tom Pitcher, GB
 2 x 573 R2 C 1 35 2.08,96 2.33,20  
DNQ?   7  
Ford Capri III 3.0S		 Wayne Wainwright, GB
 2993 V6 D   13 1.46,12    
DNS   12T Triplex Esso Motor Team
Rover 3500 SD1		 Jeff Allam, GB
 3495 V8 D     1.43,30   Spare car