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Silverstone

Silverstone National Circuit, Northampton, Great-Britain

Date: 4/6/1989
Track length: 3.071 m
Attendance:
Entries accepted: 33
Starters: 30
Finishers: 24

Pole position: Rouse in 1.12,48
Fastest lap: Gravett in 1.13,54

Distance: 25 laps
Average speed:
Weather:
Ruleset: Group A
Car info:  

 

First BTCC race on the newly styled Silverstone National Circuit. Tim Harvey taking the start from pole man Andy Rouse, both of them soon to be joined by Robb Gravett for a three way battle for the lead. With 30 cars on the grid traffic became a matter that slightly delayed both Rouse and Harvey while under pressure from Gravett who would take the lead midway through. Robb Gravett would just keep out of touch for the remaining laps while Tim Harvey managed to keep Andy Rouse at bay in the fight over second. Laurence Bristow was looking healthy in fourth back a stuck throttle made him spin down to sixth behind Mike Smith and Sean Walker in the sole surviving Graham Goode car, Goode and Mike Newman retiring in latter third of the race with turbo problems after good early runs. Chris Hodgetts lacked horsepower in seventh but won the battle with Dave Brodie, while behind Jerry Mahony struggled with new Pirelli tyres having switched from Dunlops. Mark Rennison scored his first BTCC result in 10th.
Frank Sytner was leading class B when his engine broke after but 2 laps, leaving an easy victory to James Weaver. Ian Forrest would take his privateer colleagues one by one for second ahead of John Llewellyn and the two Maguire cars of Godfrey Hall and John Clark.
In class C John Cleland broke a hub forcing him out of another victory, leaving it to Louise Aitken-Walker to take the spoils, while the Golfs of John Morris and Alan Minshaw battled throughout the race for eventual second.
Phil Dowsett utterly dominated class D winning from Mark Goddard (substituting for Geoff Kimber-Smith for unknown reasons) and Tony Crudgington.

Robb Gravett did the first qualifying session in Mike Smith's car as his own car wasn't quite ready after the Thruxton shunt earlier in the week. Guy Edwards' car was also ready after it's Thruxton shunt, but then Edwards crashed the Andy Rouse car during practice for Silverstone. This forced Rouse to race the Edwards car. Only when Les Liddiard withdrew from unspecified reasons was the Sierra of Robin Donovan allowed to take the start.
(Jesper O. Hansen/ten-tenths.com)


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 21 Trakstar Motorsport
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Robb Gravett, GB
1993 tc L4 A 25 laps, 31.02,55 5 1.13,47 1.13,54  
2 2 7 Labatt’s Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Tim Harvey, GB
1993 tc L4 A 25 laps, 31.04,01 2 1.12,69 1.13,70  
3 3 1 Kaliber Ford Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Andy Rouse, GB
1993 tc L4 A 25 laps, 31.04,30 1 1.12,48 1.13,82  
4 4 20 Trakstar Motorsport
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Mike Smith, GB
1993 tc L4 A 25 laps, 31.12,10 8 1.14,00 1.13,85  
5 5 5 FAI Auto Parts
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Sean Walker, GB
1993 tc L4 A 25 laps, 31.22,23 7 1.13,89 1.14,55  
6 6 6 Labatt’s Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Laurence Bristow, GB
1993 tc L4 A 25 laps, 31.23,33 3 1.12,72 1.13,66  
7 7 15 Brooklyn Motorsport
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Chris Hodgetts, GB
1993 tc L4 A 25 laps, 31.30,59 11 1.14,40 1.14,82  
8 8 19 Brodie Brittain Racing
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Dave Brodie, GB
1993 tc L4 A 25 laps, 31.38,80 6 1.13,74 1.14,74  
9 9 2 Arquati Racing Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Jerry Mahoney, GB
1993 tc L4 A 25 laps, 31.39,79 12 1.14,84 1.15,42  
10 10 9  
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Mark Rennison, GB
1993 tc L4 A 25 laps, 31.56,19 15 1.15,40 1.15,85  
11 11 25 JQF Engineering
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Gerrit van Kouwen, NL
1993 tc L4 A 25 laps, 32.01,22 14 1.15,26 1.15,41  
12 12 28 Lee Asquith Motorsport/ Duckhams
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Karl Jones, GB
1993 tc L4 A 24 10 1.14,31 1.15,59  
13 1 32 Prodrive/BMW Finance Racing with Mobil 1
BMW M3 Evo
James Weaver, GB
2332 L4 B 24 16 1.15,64 1.16,51  
14 13 18 Terry Drury Racing
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Robin Donovan, GB
1993 tc L4 A 24 18 1.15,87 1.15,55  
15 2 35 Prodrive
BMW M3 Evo
Ian Forrest, GB
2332 L4 B 24 21 1.17,47 1.17,93  
16 3 44 BRR Motorsport
BMW M3 Evo
John Llewelyn, GB
2332 L4 B 24 20 1.17,07 1.17,76  
17 4 43 John Maguire Racing
BMW M3 Evo
Godfrey Hall, GB
2332 L4 B 24 22 1.17,68 1.18,51  
18 5 31 John Maguire Racing
BMW M3 Evo
John Clark, GB
2332 L4 B 24 23 1.18,89 1.18,05  
19 1 58 Vauxhall Motorsport
Vauxhall Astra GTE 16V
Louise Aitken-Walker, GB
1998 L4 C 23 25 1.20,89 1.21,29  
20 1 70  
Toyota Corolla FX-GT AE82
Phil Dowsett, GB
1587 L4 D 23 26 1.21,19 1.23,36  
21 2 55  
VW Golf GTI 16V
John Morris, GB
1781 L4 C 23 28 1.21,99 1.22,32  
22 3 50 Demon Tweeks
VW Golf GTI 16V
Alan Minshaw, GB
1781 L4 C 23 29 1.22,47 1.22,56  
23 2 77 Five Star Racing
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
Mark Goddard, GB
1587 L4 D 22 33 1.28,02 1.24,59  
24 3 88  
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
Tony Crudgington, GB
1587 L4 D 22 30 1.23,61 1.26,13  
DNF   4 Listerine Racing Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Graham Goode, GB
1993 tc L4 A 18 4 1.13,15 1.15,13 Turbo charger
DNF   3 Listerine Racing Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Mike Newman, GB
1993 tc L4 A 16 9 1.14,18 1.15,01 Turbo charger
DNF   56 Vauxhall Motorsport
Vauxhall Astra GTE 16V
John Cleland, GB
1998 L4 C 14 24 1.19,61 1.19,76 Hub
DNF   16 Terry Drury Racing
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
David Pinkney, GB
1993 tc L4 A 12 13 1.15,04 1.15,66 Fuel pick-up
DNF   81  
Toyota Corolla FX-GT AE82
Tony Dolley, GB
1587 L4 D 8 32 1.27,70 1.30,36 Cam belt
DNF   33 Prodrive/BMW Finance Racing with Mobil 1
BMW M3 Evo
Frank Sytner, GB
2332 L4 B 2 17 1.15,68 1.17,43 Engine
DNQ   17 Terry Drury Racing
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Mike O'Brien, GB
1993 tc L4 A   19 1.16,82    
DNS   26 Trident Motor Sport Ltd.
Maserati Biturbo 331 B25
Tomas Mezera, AUS
2491 tc V6 A   27 1.21,53   Driveshaft
DNS   85  
Toyota Corolla FX-GT AE82
Les Liddiard, GB
1587 L4 D   31 1.25,36   Withdrawn
DNP   10 Kaliber Ford Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Guy Edwards, GB
1993 tc L4 A         Crash in practice