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P&O Ferries with Radio 210 Spring Bank Holiday Raceday

Thruxton, Great-Britain

Date: 29/5/1989
Track length: 3.791 m
Attendance:
Entries accepted: 34
Starters: 30
Finishers: 23

Pole position: Brodie in 1.19,46
Fastest lap: Brodie in 1.21,06

Distance: 17 laps, stopped after 14 laps after an accident partly blocked the circuit
Average speed:
Weather:
Ruleset: Group A
Car info:  

 

Taking off almost three abreast pole sitter Dave Brodie soon challenged early race leader Andy Rouse with Robb Gravett in the best seat to the action. Already by lap 1 Rouse was down to third while Brodie eaked out an advantage ever so slightly on Gravett. Midway through the race the two front runners came up to lap the dicing class D Corollas of Tony Crudgington and Phil Dowsett. Brodie went through on the start finish straight while Gravett caught up with them at the Complex. Crudgington was defending his class lead on the inside while Gravett, desperately not to loose too much time to Brodie, took the outside line leaving Dowsett nowhere to go in the middle. The Sierra was sent backwards into the tyre wall by Dowsett and both retired on the spot with a short fire from the Gravett car. Later a rescue vehicle was sent to the scene of the accident and parked on the race line the race was flagged off.
By then Dave Brodie had suffered from a puncture leaving him in a lowly 14th and thus Andy Rouse inherited the lead and eventual win. Tim Harvey, running at a conservative pace in the early going, had the tyres to challenge Rouse for the lead late in the race but his charge was cut short by the early flag fall. For a while Mike Newman had been running as best of the rest and would take third at the flag from a very competitive Karl Jones while Mike Smith had to fend off Sean Walker for the final two point placings. Laurence Bristow was up amongst the best but had a coming together with Graham Goode sending both cars spinning. Bristow then suffered a puncture eventually finishing him well down the order while Goode minus rear bumper finished 10th.
James Weaver took a relatively relaxed class B victory when Frank Sytner was delayed by a pit stop for a new front tyre, leaving him forth in class. Godfrey Hall fought with Ian Forrest over the first few laps for best of the rest with Forrest retiring and John Llewellyn catching up to Hall in the fight for second but never made it past.
John Cleland was in cruise mode for victory when he had to up the tempo to gain the fastest lap back from Louise Aitken-Walker. The pair would take another 1-2 with John Morris challenging for second in the early laps and Alan Minshaw retiring very early on.
Phil Dowsett lead away in class D but was passed by Tony Crudgington and then fighting each other for some laps. The fight was broken up when Gravett intervened leaving Crudgington to win, Dowsett to the tyre wall and Geoff Kimber-Smith to second.
(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 1 Kaliber Ford Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Andy Rouse, GB
1993 tc L4 A 14 laps, 19.17,41 2 1.20,24 1.22,12  
2 2 7 Labatt’s Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Tim Harvey, GB
1993 tc L4 A 14 laps, 19.18,50 4 1.20,79 1.21,65  
3 3 3 Listerine Racing Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Mike Newman, GB
1993 tc L4 A 14 laps, 19.20,48 6 1.21,21 1.21,83  
4 4 28 Lee Asquith Motorsport/ Duckhams
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Karl Jones, GB
1993 tc L4 A 14 laps, 19.26,11 7 1.21,42 1.21,90  
5 5 20 Trakstar Motorsport
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Mike Smith, GB
1993 tc L4 A 14 laps, 19.35,18 12 1.22,13 1.22,03  
6 6 5 FAI Auto Parts
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Sean Walker, GB
1993 tc L4 A 14 laps, 19.36,95 11 1.21,92 1.22,65  
7 7 25 JQF Engineering
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Gerrit van Kouwen, NL
1993 tc L4 A 14 laps, 19.51,10 14 1.22,30 1.23,31  
8 1 32 Prodrive/BMW Finance Racing with Mobil 1
BMW M3 Evo
James Weaver, GB
2332 L4 B 14 laps, 19.54,13 15 1.22,90 1.23,72  
9 8 18 Terry Drury Racing
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Robin Donovan, GB
1993 tc L4 A 14 laps, 19.59,28 20 1.24,59 1.24,21  
10 9 4 Listerine Racing Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Graham Goode, GB
1993 tc L4 A 14 laps, 20.00,28 8 1.21,48 1.23,60  
11 10 16 Terry Drury Racing
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
David Pinkney, GB
1993 tc L4 A 14 laps, 20.00,52 17 1.23,57 1.23,30  
12 2 43 John Maguire Racing
BMW M3 Evo
Godfrey Hall, GB
2332 L4 B 14 laps, 20.08,02 24 1.25,63 1.24,77  
13 3 44 BRR Motorsport
BMW M3 Evo
John Llewelyn, GB
2332 L4 B 14 laps, 20.09,07 19 1.24,58 1.25,05  
DSQ   19 Brodie Brittain Racing
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Dave Brodie, GB
1993 tc L4 A 14 laps, 20.13,09 1 1.19,46 1.21,06 Disq: Fuel sample illegal (octane)
15 1 56 Vauxhall Motorsport
Vauxhall Astra GTE 16V
John Cleland, GB
1998 L4 C 13 21 1.24,94 1.26,05  
16 2 58 Vauxhall Motorsport
Vauxhall Astra GTE 16V
Louise Aitken-Walker, GB
1998 L4 C 13 26 1.27,84 1.27,01  
17 3 55  
VW Golf GTI 16V
John Morris, GB
1781 L4 C 13 25 1.26,99 1.28,17  
18 12 6 Labatt’s Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Laurence Bristow, GB
1993 tc L4 A 13 13 1.22,55 1.23,29 Spin, puncture
19 4 33 Prodrive/BMW Finance Racing with Mobil 1
BMW M3 Evo
Frank Sytner, GB
2332 L4 B 13 16 1.23,37 1.24,36 Puncture, pit stop
20 1 88  
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
Tony Crudgington, GB
1587 L4 D 12 29 1.29,01 1.29,61  
21 13 26 Trident Motor Sport Ltd.
Maserati Biturbo 331 B25
Nick May, GB
2491 tc V6 A 11 27 1.28,59 1.29,05  
22 2 77 Five Star Racing
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
Geoff Kimber-Smith, GB
1587 L4 D 11 34 1.40,81 1.47,39  
23 3 81  
Toyota Corolla FX-GT AE82
Tony Dolley, GB
1587 L4 D 10 31 1.33,56 1.36,04  
DNF   17 Terry Drury Racing
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Mike O'Brien, GB
1993 tc L4 A 12 22 1.24,94 1.25,25 Electrics
DNF   21 Trakstar Motorsport
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Robb Gravett, GB
1993 tc L4 A 9 3 1.20,44 1.20,87 Accident
DNF   70  
Toyota Corolla FX-GT AE82
Phil Dowsett, GB
1587 L4 D 8 28 1.28,80 1.29,32 Accident
DNF   15 Brooklyn Motorsport
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Chris Hodgetts, GB
1993 tc L4 A 5 9 1.21,64 1.24,12 Overheating
DNF   2 Arquati Racing Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Jerry Mahoney, GB
1993 tc L4 A 4 10 1.21,81 1.22,68 Engine
DNF   50 Demon Tweeks
VW Golf GTI 16V
Alan Minshaw, GB
1781 L4 C 3 30 1.31,25 1.37,63 Misfire
DNF   35 Prodrive
BMW M3 Evo
Ian Forrest, GB
2332 L4 B 2 23 1.25,61 1.49,34 Tire
DNS   10 Kaliber Ford Team
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Guy Edwards, GB
1993 tc L4 A   5 1.21,18   Accident
DNS   9  
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Mark Rennison, GB
1993 tc L4 A   18 1.23,62   Engine
DNS   85  
Toyota Corolla FX-GT AE82
Les Liddiard, GB
1587 L4 D   32 1.35,44   Engine
DNS   14 Graham Hathaway racing
Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
Graham Hathaway, GB
1993 tc L4 A   33 1.38,72