1987 Dunlop RAC British Touring Car Championship - Discussion & Results

[KA]

Originally Posted by Jesper OH

I think the primary problem of the '86 Grice VK to '87 Docking VK is differing reports of what happened pre and post Hockenheim '86. Some reports suggests that the car was a write off at Hockenheim, but it seems that the car was rebuild and put into action later in the '86 ETCC, although described as not being as crisp as before. It then stayed at its 1986 base at Alan Docking Racing in Britain to end up as the '87 BTCC car of Mike O'Brien. That is my current understanding.

Jesper

After the Hockenheim shunt (13th April), AFAIK Grice seems to have missed 4 rounds, Misano, Anderstorp, Brno and Zeltweg, before returning at the Nurburgring in July- I think he then ran the rest of the season. Plenty of window of opportunity there for anything from rebuilding/reshelling the original car to Les Small's crew building up a new car/shell in Australia and shipping it to Europe...

Originally Posted by Tim Wilkinson

Complicated by a later season preview in the usually reliable Autosport saying that O'Brien tested one Commodore and then raced another - the tested car remaining un-raced in BTCC.

Tim, any idea what date that preview is, as knowing the timescale for that might shed some further light on the question?

If Autosport had got this right, then that seems to suggest either that Grice/Roadways/Alan Docking both had access to a second car and repaired/rebuilt the original....

....unless, of course, the other car O'Brien tested was one of the HDT pair- we know that at least one of those must have been in the UK/Europe as late as Sept '86 for Clenand/Woodman to use it at the TT. I guess one of the keys to answering this is knowing roughly when the deal for O'Brien to run the VK was done...

[Tim Wilkinson]

It was from a preview of a Thundersaloon season, either for '90 or '91. A Commodore was due to come out (and duly did), and it was noted as being a car tested by O'Brien but ultimately unused in the BTCC. I think you've commented on the thread, actually - we were comparing wheels, colours, trim etc between pictures of the BTCC, ETC and Thundersaloon cars.

I've swapped PM's with an ex-ADR mechanic who says that he doesn't remember Mike testing another Commodore, but that doesn't necessarily mean he didn't do so.

[William Dale Jr]

Originally Posted by KA

Plenty of window of opportunity there for anything from rebuilding/reshelling the original car to Les Small's crew building up a new car/shell in Australia and shipping it to Europe...

The car being rebuilt is the more likely of the two options. I don't think the shoestring budget would have stretched to the building and shipping-over of another car, or even a re-shelling of the crashed car.

[KA]

Originally Posted by KA

The red Hodgetts Corolla seemed to vary between #67 and #69 depending on who was racing it- As you say, #69 here with Moss, and I think for Tony Dron at Donington later in the year, but #67 at the Oulton 2-driver race with Needell/Hodgetts (with a clearly different-sized 6 & 7 on a pic I've seen).The car was also used at a couple of ETCC/WTCC races, so the team must have spent a fair amount of time peeling race numbers off and replacing them...
Other than Hodgetts being in the white Toyota GB car with #66, I'm still not sure which driver raced which CHMS Corolla with which number for a fair part of the '87 BTCC season...

A bit more light on which CHMS Corolla ran with which race number for the various drivers over the season.

So far we've established that the red car ran as #69 at Brands (R7) for Alex Moss, possibly again at Donington (R9) for Tony Dron (not sure of any proof for Dron having #69 on the red car- can't find pic or programme reference at the moment) and as #67 for Hodgetts/Needell at the Oulton 1-hour race (R10- source is a pic posted by Gregor Marshall in the Corolla thread).

Looking through the 14 May 1987 issue of Autosport, there's an advertising feature in the Classified ads for suspension and brake specialists- illustrated with a pic of a CHMS Corolla, in characteristic 2-wheels-off-the-ground pose....It's one of the white cars, carrying 'Toyota GB' and 'Mineral Improvements' signwriting, and #67.

Given the date of the magazine, it has to be one of the early rounds, Silverstone, Oulton or Thruxton in April, so driver presumbly either Paul Longfield, Alan Minshaw, Alex Moss or Chuck Nicholson who appeared in one of those early races.

According to Autosport, Longfield drove the red car at Silverstone, and possibly again at Thruxton, which narrows it down a little....

[Alfie72]

I had a chat with Alan Docking this morning and the Grice Chickadee car in 1986 was definitely rebuilt and not replaced.

Which might explain why the bl**dy thing was always so hard to set up - it wasn't straight!

[chunterer]

Originally Posted by Alfie72

I had a chat with Alan Docking this morning and the Grice Chickadee car in 1986 was definitely rebuilt and not replaced.

Which might explain why the bl**dy thing was always so hard to set up - it wasn't straight!

Great stuff Alfie, that answers a number of questions there I think.

[KA]

Originally Posted by chunterer

Great stuff Alfie, that answers a number of questions there I think.

Yep- IIRC 'handling problems' became a bit of a recurring theme for the Commodore in some of the early 1987 race reports?

[KA]

Originally Posted by KA

The other main reason for the no-show at the GP was that Walkinshaw, Allam and the Commodore went off to the Nurburgring WTCC round the same weekend instead. IIRC, both a Rover for Allam and the Commodore for Walkinshaw were on the entry list for the British GP meeting, but I think there had been rumours in Autosport/MN the week before the GP that TWR had other plans for that weekend....

Originally Posted by chunterer

Granted KA, I guess the Holden Nurby outing was possibly a last minute decision. Maybe only after Jeff couldn't raise the money to run the Vitesse for the weekend at Silverstone, so maybe Tom decided to invite Jeff to join him in Germany instead?

The GP preview supplement from Autosport mentions Allam's Rover as an entry for the GP support, but I don't think mentions the Commodore.

The actual magazine it came with (I suspect the supplement went to press earlier) had a piece- headlined something like'What's Tom up to now?'- suggesting a TWR Commodore was a probable entry for the BTCC race. Apparently they'd tested at Snetterton the previous week.

However, the Autosport report went on to speculate that the Holden was actually going to the Nurburgring WTCC race instead.

Curiously, the article is illustrated with a pic of a plain white VK with a TWR sunstrip on the windscreen, rather than the blue/yellow VL actually raced...

The magazine also reports another absentee from the entry outlined in the preview- James Kaye in a Corolla. Apparently, the car was being leased from rally driver Darrell Staniforth, but it got wrapped round a tree on a rally in Wales the previous weekend, and Kaye was presumably unable to source an alternative car (Autosport mentioned the possiblity of an Astra/Kadett instead) in time

[chunterer]

Originally Posted by KA

Curiously, the article is illustrated with a pic of a plain white VK with a TWR sunstrip on the windscreen, rather than the blue/yellow VL actually raced...

Hmmm, this may have been referred to in the Commodore thread?

The early TWR VL's were in that blue/yellow Herbie Clips livery, but that was in ready to race spec?

This white car is signficant as it kind of suggests that it was a car that had already been campaigned prior to TWR testing it? A Les Small car was mentioned, but there's nothing to say that TWR didn't buy a Brock chasis and respray it!

What I don't understand is why on earth TWR didn't get one or 2 cars out in some BTCC rounds just to get some hard mileage into them or get some early understanding of how these cars worked, after all the VL wouldn't have been greatly different from a VK all told.

[KA]

I'd certainly like to know where and when the pic was taken. I don't think I remember seeing any pics of the blue/yellow 'Herbie Clips' VL before the Nurnburgring WTCC report- although pics taken around the time of the aborted Monza WTCC entry at the start of the year certainly appeared in the Australian press- IIRC someone posted one on here, showing a pair of VLs in the blue/yellow scheme lined up in front of a TWR transporter.

As I said in the previous post, the pic shows a plain white (or at least light-coloured- it's a b/w pic) VK with no signwriting other than a TWR sticker on the sunstrip. No idea who the driver is- he's wearing a plain helmet as far as I can see. Interestingly, the car appears to have additional brake ducts cut into the front spoiler- there seem to be two round holes outboard of the rectangular intake slot in the VK front spoiler.
The pic caption is 'A Walkinshaw Holden Commodore is due to appear this weekend- but where?'

The article is headlined 'What's Tom up to now?' and reads:

As we suggested last week, Tom Walkinshaw has declared his intention to enter one of his VL-spec Holden Commodores in the Dunlop BTCC event supporting this weekend's GP at Silverstone. Walkinshaw and his crew took a second day trip to Snetterton on Monday to give the car further running time.
A darker rumour, however, suggests that Tom's GP entry is an elaborate double bluff, and that one of the 4.9 litre Commodore will actually turn up at the Nurbrgring this weekend, for the fourth round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship. By the time you read this, we should know for certain....'
(Autosport 9 July 1987)

There's also a short Nurburgring WTCC preview piece which mentions 'a possibility, it seems, that 'TWR might appear with one of its Holden Commodores'

The outline of the GP support entry in the GP Preview supplement issued with the magazine mentions the TWR Rover entry fo Jeff Allam, but no TWR Commodore

The magazine (9th July issue) has several other reports on the GP meeting entry, as well as the one covering the withdrawal of James Kayes' Corolla entry:

The CHMS Corolla entry would be increased to 3, with the addition of a third car for Will Hoy, joining Hodgetts and Andrew Bagnall. (In the end, only two cars ran, for Hodgetts and Hoy)

First pic of Sytner's Prodrive M3, shaken down at Snetterton and Silverstone the previous week

Additional sponsorship for Win Percy in Andy Rouse's ICS Sierra

and the extension of Karl Jones' Duckhams sponsorship to cover an outing at the GP meeting in a Group A Escort RS Turbo- the Asquith team were 'negotiating the availability of a pukka Group A machine' at the beginning of the week

[chunterer]

Could TWR have done a deal with Brock via Cleland/Fall (reference to your Commodore thread post KA) to lease or buy the TT Woodman Commodore to use as their '87 test hack?

[Alfie72]

I need someone to refresh my memory on this, but was the VL actually homologated in 1987? I'm not sure that it was.

IIRC the VL and TWR's involvement emerged during 1987 when they were going to be developing homologation bits for the VK in order to make it more competitive against the Sierras, thus creating the VL.

I seem to remember that these parts were not even available for the beginning of the 1988 season, causing some sensitivity.

I can certainly remember Tom and his Commodore attending the Superprix in 1988 because he turned up with a road going RS500, which most Ford drivers took to be a warning that they had some homologation questions on these that he was going to put before the stewards. In the end I don't remember anything like that happening. (Sorry for mixing threads but I'm sure one will understand the implications).

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by Alfie72

I need someone to refresh my memory on this, but was the VL actually homologated in 1987? I'm not sure that it was.

IIRC the VL and TWR's involvement emerged during 1987 when they were going to be developing homologation bits for the VK in order to make it more competitive against the Sierras, thus creating the VL.

I seem to remember that these parts were not even available for the beginning of the 1988 season, causing some sensitivity.

I can certainly remember Tom and his Commodore attending the Superprix in 1988 because he turned up with a road going RS500, which most Ford drivers took to be a warning that they had some homologation questions on these that he was going to put before the stewards. In the end I don't remember anything like that happening. (Sorry for mixing threads but I'm sure one will understand the implications).

Oh yes, or this was probably one of Tom's wind-ups:- "Ive got a standard road car here so you'd better make sure your car is legal (or was it actually a 1.25:1, oversized version to get them all thrown out? Only joking...)

[KA]

Originally Posted by Alfie72

I need someone to refresh my memory on this, but was the VL actually homologated in 1987? I'm not sure that it was.

IIRC the VL and TWR's involvement emerged during 1987 when they were going to be developing homologation bits for the VK in order to make it more competitive against the Sierras, thus creating the VL.

I seem to remember that these parts were not even available for the beginning of the 1988 season, causing some sensitivity.

The 'basic' VL (initially developed by Brock?) was certainly homologated for 1987.
http://img339.imageshack.us/i/twrvl87nn7.jpg/
TWR certainly seem to have had a pair of these at least, originally intended to be entered for the 1987 WTCC, but withdrawn at the last minute.
The only race appearance in this spec by TWR was the Nurburgring WTCC outing, although at least a couple of other VLs did appear in Europe (most notably the Moffatt/Harvey Rothmans car which won the Monza WTCC opener after all of the M3s were disqualified), and of course plenty were seen in Australia.

They also seem to have had at least one 1986-style VK, which was used in testing- though AFAIK converting a VK to a VL isn't difficult, as externally it's mainly the front panels that are different?

The TWR-developed 'evolution' VL (I can never remember the 'official' designation for this model, something like 'VL Commodore SS Group A?') for 1988 with the big wing/spoiler kit is the one which, as you say, was delayed- IIRC wasn't it supposed to be homologated shortly after the beginning of the season, but finally appeared around August/September....
http://www.modifiedcarforums.com/blo..._wa11ki_01.jpg

[KA]

Quick recap, if it helps, of the Commodores I think were seen in the BTCC and ETCC/European rounds of the WTCC in 1986-8 (I'll leave out the cars seen at the Australian/NZ WTCC rounds to save confusion)

1986:
Mobil HDT- 1x VK for Brock/Moffatt in early-season ETCC rounds- last seen at Spa, where a second car also appeared. One of these ran as a GM Dealer Sport entry for Cleland/Woodman at the TT in Spetember
Roadways/Allan Grice- white car used by Allan Grice with various codrivers for much of the ETCC season- Badly shunted at Hockenheim and rebuilt, for sale by mid/late-season, then becomes the O'Brien BTCC car for 1987

1987:
Allan Moffatt/Rothmans: single ex-Brock VL appeared in early WTCC rounds and Spa before the budget ran out- think this went back to Australia?
Michel Delcourt/Serge Power?- single VL seen at some WTCC rounds- Spa and the TT at least
Jeroen Hin/Playboy- single VL appeared at the Zolder ETCC round early-season and Spa. Leased by Vic Covey/Andrew Jeffrey for the TT.
Brock/HDT/Mobil- brought a single VL over for Spa
TWR- at least a couple of blue/yellow VLs- intended for the WTCC, but only one race appearance- single car at Nurburgring
Alan Docking Racing- single ex-Grice VK for Mike O'Brien in the BTCC

1988:
TWR- single 'Evolution' spec car eventually appears at the aborted Birmingham BTCC race and the TT, before being shipped to Australia for Bathurst
Alan Docking Racing- single ex-Brock 1987-spec VL in the BTCC for Mike OBrien- updated to the 1988 TWR-spec once it's finally homologated around August

Is that all of them (I'm leaving out any only seen in rallycross, Thundersaloons or anywhere else outside the BTCC/ETCC/WTCC, or only raced in Australia)

[KA]

A little more on the Silverstone GP support entry- it featured several Renault 5 Turbos in Class C, in addition to the Roger Saunders car that had been a championship regular for most of the season.

A bit more detail on one of these, Alex Postan's car, from an advert in Autosport around the end of the '87 season (Didn't take a note of the date when I scanned it, and don't have the original to hand)

'Renault 5GT Turbo
Currently in Group A spec, as raced at British GP. The car is for sale together with all the equipment needed to run in Group A, Renault 5 Turbo Challenge, or production saloons. Race at the Tourist Trophy, all the long-distance Uniroyal rounds and collect start money in the Renault series. The price of 6250 includes the following spares: engine, rollcage, 3 sets struts, 3 sets springs, 20 wheels, 2 turbos, management system, carb, exhaust manifold and about 50 good tyres of all types. Finance available, or will part exchange for a good Class B F3 car or Class A touring car.
Phone Alex Postan (London number)'

There's a (small) pic which looks as if it might have been taken at the GP meeting (there appear to be Dunlop BTCC race number backgrounds on the door), showing a light-coloured car, with sponsorship from 'Autotech Cars' and 'Abbey Life'. The race number appears to be '58'

[bigears]

I apologise for my laziness, I am keen to help out and plug in any gaps. I don't have much time to go through the whole thread, but could anyone point out which race results that need completing or filling in?

I got 1986-1990 Motoring News newspapers and I got it with me now. Thank you.

[KA]

I've already been through the Motoring News reports for a few of these, but I know there are still some gaps.

I've done Rounds 2 (Oulton, 17/4/87), 3 (Thruxton 20/4/87) and 4 (Thruxton 25/5/87), so they should be fairly complete

Round 1 might be worth a look (Silverstone 12/4/87) to see if it gives any details for the three drivers who didn't start the race-

• Tony Crudgington's Corolla,
• a prodsaloon Starion (driver unknown- possibly someone named Graham Rose or similar)
• a Renault 5GT Turbo (maybe Roger Saunders)

qualifying times, grid positions, and any more detail on why they didn't start would be helpful

[KA]

From then on, we should have Round 5 completed, but still need some of the following:

Round 6- Silverstone GP support- 12/7/87. All qualifying times/grid, plus race times/laps completed for anyone outside about the top 15.

Round 7- Brands 26/7/87. Race times, grid and qualifying times. Does the race report give any indication of the entrants for the various Renault 5 Turbos? Drivers were David Grimshaw, Niki Philips, Les Germain, Anthony Pownall and Alex Postan. Postan probably entered by AutoTech Cars if it's mentioned


Round 8- (Snetterton 2/8/87)
Round 9- (Donington 16/8/87)
Round 10- Oulton Park 1hr (22/8/87)
Round 11- Donington (20/9/87)
Round 12- Silverstone (6/10/87)- Think these should all be OK

Thanks!!!!

[KA]

Staying with the theme of filling in gaps of race numbers, entrants, sponsors etc, here's an overview of the 1987 entry- This one will get a bit complicated with a two-driver race at Oulton and practically everyone on earth turning out in a Hodgetts Corolla at some point....

Class A

No	Driver	Team/Entrant	Sponsors	Car	Notes
1	Andy Rouse	Rouse Engineeing	ICS plc+EDMS	Ford Sierra RS Cosworth/RS500
1	Win Percy	Rouse Engineering	ICS plc+EDMS	Ford Sierra RS Cosworth	stood in for Rouse at Silverstone GP
2	Pete Hall	Rouse Engineering	ICS plc+EDMS	Ford Sierra RS Cosworth/RS500	Rouse shared at Oulton
3	Graham Scarborough	Scarborough	Letchworth Roofing	Rover Vitesse	Lionel Abbott shared at Oulton
4	Dennis Leech	Leech	various sponsors seen on the car as the season went on- notably Shell Oils,Land Rover & Demon Tweeks	Rover Vitesse	Karl Jones shared at Oulton
5	Dave Carvell	R.A. Potter	Steetley+Castrol+Appleyards	Rover Vitesse	Jeff Allam shared at Oulton
6	Graham Goode	Graham Goode Racing	Listerine+Texaco	Ford Sierra RS Cosworth/RS500	Win Percy shared at Oulton
7	Mike O'Brien	Alan Docking Racing/Linden Racing	Swan National+Bison+Castrol etc	Holden Commodore VK	Gary Brabham shared at Oulton
8	Tim Harvey	John Maguire	Istel+Austin Rover Finance	Rover Vitesse	David Leslie shared at Oulton
9	Dave Brodie	BBW Motorsport	Atari+SMC Estates	Mitsubishi Starion Turbo	one-off deal for GP support
9	Chris Aylett	BBW Motorsport	Facit	Mitsubishi Starion Turbo	leased Starion from Brodie for last round
10	Mike Newman	Newman	Newman's Footwear+Burlington	BMW 635CSi	Robert Speak shared at Oulton
14?	Brian Chatfield	Chatfield		Rover Vitesse	ex-TWR car in unlettered Bastos colours
15	Mike Smith	Stuart McCrudden or Lionel Abbott?	Mobil 1	Ford Sierra RS Cosworth	Prodsaloon at GP
16	Robb Gravett	Graham Hathaway	Arquati+Robbco	Ford Sierra RS Cosworth	Prodsaloon at GP
18	Jerry Mahony	Roger Dowson	Arquati	Ford Sierra RS Cosworth	Prodsaloon at GP
19	Dave Morgan	TCCS Racing		Ford Sierra RS Cosworth	Prodsaloon at GP
??	Bill Griffin	Griffin Motorsport		Rover Vitesse	ex-TWR car in (unlettered?) Marlboro livery
??	Graham Rose?	?		Mitsubishi Starion	mystery prodsaloon Starion posted a DNS at R1
??	Rex Muldoon	API Motorsport	AutoParts International	Ford Sierra RS Cosworth	Gp A rallycar at last round

[KA]

Class B

No	Driver	Team/Entrant	Sponsors	Car	Notes
22	Karl Jones	Asquith Autosport	Duckhams QXR	Ford Escort RS Turbo
30	Rob Kirby	ARDT	John West Salmon	Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo/75 V6	75 Turbo in early rounds, then a couple in '86-spec V6
31	Jon Dooley	ARDT	John West Salmon	Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo	Rob Kirby shared at Oulton
32	Kevin Eaton	Eaton	East Midlands Transport	Nissan Bluebird Turbo
33	Frank Sytner	Prodrive	Sytner BMW+Mobil 1+ Chartered Trust Finance	BMW M3
38	Mark Hales	Terry Drury Racing	Shell Oils	Ford Escort RS Turbo	Up to mid-season Shell logos over modified 1986 Duckhams livery. Later overall white. Should have been shared with either Graham Hathaway or Phil Dowsett at Oulton
39	Lionel Wiffen	Terry Drury Racing		Ford Escort RS Turbo	plain white car. Shared with Mark Hales at Oulton
39	Graham Hathaway	Terry Drury Racing		Ford Escort RS Turbo

[KA]

Class C

No	Driver	Team/Entrant	Sponsor	Car	Notes
42	Alan Minshaw	Minshaw	Demon Tweeks	VW Golf GTi Mk2	prodsaloon at some rounds? Vic Lee shared at Oulton
45	Roger Saunders	Saunders	UniqueAir+Bedford Tyres	Renault 5GT Turbo	Les Blackburn shared at Oulton
48	Paul Harmer	Harmer		Vauxhall Astra GT/E
55	Colin Pearcy	Pearcy	Smith & Latimer?	MG Metro Turbo	car in ex-works Computervision colours. Paul Taft shared at Oulton
58	Alex Postan	Postan	Autotech Cars	Renault 5GT Turbo	R5 Turbo Cup car
??	David Grimshaw			Renault 5GT Turbo	R5 Turbo Cup car
??	David Gibson			Renault 5GT Turbo	R5 Turbo Cup car
??	David Martell			Renault 5GT Turbo	R5 Turbo Cup car
??	Niki Phillips			Renault 5GT Turbo	R5 Turbo Cup car
??	Les Germain			Renault 5GT Turbo	R5 Turbo Cup car
??	Anthony Pownall			Renault 5GT Turbo	R5 Turbo Cup car
??	Peter Gottlieb			Renault 5GT Turbo	R5 Turbo Cup car
??	David Kay			Renault 5GT Turbo	R5 Turbo Cup car

[KA]

Class D

No	Driver	Team/Entrant	Sponsors	Car	Notes
63	Tony Crudgington	Crudgington		Toyota Corolla GT
66	Chris Hodgetts	CHMS	Toyota GB+Securicor Go-Phone	Toyota Corolla GT	shared with Tiff Needell at Oulton
66	Mark Hales	CHMS	Toyota GB+Securicor Go-Phone	Toyota Corolla GT	stood in for Hodgetts at last round
67?	Paul Longfield	CHMS	Toyota GB+Mineral Improvements?	Toyota Corolla GT	possibly the white ex-Hodgetts 1986 car
67?	Chuck Nicholson	CHMS	Toyota GB+Mineral Improvements?	Toyota Corolla GT	possibly the white ex-Hodgetts 1986 car
67	Tiff Needell	CHMS		Toyota Corolla GT	shared with Hodgetts at Oulton- red ex-Minshaw car
69	Alex Moss	CHMS		Toyota Corolla GT	red ex-Minshaw car at Brands- not sure which at other races
70	Tiff Needell	TOM'S GB	Toyota	Toyota Corolla GT AE82
74	Phil Dowsett	Julian May/North Essex Motorsport		Ford Escort RS1600i
74	Patrick Watts	Julian May/North Essex Motorsport		Ford Escort RS1600i
74	Keith Norman	Julian May/North Essex Motorsport		Ford Escort RS1600i
77	Geoff Kimber-Smith	AGK Motorsport	Mr Chips- Hot Chip Vending	Toyota Corolla GT	shared with Gerry Marshall at Oulton
??	Will Hoy	CHMS		Toyota Corolla GT	Silverstone GP- which car?
??	Alan Minshaw	CHMS		Toyota Corolla GT	Oulton R2- which car?
??	Tony Dron	CHMS		Toyota Corolla GT	Donington -possibly the red ex-Minshaw car with no69
??	Richard Belcher	Alan Gaunt	AJG Transport	Ford Escort RS1600i
??	Mark Goddard	Alan Gaunt	AJG Transport	Ford Escort RS1600i

I'm still trying to work out the permutations of driver, car colour and race number for the CHMS Corollas....

[KA]

Some photos from the 1987 GP support by Robert Clayson on Flickr

I've already posted links to the Sierra pics (Win Percy in the Rouse/ICS car, plus the prodsaloons of Mike Smith and Robb Gravett) in the RS500 thread, but there's also one of Frank Sytner's M3

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertc...in/photostream

and one of the Renault Cup cars that appeared in the BTCC race- Any idea who?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertc...n/photostream/

[Super100MPH]

Here's a video of Win Percy winning Round 6 at Silverstone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHrq...BcWjogGFRwQf_r