Group C – Spa – This weekend

[t1grm]

Going to see this lot tearing round Spa tomorrow and Sunday:

N° Driver Nat. Car Year CC Class
2 LAW Justin GB JAGUAR XJ220GT 5
3 PEARMAN Henry GB JAGUAR XJR-11 1990 3500T 1
7 JAMES Nigel GB PORSCHE 962C 1989 3000T 1
10 GRAHAM Jim GB PORSCHE 962C 1987 3000 2
11 BRYAN Richard USA MUSTANG GTP Probe 1986 5000 2
14 KELLENERS Ralf D PORSCHE 962 CK6 1989 2800 1
16 SCHLEIFER Peter D MARCH Chevrolet 84G 1983 5737 4
17 SCHRAUWEN Stephan B CHEVRON B8 1968 7000 5
18 WHIGHT Paul GB ASTON MARTIN AMR-1 1989 6300 1
21 MERCER David GB SPICE-FORD SE90C 1990 3500 1
22 STINTON Ian GB HARRIER GT1 1997 1998T 5
23 CLARK Neil GB HARRIER LR9 1995 1998 5
27 AGG Charlie GB NISSAN R90CK 1990 3496T 1
28 HEPWORTH Stephen GB ARGO Chevrolet JM20 1992 6870 1
32 RINI Nick GB JAGUAR XJR-12D 1993 7400 1
33 KONIG Martyn GB PORSCHE 956B 1984 2600 2
37 BATEMAN Richard GB TIGA-ROVER GC287 1983 2994 4
51 SCHUSTER Michael D ARGO Judd JM 19C 1988 3498 1
58 BRYAN Benton USA ARGO JM19D 1988 5000 1
64 DE VRIES Bryan USA INTREPID RM-1 1991 6000 1
78 PEARSON John GB ECOSSE C285 1985 3300 4
88 RANDALL Chris
RANDALL Nick GB NISSAN NPT-90 GTP 1990 3000T 1
112 MULLEN Jim USA SPICE Chevrolet GTP 1992 6500 1

Wohoooo!!!!

Group C cars. You can’t beat them. Best sports cars ever to hit the track IMHO. I’m sure I read somewhere that the 1992 Peugeot 906 group C car is still 1.5 secs a lap quicker than the fastest FIA GT cars today?

More details here:

www.rmuclassic.be/2004/menu.html

[FourWheelDrift]

Charlie Agg is a long time historic Can-Am racer, seen him throw a McLaren around Donington.

But Ralf Kelleners!!!!!!!!!! That's a bit of a coup isn't it? If you're going to put money on someone winning it'd be him.

[groomi]

Spa, XJR12s, 962s, Seriously rare Nissans.... There really is a heaven!

Make sure you post up some pictures.

[t1grm]

Groomi, Unfortunately all of the Jaguars and one of the Nissans were not running. I missed the Saturday race and I think a few of them dropped out of the Sunday event. To be honest the racing itself wasn’t that good because there were only 10 runners that got very spread out quite quickly but it was worth it to go wandering round the cars in the paddock afterwards. Here are some of the better photos I took. Excuse the dodgy camera skills:











Spa is a fabulous circuit as well. First time there, I walked around the whole track. This was taken from Coombes. You can see the track leading up to the bus stop chicane and the Paddock in the hills in the background.



Edited to fix links

>> Edited by t1grm on Sunday 9th May 17:58

[groomi]

Looks fantastic.

I had a similar experience at donnington a couple of years back where there were about 10 group C runners. Just the sight and sound of them going round was amazing!

Hopefully somebody can get some publicity into the series and get some more cars together for some worthwhile racing.... Certainly is worth it!

Nice pics BTW.

[neilsie]

o wow, brings back such fab memories of late eighties and sad ones of the ninties and the empty grids...

gosh, i hope the Le Mans support is a good turn out - one of the main reasons i am going!!!

[williamp]

Was the Aston AMR1 racing?

How did that do???

[FourWheelDrift]

williamp said:

Was the Aston AMR1 racing? How did that do???

Didn't look like it did, I followed the link on the first post here for the results.

My prediction came true for Race 1, Ralf Kelleners won

But retired from Race 2.

[anonymous-user]

i just wait for the day that someone brings out an old Jaguar XJR-14. I was at silverstone when teo fabi did the first stint at teh Empire Trophy in the early nineties. his first lap in the XJR 14 was about ten seconds quicker than the 962s and the XJR 12s!

http://racingsportscars.t35.com/photo/1991/Nurburgring-1991-08-18-004.jpg

[FourWheelDrift]

pablo said:

i just wait for the day that someone brings out an old Jaguar XJR-14. I was at silverstone when teo fabi did the first stint at teh Empire Trophy in the early nineties. his first lap in the XJR 14 was about ten seconds quicker than the 962s and the XJR 12s! http://racingsportscars.t35.com/photo/1991/Nurburgring-1991-08-18-004.jpg

And people say Schumacher's dominance has made F1 boring

[anonymous-user]

FourWheelDrift said:

pablo said: i just wait for the day that someone brings out an old Jaguar XJR-14. I was at silverstone when teo fabi did the first stint at teh Empire Trophy in the early nineties. his first lap in the XJR 14 was about ten seconds quicker than the 962s and the XJR 12s! <a href="http://racingsportscars.t35.com/photo/1991/Nurburgring-1991-08-18-004.jpg">http://racingsportscars.t35.com/photo/1991/Nurburgring-1991-08-18-004.jpg</a> And people say Schumacher's dominance has made F1 boring

the irony was it didnt win! i think a 962 won it as the XJR 14 had reliability issues.