Tourist Trophy 1981 - Grid - Racing Sports Cars

Event: Canon RAC Tourist Trophy		Date: 13.9.1981
Track: Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit (United Kingdom), unknown length	Organiser: unknown
Tourist Trophy
European Touring Car Championship (round 7)

(Grid Positions)

Grid	No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant	Q Time
1^st	1	Helmut Kelleners / Umberto Grano	BMW 635 CSi	BMW Italia	1:35.8700
2^nd	17	Chuck Nicholson / Tom Walkinshaw	Mazda RX-7	Chuck Nicholson	1:37.4000
3^rd	4	Lella Lombardi / Anna Cambiaghi	Chevrolet Camaro	Luigi Racing	1:39.7800
4^th	18	Fritz Müller / Heinz Kuhn-Weiss	Mazda RX-7	Müllerbrau Valvoline Team	1:40.1700
5^th	26	Willi Bergmeister / Jaime Sanz de Madrid	Audi Coupé GT5S	Spiess Tuning	1:40.5000
6^th	12	Siegfried Müller / Klaus Niedzwiedz / Bernd Ringshausen	Ford Capri III 3.0S	ABR-Ringshausen-Rennsport	1:41.2300
7^th	21	Dieter Kindlmann / Dieter Quester	BMW 320	Beccara Racing	1:41.9000
8^th	23	Enzo Calderari / Marco Vanoli	BMW 320	Eggenberger Motorsport	1:41.9000
9^th	54	Gordon Spice / Andy Rouse	Ford Capri III 3.0S	Gordon Spice Racing	1:42.1200
10^th	55	Vince Woodman / Jonathan Buncombe	Ford Capri III 3.0S	Equipe Esso/VMW Motors	1:42.2100
11^th	27	Peter Seikel / Fred Rosterg	Audi Coupé GT5S	Votex-Team-Seikel	1:42.5700
12^th	15	Herbert Herler / Günter Filthaut / Johann Weisheidinger	Opel Monza	Herbert Herler	1:43.0700
13^th	3	Dieter Schmid / Maurizio Micangeli	BMW 635 CSi	Dieter Schmid	1:43.1900
14^th	31	Richard Lloyd / Jonathan Palmer	Audi 80 GTE	Canon Cameras Racing with GTI Engineering	1:43.9100
15^th	56	John Morrison / Les Blackburn	Ford Capri III 3.0S	Holman Blackburn	1:44.1600
16^th	61	Dennis Leech / John Spiller	Ford Capri III 3.0S	Dennis Leech	1:44.5200
17^th	24	Giuseppe Briozzo / Urs Knecht	BMW 320	Giuseppe Briozzo	1:44.5300
18^th	57	Nick Mason / Peter Clark / Steve O'Rourke	Ford Capri III 3.0S	VMW Motors/Equipe Esso	1:45.0200
19^th	58	Tom Dodd-Noble / Adam MacMillan	Ford Capri III 3.0S	Noble MacMillan Ltd.	1:45.0900
20^th	34	William Wykeham / Brian Classick	VW Golf GTi	Wykehams The London Golf GTI Specialists	1:45.1100
21^st	84	John Morris / Tom Shephard	VW Golf GTi	Morris Vulcan Ltd.	1:45.7800
22^nd	11	Bodo Jähn / Gerd Ruch	Ford Capri III 3.0S	Autoveri Motorsport	1:46.3800
23^rd	33	Hagen Arlt / Wolf-Dieter Feuerlein	Audi 80 GTE	IFN Efector	1:46.9400
24^th	45	Zdeněk Vojtěch / Břetislav Enge	Škoda 130 RS	Skoda (GB) Ltd.	1:47.2300
25^th	77	Terry Nightingale / Arne Riis	Triumph Dolomite Sprint	Team Stratstone Racing	1:48.3100
26^th	73	Herbert Kummle / Wilfried Vogt	Ford Escort RS 2000	Format-Kuchen	1:48.3200
27^th	44	Zdeněk Vojtěch / Jan Šenkýř	Škoda 130 RS	Skoda (GB) Ltd.	1:48.3900
28^th	53	Michel Delcourt / Jean-Marie Baert	BMW 530i	Duindistel	1:48.4400
29^th	76	Axel Felder / Franz-Josef Bröhling	Ford Escort RS 2000	Brauneiser Renntechnik	1:48.5900
30^th	59	Peter Ulmann / Silvio Berger	Ford Capri III 3.0S	Scuderia Calandra	1:49.1100
31^st	43	Josef Michl / Petr Martinovský / Oldřich Vaníček	Škoda 130 RS	Skoda (GB) Ltd.	1:49.3900
32^nd	74	Hartmut Bauer / Helmut Gall	Ford Escort RS 2000	Eichberg Racing	1:49.4800
33^rd	41	Richard Longman / Alan Curnow	Austin Metro	Team Datapost Racing with Hepolite and Esso	1:49.7100
34^th	42	Jon Mowatt / Martin Pearson	Datsun B110 Sunny	Janspeed Engineering	1:50.0700
35^th	49	Heinz Pütz / Bodo Eichner	Audi 50	Haribo Lakritzen	1:51.3600
36^th	81	Robert Meacham / Bill Pinckney / Bill Postins	VW Scirocco	Ravenbridge Racing	1:51.5200
37^th	46	Adolf Fešárek / Josef Sivík	Škoda 130 RS	Skoda (GB) Ltd.	1:51.7200
38^th	29	Leo Bertorelli / Rob Kirby / Peter Hilliard	Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV	Napolina Alfa Romeo Dealer Team	1:51.8900
39^th	64	Jeremy Rossiter / John Cleland	Opel Monza	Dealer Opel Team	1:52.3800
40^th	83	Hans-Jörn Ley / Josef Rietmann	VW Golf GTi	AC Bad Honnef	1:52.6400
41^st	40	Paul Taft / Marybeth Harrison / Steve Soper	Austin Metro	Dunnett/Premier Motors (Romford) Ltd.	1:53.1500
42^nd	75	Joachim Scheefeldt / Karl-Heinz Gürthler / Hanno Schumacher	Ford Escort RS 2000		1:53.6300
43^rd	48	Richard Mattozza / Pierre Jamin	Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint	Delta Racing Group	1:54.5100
44^th	89	Tony Dickinson / Malc Leggate	Austin Metro	Holland Bros Ltd.	1:58.1000

Other present cars:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant
5	John Markey / Steve Phillips	AMC Spirit AMX	John Markey
47	Jon Dooley / Rob Kirby	Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti	Napolina Alfa Romeo Dealer Team

Entered cars that did not arrive:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant
2	Harald Neger / Walter Brun / Heribert Werginz	BMW 635 CSi	Racing Corporation Vienna
22	Dieter Kindlmann / Jürgen Pohlmann	BMW 320	Beccara-Wohnbau-Racing
30	Karl-Heinz Gürthler / Bernhard Schmitz-Moormann	Toyota Celica	Hacheney-Team e.V. im DMV
32	Dieter Engelien / Thomas Darius / Richard Jenvey	Audi 80 GTE	Engelien Racing Automobile Technik
60	Charles Sawyer-Hoare / Andy Rouse	Ford Capri III 3.0S	CSH Racing with Esso and the Daily Mirror
63	Herbert Herler / Johann Weisheidinger	Opel Monza	Gilden-Kolsch Racing Team
71	Hanno Schumacher / Armin Hahne	Mazda RX-7	Mazda Rotari Racing Team
85	Oscar Kessler / Axel Huweler	Audi 80 GTE	Belgian VW Audi Club
86	Robin Carlisle	Toyota Celica	David Earl Associates Ltd.