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Round 10- Brands Hatch, 26 Aug 1985. Indy Circuit, 40 laps
1./#3/Tom Walkinshaw/TWR/A/Rover Vitesse/34m14.43
2./#1/Andy Rouse/Rouse/A/Ford Sierra XR4Ti/34m45.84
3./#5/Dave Brodie/Brodie/A/Mitsubishi Starion Turbo/34m47.44
4./#7/Barry Sheene/Hughes/A/Toyota Celica Supra/39 laps
5./#2/Peter Hall/Rouse/A/Rover Vitesse/39 laps
6./#31/Graham Goode/Goode/B/Nissan Bluebird Turbo- 1st Class B/39 laps
7./#44/Richard Longman/Datapost/B/Ford Escort RSTurbo/39 laps
8./#69/Chris Hodgetts/Brooklyn/C/Ford Escort RS1600i- 1st Class C/38 laps
9./#66/Alan Curnow/Datapost/C/Ford Escort RS1600i/38 laps
10./#74/Richard Belcher/Jeffreys/C/Ford Escort RS1600i/38 laps
11./#79/John Morris/Brooklyn/C/Ford Escort RS1600i/38 laps
12./#77/Geoff Kimber-Smith/AGK/C/Toyota Corolla GT/38 laps
13./#70/Patrick Watts/North Essex/C/Ford Escort RS1600i/38 laps
14./#62/Tony Crudgington/Crudgington/C/Toyota Corolla GT/37 laps
15./#85/Alex Moss/Brooklyn/C/Ford Escort RS1600i//37 laps
DNF/#32/Rob Kirby/ARDT/B/Alfa Romeo GTV6- 13 laps- engine
DNF/#12/Mike Newman/Burlington/A/BMW 635CSi- 10 laps- electrics
DNF/#30/Jon Dooley/ARDT/B/Alfa Romeo GTV6- 6 laps- gearbox(broken gear lever?)
DNF/#65/Stig Gruen/Gruen/C/Toyota Corolla GT-4 laps engine (possibly overheating- the MN report describes it expiring 'in a cloud of steam')
Fastest Laps-
A- Brodie- 50.54s
B- Goode- 52.10s
C-Hodgetts- 53.27s
Grid:
1- Brodie (Starion/A) 49.77s
2- Walkinshaw (Rover/A) 50.55s
3- Rouse (XR4Ti/A) 50.60s
4- Sheene (Supra/A) 50.87s
5- Goode (Nissan/B) 51.42s
6- Longman (Escort RS Turbo/B) 51.76s
7- Hall (Rover/A) 52.02s
8- Newman (635CSi/A) 52.07s
9- Dooley (GTV6/B) 52.33s
10- Kirby (GTV6/B) 52.89s
11- Hodgetts (RS1600i/C) 53.24s
12- Crudgington (Corolla/C) 53.51s
13- Curnow (RS1600i/C) 52.52s
14- Belcher (RS1600i/C) 53.64s
15- Kimber-Smith (Corolla/C) 53.95s
16- Morris (RS1600i/C) 54.26s
17- Watts (RS1600i/C) 54.68s
18- Moss (RS1600i/C) 54.70s
19- Gruen (Corolla/C) 55.47s
Again, I've got the Motoring News report so can fill in some background
Big news here was the unexpected appearance of Tom Walkinshaw in what the report described as an 'unsignwritten ETC testing hack Rover'-the car was in Bastos colours, but without the sponsors' logos and signwriting. Walkinshaw was running outside the championship, as the car wasn't registered for points. His reason for racing according to the MN report was to 'give my neck a workout.I trapped a nerve when I was T-boned in New Zealand earlier this year, and I've been having physio since. It flared up again after Spa, and now I'm checking it'll be OK for the TT'
He was also testing new wheel rims
Graham Goode had been deducted 10 championship points for his exclusion at the Silverstone GP support earlier in the season.
Mike Newman was back after missing Snetterton in favour of a holiday in the South of France- his 635 also having had an engine rebuild, but still not performing as it should- 'I've no revs at the top end'
Class B was suffering from a 50% shortfall in Alfas- the Terry Drury pair absent here. Jon Dooley's ARDT car was now in John West colours, Napolina having withdrawn as a sponsor
Richard Belcher went off into the tyres during the untimed practice session, the Jeffreys car being repaired (although slightly scarred) for first qualifying. North Essex Motorsport boss Julian May loaned the headlights from his road car to help repair the Escort!
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