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Originally Posted by chunterer
More good points to check KA.
Yes Percy ran the updated '82 Corolla for 2-3 rounds IIRC. I can't remember if the Celica Supra was supposed to have been ready for the first round, or whether it was always scheduled to appear later on?
The Mazda's are interesting, I have a feeling Nightingale and Dodd-Noble may have driven the same car? We may have covered this somewhere earlier in the thread or elsewhere (methinks a Grp 1/A RX7 thead could be useful as well  ) Nightingale certainly started the season but sold the car to someone else could that have been TD-N or maybe Hamish Irvine? I also have a suspicion that one of the RX7's was hired from someone else, David Palmer perhaps?
Brundle did the last round at Silverstone, not sure if he did any more than that.
A Fiesta, that's interesting. Did Robertson race one in 1982, there were a couple out that year i'm sure? Again thinking along the lines as with the Supra, did Jock originally plan to race an Escort from the beginning and had to race the Fiesta until it was ready, or was it a change of heart once it was clear the Fiesta wasn't going to be competitive? |
Pretty sure I've seen a 1982 pic of Robertson in a Pegasus Fiesta somewhere. Looking at the results we've got earlier in the thread, the Fiesta appearances seem to be early in the year, so it could be a case of the new car not being ready and starting the season in the old one- '83 was the first year for the RS1600i I think.