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Originally Posted by Brickyard
Hello,
Happy New Year to all of you.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think we don't have yet a thread about this racing model, as we have for the BMW 635CSi and the Rover SD1.
So, let's start. Firts one question: how many of those cars were raced in fact.
here in Portugal, at least 4 maybe five cars did run in our Touring Car Championship, the first one in late 1988 or early 1989.
Any coments, photos, etc...?
Regards
Luis Mateus
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This one could be quite a challenge, as there were a lot of them around...
I'll kick off with the BTCC Cosworth/RS500 entries, year-by-year:
1987- Andy Rouse/ICS- 2 cars, one a full-season entry for Pete Hall, the other in selected races for Rouse and Win Percy. Both started as Cosworths, but were upgraded to RS500 late-season
- Graham Goode- one Listerine-backed car for most of the season- it was heavily damaged in either a race of test accident late in the year and missed the last couple of rounds
There were also a number of Production Saloon Cosworths that appeared in a few BTCC rounds-
- Mike Smith's Mobil-backed car,
- the Arquati-sponsored cars of Jerry Mahony (prepared by Roger Dowson) and Robb Gravett (prepared by Graham Hathaway),
- Dave Morgan's TCCS Racing car- there may have been others
- Finally, Rex Muldoon in an Auto Parts International-entered car, (either a Prodsaloon or a Group A rallycar) appeared in the last round at Silverstone
1988- things really kick off, with at least a dozen RS500s appearing:
- Andy Rouse- 4 cars- 2 Kaliber-backed cars for Rouse and Guy Edwards, plus an ICS- sponsored car for Pete Hall, (who stood down in favour of Robb Gravett and Mark Hales later in the year) and a CAM Shipping-sponsored car for Lawrence Bristow
- Graham Goode- 2 cars for Goode (Listerine-sponsored) and Mike Newman
- Asquith Autosport-1 Duckhams-backed car for Karl Jones
- Terry Drury Racing- 1 car for Tim Harvey
- Roger Dowson- 1 Arquati-sponsored car for Jerry Mahony
I think these were the full-season entries, but several other cars appeared:
- Eggenberger- a single Eggenberger/Texaco ETCC car appeared in a few races for Steve Soper and Gianfranco Brancatelli
- Brooklyn Motorsport- one car for Chris Hodgetts late-season after his split with the MIL Toyota Supra squad
- CC Motorsport- one car for Bob Sands in the early rounds until sponsorship ran out
- Graham Hathaway Racing- one car for Hathaway for much of the season- Rob Wilson also appeared in it at least once
- Brodie-Brittain Racing- a single car for Dave Brodie in a few late-season races
- ECM Vehicle Delivery- a single, road-legal(!) car shared by Tom Bell and Ray MacDowell- they also used the car in club racing and Thundersaloons as I remember and appeared at a number of BTCC rounds
- I think there was at least one overseas RS500 that appeared in an early season round at Silverstone- maybe Kaj Bornebusch's ETCC car
I'll look out the 1989 and 1990 details shortly