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unusual facts about touring car



2003 Konica V8 Supercar Series

The 2003 Konica V8 Supercar Series was an Australian touring car series held for V8 Supercars.

Chevrolet Supercars ME Championship

The Chevrolet Supercars ME Championship is a Touring car series that implements Chevrolets' in competition on circuits in the Middle East.

Gordon Spice

Gordon Spice(born 18 April 1940), is an ex British racing driver who competed in both sports cars and Touring Car racing in the 1960s and 1970s before starting Spice Engineering with fellow racing driver Ray Bellm in the 1980s.

Haynes Automobile Company

In the 1915 stag film "A Free Ride" (The worlds oldest known surviving hard core pornographic film), a right-hand-drive 1912 Haynes 50-60 Model Y Touring Car was used to give "The Jazz Girls" a "free" ride.

Philippe Létourneau

He competed in Formula 1600, Formula 2000, Champcar Light, Formula Renault, Formula Vauxhall Junior, Touring car, Spec Racer, Formula Atlantic, and Daytona Prototypes, and competed at circuits including Silverstone, Magny Cours, Daytona Speedway, Mont Tremblant and Gilles Villeneuve.

Porsche 912

In 1967 the 912 contributed to Porsche factory rally history when independent Polish driver Sobiesław Zasada drove a factory-loaned 912, bearing Polish plate 6177 KR, to capture the European Rally Championship for Group 1 series touring cars.

Rebour

The Puteaux company built "luxury touring cars" and cabs; their model range consisted of 10/12 hp, 18/22 hp, 20/25 hp, and 40/50hp cars.

Romano WE84

In mid-1984 Bap Romano, feeling that he had the fastest sports car in Australia (and having proved so in the 1984 ASCC), challenged star touring car driver Peter Brock, with Brock to drive the Porsche 956 that he was to share with Larry Perkins at the 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans, to a series of races on circuits in Australia fair to both cars claiming the WE84 could beat Brock's 956.


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1985 Australian Grand Prix

As the Group A race was scheduled for late on the Saturday afternoon after F1 qualifying had finished, Berger had to obtain permission from the FIA, FOCA and his Arrows team to race the BMW (as it turned out, his touring car race lasted 3 laps before he was punted into the gravel trap at the end of the pit straight by the Holden Dealer Team Commodore V8 of local star John Harvey).

2005 Swedish Touring Car Championship season

The 2005 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 10th Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) season.

2007 European Touring Car Cup

The 2007 FIA European Touring Car Cup was the third running of the FIA European Touring Car Cup.

2013 World Touring Car Championship season

The 2013 World Touring Car Championship season was the tenth season of the FIA World Touring Car Championship, and the ninth since the series was revived in 2005.

Alfa Corse

In 1993, Alfa Corse entered the DTM with the AWD V6-powered 155 TI, and created a Supertouring model, that would on got win the Italian Superturismo, the BTCC and the Spanish Touring Car Championship.

Alfa Romeo 155

Between 1992 and 1994, the 155 managed to take the Italian Superturismo championship, the German DTM championship (both with Nicola Larini at the wheel), the Spanish Touring Car Championship (with Adrián Campos), and the British Touring Car Championship (with Gabriele Tarquini).

Alfredo Costanzo

At the insistence of his long-time open wheel rival turned touring car racer John Bowe, who to this day rates him as the best Australian driver he raced against, Costanzo was drafted into the Volvo Dealer Team in 1986 for the Castrol 500 at Sandown and the James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst.

Andrey Smetsky

In 2007 he finished runner-up in the Russian Touring Car Championship with a touring class Honda Accord.

Australian Motor Racing Championships

The series began as a second and third tier collection of national motor racing series in 2005 providing a home for series such as Formula Holden, Formula 3, Sports Sedan, Production Cars, Truck Racing, Saloon Cars, Commodore Cup and Australian Touring Car Challenge.

BMW 320 TC

The BMW 320 TC is the further development of the BMW 320si WTCC, with which Andy Priaulx won the World Touring Car Championship for BMW in 2006 and 2007.

Dan Eaves

In 2000 the British Touring Car Championship ran a Class B for these cars, and Bowman Motorsport under the name of Touring Car VIP Club had Eaves entered 2 rounds in his 306.

Datsun Bluebird 910

The Bluebird 910 become part of Australian motor sport history on September 29, 1984, when George Fury put his Nissan Bluebird Turbo (an imported version with a Nissan Z engine turbo motor and fabricated IRS) on pole position for the 1984 James Hardie 1000 touring car race with a time of 2:13.850.

Dick Johnson Racing

Proving that the Australian developed Sierra was the fastest Group A touring car in the world, Johnson easily qualified the car on pole in front of the Eggenberger Texaco Sierra's and the Andy Rouse example, and went on to an early race lead.

East Meadow Fire Department

Arthur Brisbane, the famous publisher, donated his 1920's Peirce Arrow touring car to the fire department.

Emmet O'Brien

Like the previous year O'Brien got a late call to race for the Independent Danish Poulsen Motorsport BMW Team in the FIA European Touring Car Cup in Adria in Italy.

Frank Biela

He drove for the team in Formula Ford and the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (the German touring car championship), where he won the race at AVUS in 1987.

Gavin Pyper

When the British Touring Car Championship started a second class B in 2000 to boost the size of the grid, he entered an Alfa Romeo 156 which was run by former touring car driver Gary Ayles.

Giampiero Simoni

Giampiero Simoni (born 12 September 1969 in Porto San Giorgio) is an Italian former racing driver who made his name in Touring Car racing.

KW Motorsport Ltd

KW Motorsport Ltd was founded by Kieron Salter and Will Phillips in 2003 after the demise of Reynard Motor Sport, the company has had successful involvement in Le Mans, American Le Mans, European series, Super Touring car and single seat races.

Lee Brookes

In 1996 he entered the prestigious British Touring Car Championship, in an ex-works Toyota Carina.

Longford Circuit

Australian open wheel and touring car stars Bib Stillwell, Lex Davison, Leo Geoghegan, Frank Matich, Frank Gardner, Spencer Martin, Kevin Bartlett, John Harvey, Ian Geoghegan, Norm Beechey, Bob Jane and Allan Moffat also raced at the circuit.

Maxwell automobile

A 1916 Model 25 Maxwell Touring Car was famous as the car Jack Benny drove decades after it had stopped being manufactured.

Peter McLeod

McLeod began his racing career in 1980 at the relatively old age of 32, progressing immediately into touring car racing where in just three seasons to become one of Australia's fastest privately entered touring car racers, and usually had the fastest Mazda RX-7's behind Allan Moffat's factory supported team (though with reportedly more horsepower than Moffat's cars).

The change to Group A touring car regulations for the 1985 Australian Touring Car Championship forced McLeod, and others such as Allan Moffat, to abandon the RX-7 as the cars would have to revert to running the standard 12A motor, would have no aerodynamic aids and would generally be uncompetitive.

Roland Ratzenberger

But he got onto the grid for the next round at the TI Circuit in Aida, Japan, as his experience of the track from his touring car days meant he was the only driver in the race who had driven at the venue before.

SEAT León Supercopa

The series was very popular and produced future touring car winners such as Rob Huff, James Pickford and Mat Jackson.

Toca

TOCA, organisers and administrators of the British Touring Car Championship

Willys-Knight

Seven Willys-Knight vehicles including two large trucks and a touring car were used on the Martin and Osa Johnson photographic safari in the remotest areas of Africa.

Win Percy

Joe Saward of Autosport magazine once described him as being "often regarded as the World's Number One Touring Car Driver".