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Alan Richard Minshaw (17 May 1935 – 16 April 2024) was a British racing driver. In 1983 he won Class C and finished second overall in the British Touring Car Championship, British Saloon Car Championship in a Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Golf GTi. As of 2012, Minshaw owned a varied collection of historic racing vehicles, and regularly competed alongside his sons. Minshaw died on 16 April 2024, at the age of 88. Racing record Complete British Saloon / Touring Car Championship results (:Template:Motorsport driver results legend, key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded ?–1989 in class) † Events with 2 races staged for the different classes. ‡ Guest driver - not eligible for points. Complete World Touring Car Championship results (:Template:Motorsport driver results legend, key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) References External links *Top Racing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 British Touring Car Championship
The 1988 Dunlop RAC British Touring Car Championship was the 31st season of the British Touring Car Championship, championship. The drivers title was won by Frank Sytner, driving a Prodrive, BMW Team Finance BMW E30, BMW M3. Second place overall was Phil Dowsett who dominated class D. Andy Rouse finished third on points, winning nine races outright of the twelve rounds. Teams and drivers {, , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%" , - ! Team ! Car ! No. ! Drivers ! Rounds ! Endurance Drivers , - ! colspan=6, Class A , - , rowspan=4, MIL Motorsport , rowspan=4, Toyota Supra, Toyota Supra Turbo , rowspan=3, 1 , Chris Hodgetts , 1–2, 4–6 , rowspan=3, Vic Lee Racing, Vic Lee , - , Mark Hales , 7–9, 11–12 , - , Ian Flux , 10, 13 , - , 2 , Vic Lee Racing, Vic Lee , 5–10 , , - , Dennis Leech , Rover Vitesse , 4 , Dennis Leech , 3–8 , David Carvell , - , Terry Drury Racing , Ford Sierra RS Cosworth, Ford Sierra RS500 , 5 , Tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oulton Park
Oulton Park is a hard surfaced Race track, track used for motor racing, close to the village of Little Budworth, Cheshire, England, from Winsford, from Chester city centre, from Northwich and from Warrington, with a nearby rail connection along the Mid-Cheshire Line. It occupies much of the area which was previously known as the Oulton Estate. The racing circuit is owned and operated by Jonathan Palmer's MotorSport Vision organisation. Circuit The track is characterised by rapidly changing gradients, blind crests and several tight corners. The full circuit is . The highest part of the course is Hill Top. Paddock facilities are reasonable in size with large areas of hard-standing and some power points. The race track can be adapted for shorter courses. The "Foster's" Circuit, which is , comprises half of the "Cascades" corner followed by the Steve Hislop, "Hislop's" chicane, it then heads onto Knickerbrook and up the 13% gradient of Clay Hill to work its way round to the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
The AE86 series of the Toyota Corolla Levin and Toyota Sprinter Trueno are small, front-engine/rear-wheel-drive models within the mostly front-engine/front-wheel-drive fifth generation Corolla (E80) range—marketed by Toyota from 1983 to 1987 in coupé and liftback configurations. The cars were light, affordable, easily modifiable, and had a five-speed manual transmission, a limited slip differential (optional), MacPherson strut front suspension, near 50/50 front/rear weight balance, and a front-engine/rear-drive layout—at a time when this configuration was waning industry-wide. In certain areas of the world (and optional in others) it was powered by a high revving (7800 rpm) twin-cam engine. Widely popular for Showroom Stock, Group A, and Group N, Rally and Club racing, the cars' inherent qualities also earned the AE86 an early and enduring international prominence in the motorsport discipline of drifting. The AE86 was featured centrally in the popular, long-runn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 British Saloon Car Championship Season
The 1986 RAC British Saloon Car Championship was the 29th season of the championship, and the final under the name of The British Saloon Car Championship. Chris Hodgetts won the title with his class C Toyota Corolla. Teams & Drivers Guest drivers in ''italics''. {, , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%" , - ! Team ! Car ! ! Drivers ! Rounds , - ! colspan=5, Class A , - , rowspan=2, Industrial Control Services Ltd. , Ford Sierra XR4Ti , 1 , Andy Rouse , All , - , Rover Vitesse , 2 , Pete Hall , All , - , rowspan=2, BBW Motorsport , rowspan=2, Mitsubishi Starion Turbo , 3 , rowspan=2, '' Dave Brodie'' , 5 , - , 6 , 9 , - , Dennis Leech , Rover Vitesse , 4 , Dennis Leech , 1–5, 9 , - , Burlington Wallcoverings Ltd. , BMW 635CSi , 5 , Mike Newman , All , - , rowspan=3, Linden Racing/ Connells Estate Agents , rowspan=3, Rover Vitesse , 6 , rowspan=2, Neil McGrath , 5 , - , rowspan=2, 7 , 3 , - , Mike O'B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volkswagen Golf Mk2
The Volkswagen Golf Mk2 is a hatchback, the second generation of the Volkswagen Golf and the successor to the Volkswagen Golf Mk1. It was Volkswagen's highest volume seller from 1983 and ended in (German) production in late 1992, to be replaced by the Volkswagen Golf Mk3. The Mk2 was larger than the Mk1; its wheelbase grew slightly (+ ), as did exterior dimensions (length + , width + , height + ). Weight was up accordingly by about . Exterior design, developed in-house by VW design director Schäfer, kept the general lines of its Giorgetto Giugiaro, Giugiaro-designed predecessor, but was slightly more rounded. All told, about 6.3 million second-generation Golfs were built. Golf Mark 2 The second-generation Volkswagen Golf (also known as the ''Typ 19E'' until the 1991 model year, and ''Typ 1G'' thereafter) was launched in Europe at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1983, with sales beginning in its homeland and most other left-hand drive markets soon after. It debuted in Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 British Saloon Car Championship Season
The 1985 RAC Trimoco British Saloon Car Championship was the 28th season of the championship. Andy Rouse won his third consecutive BSCC championship in a Ford Sierra, making it a record four titles in total. Teams & Drivers Guest drivers in ''italics''. {, , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%" , - ! Team ! Car ! ! Drivers ! Rounds , - ! colspan=5, Class A , - , rowspan=4, Industrial Control Services Ltd. Radiopaging , rowspan=3, Ford Sierra XR4Ti , 1 , Andy Rouse , 2–12 , - , rowspan=2, 15 , Klaus Niedzwiedz , 8 , - , David Sears , 11 , - , Rover Vitesse , 2 , Pete Hall , All , - , Tom Walkinshaw Racing , Rover Vitesse , 3 , ''Tom Walkinshaw'' , 10 , - , Dennis Leech , Rover Vitesse , 4 , Dennis Leech , 8, 11–12 , - , rowspan=4, Mitsubishi Colt Racing , rowspan=4, Mitsubishi Starion Turbo , 5 , rowspan=2, Dave Brodie , 5–12 , - , rowspan=3, 6 , 2–4 , - , Vern Schuppan , 8 , - , Kunimitsu Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 British Saloon Car Championship Season
The 1984 RAC Trimoco British Saloon Car Championship was the 27th season of the championship. The title was won by Andy Rouse in a Rover Vitesse, claiming his third BSCC title. Teams & Drivers {, , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%" , - ! Team ! Car ! ! Drivers ! Rounds , - ! colspan=5, Class A , - , Dennis Leech , Rover Vitesse , 4 , Dennis Leech , 1–2, 6, 8 , - , rowspan=2, BMW GB Ltd. , rowspan=2, BMW 635CSi , 5 , Vince Woodman , 1, 3–5, 8–11 , - , 6 , James Weaver , All , - , Industrial Control Services Ltd. , Rover Vitesse , 7 , Andy Rouse , All , - , rowspan=2, Sytner BMW Racing with GSi , rowspan=2, BMW 635CSi , 8 , David Sutherland , 10 , - , 9 , Frank Sytner , All , - , rowspan=4, Team Sanyo Racing with Esso TWR – Austin Rover Fleet , rowspan=4, Rover Vitesse , rowspan=2, 10 , Pete Lovett , 1–4 , - , Jean-Louis Schlesser , 5–6 , - , 11 , Tony Pond , 1–6 , - , 20 , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 British Saloon Car Championship Season
The 1983 RAC Trimoco British Saloon Car Championship was the 26th season of the championship. Steve Soper driving a works Rover SD1 built by TWR was initially champion, but after he and the team was disqualified on a technicality, Andy Rouse won his second drivers title in an Alfa Romeo GTV6. Season overview The sporting regulations changed to FIA sanctioned Group A specification, and three different classes competed for honours. TWR expanded their team and ran a trio of Rover Vitesses for Pete Lovett, Jeff Allam and Steve Soper. Austin Rover would also back Roger Dowson Engineering who ran Turbo Metros in Class B whilst Ford supported a semi-works Ford Escort outfit in Class C. GM/Opel entered a single Opel Monza for Tony Lanfranchi. Reigning champion Win Percy would once again drive for Toyota, this time at the wheel of a Supra Turbo. Meanwhile, Frank Sytner raced for the works BMW team. TWR dominated the season, winning all 11 races. The drivers had the races pretty m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volkswagen Golf Mk1
The Volkswagen Golf Mk1 is the first generation of a small family car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen. It was noteworthy for signalling Volkswagen's shift of its major car lines from Rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout, rear-wheel drive and rear-mounted air-cooled engines to Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout, front-wheel drive with front-mounted, water-cooled engines that were often Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout#Front-engine transversely mounted / Front-wheel drive, transversely-mounted. Successor to Volkswagen's Volkswagen Beetle, Beetle, the first generation Golf debuted in Europe in May 1974 with styling by Giorgetto Giugiaro's Italdesign. History Replacing the Beetle; early efforts Volkswagen began producing prototypes of possible Beetle replacements as far back as the early 1950s, and may have received design proposals from Porsche earlier than that. All of the internal projects' names started with "EA", standing for "Entwicklungsauftrag" and mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 British Saloon Car Championship Season
The 1981 RAC Tricentrol British Saloon Car Championship was the 24th season of the British Touring Car Championship, championship. Win Percy won his second consecutive drivers title in his Mazda RX-7. Teams and drivers Calendar and winners All races were held in the United Kingdom. Overall winners in bold. Championship standings Drivers' Championship Points were awarded on a 9, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 basis to the top six finishers in each class, with one bonus point for the fastest lap in each class. In races where a class had less than four starters, points would be awarded to the top two finishers (6 & 4 respectively) with one point for the fastest lap. A driver's best nine scores counted towards the championship, dropped scores are shown in brackets. Positions are shown as overall/class. Notes: :1. – Class A pole position for round 2 is unknown. :2. – Class A & B pole positions for round 3 are unknown. External linksTouring Car Racing History – 1981 BSCC {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit
Snetterton Circuit is a motor racing course in Norfolk, England, originally opened in 1953. Owned by Jonathan Palmer's MotorSport Vision organisation since 2004, it is situated on the A11 road (England), A11 road north-east of the town of Thetford and south-west of the city of Norwich. The circuit is named after the nearby village of Snetterton to the north-west of the circuit, although much of the circuit lies in the adjoining civil parish of Quidenham.Ordnance Survey (1999). ''OS Explorer Map 237 - Norwich''. . The circuit hosts races from series including the British Touring Car Championship, British Formula 3 International Series, British Formula Three Championship and British Superbike Championship. From 1980 to 1994, the track hosted the UK's first Endurance racing (motorsport), 24-hour race, the Willhire 24 Hour. From 2003 to 2013 the Citroën 2CV 24 Hour Race was held at Snetterton on the 200 Circuit. After a short stint racing at Anglesey the 2CV 24Hr race has again r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brands Hatch
Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit in West Kingsdown, Kent, England, United Kingdom. Originally used as a grasstrack motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently hosts many British and International racing events. The venue is owned and operated by Jonathan Palmer's MotorSport Vision organisation. Circuit Brands Hatch offers two layout configurations. The "Indy Circuit" layout is located entirely within a natural amphitheatre offering spectators views of almost all of the shorter configurations from wherever they watch. The "Grand Prix" layout has played host to several Formula One Grands Prix, including those with moments such as Jo Siffert's duel with Chris Amon in and 1992 World Driver's Champion Nigel Mansell's first win in . Noise restrictions and the proximity of the Grand Prix loop to local residents mean that the number of race meetings held on the extended circuit is limited to just a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
