Brands Hatch 1000km race 1988

Jaguar XJR-9; Winning cars from John Nielsen, Martin Brundle and Andy Wallace

The 18th Brands Hatch 1000 km race , also Brands Hatch 1000 kms, FIA World Sports Prototype Championship, Brands Hatch , took place on July 24, 1988 and was the seventh round of this year 's World Sports Car Championship .

The race

The pole position for the 1000 km race at the circuit of Brands Hatch , the Italians reached Mauro Baldi on a Sauber C9 . The driven time of 1,14.710 minutes corresponded to an average speed of 203.109 km / h. The race was won by John Nielsen , Martin Brundle and Andy Wallace in a Jaguar XJR-9.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	C1	1	Silk Cut Jaguar	John Nielsen Martin Brundle Andy Wallace	Jaguar XJR-9	240
2	C1	7th	Joest Racing	Klaus Ludwig Bob Wollek	Porsche 962C	239
3	C1	61	Team Sauber Mercedes	Mauro Baldi Jean-Louis Schlesser	Clean C9	235
4th	C2	111	Spice engineering	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm	Spice SE88C	224
5	C2	103	Spice engineering	Almo Coppelli Thorkild Thyrring	Spice SE88C	224
6th	C2	121	GP motorsport	Costas Los Wayne Taylor	Spice SE87C	219
7th	C1	40	Swiss Team Salamin	Antoine Salamin Giovanni Lavaggi Jean-Denis Delétraz	Porsche 962C	217
8th	C2	107	Chamberlain Engineering	Claude Ballot-Léna Jean-Louis Ricci	Spice SE88C	211
9	C2	109	Kelmar Racing	Ranieri Randaccio Maurizio Cellini	Tiga GC288	206
10	C2	117	Team Lucky Strike Schanche	Will Hoy Martin Schanche	Argo JM19C	205
11	C2	191	PC Automotive	Richard Piper Olindo Iacobelli	Argo JM19C	192
12	C2	123	Charles Ivy Racing	Tim Harvey Chris Hodgetts Robin Donovan	Tiga GC287	196
Not classified
13	C2	198	Roy Baker Racing	Stephen Hynes John Bartlett Max Cohen-Olivar	Tiga GC286	104
Failed
14th	C1	2	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jan Lammers Johnny Dumfries	Jaguar XJR-9	212
15th	C1	8th	Joest Racing	Frank Jelinski Louis Krages	Porsche 962C	131
16	C2	115	ADA engineering	Fritz Glatz John Sheldon Tim Lee-Davey	ADA 03	123
17th	C2	125	Patrick Oudet Vetir Racing	Jean-Claude Ferrarin Dominique Lacaud	Tiga CG85	122
18th	C1	42	Noël del Bello	Hervé Regout Bernard Santal Noël del Bello	Clean C8	104
19th	C2	112	FAI Automotive Ltd.	Sean Walker Paul Scott Ian Flux	Tiga GC287	89
20th	C2	127	Chamberlain Engineering	Nick Adams Martin Birrane	Spice SE86C	122
21st	C1	3	Silk Cut Jaguar	John Watson Davy Jones	Jaguar XJR-9	39
22nd	C2	177	Automobiles Louis Descartes	Michel Lateste Gérard Tremblay Del Bennett	ALD 04	25th
23	C1	62	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jochen Mass Jean-Louis Schlesser	Clean C9	7th

Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
24	C2	123T	Charles Ivy Racing	Tim Harvey Chris Hodgetts Robin Donovan	Tiga GT287
25th	C1	1T	Silk Cut Jaguar		Jaguar XJR-9
26th	C1	24	Dollop Racing	Jean-Pierre Frey Nicola Marozzo Massimo Monti	Lancia LC2
27	C2	106	Kelmar Racing Team	Maurizio Gellini Ranieri Randaccio Pasquale Barberio	Tiga GC288
28	C2	124	MT Sport Racing	Jean Messaoudi Pierre-François Rousselot	Argo JM19C
29	C2	182	Techno racing	David Mercer Del Bennett	Alba AR3

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
C1	John Nielsen	Martin Brundle	Andy Wallace	Jaguar XJR-9	Overall victory
C2	Gordon Spice	Ray Bellm		Spiece SE88C	Rank 4

Racing data

• Registered: 29
• Started: 23
• Valued: 12
• Race classes: 2
• Spectators: 30,000
• Weather on race day: light rain
• Route length: 4.184 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 5:33: 23.080 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 240
• Total distance of the winning team: 1004.308 km
• Winner's average: 180.747 km / h
• Pole position: Mauro Baldi - Sauber C9 (# 61) - 1.14.170 - 203.109 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Jean-Louis Schlesser - Sauber C9 (# 62) - 1.15.820 - 198.690 km / h
• Racing series: 7th round of the Sports Car World Championship in 1988

Web links

• Results and data at wspr-racing.com ( Memento from December 19, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )

Previous race: Brno 360 km race in 1988

Sports car world championship

Successor 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1988