Silverstone 1000km race 1984

The long leader and fifth at the end of the race was the Porsche 956 of Jonathan Palmer and Jan Lammers

The 1984 Silverstone 1000 km race , also Grand Prix International 1000 kms, Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit , took place on May 13 at the Silverstone Circuit and was the second round of the World Sports Car Championship of that year.

The race

The overall victory of Jochen Mass and Jacky Ickx in the plant - Porsche 956 came into being happy. Since the Porsche customer vehicles at Silverstone were given the same new aluminum bodies as the works cars and now also weighed 850 kilograms, the weight advantage of the works cars had disappeared. In the previous season , the 6-cylinder boxer engines had a compression ratio of 8.0: 1. In contrast, the customer teams drove with engines with a compression ratio of 8.5: 1 to use. With these measures, the customer 956 were on a par with the works cars.

After an initial lead by Riccardo Patrese, who was fastest in training, in the Lancia LC2 , Jonathan Palmer and Jan Lammers took the lead in the race. The clear victory over the works team was prevented by a blocked oil line, which forced the Porsche to come to the pits for repairs just before the end of the race. The team lost 20 minutes and overall victory to the factory cars from Mass and Ickx.

Great attention was paid to the launch of Richard Attwood , the Le Mans winner of 1970 . Attwood, who had not contested any races since 1971, drove the Nimrod NRA / C2B together with John Sheldon and Mike Salmon , which failed after 103 laps after an engine failure.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	C1	1	Rothmans Porsche	Jochen Mass Jacky Ickx	Porsche 956	212
2	C1	7th	New Man Joest Racing	Henri Pescarolo Klaus Ludwig	Porsche 956	210
3	C1	55	Skoal Bandit Porsche Team	Rupert Keegan Guy Edwards	Porsche 956	207
4th	C1	5	Martini Racing	Mauro Baldi Paolo Barilla	Lancia LC2-84	206
5	C1	14th	GTi engineering	Jonathan Palmer Jan Lammers	Porsche 956	203
6th	C1	11	Kremer Racing	Franz Konrad David Sutherland	Porsche 956	202
7th	C1	6th	Jolly Club	Beppe Gabbiani Pierluigi Martini	Lancia LC2-83	201
8th	C1	33	Skoal Bandit Porsche Team	Thierry Boutsen David Hobbs	Porsche 956B	199
9	C1	12	Chimney Racing Team	Volkert Merl Dieter Schornstein Louis Krages	Porsche 956	198
10	C1	2	Rothmans Porsche	Derek Bell Stefan Bellof	Porsche 956	195
11	C1	19th	Brun Motorsport GmbH	Walter Brun Vern Schuppan	Porsche 956B	192
12	C2	81	Jolly Club	Marco Vanoli Davide Pavia Almo Coppelli	Alba AR2	188
13	C1	46	Pierre Yver	Bernard de Dryver Pierre Yver	Rondeau M382	186
14th	C2	82	Maurizio Gellini	Maurizio Gellini Pasquale Barberio Gerardo Vatielli	Alba AR3	186
15th	C1	35	Procar Automobile AG	Huub Rothengatter Clemens Schickentanz	Sehcar C83	179
16	C1	21st	Charles Ivey Racing	John Cooper Dudley Wood Barry Robinson	Grid S2	178
17th	C1	13	Primagaz Team Cougar	Alain de Cadenet Yves Courage	Cougar C01B	177
18th	C2	79	ADA engineering	Ray Taft Tom Dodd-Noble Ian Harrower	ADA 01	173
19th	B.	102	Juergensen Racing	Edgar Dören Walter Mertes	BMW M1	170
20th	B.	100	Rolf Goering	Hans-Jörg Dürig Rolf Göring Mario Ketterer	BMW M1	168
21st	C.	34	Team Australia	Larry Perkins Peter Brock	Porsche 956	162
22nd	GTX	131	Vittorio Coggiola	Vittorio Coggiola Gianni Mussato Gianni Giudici	Porsche 935	154
Not classified
23	C1	65	John Bartlett	John Brindley Steve Kempton John Bartlett	Lola T610	138
24	C2	70	Spice-Tiga Racing	Neil Crang Ray Bellm Gordon Spice	Tiga GC84	117
25th	C1	16T	GTi engineering	Richard Lloyd Nick Mason	Porsche 956	65
Disqualified
26th	C2	74	Scorpion Racing Services	Eddie Arundel James Weaver John Jellinek	Arundel C200	34
Failed
27	C1	18th	Obermaier Racing GmbH	Jürgen Lässig George Fouché Hervé Regout	Porsche 956	201
28	C1	9	Team Gaggia Porsche	Oscar Larrauri Massimo Sigala	Porsche 956	180
29	C2	77	Ecurie Ecosse	Mike Wilds David Duffield	Ecosse C284	177
30th	C2	86	Mazdaspeed	Yōjirō Terada Pierre Dieudonné	Mazda 727C	151
31	B.	117	Strandell Motors	Tomas Wiren Kenneth Leim	Porsche 930	114
32	GTP	88	Arthur Hough Pressings Ark Racing	Max Payne Chris Ashmore	Ceekar 83J-1	106
33	C1	31	Viscount Downe with Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd.	Richard Attwood John Sheldon Mike Salmon	Nimrod NRA / C2B	103
34	B.	107	Raymond Boutinaud	Raymond Boutinaud Philippe Renault Gilles Guinand	Porsche 928S	100
35	C2	99	JQF engineering	Jeremy Rossiter Roy Baker François Duret	Tiga GC284	88
36	B.	109	Helmut Gall	Helmut Gall Max Cohen-Olivar Ulli Richter	BMW M1	66
37	C1	4th	Martini Racing	Riccardo Patrese Bob Wollek	Lancia LC2-84	56
38	C1	38	Dorset Racing	Richard Jones Mark Galvin John Williams	Dome RC82	46
39	C1	32	Viscount Downe with Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd.	Ray Mallock Drake Olson	Nimrod NRA / C2B	41
40	GTP	132	Lyncar Motorsport Ltd.	Costas Los Richard Down Les Blackburn	Lyncar MS83	39
41	C2	72	Gebhardt Motorsport	Bob Evans Frank Jelinski	Gebhardt JC842	26th
42	B.	111	Charles Ivey Racing	Paul Smith Margie Smith-Haas Paul Haas	Porsche 930	19th
43	C2	80	Jolly Club	Carlo Facetti Martino Finotto	Alba AR2	17th
44	B.	101	Jens Winther Team Castrol	Jens Winther David Mercer Jens Winther junior	BMW M1	6th
Not started
45	B.	114	Lateste Racing	Michel Lateste Michel Bienvault	Porsche 930	1
46	GTX	130	Tuff Kote Dinol Racing	Jan Lundgardh	Porsche 935 LI	2
47	C1	16	GTi engineering	Nick Mason Rochard Lloyd	Porsche 956	3

¹ not started ² not started ³ engine failure during training

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
48	C1	15th	Joest Racing		Porsche 936C
49	C1	36	Richard Cleare	Richard Cleare David Leslie	Porsche CK5
50	C2	94	Techspeed Racing with Grid	Steve Thompson Tony Lanfranchi Emilio de Villota	Grid S1
51	C2	99	John Bartlett	John Bartlett Steve Kempton	Lola T610
52	C2	96	Lester Roy	Mike Catlow Duncan Bain Jeremy Rossiter	Harrier RX83C
53	B.	116	Georg Memminger	Georg Memminger Heinz Kuhn-Weiss Paul Haas	Porsche 930

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
C1	Jochen Mass	Jacky Ickx		Porsche 956	Overall victory
C2	Marco Vanoli	Davide Pavia	Almo Coppelli	Alba AR2	Rank 12
B.	Edgar Dören	Walter Mertes		BMW M1	Rank 19
IMSA GTP	no participant in the finish
IMSA GTX	Vittorio Coggiola	Gianni Mussato	Gianni Giudici	Porsche 935	Rank 22

Racing data

• Registered: 53
• Started: 44
• Valued: 22
• Race classes: 5
• Spectators: 35,000
• Race day weather: windy and dry
• Route length: 4.719 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 5: 05: 21,200 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 212
• Total distance of the winning team: 1000.342 km
• Winner's average: 196.561 km / h
• Pole position: Riccardo Patrese - Lancia LC2-84 (# 4) - 1: 13.840 = 239.051 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Jochen Mass - Porsche 956 (# 1) - 1: 16.760 = 221.299 km / h
• Racing series: 2nd round of the 1984 World Sports Car Championship

literature

• Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .

Web links

• Race results
• Race report

Previous race at the Monza 1000 km race in 1984

Sports car world championship

Succession race 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans