Dijon 480 km race in 1989

Joest - Porsche 962C , chassis number 962-116; With the chassis 962-011, Joest achieved the last overall victory with a Porsche in the sports car world championship

Aston Martin AMR1

The 480 km race of Dijon 1989 , also Coupe de Dijon, Dijon-Prenios , took place on May 21 at the Circuit de Dijon-Prenois . The race was the second round of the sports car world championship this year.

The race

The first sports car world championship race on the Dijon-Prenois circuit took place in 1973 . Henri Pescarolo and Gérard Larrousse won the 1000 km race in the Matra-Simca MS670B on the circuit that was then only 3.209 kilometers long . The course was unspectacular and too short for a long-distance race . The pole position time of François Cevert was less than a minute driving time. After a renovation in 1975, the route length was increased to 3.801 kilometers. In the following years there were always sports car races on this track, including in 1989, when the second championship race of the sports car world championship took place here.

In 1989 the Porsche 962C , which had been driven since 1984 (based on the Porsche 956 , which had been built since 1982 ), saw their last sporting use. Neither the plant - Jaguar XJR-9 nor the Japanese group C racing car Toyota 88C , Nissan R89C and Mazda 767 were the strongest competitors of the favored Sauber C9 , but the Porsche 962 of Joest Racing . In the race, it took 24 laps until Bob Wollek , who started from fifth on the grid, was able to push the two Sauber drivers from Mauro Baldi and Jean-Louis Schlesser out of first place. The Sauber had problems getting their Michelin tires up to temperature and gradually lost time on the Porsche. Wollek and team-mate Frank Jelinski drove a flawless race and crossed the finish line half a minute ahead of Schlesser and Jochen Mass's Sauber .

In the large starting field (36 cars entered the race) there were also two legendary sports car drivers. The 1973 winner, Henri Pescarolo, drove a Spice SE88C together with Alain Ferté to eighth place overall. Former champion Brian Redman , who contested races with the Ford GT40 as early as 1966 , drove the Aston Martin AMR1 . After some technical difficulties he and his partner David Leslie reached 17th place overall.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	C1	7th	Joest Racing	Bob Wollek Frank Jelinski	Porsche 962C	127
2	C1	62	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass	Sauber-Mercedes C9 / 88	127
3	C1	61	Team Sauber Mercedes	Mauro Baldi Kenny Acheson	Sauber-Mercedes C9 / 88	127
4th	C1	37	Toyota Team Tom's	Johnny Dumfries Geoff Lees	Toyota 88C	126
5	C1	14th	Richard Lloyd Racing	Derek Bell Tiff Needell	Porsche 962C GTi	124
6th	C1	13	Courage Compétition	Pascal Fabre Jean-Louis Bousquet	Cougar C22S	123
7th	C1	8th	Joest Racing	Claude Ballot-Léna Jean-Louis Ricci	Porsche 962C	123
8th	C1	26th	France Prototeam	Henri Pescarolo Alain Ferté	Spice SE88C	122
9	C1	5	Repsol Brun Motorsport	Harald Huysman Oscar Larrauri	Porsche 962C	122
10	GTP	201	Mazdaspeed	Pierre Dieudonné Dave Kennedy	Mazda 767B	121
11	C2	101	Chamberlain Engineering	Nick Adams Fermín Vélez	Spice SE89C	121
12	C1	41	Swiss Team Salamin	Ernst Franzmaier Walter Lechner senior	Porsche 962C	121
13	C1	6th	Repsol Brun Motorsport	Walter Brun Jesús Pareja	Porsche 962C	121
14th	C1	21st	Spice engineering	Ray Bellm Costa's Lot	Spice SE89C	121
15th	C1	23	Nissan Motorsports International	Julian Bailey Mark Blundell	Nissan R89C	120
16	C2	103	France Prototeam	Almo Coppelli Bernard Thuner	Spice SE88C	120
17th	C1	18th	Aston Martin	David Leslie Brian Redman	Aston Martin AMR1	119
18th	C1	10	Porsche Kremer Racing	George Fouché Bruno Giacomelli	Porsche 962CK6	118
19th	C1	34	Porsche Alméras Montpellier	Jacques Alméras Jean-Marie Alméras	Porsche 962C	118
20th	C1	72	Obermaier Primagaz	Jürgen Lässig Pierre Yver	Porsche 962C	118
21st	C2	111	PC Automotive	Richard Piper Olindo Iacobelli	Spice SE88C	118
22nd	C1	40	Swiss Team Salamin	Antoine Salamin Max Cohen-Olivar	Porsche 962C	117
23	C2	171	Team Mako	Don Shead James Shead	Spice SE88C	116
24	C2	105	Porto Kaleo team	Maurizio Gellini Jari Nurminen	Tiga GC288	113
25th	C1	20th	Team Davey	Tim Lee-Davey Peter Oberndorfer	Porsche 962C	111
Failed
26th	C1	1	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jan Lammers Patrick Tambay	Jaguar XJR-9	125
27	C1	17th	Duration racing	Jochen duration Franz Konrad	Porsche 962C	93
28	C2	106	Porto Kaleo team	Pasquale Barberio Ranieri Randaccio	Tiga GC288	93
29	C1	2	Silk Cut Jaguar	John Nielsen Andy Wallace	Jaguar XJR-9	79
30th	C2	151	Pierre-Alain Lombardi	Pierre-Alain Lombardi Bruno Sotty	Spice SE86C	36
31	C2	102	Chamberlain Engineering	Luigi Taverna John Williams	Spice SE86C	35
32	C1	22nd	Spice engineering	Wayne Taylor Thorkild Thyrring	Spice SE89C	32
33	C2	108	Roy Baker Racing	Dudley Wood Philippe de Henning	Spice SE87C	22nd
34	C1	29	Mussato Action Car	Andrea de Cesaris Franco Scapini	Lancia LC2 / 89	19th
35	C2	177	Louis Descartes	Alain Serpaggi Louis Descartes	ALD C289	15th
36	C1	16	Repsol Brun Motorsport	Oscar Larrauri Stanley Dickens	Porsche 962C	3
Not started
37	C2	107	Tiga Race Team	Jean-Claude Justice Jean-Claude Ferrarin	Tiga GC289	1
38	C1	23T	Nissan Motorsports International	Julian Bailey Mark Blundell	Nissan R89C	2
39	C1	37T	Toyota Team Tom's	Geoff Lee's Johnny Dumfries	Toyota 88C	3
40	C1	61T	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser	Sauber-Mercedes C9 / 88	4th
Not qualified
41	C2	176	Louis Descartes	Sylvain Boulay Thierry Serfaty	ALD 04	5
42	C2	178	Didier Bonnet	Gérard Tremblay Didier Bonnet	ALD 06	6th

¹ Accident during training ² Training car ³ Training car ⁴ Training car ⁵ not qualified ⁶ not qualified

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.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
43	C2		Tiga Race Team		Tiga GC289

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
C1	Bob Wollek	Frank Jelinski	Porsche 962C	Overall victory
C2	Nick Adams	Fermín Vélez	Spice SE89C	Rank 11
GTP	Pierre Dieudonné	Dave Kennedy	Mazda 767B	Rank 10

Racing data

• Registered: 43
• Started: 36
• Valued: 25
• Race classes: 3
• Spectators: 15,000
• Race day weather: hot and dry
• Route length: 3.797 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 2:42: 21.903 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 127
• Total distance of the winning team: 482,600 km
• Winner's average: 178.339 km / h
• Pole position: Jean-Louis Schlesser - Sauber-Mercedes C9 / 88 (# 62) - 1: 07.275 = 203.340 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Mauro Baldi - Sauber-Mercedes C9 / 88 (# 61) - 1: 11.739 = 190.691 km / h
• Racing series: 2nd round of the 1989 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 report
• Race results

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