1988 World Sportscar Championship season

1988 World Sportscar Championship season
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The 1988 World Sportscar Championship season was the 36th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing. It featured the 1988 FIA World Sports Prototype Championship which was open to FIA Group C and Group C2 cars and to IMSA GTP, GTX, GTO and GTU cars. The championship was contested over an eleven race series which ran from 6 March to 20 November 1988.

Martin Brundle was awarded the World Sports Prototype Championship for Drivers, Gordon Spice and Ray Bellm jointly won the FIA Cup for Group C2 Drivers, Silk Cut Jaguar was awarded the World Sports Prototype Championship for Teams and Spice Engineering won the FIA Cup for Group C2 Teams.

Schedule

Jaguar won the Teams Championship with its XJR9 model

Sauber Mercedes placed second in the Teams Championship

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	800 km Jerez	Circuito Permanente de Jerez	6 March
2	360 km Jarama	Circuito Permanente Del Jarama	13 March
3	1000km Monza	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	10 April
4	Autosport 1000 km Silverstone	Silverstone Circuit	8 May
5	24 Hours of Le Mans	Circuit de la Sarthe	11 June 12 June
6	Grand Prix ČSSR	Autodrom Brno	10 July
7	1000 km Brands Hatch	Brands Hatch	24 July
8	ADAC 1000km Nürburgring	Nürburgring	4 September
9	1000km Spa	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	18 September
10	Fuji 1000 km	Fuji Speedway	9 October
11	Lucas Supersprint	Sandown Park	20 November

Points system

Points were awarded to the top 10 finishers as follows:

60-45-36-30-24-18-12-9-6-3 for the Le Mans 24 hour race ^[1]
40-30-24-20-16-12-8-6-4-2 for 800–1000 km races ^[1]
20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 for 360 km races ^[1]

Bonus points were awarded to drivers of Group C2 cars which finished within the first ten outright positions as follows:

6 points for the Le Mans 24 hour race ^[1]
4 points for 800–1000 km races ^[1]
2 points for 360 km races ^[1]

In addition:

Drivers had to drive at least 30% of their cars distance to score points.^[1]
Only the seven best race results could be retained by each driver.^[1]
Only the best placed car from each team was eligible to score points towards the Teams Championship,^[1] with no points awarded for positions filled by other cars.
Results from all races counted towards the Teams Championship.^[1]
Neither driver nor teams scored points if the car did not complete 90% of the winner's distance.

Results and standings

Race Results

Rnd	Circuit	C1 Winning Team	C2 Winning Team	Results
Rnd	Circuit	C1 Winning Drivers	C2 Winning Drivers	Results
1	Jerez	Team Sauber Mercedes	Spice Engineering	Results
1	Jerez	Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi Jochen Mass	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm	Results
2	Jarama	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
2	Jarama	Eddie Cheever Martin Brundle	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm	Results
3	Monza	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
3	Monza	Eddie Cheever Martin Brundle	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm	Results
4	Silverstone	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
4	Silverstone	Eddie Cheever Martin Brundle	Almo Coppelli Thorkild Thyrring	Results
5	La Sarthe	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
5	La Sarthe	Andy Wallace Johnny Dumfries Jan Lammers	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm Pierre de Thoisy	Results
6	Brno	Team Sauber Mercedes	Spice Engineering	Results
6	Brno	Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm	Results
7	Brands Hatch	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
7	Brands Hatch	Andy Wallace Martin Brundle John Nielsen	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm	Results
8	Nürburgring	Team Sauber Mercedes	Kelmar Racing Team	Results
8	Nürburgring	Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass	Vito Veninata Pasquale Barberio	Results
9	Spa-Francorchamps	Team Sauber Mercedes	Spice Engineering	Results
9	Spa-Francorchamps	Mauro Baldi Stefan Johansson	Almo Coppelli Thorkild Thyrring	Results
10	Fuji	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
10	Fuji	Eddie Cheever Martin Brundle John Nielsen	Eliseo Salazar Thorkild Thyrring	Results
11	Sandown Park	Team Sauber Mercedes	Spice Engineering	Results
11	Sandown Park	Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm	Results

World Sports Prototype Championship for Drivers

Position ^[2]	Driver ^[2]	Points ^[2]
1	Martin Brundle	240
2	Jean-Louis Schlesser	208
3	Mauro Baldi	188
4	Eddie Cheever	182
5	Jochen Mass	180
6	Klaus Ludwig	145
7	"John Winter"	140
8	Frank Jelinski	135
9	Bob Wollek	122
10	Jan Lammers	118
11	John Nielsen	97
12	Ray Bellm	94
12	Gordon Spice	94
14	Johnny Dumfries	88
15	Stanley Dickens	72
16	Thorkild Thyrring	63
16	Almo Coppelli	63
18	Manuel Reuter	58
19	Stefan Johansson	55
20	James Weaver	54
21	Oscar Larrauri	50
22	Hans-Joachim Stuck	45
23	John Watson	42
24	Massimo Sigala	38
24	Antoine Salamin	38
26	Uwe Schaefer	34
26	Jesus Pareja	34
28	David Hobbs	32
29	Larry Perkins	30
	Price Cobb
	Derek Daly
	Franz Konrad
33	Costas Los	26
34	Didier Theys	24
34	Paolo Barilla	24
36	Volker Weidler	22
37	Derek Bell	20
	Giovanni Lavaggi
	Hideki Okada
	Philippe Streiff
	Bruno Giacomelli
42	Claude Ballot-Lena	19
42	Jean-Louis Ricci	19
44	Mario Andretti	18
	Michael Andretti
	John Andretti
47	Nils-Kristian Nissen	17
48	Wayne Taylor	16
49	Nick Adams	15
50	Walter Brun	14
51	Rainieri Randaccio	13
52	Tim Lee-Davey	12
	Harald Huysman
	Kazuo Mogi
	Pierre-Alain Lombardi
	Bruno Sotty
	Kunimitsu Takahashi
58	George Fouche	11
58	Eje Elgh	11
60	Philippe de Henning	10
61	Hellmut Mundas	8
	Martin Donnelly
	Pierre-Henri Raphanel
	Roberto Ravaglia
	Maurizio Sandro Sala
	Maurizio Gellini
	Richard Jones
68	Pasquale Barberio	6
	Will Hoy
	Arthur Abrahams
	Martin Schanche
	Kaoru Hoshino
	Masahiko Kageyama
	Naoki Hoshino
	John Sheldon
	Tom Dodd-Noble
	John Smith
	Juergen Barth
	Friedrich Glatz
	Vito Veninata
81	Stefano Sebastiani	5
82	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	4
	Andrew Miedecke
	Enzo Calderari
	David Kennedy
	Yojiro Terada
	Dudley Wood
88	Brian Redman	3
88	Paul Slott	3
90	Helmut Gall	2
	Walter Maurer
	Vern Schuppan
	Sarel van der Merwe
	Luigi Taverna

FIA Cup for C2 Drivers

Position ^[2]	Driver ^[2]	Points ^[2]
1	Ray Bellm	260
1	Gordon Spice	260
3	Thorkild Thyrring	237
4	Almo Coppelli	197
5	Vito Veninata	130
6	Claude Ballot-Lena	101
6	Jean-Louis Ricci	101
8	Costas Los	100
9	Pasquale Barberio	98
10	John Sheldon	74
11	Rainieri Randaccio	68
12	Jiro Yoneyama	65
13	Pierre de Thoisy	60
14	Nick Adams	56
	Olindo Iacobelli
	Richard Piper
	Wayne Taylor
18	Tim Harvey	48
18	Richard Jones	48
20	Ian Harrower	45
21	Martin Schanche	44
22	Eliseo Salazar	40
23	Jean Messaoudi	36
23	Pierre-Francois Rousselot	36
25	Will Hoy	35
26	Arthur Abrahams	31
27	Louis Descartes	30
	Thomas Hessert
	Philippe de Henning
30	John Williams	24
30	Dominique Lacaud	24
32	Hideo Fukuyama	20
32	Friedrich Glatz	20
34	Michael Allison	18
	Stephen Hynes
	Pierre-A. Lombardi
	Bruno Sotty
38	Maurizio Gellini	16
	Mike Kimpton
	Paul Stott
41	John Smith	15
42	Robin Smith	12
	Stefano Sebastiani
	Robin Donovan
	Neil Crang
	Michel Lateste
	Dan Murphy
48	Graham Duxbury	10
48	Andrew Miedecke	10
50	Max Cohen-Olivar	9
50	Patrick de Radigues	9
52	David Andrews	8
	Chris Ashmore
	Lon Bender
	Helmut Gall
	Walter Maurer
57	Chris Hodgetts	6
	Dudley Wood
	Paolo Ciafardoni
	Gerard Tremblay
	Steve Kempton
62	Luigi Taverna	4
	Jean-Pierre Frey
	Nicola Marozzo

World Sports Prototype Championship for Teams

Pos	Team	Chassis	Engine	Rd1	Rd2	Rd3	Rd4	Rd5	Rd6	Rd7	Rd8	Rd9	Rd10	Rd11	Total
1	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jaguar XJR-8 Jaguar XJR-9	Jaguar 7.0L V12	30	20	40	40	60	15	40	30	30	40	12	357
2	Team Sauber Mercedes	Sauber C9	Mercedes M117 5.0L Turbo V8	40	15	30	30		20	24	40	40	16	20	275
3	Joest Racing Porsche	Porsche 962C	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	24	3	20	20	36	8	30	24		24		189
4	Brun Motorsport	Porsche 962C	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	12	10	24		12			16	20			94
5	Spice Engineering	Spice SE88C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	8	4	6	12		4	20		16		8	78
6	Porsche AG	Porsche 962C	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6					45					30		75
7	Swiss Team Salamin	Porsche 962C	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	4		4	8		2	8	4	8			38
8	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 962C Porsche 962CK6	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6		8	12		9			2				31
9	Richard Lloyd Racing	Porsche 962C GTi	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	20							8				28
10	From-A Racing	Porsche 962C	Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6										20		20
11	GP Motorsport	Spice SE87C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	6						12					18
12	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE86C Spice SE88C	Hart 418T 1.8L Turbo I4 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	2	1				1	6		4		2	16
13	Team Davey	Tiga GC88 Porsche 962C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L Turbo V8 Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6									6		6	12
14	Kelmar Racing Tiga	Tiga GC85 Tiga GC288	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8				2			4				3	9
15	Primagaz Competition	Cougar C20B Porsche 962C Cougar C12	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8			8									8
16=	ADA Engineering	ADA 03	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8											4	4
16=	Mazdaspeed	Mazda 757 Mazda 767	Mazda 13G 2.0L 3-Rotor Mazda 13J 2.6L 4-Rotor				4								4
18	Team Lucky Strike Schanche	Argo JM19C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8							2		2			4
19	Schuppan Racing Team	Porsche 962C	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6					3							3
20	Walter Maurer Racing	Lotec C87	BMW 2.0L Turbo I4											1	1

All cars were eligible to score points towards the Teams Championship, but Group C2 cars also scored separately for their own award.

FIA Cup for C2 Teams

Pos	Team	Chassis	Engine	Rd1	Rd2	Rd3	Rd4	Rd5	Rd6	Rd7	Rd8	Rd9	Rd10	Rd11	Total
1	Spice Engineering	Spice SE88C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	40	20	40	40	60	20	40	30	40	40	20	390
2	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE86C Spice SE88C	Hart 418T 1.8L Turbo I4 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	24	15	24	16		12	20	24	24	16	10	185
3	Kelmar Racing Tiga	Tiga GC85 Tiga GC288	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	12	8		24		10	16	40	8	24	12	154
4	GP Motorsport	Spice SE87C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	30						24	16		30		100
5	Charles Ivey Racing	Tiga GC287	Porsche 2.8L Turbo Flat-6	16			20	36		6					78
6	ADA Engineering	ADA 03	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		6			45						15	72
7	Team Lucky Strike Schanche	Argo JM19C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	20	3			12		12		20			67
8	PC Automotive	Argo JM19C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8				12			8	20	16			56
9	Roy Baker Racing	Tiga GC286	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8				8	18	8		12				46
10	MT Sport Racing	Argo JM19C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8					30				6			36
11	Automobiles Louis Descartes	ALD 03 ALD 04	BMW M88 3.5L I6				6	24						6	30

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Seasonal Survey, Autosport, January 1988, page 38
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 1988 Sports-Prototype Championship, www.dlg.speedfreaks.org Retrieved 9 May 2012

External links

1988 World Sports-Prototype Championship

World Sportscar Championship seasons

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