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Originally Posted by chunterer
The silver 'Direct Tyres' 635 was indeed a prodsaloon. Albert Mirko entered his near standard car with slicks for this prestigious meeting and predictably was somewhat off the pace and struggled to compete even with the Class C cars. Mirko had done a couple of Uniroyal or Monroe rounds with the car, and wasn't IIRC a class contender in those either.
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Originally Posted by KA
Thanks for that- I'd been puzzling over the pic in PC since I re-read the report. Mirko is a name I haven't heard in a long time- Don't really know much about him except he was running a 635 in Prodsaloons around that time- got a vague suspicion he turned up racing in the USA some years later.
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Did a bit of digging, and I'm guessing this is the Albert Mirko in question-
http://www.mirkoracing.com/about.htm
I thought I remembered the name, as he appeared briefly in the short-lived US NATCC Supertouring series in 1996, with a Honda Accord- unusual in that it was prepared by his own team from a US-spec Accord, so one of the very few US-prepared cars raced in the series, most teams importing secondhand machinery from European series. The '96 NATCC yearbook has a pic of the car, showing the same 'Mirko Racing' logo as on the website