CC Racing Developments Group 1 Ford Capri Mk III's

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by KA

This could be utterly off-topic, but did TWR possibly have access to a Capri in '82?

If you take a look at the results for the Spa 24 hours in '82, the TWR Jag entries were car numbers 4 (Walkinshaw/Nicholson/Percy) and 5 (Pierre Dieudonne/Peter Lovett/Jeff Allam. The interesting thing is that the results also list a Motul-backed Capri, car number 6, for Percy/Allam which qualified 38th but posted a DNS.
http://homepage.mac.com/frank_de_jon...982%20Spa.html

Given the Motul sponsorship, and both drivers being cross-entered in the XJSs, I'd assume TWR had something to do with this entry- but what was the purpose behind it?- and if it was a 'TWR' entry, could it have been the Nicholson car?

I could be imagining this, but I've got a very vague memory of reading something about a token third entry by the team in order to get more pit garage space, plus a little extra track time for the drivers, with no intention of the car ever starting the race...

That sounds familiar to me too (and it's the sort of 'creative' thinking you'd expect from TWR!)