1988 1000 km of Nürburgring explained

The 1988 ADAC 1000 km Nürburgring was the eighth round of the 1988 World Sportscar Championship season. It took place at the Nürburgring, West Germany on September 3 and 4, 1988.

Pre-race

Prior to the race weekend, the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (ADAC), organisers of the event, decided to alter the schedule for the race weekend as well as the format of the race itself.

Rather than being a continual six hour event, the race was broken into two heats. The first heat was to be run on Saturday evening, going from dusk into darkness, and running for three hours of 500 kilometres, whichever was achieved first. The second heat would then be run on Sunday afternoon for an equal distance to make up the 1000 kilometre total distance. The times from each entry would be combined from the two events in order to determine an overall winner.

Several teams and drivers protested this change, in part due to the rain and fog present on the race weekend. All teams however did race any way.^[1]

Official results

These results show the combined times from both heats. Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of the winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre	Laps
					Engine
1	C1	61	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass	Sauber C9		200
					Mercedes-Benz M117 5.0L Turbo V8
2	C1	1	Silk Cut Jaguar	Martin Brundle Eddie Cheever	Jaguar XJR-9		199
					Jaguar 7.0L V12
3	C1	7	Joest Racing	Paolo Barilla Bob Wollek	Porsche 962C		196
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
4	C1	8	Joest Racing	Frank Jelinski "John Winter"	Porsche 962C		194
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
5	C1	6	Brun Motorsport	Manuel Reuter Jesús Pareja	Porsche 962C		193
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
6	C1	4	Brun Motorsport	Walter Brun Harald Huysman	Porsche 962C		192
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
7	C1	14	Richard Lloyd Racing	Martin Donnelly David Hobbs	Porsche 962C GTi		191
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
8	C1	2	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jan Lammers Johnny Dumfries	Jaguar XJR-9		186
					Jaguar 7.0L V12
9	C1	40	Swiss Team Salamin	Antoine Salamin Giovanni Lavaggi	Porsche 962C		182
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
10	C1	10	Porsche Kremer Racing	Volker Weidler Bruno Giacomelli	Porsche 962CK6		181
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
11	C1	5	Brun Motorsport	Uwe Schäfer Oscar Larrauri	Porsche 962C		180
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
12	C2	106	Kelmar Racing	Pasquale Barberio Vito Veninata	Tiga GC288		176
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
13	C2	103	Spice Engineering	Almo Coppelli Thorkild Thyrring	Spice SE88C		175
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
14	C2	127	Chamberlain Engineering	John Williams Nick Adams Richard Jones	Spice SE86C		173
					Hart 418T 1.8L Turbo I4
15	C2	191	PC Automotive	Richard Piper Olindo Iacobelli	Argo JM19C		159
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
16	C2	121	GP Motorsport	Wayne Taylor Costas Los	Spice SE87C		158
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
17 NC	C2	198	Roy Baker Racing	John Sheldon Neil Crang	Tiga GC286		137
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
18 DNF	C2	109	Kelmar Racing	Ranieri Randaccio Maurizio Gellini	Tiga GC288		137
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
19 DNF	C2	177	Automobiles Louis Descartes	Gérard Tremblay Louis Descartes Dominique Lacaud	ALD C2		126
					BMW M80 3.5L I6
20 DNF	C2	124	MT Sport Racing	Pierre-François Rousselot Jean Messaoudi	Argo JM19C		125
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
21 DNF	C1	20	Team Davey	Tim Lee-Davey Tom Dodd-Noble Peter Oberndofer	Porsche 962C		110
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
22 DNF	C1	24	Dollop Racing	Paolo Giangrossi Jean-Pierre Frey	Lancia LC2		99
					Ferrari 308C 3.0L Turbo V8
23 DNF	C1	62	Team Sauber Mercedes	Mauro Baldi Stefan Johansson	Sauber C9		89
					Mercedes-Benz M117 5.0L Turbo V8
24 DNF	C2	160	Günter Gebhardt Motorsport	Hellmut Mundas Stefan Neuberger Rudi Seher	Gebhardt JC873	?	89
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
25 DNF	C2	117	Team Lucky Strike Schanche	"Pierre Chauvet" Robin Smith	Argo JM19C		86
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
26 DNF	C1	16	Dauer Racing	Jochen Dauer Franz Konrad	Porsche 962C		84
					Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6
27 DNF	C2	183	Walter Maurer	Walter Maurer Helmut Gall Edgar Dören	Maurer Lotec C87	?	80
					BMW 2.0L Turbo I4
28 DNF	C2	111	Spice Engineering	Ray Bellm Gordon Spice	Spice SE88C		75
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
29 DNF	C2	107	Chamberlain Engineering	Claude Ballot-Léna Jean-Louis Ricci	Spice SE88C		63
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
30 DNF	C2	151	Pierre-Alain Lombardi	Pierre-Alain Lombardi Bruno Sotty	Spice SE86C		36
					Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8
DNQ	C2	182	Pero Racing	Peter Fritsch Dieter Heinzelmann	Argo JM19	?	-
					Porsche Type-935 2.8L Turbo Flat-6

Statistics

• Pole Position - #61 Team Sauber Mercedes - 1:24.920
• Fastest Lap - #61 Team Sauber Mercedes - 1:28.550
• Average Speed - 154.359 km/h

References

• Web site: FIA World Sports-Prototype Championship 1988 - 1000 km Nürburgring . World Sports Racing Prototypes . 2 October 2005 . 2008-04-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080426155510/http://wsrp.ic.cz/wsc1988.html . 26 April 2008 . dead .

Notes and References

1. Nürburgring 1000 km  - Nürburgring, West Germany . Videotape . 2008-04-04.