1995 FIA Touring Car World Cup explained

The 1995 FIA Touring Car World Cup was the third and final running of the FIA Touring Car World Cup. It was held on 15 October 1995 at the Circuit Paul Ricard in France. Frank Biela won the event overall with a win and a second place in the two races, with Audi and BMW cars dominating both races.

Entry list

No	Driver	Entrant	Car	1995 Championship
1	Roland Asch	Ford Team Eggenberger	Ford Mondeo	Super Tourenwagen Cup
2	Vaclav Bervid	Bervid Sport Styling	BMW 318iS	Czech Republic Touring Car Championship
3	Frank Biela	Racing Organisation Course	Audi A4	Super Tourenwagen Cup
4	Thierry Boutsen	Ford Team Schubel	Ford Mondeo
5	David Brabham	BMW Motorsport	BMW 318iS	British Touring Car Championship
6	Michael Briggs	Opel Racing	Opel Vectra	South African Touring Car Championship
7	Kelvin Burt	Valvoline Team Mondeo	Ford Mondeo	British Touring Car Championship
8	Milos Bychl	BMW Team Bychl	BMW 318iS	Czech Republic Touring Car Championship
9	Rinaldo Capello	Audi Sport Italia	Audi A4	Italian Superturismo Championship
10	Johnny Cecotto	BMW Motorsport	BMW 318iS	British Touring Car Championship
11	John Cleland	Vauxhall Sport	Vauxhall Cavalier
12	Roberto Colciago	RC Motorsport	Opel Vectra	Italian Superturismo Championship
13	Alain Cudini	Opel France	Opel Vectra	French Supertouring Championship
14	Armin Hahne	Honda Team Linder	Honda Accord	Super Tourenwagen Cup
15	Tim Harvey	Volvo 850 Racing	Volvo 850	British Touring Car Championship
16	Johnny Hauser	Ford Team Eggenberger	Ford Mondeo	Super Tourenwagen Cup
17	Éric Hélary	Opel France	Opel Vectra	French Supertouring Championship
18	Will Hoy	Renault Dealer Racing	Renault Laguna	British Touring Car Championship
19	Josef Kopecky	Motorsport Kopecky	Ford Mondeo	Czech Republic Touring Car Championship
20	Peter Kox	BMW Motorsport Team Schnitzer	BMW 318iS	Super Tourenwagen Cup
21	Otakar Kramsky	Autosport Kramsky	BMW 318iS	Czech Republic Touring Car Championship
22	David Leslie	Honda Team MSD	Honda Accord	British Touring Car Championship
23	Sascha Maassen	Nissan Primera Racing	Nissan Primera	Super Tourenwagen Cup
24	Alain Menu	Renault Dealer Racing	Renault Laguna	British Touring Car Championship
25	Josef Michl	Michl Motorsport	BMW 318iS	Czech Republic Touring Car Championship
26	Yvan Muller	BMW Team Fina	BMW 318iS	French Supertouring Championship
27	Emanuele Naspetti	BMW Italia	BMW 318iS	Italian Superturismo Championship
28	Matt Neal	Team Dynamics	Ford Mondeo	British Touring Car Championship
29	Klaus Niedzwiedz	Honda Team Linder	Honda Accord	Super Tourenwagen Cup
30	Luis Pérez-Sala	Team Repsol Nissan	Nissan Primera	Spanish Touring Car Championship
31	Emanuele Pirro	Audi Sport Italia	Audi A4	Italian Superturismo Championship
32	Paul Radisich	Valvoline Team Mondeo	Ford Mondeo	British Touring Car Championship
33	Roberto Ravaglia	BMW Motorsport Team Bigazzi	BMW 318iS	Super Tourenwagen Cup
34	Anthony Reid	Opel Japan	Opel Vectra	Japanese Touring Car Championship
35	Rickard Rydell	Volvo 850 Racing	Volvo 850	British Touring Car Championship
36	Steve Soper	BMW Motorsport Team Schnitzer	BMW 318iS	Japanese Touring Car Championship
37	Hans-Joachim Stuck	AZK Team Schneider	Audi A4	Super Tourenwagen Cup
38	Gabriele Tarquini	Alfa Corse	Alfa Romeo 155	Italian Superturismo Championship
39	Eric van de Poele	Team Repsol Nissan	Nissan Primera	Spanish Touring Car Championship
40	Joachim Winkelhock	BMW Motorsport Team Schnitzer	BMW 318iS	Super Tourenwagen Cup

Results

Qualifying

Qualifying 1

Pos	No	Driver	Car	Lap Time	Gap
1	31	Emanuele Pirro	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	1:27.478
2	3	Frank Biela	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	1:27.483	+0.005
3	37	Hans Joachim Stuck	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	1:27.540	+0.062
4	36	Steve Soper	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:27.671	+0.193
5	10	Johnny Cecotto	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:27.772	+0.294
6	26	Yvan Muller	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:27.946	+0.468
7	24	Alain Menu	Renault - Renault Laguna	1:28.007	+0.529
8	33	Roberto Ravaglia	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:28.035	+0.557
9	9	Rinaldo Capello	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	1:28.228	+0.750
10	35	Rickard Rydell	Volvo - Volvo 850 Glt	1:28.290	+0.812
11	7	Kelvin Burt	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	1:28.488	+1.010
12	5	David Brabham	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:28.560	+1.082
13	40	Joachim Winkelhock	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:28.581	+1.103
14	11	John Cleland	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	1:28.627	+1.149
15	1	Roland Asch	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	1:28.673	+1.195
16	29	Klaus Niedzwiedz	Honda - Honda Accord	1:28.734	+1.256
17	17	Éric Hélary	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	1:28.761	+1.283
18	18	Will Hoy	Renault - Renault Laguna	1:28.791	+1.313
19	34	Anthony Reid	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	1:28.807	+1.329
20	22	David Leslie	Honda - Honda Accord	1:28.913	+1.435
21	30	Luis Perez Sala	Nissan - Nissan Primera Gte	1:28.945	+1.467
22	32	Paul Radisich	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	1:28.962	+1.484
23	13	Alain Cudini	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	1:28.992	+1.514
24	14	Armin Hahne	Honda - Honda Accord	1:29.015	+1.537
25	38	Gabriele Tarquini	Alfa Romeo - Alfa Romeo 155 Ts	1:29.038	+1.560
26	15	Tim Harvey	Volvo - Volvo 850 Glt	1:29.062	+1.584
27	20	Peter Kox	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:29.109	+1.631
28	6	Michael Briggs	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	1:29.243	+1.765
29	39	Eric Van de Poele	Nissan - Nissan Primera Gte	1:29.252	+1.774
30	23	Sascha Maassen	Nissan - Nissan Primera Gte	1:29.424	+1.946
31	28	Matt Neal	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	1:29.521	+2.043
32	16	Johnny Hauser	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	1:29.582	+2.104
33	12	Roberto Colciago	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	1:30.664	+3.186
34	4	Thierry Boutsen	Ford - Ford Mondeo 4*4	1:30.682	+3.204
35	19	Josef Kopecky	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	1:31.054	+3.576
36	2	Vaclav Bervid	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:31.301	+3.823
37	8	Milos Bychl	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:31.917	+4.439
38	25	Josef Michl	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:37.233	+9.755
39	21	Otakar Kramsky	BMW - BMW 318iS	No Time	—

Qualifying 2

Pos	No	Driver	Car	Lap Time	Gap
1	31	Emanuele Pirro	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	1:27.319
2	37	Hans Joachim Stuck	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	1:27.521	+0.202
3	3	Frank Biela	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	1:27.536	+0.217
4	36	Steve Soper	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:27.602	+0.283
5	10	Johnny Cecotto	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:27.727	+0.408
6	26	Yvan Muller	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:27.762	+0.443
7	33	Roberto Ravaglia	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:27.812	+0.493
8	34	Anthony Reid	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	1:27.987	+0.668
9	9	Rinaldo Capello	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	1:28.008	+0.689
10	24	Alain Menu	Renault - Renault Laguna	1:28.011	+0.692
11	35	Rickard Rydell	Volvo - Volvo 850 Glt	1:28.256	+0.937
12	40	Joachim Winkelhock	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:28.266	+0.947
13	22	David Leslie	Honda - Honda Accord	1:28.331	+1.012
14	5	David Brabham	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:28.362	+1.043
15	38	Gabriele Tarquini	Alfa Romeo - Alfa Romeo 155 Ts	1:28.418	+1.099
16	20	Peter Kox	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:28.519	+1.200
17	18	Will Hoy	Renault - Renault Laguna	1:28.530	+1.211
18	11	John Cleland	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	1:28.628	+1.309
19	29	Klaus Niedzwiedz	Honda - Honda Accord	1:28.648	+1.329
20	7	Kelvin Burt	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	1:28.695	+1.376
21	17	Éric Hélary	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	1:28.695	+1.376
22	32	Paul Radisich	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	1:28.772	+1.453
23	14	Armin Hahne	Honda - Honda Accord	1:28.775	+1.456
24	30	Luis Perez Sala	Nissan - Nissan Primera Gte	1:28.785	+1.466
25	15	Tim Harvey	Volvo - Volvo 850 Glt	1:28.838	+1.519
26	1	Roland Asch	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	1:28.872	+1.553
27	6	Michael Briggs	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	1:28.990	+1.671
28	13	Alain Cudini	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	1:29.210	+1.891
29	16	Johnny Hauser	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	1:29.216	+1.897
30	23	Sascha Maassen	Nissan - Nissan Primera Gte	1:29.263	+1.944
31	39	Eric Van de Poele	Nissan - Nissan Primera Gte	1:29.358	+2.039
32	28	Matt Neal	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	1:29.418	+2.099
33	12	Roberto Colciago	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	1:29.617	+2.298
34	4	Thierry Boutsen	Ford - Ford Mondeo 4*4	1:30.370	+3.051
35	19	Josef Kopecky	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	1:30.858	+3.539
36	2	Vaclav Bervid	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:31.525	+4.206
37	8	Milos Bychl	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:31.750	+4.431
38	21	Otakar Kramsky	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:32.962	+5.643
39	25	Josef Michl	BMW - BMW 318iS	1:35.316	+7.997

Races

Race 1

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Frank Biela	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	26	39:02.263	2	40
2	36	Steve Soper	BMW - BMW 318iS	26	+ 4.911	4	30
3	26	Yvan Muller	BMW - BMW 318iS	26	+ 14.209	6	24
4	10	Johnny Cecotto	BMW - BMW 318iS	26	+ 17.665	5	20
5	37	Hans Joachim Stuck	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	26	+ 18.068	3	16
6	7	Kelvin Burt	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	26	+ 25.134	11	15
7	31	Emanuele Pirro	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	26	+ 27.274	1	14
8	40	Joachim Winkelhock	BMW - BMW 318iS	26	+ 32.785	13	13
9	5	David Brabham	BMW - BMW 318iS	26	+ 33.381	12	12
10	35	Rickard Rydell	Volvo - Volvo 850 Glt	26	+ 47.999	10	11
11	14	Armin Hahne	Honda - Honda Accord	26	+ 49.075	24	10
12	29	Klaus Niedzwiedz	Honda - Honda Accord	26	+ 50.025	16	9
13	13	Alain Cudini	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	26	+ 51.288	23	8
14	33	Roberto Ravaglia	BMW - BMW 318iS	26	+ 57.504	8	7
15	20	Peter Kox	BMW - BMW 318iS	26	+ 1:06.386	27	6
16	11	John Cleland	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	26	+ 1:09.099	14	5
17	1	Roland Asch	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	26	+ 1:13.614	15	4
18	15	Tim Harvey	Volvo - Volvo 850 Glt	26	+ 1:15.097	26	3
19	16	Johnny Hauser	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	26	+ 1:17.101	32	2
20	6	Michael Briggs	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	26	+ 1:18.342	28	1
21	39	Eric Van de Poele	Nissan - Nissan Primera Gte	26	+ 1:24.872	29
22	23	Sascha Maassen	Nissan - Nissan Primera Gte	26	+ 1:33.620	30
23	12	Roberto Colciago	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	25	+ 1 Lap	33
24	19	Josef Kopecky	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	25	+ 1 Lap	35
25	8	Milos Bychl	BMW - BMW 318iS	25	+ 1 Lap	37
26	2	Vaclav Bervid	BMW - BMW 318iS	25	+ 1 Lap	36
27	30	Luis Perez Sala	Nissan - Nissan Primera Gte	25	+ 1 Lap	21
28	21	Otakar Kramsky	BMW - BMW 318iS	25	+ 1 Lap	39
29	4	Thierry Boutsen	Ford - Ford Mondeo 4*4	24	+ 2 Laps	34
Ret	17	Éric Hélary	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	22	+ 4 Laps	17
Ret	22	David Leslie	Honda - Honda Accord	20	+ 6 Laps	20
Ret	32	Paul Radisich	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	19	+ 7 Laps	22
Ret	38	Gabriele Tarquini	Alfa Romeo - Alfa Romeo 155 Ts	17	+ 9 Laps	25
Ret	28	Matt Neal	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	13	+ 13 Laps	31
Ret	34	Anthony Reid	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	12	+ 14 Laps	19
Ret	24	Alain Menu	Renault - Renault Laguna	10	+ 16 Laps	7
Ret	9	Rinaldo Capello	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	9	+ 17 Laps	9
Ret	18	Will Hoy	Renault - Renault Laguna	1	+ 25 Laps	18
Ret	25	Josef Michl	BMW - BMW 318iS	1	+ 25 Laps	38

Race 2

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	31	Emanuele Pirro	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	26	39:11.167	1	40
2	3	Frank Biela	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	26	+ 2.211	3	30
3	36	Steve Soper	BMW - BMW 318iS	26	+ 3.570	4	24
4	26	Yvan Muller	BMW - BMW 318iS	26	+ 6.554	6	20
5	24	Alain Menu	Renault - Renault Laguna	26	+ 13.294	10	16
6	10	Johnny Cecotto	BMW - BMW 318iS	26	+ 16.405	5	15
7	9	Rinaldo Capello	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	26	+ 16.864	9	14
8	29	Klaus Niedzwiedz	Honda - Honda Accord	26	+ 37.745	19	13
9	14	Armin Hahne	Honda - Honda Accord	26	+ 38.697	23	12
10	34	Anthony Reid	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	26	+ 44.935	8	11
11	38	Gabriele Tarquini	Alfa Romeo - Alfa Romeo 155 Ts	26	+ 47.926	15	10
12	1	Roland Asch	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	26	+ 49.294	26	9
13	7	Kelvin Burt	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	26	+ 49.459	20	8
14	18	Will Hoy	Renault - Renault Laguna	26	+ 53.233	17	7
15	28	Matt Neal	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	26	+ 1:01.053	32	6
16	39	Eric Van de Poele	Nissan - Nissan Primera Gte	26	+ 1:02.313	31	5
17	32	Paul Radisich	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	26	+ 1:12.131	22	4
18	23	Sascha Maassen	Nissan - Nissan Primera Gte	26	+ 1:22.822	30	3
19	12	Roberto Colciago	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	26	+ 1:23.183	33	2
20	15	Tim Harvey	Volvo - Volvo 850 Glt	26	+ 1:39.995	25	1
21	2	Vaclav Bervid	BMW - BMW 318iS	25	+ 1 Lap	36
22	8	Milos Bychl	BMW - BMW 318iS	25	+ 1 Lap	37
23	19	Josef Kopecky	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	25	+ 1 Lap	35
24	21	Otakar Kramsky	BMW - BMW 318iS	25	+ 1 Lap	38
25	4	Thierry Boutsen	Ford - Ford Mondeo 4*4	24	+ 2 Laps	34
Ret	30	Luis Perez Sala	Nissan - Nissan Primera Gte	19	+ 7 Laps	24
Ret	16	Johnny Hauser	Ford - Ford Mondeo Ghia	16	+ 10 Laps	29
Ret	13	Alain Cudini	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	16	+ 10 Laps	28
Ret	33	Roberto Ravaglia	BMW - BMW 318iS	10	+ 16 Laps	7
Ret	6	Michael Briggs	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	9	+ 17 Laps	27
Ret	20	Peter Kox	BMW - BMW 318iS	8	+ 18 Laps	16
Ret	35	Rickard Rydell	Volvo - Volvo 850 Glt	7	+ 19 Laps	11
Ret	11	John Cleland	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	6	+ 20 Laps	18
Ret	17	Éric Hélary	Opel - Opel Vectra GT	3	+ 23 Laps	21
Ret	37	Hans Joachim Stuck	Audi - Audi A4 Quattro	2	+ 25 Laps	2
Ret	22	David Leslie	Honda - Honda Accord	0	+ 26 Laps	13
Ret	25	Josef Michl	BMW - BMW 318iS	0	+ 26 Laps	38
Ret	40	Joachim Winkelhock	BMW - BMW 318iS	0	+ 26 Laps	12
Ret	5	David Brabham	BMW - BMW 318iS	0	+ 26 Laps	14

Championship standings

Scoring system

Points system
1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th
40	30	24	20	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Drivers' standings

valign=middle Pos valign=middle Driver^[1] Race 1 Race 2 valign=middle Pts 1 Frank Biela 1 2 70 2 Emanuele Pirro 7 1 54 3 Steve Soper 2 3 54 4 Yvan Muller 3 4 44 5 Johnny Cecotto 4 6 35 6 Kelvin Burt 6 13 23 7 Klaus Niedzwiedz 12 8 22 8 Armin Hahne 11 9 22 9 Hans-Joachim Stuck 5 Ret 16 Alain Menu Ret 5 16 11 Rinaldo Capello Ret 7 14 12 Joachim Winkelhock 8 Ret 13 13 Roland Asch 17 12 13 14 David Brabham 9 Ret 12 15 Rickard Rydell 10 Ret 11 Anthony Reid Ret 10 11 17 Gabriele Tarquini Ret 11 10 18 Alain Cudini 13 Ret 8 19 Roberto Ravaglia 14 Ret 7 Will Hoy Ret 14 7 21 Peter Kox 15 Ret 6 Matt Neal Ret 15 6 23 Eric van de Poele 21 16 5 24 John Cleland 16 Ret 5 25 Paul Radisich Ret 17 4 26 Tim Harvey 18 20 4 27 Sascha Maassen 22 18 3 28 Roberto Colciago 23 19 2 29 Johnny Hauser 19 Ret 2 30 Michael Briggs 20 Ret 1 31 Vaclav Bervid 26 21 32 Milos Bychl 25 22 33 Josef Kopecky 24 23 34 Otakar Kramsky 28 24 35 Thierry Boutsen 29 25 36 Luis Pérez-Sala 27 Ret – Éric Hélary Ret Ret – David Leslie Ret Ret – Josef Michl Ret Ret – Emanuele Naspetti DNS DNS valign=middle Pos valign=middle Driver Race 1 Race 2 valign=middle Pts

Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Manufacturers' Trophy

Pos	Manufacturer	Race 1	Race 2	Points
1	Audi	56	70	126
2	BMW	54	44	98
3	Honda	21	23	44
4	Ford	19	17	36
5	Renault	-	23	23
6	Opel	5	11	16
7	Volvo	14	1	15
8	Alfa Romeo	-	10	10
9	Nissan	-	8	8

Manufactures Points System

• Top two best results of every Manufactures for each race.

References

• http://www.supertouringregister.com/series/88/
• http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=128778
• http://www.motorsport-archive.com/results/season/1999
• Touring Car World 95/96 — The official book of Touring car

Notes and References

1. News: FIA Touring Car World Cup: 93-95 - Three years of huge fields - TouringCarTimes. 2014-01-19. TouringCarTimes. en-US.