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Group C Race of the Day: Spa 1,000 Kilometers, 1984

Continuing our look at classic Group C sports car racing, this time it is the 1984 Spa 1,000 Kilometers from the fabulous Spa Francorchamps circuit in the Ardennes forest of southern Belgium.  Porsche will take charge in this race, and fight all the way to the end among their top teams.

Spa Francorchamps hosts the sixth round of the 1984 World Endurance Championship for Makes in the beautiful settings of the pine-forested Ardennes region of Belgium.  Without Lancia, it is to be the battle of the Porsche’s.  Race commentator Brian Kreisky takes you through all the action.

https://motorsport.tv/duke-classic-videos/video/1984-world-sports-car-spafrancorchamps/4958

Group C Race of the Day: Mosport 1,000 Kilometers, 1984

We start this race, with a quote, from the narration by Brian Kreisky, in the videotape you are about to see.

“The maple leaf.  Proud symbol of one of the world’s largest countries, greets the World Endurance Championship as it crosses new frontiers.  For the first time, North America is hosting the 200 mile per hour supercars of the spectacular WEC, greeting the racers who have made the long transatlantic haul, to the heat of a Canadian summer.”

https://motorsport.tv/duke-classic-videos/video/1984-world-sports-car-mosport/4956

Group C Race of the Day: World Sports Car, 1984 Nurburgring 1,000 Kilometers

We stay in the 1984 FIA WEC/Group C season.  This time, we’re headed to the “new” Nurburgring, a short, modern autodrome, for the 1984 running of the Nurburgring 1,000 Kilometers.

Nurburgring – scene of some of the finest battles in the annals of motorsport – opens her new 4.5 kilometer circuit to the World Endurance Championship for the first time.  This fourth round will prove to be the closest duel of the 1984 season so far.  We join Brian Kreisky in the commentary box, for the race call.

https://motorsport.tv/duke-classic-videos/video/1984-world-sports-car-nrburgring/4955

Group C Race of the Day: 1983 Norisring Sprint

A race not initially covered on this blog for the review of the full 1983 season, the beginning of the legend that is Group C.  This is the Norisring Sprint on the streets of Nuremberg, Germany.

With more prize money than any World Endurance Championship event, the 124 kilometer sports car race held at Nuremberg at the Norisring circuit attracts an impressive Group C entry for the most important sports car racing event in West Germany.  Let’s send it now, to your race commentator, Brian Kreisky, for all the action.

https://motorsport.tv/duke-classic-videos/video/1983-world-sports-car-norisring-sprint/4950

 

Group C Race of the Day: 1983 World Sports Car – Silverstone

Showcasing another classic Group C race.  This is the Silverstone 1,000 Kilometers, on the old airfield circuit, which is one of the most famous race tracks in the world.  Round two, the International Silverstone 1,000 Kilometers, and once again, Brian Kreisky calls the action.

https://motorsport.tv/duke-classic-videos/video/1983-world-sports-car-silverstone/4949

Group C Race of the Day: 1982 World Sports Car Championship – Brands Hatch

Folks, today, is a special day.  You are in for a real treat as the season finale of the first unofficial year of Group C racing, the Brands Hatch 1,000 Kilometers of 1982, is showcased here on Group C Sports Cars, the thunder of the ’80s.  This is when the lightning struck and the thunder crashed, for the first time, in a season that has very little coverage before Group C racing exploded onto the scene the very next year in 1983.  You will see a wide variety of Group C, Group 5, and Group 6 production and prototype sports cars competing against each other at the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent, England, a legendary motor racing palace of speed.  The battle ensued, in the wet, between three of the best drivers in the business, Jacky Ickx for Rothmans Porsche, Ricardo Patrese for Martini Lancia (in the final outing for their Lancia LC1 open cockpit spyder, a Group 6 racer), and the rainmeister himself, Hans Joachim Stuck, driving for Peter Sauber and the Sauber BMW team in the Sauber C6 Group C car.

Brian Kreisky, once again, is your commentator in this superb highlights film.  Caught in the uncertain weather of the British autumn, the driver’s championship is up for grabs.  Brian takes you through how the season went in the intro, and then, cinch down those belts and get ready for a knock down slug fest in the Brands Hatch 1,000 Kilometers.  This is a beauty!  Enjoy.

https://motorsport.tv/duke-classic-videos/video/1982-world-sports-car-brands-hatch/4947

Group C Race of The Day: 1988 World Sports Car, Sandown Park

It’s the finale of one of the best seasons of World Sports Car Championship racing in recent memory, 1988, as the championship returns to Australia and the Sandown Park circuit for the first time in four years, with the title already decided in favor of Jaguar over their rivals from Mercedes Benz.  This is the 11th and final round of the FIA World Sports Car Championship during high summer in Australia.  Brian Kreisky, is your commentator for this motor race.

https://motorsport.tv/duke-classic-videos/video/1988-world-sports-car-sandown-park/4874