The Grafo team with their Alfa Romeo GTAMs: #44 of Simonis/Goris, #43 of Franck/Derom. Despite their neat appearance both cars did not finish. | The Steinmetz trio; another disappointing outing, the fastest car only ninth on the grid, and all three cars went out in the race with engine problems. |
Three pictures of the grid. A look at row 12-14. On top, one can distinguish the Opel #14 (Tuerlinckx/Greder), Alfa GTAm #43 (Grafo car of Franck/Derom), the unique Citroën SM of de Jamblinne/Bagrito, Alfa GTAJ #81 of "Chavan"/Chasseuil and Alfa #55 of "Pooky"/Grano. Left, the BMW CS of Eisenschenk/Stoffel and the nose of the Ortmans/Duvignaud Camaro are visible. | |
As usual, the camaro of Grauls was fastest in practice. | |
Ladies' night: Engeman/Beckers, Alpina BMW | A BMW 2800 CS in trouble here; Stoffel/Eisenschenk left the road. |
The Birrell/Mass Capri, a DNF. | Exotic: the Citroën SM, a touring car we learn from this picture (but Citroën themselves prepared a SM group 4 once!) did not reach the finish either... |
Even some group 1 Commodores got into trouble; the Gaye/Tricot entry was a DNF too. | Alfa Romeo GTAms three, four and five; here the fourth overall, Vaccarella/Berger. |
The undisputed star of the race: the mighty AMG Mercedes, a true revenge for the dêbacle of 1969. It came second overall. | |
The Schnitzer BMW of Aaltonen/Kelleners, a DNF. | The Escort BDA of de Fierlant/Dieudonné did not reach the finish either... |
... Fontaine/Akersloot retired too... |
... just like the very fast works Escort of Fitzpatrick/Mazet. |
This Belgian Mini retired too. | he GTA juniors fared even less well; all the works cars dropped out. |
15th overall for this NSU TT. | The smallest car of the field finished a respectable 11th: the NSU TTS of Guitteny/Boucher. |
A Transeurop Commodore (probably Joossens/Byttebier) leading two Steinmetz cars. | The Camaro, here chasing the Mercedes, again as usual was a non-finisher. |
Slow but reliable: two of the three Moskovitch cars reached the finish. | Facetti/Hezemans: third overall and class winner. |
The winning Capri in front of the stands. |