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Belgrade Grand Prix

Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Date: 21/4/1968
Track length: 4.350 m
Attendance: unknown
Entries accepted: unknown
Starters: 26
Finishers: unknown

Pole position: unknown
Fastest lap: Quester? or Kremer in 2.02,6 = 128,36 kmh

Distance: 2 hours
Average speed: 126,150 kmh
Weather:
Ruleset: Group 5/68
Car info: 1968 Cars

 

Belgrade was the venue for the 4th round of the European Touring Car Challenge. The circumstances were far from safe; spectators were sitting next to the track on straw bales or kerbstones and kept crossing the track from start to finish. No wonder a Mini injured a spectator, who tried to cross the track despite having a plastered leg.

Practice saw the BMWs of Quester and Steinmetz (the last one, team manager, replacing the injured Hahne) up front, some Porsches being the only opposition since the works Alfa Romeo’s had not entered at all and Gardner’s Cortina had endless problems. After an engine fire, BMW even lent Gardner a private BMW so he could finish practice. It did not help in the end; in an extra practice the Cortina fell victim to a fuel feed problem, the race ended early with a blown head gasket.

The BMW pair had a comfortable lead after the flying start, but after 4 laps Steinmetz’ car had an ignition failure. He pushed the car over 3 kilometres to the pits, in 30º heat, but his heroic deed was in vain and the car was retired.

Meanwhile, Quester kept 10 to 15 seconds lead over the Kremer Porsche, until this had to pit late in the race for some extra fuel.
In third finished Peter Peter with another Porsche, followed by “Pam” in the little Abarth 1000.


Division 1, 2 and 3
Pos Pos in class # Team / Entrant
Car- Engine
Drivers, Nationality Engine
vol. (cc)
Engine
Type
Group Distance,
time
Qualifying position Qualifying time Fastest lap Reason out,
remarks
1 1/1 27  
BMW 2002
Dieter Quester, A
1990 L4 Div. 3/2500 58        
2 2/2 31  
Porsche 911
Erwin Kremer, D
1991 B6 Div. 3/2500 57        
3 3/3 34  
Porsche 911
Peter Peter, A
1991 B6 Div. 3/2500 56        
4 1/1 25  
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Toni Peniconi
1570 L4 Div. 2/1600 55        
5 1/1 9  
Fiat Abarth 1000 TC
Marsilio Pasotti ("Pam"), I
982 L4 Div. 1/1000 54        
6 4/4 32  
Porsche 911
Franz Pesch, D
1991 B6 Div. 3/2500 53        
  2/2 10 British Vita Racing
BMC Mini Cooper S
John Handley, GB
999 L4 Div. 1/1000 49        
  2/1 24  
Austin Mini Cooper S
Lammy Hofer, A
1293 L4 Div. 2/1300 49        
  3/3 5  
NSU 1000 TTS
Jovica Palikovic, YU
996 L4 Div. 1/1000 47        
  3/2 17  
Austin Mini Cooper S
Goran Strok, YU
1293 L4 Div. 2/1300 47        
  4/3 20  
Renault R 8 Gordini
Jirí Rosicky, CS
1255? L4 Div. 2/1300 47        
12 4/4 4  
NSU 1000 TTS
Mladen Gluhak, YU
996 L4 Div. 1/1000 45        
13 5/1 1  
Fiat 850
Dragan Manojlovic, YU
843 L4 Div. 1/850 43        
14 5/5 38  
Citroën DS 19
Roman Jelovcan, YU
1911 L4 Div. 3/2500 42        
15 5/2 26  
BMW 1600 TI
Pavel Pirnat, YU
1600 L4 Div. 2/1600 37        
16 6/4 11 British Vita Racing
Morris Mini Cooper S 970
Alec Poole, IRL
999 L4 Div. 1/1000 24        
DNF     Alan Mann Racing
Ford Lotus Cortina
Frank Gardner, AUS
1594 L4 Div. 2/1600         Oil pipe / Head gasket
DNF     Cooper Car Co.
BMC Mini Cooper S
John Rhodes, GB
1293 L4 Div. 2/1300         Fuel pump
DNF     Cooper Car Co.
BMC Mini Cooper S
Steve Neal, GB
1293 L4 Div. 2/1300         Accident
DNF      
BMW 2002
Klaus Steinmetz, D
1990 L4 Div. 3/2500 3       Ignition