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500 km di Monza

Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Italy

Date: 22/3/1987
Track length: 5.800 m
Attendance: 33.000
Entries accepted: unknown (15 WC entries)
Starters: 41
Finishers: 17 classified

Pole position: Rouse in 1.57,50
Fastest lap: Rouse in 1.59,12

Distance: 500 km
Average speed: 172,261 kmh (for Patrese/Cecotto), 168,560 kmh (for Moffat/Harvey)
Weather:
Ruleset: Group A
Car info: 1987 Cars

 

The new World Touring Car Championship had a false start like never before. No series sponsor: instead, teams wanting to participate in the championship had to pay $60.000! The Eggenberger Sierras were declared illegal for using a Bosch Motronic engine management system, but in the homologation form the EMS was Marelli-Weber. The other Sierra present, a Rouse-built car, used a Zytek system, but Andy had been smart enough to place a Weber sticker on the box: the car was allowed to race, but it blew a head gasket and retired.
BMW’s new M3 had trouble too; the cars built with a works kit had roofs which were too thin, and the material of the bonnet was Kevlar instead of the more humble plastic used for the street version. The effect was that the first six and the eight positioned car were thrown out of the results after the race!
Back to the race. Rouse had been quickest, but the M3 horde took the next 6 positions on the grid. The Sierra retired after 10 laps, so the BMW could decide which car would win the race; only four cars were entered for the championship (2 Schnitzer cars, one Bigazzi, one CiBiEmme) so the second-placed Linder car had to back off. BMW took the first 6 spots, Holden was seventh with Moffat and Harvey, and eight was the Alpina M3, a happy sight to see Alpina back in racing with an immaculate car; only the speed wasn’t there yet.
Both Maserati and Alfa Romeo were not up to Ford and BMW standard - and would never be this season.


Division 1, 2 and 3
Pos Pos in class Champ
pos.
# Team / Entrant
Car- Engine
Drivers, Nationality Engine
vol. (cc)
Engine
Type
Group Distance,
time
Qualifying position Qualifying time Fastest lap Reason out,
remarks
DQ   DQ 42 CiBiEmme Sport
BMW M3
Riccardo Patrese, I
Johnny Cecotto, YV
2332 L4 Div. 2 87 laps, 2:55.45,36 4 1.57,92   DQ: roof metal thickness
DQ 1 DQ 42 CiBiEmme Sport
BMW M3
Emanuele Pirro, I
Roland Ratzenberger, A
2332 L4 Div. 2 87 laps, 2:55.45,36 4 1.57,92   DQ: roof metal thickness
DQ   DQ 47 Linder Rennsport
BMW M3
Markus Oestreich, D
Altfrid Heger, D
2332 L4 Div. 2 87 laps, 2:56.10,59 3 1.57,89   DQ: roof metal thickness
DQ   DQ 40 Schnitzer
BMW M3
Ivan Capelli, I
Roberto Ravaglia, I
2332 L4 Div. 2 87 laps, 2:56.13,25 5 1.58,29   DQ: roof metal thickness
DQ   DQ 41 Linder Rennsport
BMW M3
Winfried Vogt, D
Christian Danner, D
2332 L4 Div. 2 87 laps, 2:56.13,95 6 1.58,62   DQ: roof metal thickness
DQ   DQ 43 Bigazzi
BMW M3
Luis Perez Sala, E
Olivier Grouillard, F
2332 L4 Div. 2 86 laps, 2:56.10,96 7 1.59,83   DQ: roof metal thickness
1 1   5 Allan Moffat Racing
Holden VL Commodore
Allan Moffat, CDN
John Harvey, AUS
4980 V8 Div. 3 86 laps, 2:57.33,09 9 2.00,39    
DQ     52 BMW-Alpina
BMW M3
Andy Bovensiepen, D
Eric Van de Poele, B
2332 L4 Div. 2 86 laps, 2:57.42,80 10 2.00,87   DQ: roof metal thickness
2 2   18 CiBiEmme Sport
BMW 635 CSi
Georges Bosshard, CH
José Angel Sasiambarrena, E
3475 L6 Div. 3 84 8 1.59,87    
3 1   57 AMG Marko RSM
Mercedes 190 E 2.3-16
Peter Oberndorfer, D
Franz Klammer, A
2323 L4 Div. 2 83 15 2.03,64    
4 2   49  
BMW M3
József Cserkúti, H
Toni Fischhaber, D
András Szabó, H
2332 L4 Div. 2 82 21 2.05,00    
5 3   19  
BMW 635 CSi
Roberto Castagna, I
Roberto Orlandi, I
3475 L6 Div. 3 82 22 2.06,09    
6 4   26 Seikel Motorsport
Ford Mustang 5.0 GT
Peter Seikel, D
Giovanni da Schio, I
4999 V8 Div. 3 81 23 2.06,30    
7 3 1/1 79 Albatech
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Walter Voulaz, I
Marcello Cipriani, I
1779 tc L4 Div. 2 79 26 2.07,23    
8 5   27  
BMW 635 CSi
Giuseppe Quargentan, I
Stanislav de Angelis, I
Grand, I
3475 L6 Div. 3 79 25 2.07,04    
9 4   54  
BMW 325i
Michel Bienvault, F
Loius Descartes, F
2494 L6 Div. 2 78 32 2.12,48    
10 1   92  
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
Andrew Bagnall, NZ
Chris Hodgetts, GB
1587 L4 Div. 1 78 30 2.10,29    
11 5 2/2 78 Brixia Corse
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Carlo Rossi, I
Alessandro Santin, I
1779 tc L4 Div. 2 77 24 2.06,55    
12 2   102  
Audi 80 GLE
Tihomir Filipovic, YU
Heinz Wirth, D
1596 L4 Div. 1 77 36 2.13,60    
13 6   23  
BMW 635 CSi
Marco Curti ("Spiffero"), I
Péter Moczár, H
Hans Kalaschek, D
3475 L6 Div. 3 77        
14 7   21  
BMW 635 CSi
Ademaro Massa, I
Giuseppe Arlotti, I
Guido Daverio, I
3475 L6 Div. 3 74        
15 8   24  
BMW 528i
Fortina, I
Gianpaolo Toia, I
Paolo Pozzi, I
2799 L6 Div. 3 72        
16 5 3/3 75 Alfa Corse
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Alessandro Nannini, I
Michael Andretti, USA
1779 tc L4 Div. 2 71 11 2.01,12    
17 9 4/1 1 Pro Team Italia/Imberti
Maserati Biturbo 331 B25
Bruno Giacomelli, I
Armin Hahne, D
Marcello Gunnella, I
2491 tc V6 Div. 3 70 28 2.07,53    
DNF     48  
BMW M3
Luciano Lovato, I
Romeo Camathias, I
? Fabio Mancini, I
2332 L4 Div. 2 68        
DNF     101  
VW Golf GTI
Antonio Amodio, I
Gianfranco Sistelli, I
Trasat
1596 L4 Div. 1 58        
DNF     82  
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Cazzaniga, I
Guido Dacco, I
Galass
1779 tc L4 Div. 2 53        
DNF     84  
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Sergio Rebai, I
Abele Tanghetti ("Tango"), I
1779 tc L4 Div. 2 50        
DNF     59  
Mercedes 190 E 2.3-16
Eric Bayol, F
Karl Baron, A
Zdenek Vojtech, CS
2323 L4 Div. 2 45 14     Oil loss, engine
DNF     97  
VW Golf GTI
Alfons Hohenester, D
Friedrich-Wilhelm Stallmann, D
1596 L4 Div. 1 35        
DNF     44 Dixi Sport
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Marc Duez, B
Gerard Févrot, B
Bruno di Gioia, B
1779 tc L4 Div. 2 33        
DNF     22  
BMW 635 CSi
Gianni Giudici, I
Armando Conti
Franco Giudici, I
3475 L6 Div. 3 30        
DNF     80 Q-Racing
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Thomas Lindström, S
Mikael Naebrink, S
1779 tc L4 Div. 2 25       Turbo
DNF   NC 76 Alfa Corse
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Giorgio Francia, I
Paolo Barilla, I
1779 tc L4 Div. 2 19 13      
DNF     77 Brixia Corse
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Rinaldo Drovandi, I
Gabriele Tarquini, I
1779 tc L4 Div. 2         Turbo/gearbox
DNF     94  
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
Joachim Egenolf, D
? Jakob Strasser, D
1587 L4 Div. 1 14       Accident
DNF   NC 8 Andy Rouse Engineering
Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
Andy Rouse, GB
Thierry Tassin, B
1993 tc L4 Div. 3 11 1 1.57,50 1.59,12 Head gasket
DNF     95  
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
Helmut Maier, D
Georg Alber, D
Antonín Charouz, CS
1587 L4 Div. 1 5       Accident
DNF     98  
VW Golf GTI
Marco Rocca, I
Domenico Cedrati ("Poker"), I
Galimberti, I
1596 L4 Div. 1 4        
DNS        
Mercedes 190 E 2.3-16
Giovanni Fontanesi, YV
Dagmar Suster, YU
Bretislav Enge, CS
2323 L4 Div. 2         Engine
DNS     6 Eggenberger Motorsport
Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
Steve Soper, GB
Klaus Niedzwiedz, D
1993 tc L4 Div. 3         Excluded by scrutineering; Bosch f.i. instead of Weber
DNS     7 Eggenberger Motorsport
Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
Klaus Ludwig, D
Pierre Dieudonné, B
1993 tc L4 Div. 3         Excluded by scrutineering; Bosch f.i. instead of Weber