1988 World Sportscar Championship season

1988 World Sportscar Championship season
Previous: 1987	Next: 1989

The 1988 World Sports-Prototype Championship season was the 36th FIA World Sportscar Championship season. It was a series running under the Group C formula, running cars in two classes known as C1 and C2. An invitational GTP class was also run for IMSA-spec cars. It ran from March 6, 1988 to November 20, 1988, and was composed of 11 races.

Schedule

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	800 km Jerez	Circuito Permanente de Jerez	March 6
2	360 km Jarama	Circuito Permanente Del Jarama	March 13
3	1000km Monza	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	April 10
4	Autosport 1000 km Silverstone	Silverstone Circuit	May 8
5	24 Hours of Le Mans	Circuit de la Sarthe	June 11 June 12
6	CZE Grand Prix ČSSR	Autodrom Brno	July 10
7	1000 km Brands Hatch	Brands Hatch	July 24
8	ADAC 1000km Nürburgring	Nürburgring	September 4
9	1000km Spa	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	September 18
10	Fuji 1000 km	Fuji Speedway	October 9
11	Lucas Supersprint	Sandown Park	November 20

Season results

Points were awarded to the top 10 finishers in the following orders dependent on race distance:

• 24 hour races were scored 60-45-36-30-24-18-12-9-6-3
• 800–1000 km races were scored 40-30-24-20-16-12-8-6-4-2
• 360 km races were scored 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1

Exceptions included:

• Drivers failing to drive the car within a certain percentage of the laps in a race were not given points.
• Teams were only given points for their highest finishing car; any other team cars were merely skipped in the points standings. Points were still awarded to their drivers however.
• Neither driver nor teams scored points if they did not complete 90% of the winner's distance.

Races

Rnd	Circuit	C1 Winning Team	C2 Winning Team	Results
		C1 Winning Drivers	C2 Winning Drivers
1	Jerez	Team Sauber Mercedes	Spice Engineering	Results
		Jean-Louis Schlesser Mauro Baldi Jochen Mass	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm
2	Jarama	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
		Eddie Cheever Martin Brundle	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm
3	Monza	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
		Eddie Cheever Martin Brundle	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm
4	Silverstone	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
		Eddie Cheever Martin Brundle	Almo Coppelli DEN Thorkild Thyrring
5	La Sarthe	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
		Andy Wallace Johnny Dumfries Jan Lammers	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm Pierre de Thoisy
6	Brno	Team Sauber Mercedes	Spice Engineering	Results
		Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm
7	Brands Hatch	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
		Andy Wallace Martin Brundle DEN John Nielsen	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm
8	Nürburgring	Team Sauber Mercedes	Kelmar Racing Team	Results
		Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass	Vito Veninata Pasquale Barberio
9	Spa-Francorchamps	Team Sauber Mercedes	Spice Engineering	Results
		Mauro Baldi Stefan Johansson	Almo Coppelli DEN Thorkild Thyrring
10	Fuji	Silk Cut Jaguar	Spice Engineering	Results
		Eddie Cheever Martin Brundle DEN John Nielsen	CHL Eliseo Salazar DEN Thorkild Thyrring
11	Sandown Park	Team Sauber Mercedes	Spice Engineering	Results
		Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm

Teams Championship

Overall Teams Championship

All cars were awarded points for the overall championship, but C2 class cars were scored separately for their own championship.

Pos	Team	Chassis	Engine	Rd1	Rd2	Rd3	Rd4	Rd5	Rd6	Rd7	Rd8	Rd9	Rd10	Rd11	Total
1	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jaguar XJR-8 Jaguar XJR-9	Jaguar 7.0L V12	30	20	40	40	60	15	40	30	30	40	12	357
2	Team Sauber Mercedes	Sauber C9	Mercedes M117 5.0L Turbo V8	40	15	30	30		20	24	40	40	16	20	275
3	Joest Racing Porsche	Porsche 962C	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	24	3	20	20	36	8	30	24		24		189
4	Brun Motorsport	Porsche 962C	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	12	10	24		12			16	20			94
5	Spice Engineering	Spice SE88C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	8	4	6	12		4	20		16		8	78
6	Porsche AG	Porsche 962C	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6					45					30		75
7	Swiss Team Salamin	Porsche 962C	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	4		4	8		2	8	4	8			38
8	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 962C Porsche 962CK6	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6		8	12		9			2				31
9	Richard Lloyd Racing	Porsche 962C GTi	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	20							8				28
10	From-A Racing	Porsche 962C	Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6										20		20
11	GP Motorsport	Spice SE87C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	6						12					18
12	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE86C Spice SE88C	Hart 418T 1.8L Turbo I4 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	2	1				1	6		4		2	16
13	Team Davey	Tiga GC88 Porsche 962C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L Turbo V8 Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6									6		6	12
14	Kelmar Racing Tiga	Tiga GC85 Tiga GC288	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8				2			4				3	9
15	Primagaz Competition	Cougar C20B Porsche 962C Cougar C12	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8			8									8
16=	ADA Engineering	ADA 03	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8											4	4
16=	Mazdaspeed	Mazda 757 Mazda 767	Mazda 13G 2.0L 3-Rotor Mazda 13J 2.6L 4-Rotor				4								4
18	Team Lucky Strike Schanche	Argo JM19C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8							2		2			4
19	Schuppan Racing Team	Porsche 962C	Porsche 3.0L Turbo Flat-6					3							3
20	Walter Maurer Racing	Lotec C87	BMW 2.0L Turbo I4											1	1

C2 Teams Championship

Pos	Team	Chassis	Engine	Rd1	Rd2	Rd3	Rd4	Rd5	Rd6	Rd7	Rd8	Rd9	Rd10	Rd11	Total
1	Spice Engineering	Spice SE88C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	40	20	40	40	60	20	40	30	40	40	20	390
2	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE86C Spice SE88C	Hart 418T 1.8L Turbo I4 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	24	15	24	16		12	20	24	24	16	10	185
3	Kelmar Racing Tiga	Tiga GC85 Tiga GC288	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	12	8		24		10	16	40	8	24	12	154
4	GP Motorsport	Spice SE87C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	30						24	16		30		100
5	Charles Ivey Racing	Tiga GC287	Porsche 2.8L Turbo Flat-6	16			20	36		6					78
6	ADA Engineering	ADA 03	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8		6			45						15	72
7	NOR Team Lucky Strike Schanche	Argo JM19C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8	20	3			12		12		20			67
8	PC Automotive	Argo JM19C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8				12			8	20	16			56
9	Roy Baker Racing	Tiga GC286	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8				8	18	8		12				46
10	MT Sport Racing	Argo JM19C	Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8					30				6			36
11	Automobiles Louis Descartes	ALD 03 ALD 04	BMW M80 3.5L I6				6	24						6	30

External links

• 1988 World Sports-Prototype Championship

This page uses some content from Wikipedia. The original article was at 1988 World Sportscar Championship season. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Autopedia, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.