Couple of old R5 Pics from 1987.

[Tom]

Back in the day when Dad used to race in the 1987 Mita Championship.

I miss those days.

 

[Gaz.]

Sweet. Where did he finish the season, position wise?

 

[Tom]

No idea. We are in the process of digging all the photos/info out.

We can't remember! And theres NOTHING on the internet. (That i can find.)

 

[Gaz.]

Ah right. Might be an opportunity for you to make a site on it?

 

[D4N13L]

Cool would have loved my dad to have done this.

Have you still got the beatles cut?

 

[Tom]

Yeah. Pretty much.

 

[Ian_182]

Tom....

Your dad is a cool guy...

 

[jamie rigby]

cool!

 

[Christopher]

Is that a MASK sweater?!

OMG.

 

[JamieG]

Talking of old race days. Pictures of the car my dad used to be a mechanic for in early 90's

Sorry for thread hi-jack, can make a new thread if people wanna discuss.

 

[Beef-Mc]

Some of the older race cars were mint.

 

[Tom]

That's mint!

 

[Ali]

You're a chip off the old block! (Providing thats your old boy in the 1st pic)

 

[Tom]

Yeah thats Benton Senior.

 

[Englebert]

Nice, love old photos like that. I see your dad put your haircut money into his car...

Love that M3!

 

[JamieG]

Its was running a 320is engine (2.0 m3 engine, was running near on 230bhp), rather than using a true 2.3/5 M3 engine, which meant it could go in a class below, rather than a higher class with Group A rover v8's and 3.0 capri's. It wiped the floor and won the championship with about 3 rounds missed.

The car was used as a test mule for the BMW btcc team, it used parts that we're protyped for the BMW 320 btcc cars. It used hub's, diffs & suspensions, that were way ahead of there time.

The bloke who used to drive still owns the car, albeit as a rolling shell in that liviery. Parts from it were put onto other race cars he's had since.

 

[Cookie]

Are you still that height?

 

[jim cook]

The earliest info on the 5 ts series i have is 1991 , pics from 1992 but the series was dying then with the 5 turbos and 16 valvers..

 

[Waitey]

Back in the day when Dad used to race in the 1987 Mita Championship.

I miss those days.

Is your dad the guy on the left out of We are scientists?

 

[Tom]

FLOL! No.

 

[Weeman]

Does your dad not fcuking age??? he looks exactly the same now lol

 

[Tom]

I know, bit odd.

This is him now..

 

[Gally]

Any more pics of the R5?

Did he race anything else Tom?

 

[Tom]

Yeah i have loads of the TS, need to dig them all out.

He ran a couple of cars in the Mini Se7en Racing Club Championships, but i cant find any pictures.

 

[coxy777]

Why does our generation have to fail so badly in motorsport? :dapprove:

Everything was better back in the day. F1, WRC, BTCC - EVERYTHING! FACT