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VOLVO
240 Turbo GROUP
'A' RACING
INFORMATION
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TEAMS
& DRIVERS
Created
February 2003. Last update 4/2008 AH.
Research by Anthony Hyde (Australia), with assistance from Peggan Andersson, (Sweden)
& others
1986
Volvo Dealer Team
Europe:
(Managed by RAS
Sport,
Belgium) at Estoril, Portugal.
(Pic
VMS)
From left: Bo Wikås (VMS),
Hans-Åke Söderqvist (SRS -
Söderqvist Racing Service), Henry Lotterer
(RAS);
Drivers: Anders Olofsson (Dec. 08), Ulf
Granberg, Thomas Lindström, Johnny Cecotto
and on end John Wickham (Team manager), missing
Robert Rienfield (Deputy team manager).
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EUROPE
European Touring Car Championship
(ETCC),
and from 1987 a number
of circuits for rounds of the World Touring Championship
(WTCC)
1982
First attempt on ETCC at Silverstone, GB with a Volvo
Turbo Cup car (a Swedish one make series car). Drivers were
Greger Pettersson, Anders Olofsson and Per-Gunnar (Peggen)
Andersson
1983
ETCC
rounds with privateers TL
Racing - Thomas
Lindström & Anders
Olofsson;
Kvist
- Robert
Kvist and various drivers; IPS
- Ingmar Persson & Per Sturesson (Persson now runing
Persson Motorsport in DTM). Greger Pettersson & Peggen
Andersson
1984
Belgium Volvo Dealer Team ran by
GTM
Engineering,
drivers Michel Delcourt & Pierre
Dieudonné;
Magnum
Racing
(Swe) owned by Lillen Magnusson and
managed by
Mats
Magnusson, drivers Ulf
Granberg, Anders Olofsson, Ingvar Carlsson;
TL
Racing
(Swe) with Thomas
Lindström
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to view
Summary
of 1984 Volvo ETC
results
1985
1st
place in the 1985 ETCC ! Volvo
Dealer Team Europe - Team
Eggenberger,
managed by Rudi
Eggenberger (Swiss),
Drivers: Thomas Lindström, Gianfranco Brancatelli,
Sigfrid Müller, Pierre Dieudonné.
Magnum
Racing
Ulf Granberg
1986
Volvo Dealer Team
Europe (Managed by RAS
Sport, Belgium),
Drivers: Thomas Lindström (Sweden), Ulf Granberg
(Sweden), Johnny Cecotto (Venezuela), Anders Olofsson,
Peggen Andersson (Sweden) and Mauro Baldi
1987
Volvo officially withdraws from Motorsport. Privateer
teams still competed around the globe (details on this
page). In Europe SRS
(Söderqvist Racing Service) raced a 240T in rounds of
the ETCC with Italain drivers Giorgio Cipolli & Bruno
Corradi. SRS owners Christer Simonsen & Kurt
Simonsen (Sweden) also entered their cars in the World
Touring Championship (WTC)
and raced in a few rounds. The Anderstorp 500 Endurance race
featured drivers Ulf Granberg & Peggen Andersson, and,
Per Sturesson & Anders Lindberg.
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(Pic
AUTOSPORT )
LEFT
PIC - Anderstorp, Sweden 1985 -
Headline - Swedish
success -
Gianfranco Brancatelli and Thomas Lindstrom
ended the run of Rover Vitesse victories in the
European Touring Car Championship, taking their
Eggenberger Volvo 240 Turbo to its first win
of the year in front of an appreciative Swedish
crowd at Anderstorp. Source:
AUTOSPORT, May 1985
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SWEDEN
1983
Nordic Touring
Car Championship
- TL Racing with
Thomas Lindström
1986
Nordic Touring Car Champion Peggen Andersson
1987
Swedish Touring Car Champion Peggen
Andersson
FINLAND
1987
1st
Finnish Touring Car Championship, Driver
Leif Wiik (dec)
GERMANY
German Touring Car Championship, DTM (Deuche
Tourenwagen Meisterchaft)
1985
1st
DTM, Driver:
Per Sturesson (also well placed in 1986, 87)
1985-1987
Volvo DTM
drivers: Peggen Andersson (S), Per Sturesson,
Heinz-Friedrich Peil, Peter Kroeber, Holger
Bean
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(Pic VMS)
1986
- Anders Olofsson (Sweden), Ulf Granberg
(Sweden), Johnny Cecotto
(Venezuela),
Thomas Lindström (Sweden)
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AUSTRALIA
Australian
Touring Car Championship
1985 Mark Petch
Motorsport - Team Owner: Mark Petch (NZ), Driver: Robbie
Francevic (NZ)
1986
1st ATCC -
Australian Touring Car
Championship
Mark Petch
Motorsport - Driver: Robbie Francevic (for the first two
championship rounds), then sold to AVDT
Australian Volvo Dealer Team
AVDT
- Drivers:
Robbie Francevic (NZ) and John Bowe (Aust). Also two rounds
of the Endurance Championship.
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1986
James Hardie 1000, at Bathurst, NSW - Two
AVDT
RH drive
GpA 240T's were entered in this classic endurance
race as detailed below:
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Bathurst
# Car
44 (240
RXT, RH-drive) virtually a new car built-up in
Australia during 1986 using imported parts with the
latest 1986 evolution / homologation specification.
This car only raced in two Endurance events, late
in the year 1986, the Castrol 500 at Sandown, and
the James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst.
Bathurst &
Sandown drivers were John Bowe teamed with
popular Australian ex F5000 racer Alfredo
Costanzo.
Bathurst
# Car
42
(ex
RAS Sport T car, the first and only Belgian
RAS car built in RHD).
[Note: The 'number 42' was used for the James
Hardie 1000 Bathurst 1986 only, running mostly as
car *10 in the Australian Touring Car Championship,
plus car 4 at Adelaide & Wanneroo
rounds.]
Bathurst &
Sandown Drivers': Neville Crichton (NZ) and
Graham McRae. The Bathurst round was
included in the 1986 Endurance Championship,
so Crichton and McRae both scored 10 points each in
the endurance championship.
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The older (ex
Petch) AVDT
(LH drive) car was used as a driver familiarisation
T car at Bathurst.
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1986 Sidenote: Former
lead Volvo driver Robbie
Francevic (1986 ATCC
champion) had left the Volvo team by October, and instead
drove a Ford Sierra Turbo for the Petch Team at Bathurst
86.
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Bathurst pitstop
- Australia 1986
From photo:
On wheel is Geoff Cherry, (brother
John also worked for the team)
On airjack is Mort Brown
John Sheppard
- AVDT
Australian Team Manager
Wayne Eckersley -
Team Engineer (Petch team from May 85, finishes
AVDT in Aug 86)
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NEW
ZEALAND
- 240T's
raced in NZ on a number of occasions:
1985
1st
Nissan Sport 500 Wellington street races - Robbie Francevic,
Michel Delcourt
1986
Nissan
500 Wellington street races - Robbie Francevic /
Thomas Lindström
(ret) ;
Peggen Andersson / Dave
McMillan (3rd place)
1986
South
Pacific Touring Car Championship - 3 races in the Simpson
Touring Car Series (Manfield, Bay Park, Pukekohe) with
drivers Peggen Andersson and Garry Croft
1987
January
25 - Nissan-Mobil 500 on the Wellington street circuit. SRS
U-Bix car Peggen Andersson / Gary Croft. Qual 7th (ret
accident). YouTube
highlights link
1987
October
26 - Nissan-Mobil 500 in Wellington hosted WTCC Round
10 - SRS Team (Söderqvist Racing Services,
Sweden) ran two cars 1. Stig Blomqvist / Ulf Granberg
(13th), 2nd car Peggen Andersson / Ian (Inky) Tulloch, NZ
(ret).
Stig Blomqvist / Ulf Granberg in Wellington NZ - SRS U-Bix
copiers Team
MACAU
Macau Island, famous 6.2km Guia circuit
1985
1st
Gianfranco Brancatelli, Eggenberger Volvo 240 Turbo
1986
1st Johnny Cecotto (Venezuela) RAS SPORT VMS 240RXT,
2nd Rover, 3rd Thomas
Lindström
RAS SPORT VMS 240RXT
THAILAND
1987,
1988 1st
Thailand Touring Car Championship - Peggen
Andersson
MALAYSIA
1987,
1988 1st
Malaysian Touring Car Championship, Penang.
JAPAN -
Fuji 500
1985
All Japan Touring Car Championship Round 5 Fuji Speedway 10
November 1985: 1st Car 21 Sigi Muller Jr. /Pierre Dieudonne
- Volvo 240Turbo, 2nd Car 20 Thomas
Lindström
/Gianfranco
Brancatelli - Volvo 240Turbo. Pole position: Thomas
Lindström
/Gianfranco Brancatelli Volvo
240Turbo
1986
1st Johnny Cecotto and Anders
Olofsson RAS
SPORT VMS 240RXT (November 1986)
1987
WTC
Round 11 - Team Le Mans - Robert Kvist and Peggen
Andersson. SRS Team - Ulf Granberg, Ian Tulloch,
NZ
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Road registered GpA
240 Turbo
Owner: Pelle N, Sweden (Bought 1995)
*Originaly built by
SRS and Zacco motorsport 1989 *17"x9" Speedline
C-bolt wheels *AP 315 front brakes, 305 rear brakes
*Eggenberger front suspension *Bilstein shocks
front/rear *1031 Aluminum VMS rear axel *M30 dana
lsd *3,54:1 diff ratio *Getrag motorsport 5 speed
gearbox *AP 215mm clutch *B230 ETAL engine
*Grottis/VMS Cylinder head *Aluminum bonnets *Thin
glass windows *Plastic headlights *Rubi aluminum
rollcage
(Photo by Hast)
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(Pic VMS
archive)
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