The 9th round of the inaugural British Formula 3000 Championship, saw the series return to Brands Hatch, on 10 September. Going into this, the final round, the championship was being led by Gary Brabham (46 pts.), separated by just one point from Andrew Gilbert-Scott (45 pts.)[1]

Report

Entry

A total of 11 F3000 cars were entered for this, the final round of the 1989 British F3000 Championship.[2]

Qualifying

Andrew Gilbert-Scott took pole position for Eddie Jordan Racing team in their Cosworth-engined Reynard 88D. He was joined on the front row by championship leader, Gary Brabham in a similar Reynard, prepared by Bromley Motorsport.[2]

Race

The race was held over 27 laps of the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit. The race was stopped on lap six, following an accident involving Andrew Gilbert-Scott. This effectively handed Gary Brabham the title. Brabham would go on and win the restarted race for the Bromley Motorsport team, driving their Reynard-Cosworth 88D. The Aussie won in a time of 35:09.83mins., averaging a speed of 119.782 mph. Second place went to Perry McCarthy in GA Motorsport's Lola-Cosworth T88/50, who was nearly 25secs behind. Third went to Marco Greco who completed the podium for Eddie Jordan Racing in his Cosworth engined Reynard 88D.[2]

Classification

Race

Class winners in bold

Pos. No. Driver Entrant Car - Engine Time, Laps Reason Out
1st 5 Australia Gary Brabham Bromley Motorsport Reynard-Cosworth 88D 35:09.83
2nd 11 United Kingdom Perry McCarthy GA Motorsport Lola-Cosworth T88/50 35:34.58
3rd 2 Brazil Marco Greco Eddie Jordan Racing Reynard-Cosworth 88D 27
4th 10 United Kingdom Jonthan Bancroft GA Motorsport Lola-Cosworth T88/50 27
5th 37 Austria ”Pierre Chauvet” RCR 3000 Lola-Cosworth T88/50 27
6th 9 Brazil Paolo Carcasci CoBRa Motorsport Reynard-Cosworth 88D 27 #
7th 12 Spain Antonio Albacete Madgwick Motorsport Reynard-Cosworth 88D 27 #
8th 8 Spain Felipe Machado Madgwick Motorsport Reynard-Cosworth 88D 26
9th 7 United Kingdom Tony Worswick Tony Worswick Reynard-Cosworth 88D 26
DNF 3 United Kingdom Andrew Gilbert-Scott Eddie Jordan Racing Reynard-Cosworth 88D 6 crash
DNS 6 United Kingdom Mike Bryan R.O./Omegaland Reynard-Cosworth 88D accident in practice
# includes 60s penalty for jump-start

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References

  1. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 May 2011. Retrieved 19 November 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. 1 2 3 4 "British F3000 1989".
  3. ↑ "British Formula 3000 Championship". theracingline.net.
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