Although his flying start to the 1980 BMW M1 Procar Championship couldn't be sustained, Jan Lammers reserves a special place in his heart for the car that gave him a shot at fighting Formula 1's big guns in equal machinery
Ask Jan Lammers to name his favourite racing car, and he doesn’t plump for any of the Formula 1 machines he raced or tested - and the latter category includes the world championship-winning Lotus 79. Nor does he go for the Toyota TS010 3.5-litre Group C contender he describes as the “fastest thing I ever drove”.
It was the result, he believes, of blocking all the ducting into the driver compartment in the name of top speed on the long straights of the Berlin city-centre venue. Disorientated, he dropped back into the lower reaches of the top six before he fought his way back to second. He got onto the back race winner Manfred Schurti approaching the final corner, but was caught out how slowly he was going - the Liechtenstein driver was nursing a puncture.
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