The 1988 Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship was a Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) sanctioned motor racing series run for Group A Touring Cars . It was the first of only two times the championship was run, with the next not being held until 1994 .
3-593: The FIA Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship was a motorsport championship staged in 1988 and in 1994 . The 1988 championship was won by New Zealand 's Trevor Crowe and the 1994 champion was Joachim Winkelhock from Germany . Crowe drove a BMW M3 for fellow Kiwi John Sax, while Winkelhock drove a BMW 318i for Schnitzer Motorsport . In 1996–1999 the series was re-vamped into the South East Asia Touring Car Zone Challenge mainly with local drivers only. In 2000 it changed to
6-623: The FIA Asian Touring Car Championship . This article related to touring car racing is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1988 Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship Trevor Crowe was the winner of the inaugural series driving a BMW M3 for fellow Kiwi John Sax . The M3 was a Division 2 car and gained more points for outright places. Second was veteran Australian racer Colin Bond in his Caltex sponsored Ford Sierra RS500 , while third
9-419: Was taken by Italian driver Emanuele Pirro driving a BMW M3 for Schnitzer Motorsport . With the championship generally ignored by most of the top teams from the stronger Group A championships ( Australia , Europe and Japan ), Crowe, Bond and Pirro were able to gain the top three placings despite each only running in two of the four rounds. The championship was run over four rounds, starting on 2 October at
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