Audi BTCC victory reinstated...

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BTCC: Audi reinstated after appeal
     
* Nick Carter
* MNI - Motorsport News International 
* Mon Apr 29 21:44:12 EDT 1996
     
News from the Auto Trader RAC Touring Car Championship 
29/4/96
     
Biela back on top
     
Following Audi's successful appeal against the penalties imposed at 
Brands Hatch, Frank Biela is reinstated as leader of the Auto Trader RAC 
Touring Car Championship. Audi also regains the lead in the 
manufacturers' championship.
     
Biela had been excluded from the results of round four at Brands Hatch 
following the protest from Vauxhall over the front suspension fitted to 
the pace-setting A4. Vauxhall's protest was upheld by officials at the 
race track, excluding both Biela and Audi from the results of round four 
and penalising them the mandatory two maximum scores (a total of 30 
points).
     
Audi appealed this decision and today presented further written evidence 
from the FIA in Paris to an RACMSA Technical Tribunal; this crucial 
evidence which proved the A4 to be legal was not originally available at 
Brands Hatch. As a result, Biela and Audi are reinstated in the results 
of round four - where Biela finished fourth, gaining eight points - and 
the 30-point penalty is withdrawn.
     
As the BTCC teams head to Thruxton, where rounds five and six take place 
on Monday (May 6), the revised Auto Trader championship points are as 
follows:
Drivers: 1 Frank Biela, 54; 2 Alain Menu, 5; =3 Jo Winkelhock & Rickard 
Rydell, 29; 5 Will Hoy, 24. Manufacturers: 1 Audi, 53; 2 Renault, 48; 3 
Volvo, 38; 4 BMW, 37; 5 Vauxhall, 27; =6 Ford & Peugeot, 16; 8 Honda, 
14.
     
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Official BTCC website:
Best in British Motor Sport
http://www.demon.co.uk/racing
     
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