The 1988 ADAC 1000 km Nürburgring was the eighth round of the 1988 World Sportscar Championship season. It took place at the Nürburgring, West Germany on September 3 and 4, 1988.
Pre-race Prior to the race weekend, the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (ADAC), organisers of the event, decided to alter the schedule for the race weekend as well as the format of the race itself.
Rather than being a continual six hour event, the race was broken into two heats. The first heat was to be run on Saturday evening, going from dusk into darkness, and running for three hours of 500 kilometres, whichever was achieved first. The second heat would then be run on Sunday afternoon for an equal distance to make up the 1000 kilometre total distance. The times from each entry would be combined from the two events in order to determine an overall winner.
Several teams and drivers protested this change, in part due to the rain and fog present on the race weekend. All teams however did race any way.
Official results These results show the combined times from both heats. Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of the winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).
Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Laps Engine 1 C1 61 Team Sauber Mercedes Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass Sauber C9 200 Mercedes-Benz M117 5.0L Turbo V8 2 C1 1 Silk Cut Jaguar Martin Brundle Eddie Cheever Jaguar XJR-9 199 Jaguar 7.0L V12 3 C1 7 Joest Racing Paolo Barilla Bob Wollek Porsche 962C 196 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 4 C1 8 Joest Racing Frank Jelinski "John Winter" Porsche 962C 194 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 5 C1 6 Brun Motorsport Manuel Reuter Jesús Pareja Porsche 962C 193 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 6 C1 4 Brun Motorsport Walter Brun Harald Huysman Porsche 962C 192 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 7 C1 14 Richard Lloyd Racing Martin Donnelly David Hobbs Porsche 962C GTi 191 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 8 C1 2 Silk Cut Jaguar Jan Lammers Johnny Dumfries Jaguar XJR-9 186 Jaguar 7.0L V12 9 C1 40 Swiss Team Salamin Antoine Salamin Giovanni Lavaggi Porsche 962C 182 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 10 C1 10 Porsche Kremer Racing Volker Weidler Bruno Giacomelli Porsche 962CK6 181 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 11 C1 5 Brun Motorsport Uwe Schäfer Oscar Larrauri Porsche 962C 180 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 12 C2 106 Kelmar Racing Pasquale Barberio Vito Veninata Tiga GC288 176 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 13 C2 103 Spice Engineering Almo Coppelli Thorkild Thyrring Spice SE88C 175 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 14 C2 127 Chamberlain Engineering John Williams Nick Adams Richard Jones Spice SE86C 173 Hart 418T 1.8L Turbo I4 15 C2 191 PC Automotive Richard Piper Olindo Iacobelli Argo JM19C 159 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 16 C2 121 GP Motorsport Wayne Taylor Costas Los Spice SE87C 158 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 17NC C2 198 Roy Baker Racing John Sheldon Neil Crang Tiga GC286 137 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 18DNF C2 109 Kelmar Racing Ranieri Randaccio Maurizio Gellini Tiga GC288 137 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 19DNF C2 177 Automobiles Louis Descartes Gérard Tremblay Louis Descartes Dominique Lacaud ALD C2 126 BMW M80 3.5L I6 20DNF C2 124 MT Sport Racing Pierre-François Rousselot Jean Messaoudi Argo JM19C 125 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 21DNF C1 20 Team Davey Tim Lee-Davey Tom Dodd-Noble Peter Oberndofer Porsche 962C 110 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 22DNF C1 24 Dollop Racing Paolo Giangrossi Jean-Pierre Frey Lancia LC2 99 Ferrari 308C 3.0L Turbo V8 23DNF C1 62 Team Sauber Mercedes Mauro Baldi Stefan Johansson Sauber C9 89 Mercedes-Benz M117 5.0L Turbo V8 24DNF C2 160 Günter Gebhardt Motorsport Hellmut Mundas Stefan Neuberger Rudi Seher Gebhardt JC873 ? 89 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 25DNF C2 117 Team Lucky Strike Schanche "Pierre Chauvet" Robin Smith Argo JM19C 86 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 26DNF C1 16 Dauer Racing Jochen Dauer Franz Konrad Porsche 962C 84 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 27DNF C2 183 Walter Maurer Walter Maurer Helmut Gall Edgar Dören Maurer Lotec C87 ? 80 BMW 2.0L Turbo I4 28DNF C2 111 Spice Engineering Ray Bellm Gordon Spice Spice SE88C 75 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 29DNF C2 107 Chamberlain Engineering Claude Ballot-Léna Jean-Louis Ricci Spice SE88C 63 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 30DNF C2 151 Pierre-Alain Lombardi Pierre-Alain Lombardi Bruno Sotty Spice SE86C 36 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3L V8 DNQ C2 182 Pero Racing Peter Fritsch Dieter Heinzelmann Argo JM19 ? - Porsche Type-935 2.8L Turbo Flat-6
Statistics Pole Position - #61 Team Sauber Mercedes - 1:24.920 Fastest Lap - #61 Team Sauber Mercedes - 1:28.550 Average Speed - 154.359 km/h
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