Three-quarters Front View of a 1986, Renault 5 GT Turbo Coupé Historic Touring Car, n sale in the Iconic Auction, at the 2023 Silverstone Festival
A very well-respected and highly competitive 'Touring Car' owned and campaigned for 30 years by one of the best in the business, Prima Racing. During the mid-1980s, the tenacious little Renault 5 GT Turbo was utilised for racing with great effect. In the 1990s, Renault specialists Prima Racing started racing in the Harlow race series for the cars that had previously competed in the Renault Cup Series. The latter was disbanded after a couple of years and ended up as BRSCCs SuperCup race series, with a variety of marques competing together. At this time, Prima Racing rented out their own car, so this example was bought from fellow Renault experts Mark Fish Motorsport. It was originally a Radbourne Racing Cup Car, being supplied by Renault in 1986, and badged Coupé (only the actual race cars were badged as such and were not road-registered). Prima Racing's Tony Hart then competed in the car quite successfully, with several race wins and fastest laps. The car was then rented out to another driver for its last two seasons before, in 2004, Prima sold it to be used in sprinting/hillclimbing. It then changed hands again to another sprint racer before being acquired by Luke Wos (of WOSPerformance) who turned it back into a race car and used it for Future Classics 40-minute races, which were organised by his father. In 2015, in conversation with Luke, Tony bought the R5 back. Around this time, Tony was working with INRacing who specialise in historic cars, and he was subsequently drawn to the Legends series. He entered the car for the 2015 Portimão race in the October and the rest is history - winning the 'Group A' class at the first attempt! Over the winter, the car was upgraded to full 'Group A' specification and run in the MRL Historic Touring Car series until 2020, its last race at Silverstone, having notched up a class win at Donnington. The very capable car achieved several class wins in this series, as well as an Annual Class win.
Size: 4154px × 3590px
Location: Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire, NN12 8TN
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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