Dave Cook Racing
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| Founded | 1983 |
|---|---|
| Folded | 2007 |
| Team principal(s) | Dave Cook |
| Former series | British Touring Car Championship
British Thundersaloon Championship Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship South African Touring Car Championship |
Dave Cook Racing Services (DCRS) was a motorsports team, maintenance and repair service and racecar builder[1] based in Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire
Dave Cook had co-run the CC Racing Developments team with Peter Clark in the 1970s, running Gordon Spice in a Ford Capri in the British Saloon Car Championship. Success was immediate, with Spice winning his class first time out.[2] Eventually, Cook founded his own team in 1983, and thanks to a previous relationship with General Motors in which CC Racing had built Opel Monza chassis for the British Production Car Championship,[3] landed a deal to prepare Group A specification Monzas to be run for the GM Dealer-Vauxhall Sport team, driven by Tony Lanfranchi in the BSCC for 1983.[4] Lanfranchi won the Class A category that season, but only after the works Austin Rover team was disqualified over homologation irregularities with the Rover SD1, costing Steve Soper the championship outright.[5]
Thundersaloons
Continuing their relationship with GM and Vauxhall, DCRS ran Lanfranchi in a works Class D GM Dealer Vauxhall Nova in the BSCC in 1986, winning the class with two wins and a second place.[6] Building on the factory backing by GM, Cook was commissioned by Vauxhall to run an ex Holden Dealer Team Commodore VK in the British Thundersaloon Championship in 1986 badged as a Vauxhall Senator.[citation needed] The season was a great success, John Cleland won the championship and for 1987, DCRS was tasked with the design and build of the Vauxhall Carltons for Cleland and Vince Woodman.[citation needed] The cars clearly had potential, which was proved the following year, winning the championship outright in 1988.[citation needed]