Arguably better suited to touring cars and sportscars, Eric van de Poele spent a short spell in F1 in the early '90s. 📝 Of those, one of them was his all-time favourite car to race - as james_newbold found out ⬇️
As the driver who has the most wins of anybody in Spa 24 Hours history, you’d bank on Eric van de Poele selecting one of the machines that carried him to victory in the Belgian classic as his favourite car. But BMW’s all-conquering M3 tin-top, with which van de Poele also won the DTM crown in 1987, and the Maserati MC12 GT1 he took to three wins between 2005 and 2008 are beaten to top spot by an unlikely candidate.
The underdeveloped Brabham BT60B Judd meant van de Poele and Hill spent the bulk of 1992 failing to qualify“The Brabham was a really good chassis but we knew we had much less power than others, we had no development from Judd because there was no money in the team,” he says. "With the Fondmetal I did my first three laps to warming up in the qualifying and then I came back to change, I can’t remember what, and I was already qualified"Even without any testing, he followed team-mate Gabriele Tarquini cleanly through pre-qualifying and comfortably made the cut in 18th – six spots behind Tarquini but ahead of both Tyrrells and Scuderia Italia-Dallaras.
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