The Group 2 racing class referred to regulations for cars in touring car racing and rallying, as regulated by the FIA. Group 2 was replaced by Group A in 1982.
The FIA established Appendix J regulations for Touring and GT cars for 1954 and the term Group 2 was in use to define Touring Cars in the Appendix J of 1959.[1] By 1961 Appendix J included specifications for both Group 1 Series Touring Cars and Group 2 Improved Touring Cars with a minimum production of 1,000 units in twelve consecutive months required to allow homologation of a model into either group.[2] Technical modifications beyond those allowed for Group 1 cars were permitted in Group 2.[2]
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The British Saloon Car Championship was open to Group 2 cars each year from 1961 to 1965 and from 1970 to 1973.[3]
Group 2 was the specified category for the European Touring Car Challenge from 1963 to 1967 [4] and the cars were also eligible alongside Group 5 special touring cars in 1968 and 1969.[5] It was again the premier category when the series was renamed as the European Touring Car Championship for 1970 and continued to be so until it was replaced by Group A for 1982.[6]
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The Sports Car Club of America’s Trans-American Sedan Championship was contested by Group 2 touring cars from its inception in 1966 through to the 1972 season.[7]
Groups 1-9
edit| Categories | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I. Touring | A. Touring | |||||||||||
| II. Sports | II. Grand Touring | B. Grand Touring | ||||||||||
| - | C. Sports | |||||||||||
| Group | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 |
| Group 1 | Normal series production | |||||||||||
| Group 2 | "Grand Touring" series prod | Modified series prod | Modified series prod | |||||||||
| Group 3 | Special series production | Grand Touring Cars | ||||||||||
| Group 4 | Series production | Normal GT series prod | Sports Car | |||||||||
| Group 5 | International | Modified GT series prod | - | |||||||||
| Group 6 | - | GT specials | - | |||||||||
| Source:[8][9] | ||||||||||||
| Categories | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Production | ||||||||||||||||
| B. Special | B. Experimental Competition | B. Racing Cars | ||||||||||||||
| C. Racing Cars | - | |||||||||||||||
| Group | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 |
| Group 1 | Series Touring (5000) | |||||||||||||||
| Group 2 | Touring (1000) | Special Touring (1000) | ||||||||||||||
| Group 3 | Grand Touring (500) | Series Grand Touring (1000) | ||||||||||||||
| Group 4 | Sportscars (50/25) | Special Grand Touring (500) | Grand Touring (400) | |||||||||||||
| Group 5 | Special Touring Cars | Sports cars (50) | Sports cars | Special cars derived from Groups 1-4 | ||||||||||||
| Group 6 | Prototype sportscars | - | Two-seater racecars | |||||||||||||
| Group 7 | Two-seater racecars | International formula | ||||||||||||||
| Group 8 | Formula racing cars | International formula | Formula libre racing cars | |||||||||||||
| Group 9 | Formula libre racing cars | - | ||||||||||||||
| Source:[8][9] Note: Special may be replaced with Competition in some official documents. | ||||||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ Appendix K - Technical regulations for historic cars, www.fia.com Retrieved 31 August 2016
- ^ a b Appendix 'J' to the International Sporting Code of the FIA - 1961, argent.fia.com Retrieved 31 August 2016
- ^ British Saloon Car Championship, touringcarracing.net Retrieved 1 September 2016
- ^ Part 1: 1963-1967 The early years, touringcarracing.net Retrieved 30 August 2016
- ^ Part 2: 1968-1969 Group 5 years, touringcarracing.net Retrieved 30 August 2016
- ^ The European Touring Car Championship, touringcarracing.net Retrieved 30 August 2016
- ^ Trans-Am, touringcarracing.net Retrieved on 30 August 2016
- ^ a b "Regulations - Period Appendix J | FIA Historic Database". historicdb.fia.com. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ a b "APPENDIX K TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPORTING CODE" (PDF).