The 1984 World Sportscar Championship season was the 32nd season of
FIA
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World Sportscar Championship
The World Sportscar Championship was the world series run for sports car racing by the FIA from 1953 to 1992.
The championship evolved from a small collection of the most important sportscar, endurance, and road racing events in Europe and No ...
" motor racing. It featured the 1984 FIA World Endurance Championship, which was open to FIA
Group C1
Group C was a category of sports car racing introduced by the FIA in 1982 and continuing until 1993, with ''Group A'' for touring cars and ''Group B'' for GTs.
It was designed to replace both Group 5 special production cars (closed top touri ...
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Group C2
Group C was a category of sports car racing introduced by the FIA in 1982 and continuing until 1993, with '' Group A'' for touring cars and '' Group B'' for GTs.
It was designed to replace both Group 5 special production cars (closed top to ...
and
Group B
Group B was a set of regulations for grand touring (GT) vehicles used in sports car racing and rallying introduced in 1982 by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Although permitted to enter a GT class of the World Sportscar ...
cars and to
IMSA GTP, GTX, GTO and GTU cars.
[Official Programme, (1984) Sandown 1000, page 44] The championship was contested over an eleven race series which ran from 23 April to 2 December 1984.
[FIA World Endurance, Autosport, 31 January 1985]
The World Endurance Championship for Drivers was won by
Stefan Bellof
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,
[1984 World Endurance Championship for Drivers, 1985 FIA Yearbook of Automobile Sport, grey section, page 86] the World Endurance Championship for Manufacturers by
Porsche
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,
[1984 World Endurance Championship for Manufacturers, 1985 FIA Yearbook of Automobile Sport, grey section, page 87] the Group C2 Prototype FIA Cup by Alba
Giannini
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,
[1984 Group C2 Prototype FIA Cup, 1985 FIA Yearbook of Automobile Sport, grey section, page 88] and the FIA Grand Touring Cup by
BMW.
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Schedule
The 1984 FIA World Endurance Championship was contested over an eleven race series.[
† - The races at Brands Hatch, Imola and Sandown Park were qualifying rounds for the World Endurance Championship for Drivers but not for the three manufacturers awards.][
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Entries
Group C
Group C2
IMSA GTP
Results
Races
Race results for the 1984 FIA World Endurance Championship were as follows:
World Endurance Championship for Drivers
A total of 84 drivers were classified in the 1984 World Endurance Championship for Drivers.[
Points were awarded to the top 10 finishers in each race on a 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis,][ with the following exceptions:
* Drivers failing to drive the car for a prescribed minimum percentage of the laps in a race were not awarded points.
* Drivers were not awarded points if the car did not complete 90% of the distance covered by the race winning car.
Only the best eight scores for each driver counted towards the championship,][ with any other points being discarded.
]
World Endurance Championship for Manufacturers
Points were awarded to the top 10 finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1.[
Manufacturers were awarded points only for their best placed car][Peter Higham, The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing, 1995, page 260] with no points awarded for places gained by any additional cars.
The chassis builder and engine builder of a competing car were considered as a single entity for classification purposes.
The races at Brands Hatch, Imola and Sandown Park were qualifying rounds for the World Endurance Championship for Drivers but not for the three manufacturers awards.[
Only the best six scores for each manufacturer counted towards the championship,][ with any other points being discarded. Discarded points are shown with brackets.
In addition to competing for the World Endurance Championship for Manufacturers, ]Group C2
Group C was a category of sports car racing introduced by the FIA in 1982 and continuing until 1993, with '' Group A'' for touring cars and '' Group B'' for GTs.
It was designed to replace both Group 5 special production cars (closed top to ...
and Group B
Group B was a set of regulations for grand touring (GT) vehicles used in sports car racing and rallying introduced in 1982 by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Although permitted to enter a GT class of the World Sportscar ...
cars also competed for their own separate awards.
Group C2 Prototype FIA Cup
FIA Grand Touring Cup
References
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World Sportscar Championship seasons
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