Andy Rouse

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Andrew Rouse (born 2 December 1947) is a British racing driver, most notably in the

His first step into saloon car racing came in 1972, when he entered the Ford Escort Mexico series. He won this one-make championship in his first year, and soon stepped up into the British Saloon Car Championship. Over the following years, Rouse was successful in a number of Broadspeed entered cars (including Ford Escorts, Triumph Dolomite Sprints and Ford Capris) winning his class in 1973, 1974 and taking the title in 1975.^[2]

In 1976, Broadspeed ran the works Jaguar XJ12C cars, for which Rouse was both driver and race development engineer. Great results were expected from these powerful cars but unfortunately British Leyland stopped the program the following season following a string of poor results. With no works deal for 1978, Ralph Broad sold his stake in the company and Broadspeed soon went into liquidation. Rouse drove alongside Gordon Spice in 1979 and 80, getting good results in the works Ford Capri team.^[3]

Andy Rouse Engineering

In 1981, Rouse set up his own engineering company, Andy Rouse Engineering, taking many of the ex-Broadspeed employees with him. His success on the track continued with Championship wins in 1983 and 1984. His 1983 win came about after

As a prelude to the new 2.0 litre formula for 1991, Rouse built a 2.0 Sierra Sapphire run under the Hawaiian Tropic banner, driven first by

Since the demise of his touring car teams, Rouse spent several years trying to promote a rival series to the BTCC; his proposed "Supercar V8" was based on a spaceframe chassis, normally aspirated V8 engine, and bodywork modelled on medium to large saloon cars. This series has not yet materialised.^[citation needed]

Rouse has since wound down Andy Rouse Engineering and retired from motor racing. He now runs a commercial real estate business and restores Cadillac vehicles.^{[citation needed]}

His son Julian is a director of the Arden International racing team.^[10][11]

In 2003, Andy and Julian won the 2003 Britcar season in a

In 2005, a poll by readers of Motorsport Magazine voted Rouse the third greatest touring car driver ever.[12]

Racing record

Complete British Saloon / Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1973–1990 in class) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded ?–1989 in class)

1. ^ – Race was stopped due to heavy rain. No points were awarded.

† Events with 2 races staged for the different classes.

‡ Endurance driver.

Complete 24 Hours of Spa results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1974	Team Butch Broadspeed	Tony Dron	Triumph Dolomite Sprint	Div.3	280	5th	3rd
1980	Belga Castrol Team	Thierry Tassin	Ford Capri III 3.0	serT+2.5	415	7th	6th
1987	Andy Rouse Engineering	Win Percy Thierry Tassin	Ford Sierra RS Cosworth	Div.3	252/rim failure	DNF	DNF

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1980	Porsche System	Tony Dron Eberhard Draun (DNS)	Porsche 924 Carrera GT	GTP	311	5th	3rd
1981	Porsche System	Manfred Schurti Siegfried Brunn (DNS)	Porsche 924 Carrera GT	IMSA GTO	316	11th	1st
1982	Porsche System	Richard Lloyd	Porsche 924 Carrera GT	IMSA GTO	77/gearbox	DNF	DNF

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Pts
1987	Andy Rouse Engineering	Ford Sierra RS Cosworth	MNZ Ret	JAR ovr:14 cls:3	DIJ ovr:5 cls:3	NUR ovr:8 cls:2	SPA Ret							25th	58
		Ford Sierra RS500						BNO Ret	SIL Ret				FJI ovr:2 cls:2
	Allan Moffat Enterprises									BAT Ret	CLD Ret	WEL

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1987	Allan Moffat Enterprises	Thierry Tassin Allan Moffat	Ford Sierra RS500	1	31	DNF	DNF
1989	Mobil 1 Racing	Peter Brock	Ford Sierra RS500	A	81	DNF	DNF
1990	Mobil 1 Racing	Peter Brock	Ford Sierra RS500	1	160	4th	4th

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