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| Frank
Krämer at Hockenheim in the BSR 389. |
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| Bertram
Schäfer was a former F3 driver of some note and after he retired he
started a new life as an entrant running Ralts in German F3 until in 1988
he became a constructor building the KS388 at his Volkswagen Motorsport
base at Birburg. Clearly Schäfer wasn't taking any chances as he also
ran a Reynard 883 alongside his own car. A new design followed for 1989
but Schäfer found that taking on the experience of the more established
was too much and in 1990 his team switched to the Ralt chassis. The BSR
name was derived from Bertram Schäfer Racing. |
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| Frank
Krämer in the BSR 388. |
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The KS388
was designed by Johann Knapp who had worked at Zakspeed, it
was a conventional design with pullrods at the front and pushrods
at the rear, it was powered by a Schrick tuned VW engine and
used the ubiquitous Hewland gearbox. It was the first carbonfibre
F3 car to be built in Germany. A series of good placings for
Krämer with bests of a 2nd at Brünn and thirds at
the Nurburgring (twice) and Hockenheim saw a fourth place
in the German Championship. |
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| Ellen
Lohr in the BSR 389. |
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Obviously
pleased with the success of the 1988 model Schäfer had a pair
of 389s built for the 1989 Championship, this time doing the designing
himself. Things got off to a good start with a somewhat fortuitous
1-2 finish at the opening round at Hockenheim but for the rest of
the season his two drivers only managed two other top six finishes
each. It appeared that the chassis wasn't sufficiently stiff compared
to its competitors and there was little that could be done to help
matters.. |
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| A new chassis
was designed and built for 1990 but Volkswagen, who were backing the team,
felt that the tried and tested route was probably safer and the team switched
back to runmning Ralts. |
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| Drivers |
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| 1988 |
388
Frank Krämer. |
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| 1989 |
389
Frank Krämer, Ellen Lohr, Marco Werner. |
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| 1990 |
389
Arnold Wagner. |
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