14 Facts About Spice Engineering

Spice Engineering was a British racing team founded by driver Gordon Spice with Raymond Bellm in the early 1980s, later becoming a successful sports car constructor in 1986.

When founded by Gordon Spice and Raymond Bellm, who funded the company with Listerine sponsorship, Spice Engineering initially used Tiga sports cars in the World Sportscar Championship, running in the smaller C2 category.

For 1985, the engineering arm of Spice began to develop, as the team assisted in the development of the new Tiga GC85 chassis.

Now constructing their own cars for 1986, Spice Engineering expanded to the IMSA GT Championship, where they assisted in the running of Pontiac's Camel Lights competitor.

Spice Engineering would expand on this even more in 1988, when in an eleven race season, they failed to win their class only once, thus earning them a third championship title.

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Fortunes would improve in 1990 when a large number of the major manufacturers exited the series, leaving Spice Engineering to be able to take fourth place in the championship, ahead of the various private Porsche outfits and the factory Toyota squad.

However Euro Racing achieved a string of good results in the 1991 WSC with a Spice Engineering SE90C, including four fourth places, helping the team to fourth in the teams championship whilst drivers Cor Euser and Charles Zwolsman finished fifth and sixth in the drivers standings.

Spice Engineering was active in creating update and modification kits to allow existing chassis to be updated to the then-new IMSA WSC specification.

Spice Engineering received engineering input from General Motors for the IMSA effort, using Pontiac engines in place of the Ford Cosworths.

Spice Engineering built at least three new chassis for the IMSA WSC championship with new suspension and bodywork.

In 1994 Spice Engineering won the manufacturers championship with Oldsmobile beating Ferrari.

Spice Engineering made available a kit to convert existing Group C and IMSA chassis to the new WSC regulations and some teams took up this option, with some opting to carry out their own conversion and development work, without factory assistance.

Spice Engineering planned to build its own road cars and race them in the newer GT championships.

Spice Engineering announced ambitious plans to create a Formula One team in their new headquarters in Australia.