British Thundersaloon Championship Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship Dave Cook Racing Services (DCRS) was a motorsports team, maintenance and repair service and racecar builder[1] based in Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire Dave Cook had co-run the CC Racing Developments team with Peter Clark in the 1970s, running Gordon Spice in a Ford Capri in the British Saloon Car Championship.
[1] Eventually, Cook founded his own team in 1983, and thanks to a previous relationship with General Motors in which CC Racing had built Opel Monza chassis for the British Production Car Championship [2], landed a deal to prepare Group A specification Monzas to be run for the GM Dealer-Vauxhall Sport team, driven by Tony Lanfranchi in the BSCC for 1983.
Both Cleland and teammate Jeff Allam were in the running for the title, but BMW caught up after development work on their new 318iS model.
[6] In 1992, DCRS sold several Cavalier chassis to the privateer Ecurie Ecosse team, whose cars were re-engineered and run by Ray Mallock.
[9] With no deal to fall back on, DCRS disappeared from the BTCC paddock, picking up a contract from Toyota Motorsport to run and prepare race cars around the world.
[10] In the early 2000s, DCRS prepared parts for the Lexus BTCC effort, until Dave Cook voluntarily wound the team down.