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1988 1000 km of Brands Hatch

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ164817 ↗
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The 1988 Brands Hatch 1000 km was the seventh round of the 1988 World Sportscar Championship season. It took place at Brands Hatch, United Kingdom on 24 July 1988.

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Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of the winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).

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“1988 1000 km of Brands Hatch” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Brands, Hatch and Open-knowledge can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 1000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Brands, Hatch and Open-knowledge.
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“1988 1000 km of Brands Hatch” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Brands, Hatch and Open-knowledge provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q164817. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 1000.

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This entry incorporates text from “1988 1000 km of Brands Hatch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.