• Former Abba session drummer and Formula 1 racer Slim
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Borgudd romped home to his third successive Superprix victory at Brands Hatch on Sunday.
Borgudd, driving the Mobil sponsored West Coast Racing Volvo White Road Boss, fought his way up from fourth row on the grid. After two of the 15 laps he was in fourth place; two laps later he was leaning heavily on third-placed Steve Parrish (BP Mercedes 1450). Borgudd slipped through at the end of lap five and a lap later had passed fellow Swede Curt Goransson (Q8 team Volvo N12) to take second place.
By the halfway point Borgudd had overtaken German Thomas Hegmann (Mercedes 1450S), who had started in pole, to take the lead which he held to the line.
Borgudd and Korber set identical times for a best ever lap in truck racing at Brands: with a lap time of lmin 0.4sec, this set an average speed of 115.491unth (71.76mph).
The next round of the 1990 FIA European Truck Racing Cup will be at the Hungaroring in Hungary on 12/13 May; the next British round will be on 29/30 September, also to Brands Hatch.
LI Borgudd and his allconquering Volvo will be on CM's Truckfest stand on 6-7 May. See next week's issue for a full preview.
Euro highway
• A motorway from Manchester to Moscow could form part of a transcontinental transport system established throughout Europe and the Eastern Bloc, predicts EC Transport Commissioner Karel Van Mien.
CV output up
• UK production of CVs rose 15.3% last month compared with March 1989 to 32,143, more than twice February's 16,172. Export production also rose, to 9,017, compared with 8,890 in March 1989 and 4,725 in February.