The 1988 SCCA Escort Trans-Am Championship ^[1] was the 23rd running of the Sports Car Club of America's premier series. 1988 would mark the end of the "GT era", in which the series had been the support series, and often the lesser classes, of the more popular IMSA GT Championship, which had overtaken Trans Am as the most popular road racing series in the United States beginning in 1973 after the decline of muscle cars and the 1973 Oil Crisis. This led to an increase in competitiveness from foreign manufacturers.

The Audi 200 quattro won the manufacturer's championship ^[2] and Hurley Haywood won the driver's championship. ^[3]

Results

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Round	Date	Circuit	Winning driver	Winning vehicle
1	16 April	Long Beach	Paul Gentilozzi	Oldsmobile Cutlass
2	1 May	Dallas	Hurley Haywood	Audi 200
3	29 May	Sears Point	Willy T. Ribbs	Chevrolet Camaro
4	18 June	Detroit	Hurley Haywood	Audi 200
5	26 June	Niagara Falls	Walter Röhrl	Audi 200
6	2 July	Cleveland	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Audi 200
7	17 July	Brainerd	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Audi 200
8	23 July	Meadowlands	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Audi 200
9	6 August	Lime Rock Park	Scott Pruett	Merkur XR4Ti
10	3 September	Mid-Ohio	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Audi 200
11	10 September	Road America	Scott Pruett	Merkur XR4Ti
12	25 September	Mosport	Darin Brassfield	Chevrolet Corvette
13	23 October	St. Petersburg	Walter Röhrl	Audi 200

Championship standings (Top 20)

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Pos Driver LBH DAL SPT DET NGF CLE BIR MEA LRP MDO ROA MSP SPG Pts 1 Hurley Haywood 2 1* 6 1 13 4 2 2 4 3 4 22 18 151.5 2 Irv Hoerr 5 2 2 18 3 2 5* 7 3 8 28 5 4 141 3 Scott Pruett 7* 27 3 2 2 34 3 1* 16 1* 117 4 Jim Derhaag 6 5 7 4 23 10 3 8 8 14 9 6 9 104 5 Darin Brassfield 21 3** 9 38 4 32 25 12 2 6 27 1* 2* 101 6 Hans-Joachim Stuck 29 35 1* 1 1* 1* 2 28 100 7 Lyn St. James 3 11 11 9 7 7 7 11 11 10 8 8 8 98 8 Les Lindley 4 19 4 12 5 3 21 10 6 4 30 11 7 95 9 Walter Röhrl 13 5 1* 5 4 1 80 9 Paul Gentilozzi 1 23 8 3 17 5 4 4 32 32 36 13 26 80 11 Willy T. Ribbs 4* 1* 11 24 5 3 3 78.5 12 Bruce Nesbitt 15 6 7 9 24 27 14 10 7 18 14 10 52 13 Deborah Gregg 12 20 13 5 11 9 29 28 9 26 14 20 6 48 14 Mike Ciasulli 27 14 36 6 18 27 6 9 36 9 6 17 DNS 46 15 Ron Fellows 5 3 5 36 16 Bob Sobey 9 10 30 32 19 8 9 13 22 14 33 17 Jerry Clinton 18 17 16 30 10 12 18 20 14 29 11 10 11 28 18 Jack Baldwin 2 7 25 19 Jerry Brassfield 3** 10 29 20 19 R.K. Smith 29 20 28 DNQ 37 26 24 5 DNS 7 21 20 Pos Driver LBH DAL SPT DET NGF CLE BIR MEA LRP MDO ROA MSP SPG Pts

Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th & 5th place Light Blue 6th-10th place Dark Blue Finished (Outside Top 10) Purple Did not finish Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Blank Not competing In-line notation Bold Pole position * Led most race laps ** Darin Brassfield started in the #88 car at DAL, falling out (30th/DNF) before the green flag, switching to the #87 and finishing 3rd. Both Darin and Jerry Brassfield were credited with the finish.

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