shite touring cars....

[retrogeezer]

Just watched the WTCC and Lada are going to field a 3 car team next year!

 

 

[Baz]

COOL....I hope the BTCC soon gets another revamp to create more factory interest, and make it worth watching again....Remember the mid-nineties?

[AXrescuer]

COOL....I hope the BTCC soon gets another revamp to create more factory interest, and make it worth watching again....Remember the mid-nineties?

The mid-eighties were better!

[Baz]

COOL....I hope the BTCC soon gets another revamp to create more factory interest, and make it worth watching again....Remember the mid-nineties?

The mid-eighties were better!

The old "Class" system enabled the use of some spectacular cars, but was always spoiled for me by the fact a dominant Toyota Corolla or summat from one of the lower classes would take the title, instead of the guys fighting it out at the front....In the mid-nineties, there were loads of factory teams, and close racing FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP WIN....That's why I loved that era!

[155V6]

My favourite era was the mid-nineties too,there were up to 10 teams at one point.There were also more privateers though & the gap between them & the works teams was a lot bigger as there cars tended to be a lot older.More recently though,there was the Proton team.They didn't do too bad,but I don't remember them ever winning a race.

[morris_ital_lover]

COOL....I hope the BTCC soon gets another revamp to create more factory interest, and make it worth watching again....Remember the mid-nineties?

well seat just left haven't they... anybody want to persuade the chinese or the indians (mg/rover/jaguar!??!?!)!?!?!

m0rris

[Milford Cubicle]

Some team or other was running an MG ZS up until as recently as last year. Not bad for something that's been defunct for a while!http://vne-resource.iol.co.za/30/picdb/f/0/107621

[155V6]

The MG was still in it this year!.The driver(Jason Hughes)started the year with it,& was meant to replace it with a Honda partway through the season,but that didn't happen & the MG was used right to the end of the season.

[VWPowered]

SEAT have pulled from next years BTCC

[mk2_craig]

Good times around 1991-93 on the BTCC, with Cavalier 3/Carina E/early E36 Beemer etc. Was like bloody bumper cars during that era, proper pile-ups taking half the field out interesting when the Volvo estates came in, but then it all got a bit boring for me and I switched off

[andrew e]

Didn't Vic Lee and his turquoise E36 coupes, get embroilled in some drugs scandal?Don't forget Patrick Watts plums & custard Xedos!

[marinast]

I remember the Texaco Sierra days, very exciting racing before they were banned.I can also (just) remember the SD1 era, BBC featured loads more motorsport during the 80s than they do now.

[155V6]

Didn't Vic Lee and his turquoise E36 coupes, get embroilled in some drugs scandal?

That's right,Vic Lee was arrested & jailed,the team went into receivership but was still allowed to race for the rest of the year.Vic Lee came back to the sport,I think he ran the Peugeot 406 Coupes as privateers for a year.

[mk2_craig]

The Lada looks very much like a mk3 Cavalier from some angles and a mk5 Escort from others. When does Britain get to buy a road version?