The indulgent, floppy flat cap Goodwood revivals can just stand aside: the unadulterated rawness is preserved right here. Knock flipping hill. Murray flipping Walker.
Loved these days of BTCC. All these different manufacturers...Alfa Romeo went from champs to chumps this season, Ford slipped back, as did BMW, as Renault and Vauxhall came up strong, as did Honda. James Thompson had a massive shunt in practice which curtailed his season unfortunately.
Many thanks for this great quality upload. The Official Review just showed a snippet of this (Burt going off). It was horrible how Radisich's season went downhill in the second half of 1995-that greedy Mondeo ate its tyres🙂
Wonder if Rouse retiring had an impact on development in 95 the last year he built them, the Mondeo struggled with WSR until Prodrive got the contract.
You're right, Rouse retiring could have had an effect couldn't it. As you say, after this season, things didn't picking up until 1999, although there were some flashes of promise with WSR, including Hoy winning at a wet Silverstone in 1998.
Will Hoy was never slow but he was clean as a whistle in racing terms. Cleland said you could do a entire lap side by side with Will and he would barely touch you at all.
@jemimallah2591 It was also incredibly busy :) . Those mid-90s BTCC races were very popular. We parked a mile or so away from the track and waited for a park & ride bus for ages. In the end, we just decided to walk in instead. I'd love to go back and experience it again. Watching Alain Menu in the Renault flying into Duffus Dip :)
@@unovox Today’s cars have a lot of common, cost controlled parts. In the Super Touring era, teams were pouring money into researching the best alloys to make engine parts from, were spending day after day on a test track sorting out suspension and developing their aero in a wind tunnel. The fact that F1 teams like Williams and TWR were involved shows the level of complexity that was underneath these cars.
@@michaelellett1295 yes I know that, but at least back in those days the cars were proper cars, unlike todays space frame chassis vehicles with just a bodyshell of a vehicle we all recognise as a car, and it was more fun back in those days too
Touring cars today don’t have space frame chassis, or lookalike body shells and judging by the massive crowds they attract, they’re still as popular as ever.
@@Rayfaedundeethe modern btcc ngtc cars are not space framed at all, they share the same subframes which are tubular and bar that they are a productiom shell. The irony here is that the main reason the Stc era ended was because of the spiralling costs due to the cars being so heavily modified. Don't get me wrong the super touring era was by far the best & I'm not a fan of the modern cars, but it's mostly because all modern saloons look identical anyway at least you could tell them apart by design in the 90s.
The indulgent, floppy flat cap Goodwood revivals can just stand aside: the unadulterated rawness is preserved right here. Knock flipping hill. Murray flipping Walker.
You can say ‘fuck’
The pleasure's all yours
@@EdiDrums why thank you
Brilliant commentary by Murray Walker 👏🏻 ❤️🏁
When you hear Murray Walker reading out those names, brings back soo many memories
Loved these days of BTCC. All these different manufacturers...Alfa Romeo went from champs to chumps this season, Ford slipped back, as did BMW, as Renault and Vauxhall came up strong, as did Honda. James Thompson had a massive shunt in practice which curtailed his season unfortunately.
Bringing back memories.. they look so fast too. Thank you for sharing
Bloody loved those cars!!
This is when the BTCC was awesome, dont get wrong though, the racing now is good but the super touring era was the best.
Savage, what a time..
Many thanks for this great quality upload. The Official Review just showed a snippet of this (Burt going off). It was horrible how Radisich's season went downhill in the second half of 1995-that greedy Mondeo ate its tyres🙂
Wonder if Rouse retiring had an impact on development in 95 the last year he built them, the Mondeo struggled with WSR until Prodrive got the contract.
You're right, Rouse retiring could have had an effect couldn't it.
As you say, after this season, things didn't picking up until 1999, although there were some flashes of promise with WSR, including Hoy winning at a wet Silverstone in 1998.
Cavalier with the aero kit❤
Will Hoy was never slow but he was clean as a whistle in racing terms. Cleland said you could do a entire lap side by side with Will and he would barely touch you at all.
Simon Harrison did come back to the btcc in 2001 in the production class where he won the championship in the Peugeot 306
Fantastic! If you have anymore 90's BTCC I'd love to see it..
Sorry, that’s the lot.
I was there god I was 10 remember it well
Proper btcc
I was at this event . Great memories
@jemimallah2591 It was also incredibly busy :) . Those mid-90s BTCC races were very popular. We parked a mile or so away from the track and waited for a park & ride bus for ages. In the end, we just decided to walk in instead. I'd love to go back and experience it again. Watching Alain Menu in the Renault flying into Duffus Dip :)
There goes Burt spinning off due to brake failure
And an excellent dodge by James Kaye to just miss him
Exactly
13 year old me was there
why did it all have to change?????
Unsustainable. Teams just couldn’t afford it.
@@99dndd more expensive in 1995 than today? Those cars look more stock than what they are driving in now.......thanks for the explanation.
@@unovox Today’s cars have a lot of common, cost controlled parts. In the Super Touring era, teams were pouring money into researching the best alloys to make engine parts from, were spending day after day on a test track sorting out suspension and developing their aero in a wind tunnel. The fact that F1 teams like Williams and TWR were involved shows the level of complexity that was underneath these cars.
You can still have it, in Japan. Although it's in a GT500 category.
@@unovox don't be fooled by their appearance these machines were the cutting edge for their era, hence the costs.
Did you see my comment on Hungary 95
Erm, no.
Was it something about hacking your girlfriend's Instagram account? (Only joking)
When BTCC racing was at its best, and at Knockhill racing circuit with cars straight from the showroom, modified for racing
Lol these were far from Showroom mate
@@michaelellett1295 yes I know that, but at least back in those days the cars were proper cars, unlike todays space frame chassis vehicles with just a bodyshell of a vehicle we all recognise as a car, and it was more fun back in those days too
Touring cars today don’t have space frame chassis, or lookalike body shells and judging by the massive crowds they attract, they’re still as popular as ever.
@@drummerboy1390 I think you’ll find they do. The BTCC cars of today are not the same as they were in the 1980’s/90’s. …
@@Rayfaedundeethe modern btcc ngtc cars are not space framed at all, they share the same subframes which are tubular and bar that they are a productiom shell.
The irony here is that the main reason the Stc era ended was because of the spiralling costs due to the cars being so heavily modified.
Don't get me wrong the super touring era was by far the best & I'm not a fan of the modern cars, but it's mostly because all modern saloons look identical anyway at least you could tell them apart by design in the 90s.