edcayton Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 I've just decided to spend a lazy day watching this and looking at RMWeb today. Sad, but for me it don't get much better! Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wherry Lines Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 The BTCC is arguably one of the better motor sports to watch. I did exactly the same thing Ed! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Natalie Graham Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 What on earth had they got that large padded thing at the edge of the track for? It took at least one driver out in half the races. The poor lad in the Ginetta juniors had a real mess made of his car and the chap in the Renault single seaters got just a little bit wide and had both his wheels ripped off on that side. Someone had a very strange idea about safety when the stuck that there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted August 8, 2011 Author Share Posted August 8, 2011 What on earth had they got that large padded thing at the edge of the track for? It took at least one driver out in half the races. The poor lad in the Ginetta juniors had a real mess made of his car and the chap in the Renault single seaters got just a little bit wide and had both his wheels ripped off on that side. Someone had a very strange idea about safety when the stuck that there. It was put there for Gordon Sheddon (aka Flash) to remove his flapping front wing after he was flagged to stop. He said it was deliberate, I guess he comes from the Michael Schumacher driving school! Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 I prefer watching the porsches, mans car to drive. the btcc cars seem a bit slow and dont like all the messing about with weights and 3 races. bring back the rs500s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 I think every generation of touring cars is good in its own way. My goodness, I'd forgotten how tight that Birmingham circuit was! Here's another good era - Gerry Marshall, DTV and the amazing Bertha. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFTBgnCanJo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Natalie Graham Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 It was put there for Gordon Sheddon (aka Flash) to remove his flapping front wing after he was flagged to stop. He said it was deliberate, I guess he comes from the Michael Schumacher driving school! Ed It was that thing that caused his flapping front wing in the first place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucky Duck Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 …bring back the rs500s For me there were two 'Golden' Touring Car eras… both involving Ford vs BMW. The Cossies against the M3s in the late '80s/early '90s and back in the '70s, the mightly Cologne Capris vs the CSL 'Batmobiles'. Unfortunately, it's the same from F1 downwards… they may be faster these days but they don't look half as spectacular. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Ive had the 1988, 89 and 90 videos for many many years, my favourites, watched them countless times.also got the 88 ETC a years back. my uncle went to the 1990 Birmingham race and Ive got his programme somewhere Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 couldnt find the 1990 Snetterton race, one of my favourites, features in the highlights early in this clip. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 part 2, great race this and look for a famous driver at 6mins 20 driving a Vauxhall cavalier. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucky Duck Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Classic racing. I taped most BTCC and some ETC races back then but haven't seen them in years until those clips. I was also fotunate enough to have driven both Cossie RS500 and BMW M3 Evo road versions. The Cossie was an absolute monster but the M3 was one of the sweetest-handling cars I've ever driven and only slightly slower. Had fantastic, hooligan fun and loved them both. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 very nice, I like watching the m3's race, they look well balanced. Frank Sytner was a nutter Ive been around Donnington park with a guy who owned a full BTCC spec RS500, he later bought Tim Harvey's Labatts car, restored it and let Tim go in it.. this is another classic race, I love mk1 Escorts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucky Duck Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 I remember that one and what a race it was. Murray Walker doing his usual "Spin, spin, spin!!!" Loved the fact that 5-litre Camaros and Minis shared the track, which made lapping backmarkers quite interesting. One of those Escorts had a 3-litre V8! Shame Crystal Palace is no more, it was a nice little 'town' circuit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 aye, this was when Martin Johnstone owned Tim Harveys car, same guy who took me round Donnington in his touring car spec RS500 before he got this one. dont think he owns it now, hes the fella with the green t shirt on.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucky Duck Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 What a sensational car. Must have been a bit of a hairy experience around Donington as it's quite hilly with lots of fast sweeping bends… which reminds me, remember Cossies at Bathurst, Australia? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Donnington was fun,was a Ford RS owners club day so plenty of stuff on the track, just didnt seem fast on a wide circuit with nothing around like buildings, was the fastest car on the track but he wasnt the fastest of drivers. we went out on the motorway later to a Halfords to get some bits and then it seemed fast Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Certainly an impressive car. Tim Harvey seemed to enjoy it too! I couldn't get over the size of the turbo on it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invicta Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 aye, this was when Martin Johnstone owned Tim Harveys car, same guy who took me round Donnington in his touring car spec RS500 before he got this one. dont think he owns it now, hes the fella with the green t shirt on.. He sold the Tim Harvey Labatt's car, and I think a couple of others. IIRC at one time he had Harvey's car, the other Labatt's car (Lawrence Bristow's car, which was later converted for Thundersaloon races), a white Graham Goode Listerine car and an Eggenberger/Texaco car. I won't swear to it, but I think he's still got the Bristow car The Harvey car and the Goode/Listerine car are now in Australia- coincidentally, Robert Tweedie who now owns the Labatt's car is advertising it for sale at the moment: http://www.ibcholdings.com.au/cars/sierra_1990/index.html Great cars to watch- As someone said earlier in the thread, one of the great eras of touring car racing. Good to see the 1990 Brands race video- funnily enough I was at that one- My avatar pic is Gravett at Brands that year, though it was the other Brands round a month or two earlier. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 oh wow! if my euromillions comes in ill have that just sold some tamiya cars, a mint unbuilt piumini trampioni one which I had intended to paint up one day as Gravett's trackstar or one of the Labatts cars. never got round to sorting out decals tho. think you can get smaller die casts of them now so will get one of them one day, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I love between 44 sec - 56 sec this is the race my uncle went to, they went in his friends brand new Cavalier GSI to see the touring car ones. he gave me the programme, he's got some photos somewhere. he got talking to Andy Rouse about his Land rovers he used to tow the race cars with. Andy had some special ones that went over a famous mountain pass somwhere I forget, my uncle recognised them as he liked Land rovers at the time and they had a long chat about them Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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