More Awsome BTCC-age

[slater]

1991 p1
1991 p2
1992 p1
1992 p2
1993 p1
1993 p2
1994 p1
1994 p2

Click!

[Odin]

Ace!

[jiminwatford]

Excellent!
How could Sierra cosworths compete? i thought the regulations outlawed them the year before?

[Garry]

Massive restrictors on the turbos or running them without the turbo, can't remember which.

[Odin]

You can see the beginning of the slippery slope into aerodynamics in '94 too.

[marinanut]

I dunno, there is something about seeing a car that isn't a parody of the original design racing that makes the latest BTCC series look a bit lame. Nowadays the drivers are nailed in so tight and the cars are so flat handling they are part of the machine; in these films you can see the drivers muscling the cars around the circuit. Maybe I'm just getting old.........

[Ministrone]

More than that the cars were built to take the abuse.
If there is any contact in the modern BTCC the cars always seem to retire with broken steering or suspension

[Odin]

^ I echo these sentiments entirely.

[tonycocacola]

great vids mr S.
brings back memories of watching them with phoenixC back in the day.

[J.P]

' The car upside down is a Toyota! '

I'm jealous of anyone who watched those in the tin. The sounds must have been awesome!The cars of that era look 10x better. Big camber, wheels tucked into arches, day glow colours! I never tire of the sound of straight cut gears either!

What strikes me the most is how skittish the cars seem, more raw and 'proper'. Looks like the drivers really were drivers and had to wrestle each lap. Also how much they change position and dart across the track changing lines to try for the next over taking manouver.

[Odin]

Apr 26, 2008 22:07:25 GMT J.P said:

What strikes me the most is how skittish the cars seem, more raw and 'proper'. Looks like the drivers really were drivers and had to wrestle each lap. Also how much they change position and dart across the track changing lines to try for the next over taking manouver.

I think the main factor in this is aerodynamics, as I mentioned earlier. Pre-'95 cars couldn't have non-homologated aerodynamics (that's why there was the fuss about Alfa in '94) and so the cars were more of a handful and there wasn't such a problem with slipstreaming, etc.

I much prefer these to the modern versions, which are basically silhouette racers rather than production cars.

[willcolumbine]

I agree with pretty much everything thats being said here! Those were the days! I think the further they move away from the cars the average guy can buy in the high street the worse it gets...

[haggis]

1992 reminds me of how much i hate steve soper

the man is a little curse word!

[gearoil]

Apr 26, 2008 16:22:53 GMT jiminwatford said:

Excellent!
How could Sierra cosworths compete? I thought the regulations outlawed them the year before?

In naturally aspirated format IIRC.

Best years of the BTCC, used to get either drowned or sunburt watching them at Knockhill.

Watched the Rockingham round of this years series the other day - load of pap.

[mini1968]

Two things struck me from the 1993 pg 2 video and that is how much i want a qucik toyota carina now and how i wish my last name was Winklehock