Video: Watch the BTCC’s glory years

Published: 26 May 2008 Updated: 26 January 2015

In the new July 2008 issue of CAR Magazine (on sale now) we’ve got together some of the most successful touring cars from the last 50 years. We promised you video clips of our favourite moments and, as CAR’s resident motorsport anorak, the task fell to me to spend hours online seeking them out – a dream job!

Scroll to the bottom of this page to see my favourite moments, picked from what I think were the glory days – the late ’80s and most of the ’90s. The grids were full, the racing laugh-out-loud outrageous and the cars attainable. The BTCC even made Cavaliers cool.

Enjoy the clips, but feel free to disagree with the selection add your own comments!

 

  • Will Hoy and Andy Rouse – Brands Hatch

    Toyota pairing Will Hoy and Andy Rouse take each other off at Brands Hatch, plus a spectacular overtake from John Cleland in a Cavalier.

  • Nigel Mansell – Donnington

    Nigel Mansell silences his critics with a masterful race at Donington in the wet.

  • Steve Soper and Andy Rouse duel

    Epic duels between Steve Soper and Andy Rouse in their Sierra Cosworth RS500s

  • Carnage at Donington – 1991

    Carnage at Donington, 1991. I can cope with a trashed Cavalier, but that poor old E30 M3!

  • 1994 Alfa Romeo highlights

    Highlights from 1994 with a focus on Alfa Romeo’s 155.

(please use either, the scrolling left and right symbols to navigate through the videos individually or the symbol  View BTCC videos to choose from any of the 5 videos at random)

 

 

 

 

By Ben Barry

Contributing editor, sideways merchant, tyre disintegrator

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