It’s Christmas in 1998, I’m 11yrs old and watching the review of the 98 BTCC season on VHS I was just gifted in my bedroom. Little would I know that this was peak happiness.
@@aidy6000 The cars are so slow and lack power and there is no real technical competition in TCR whatsoever at which point I don't care about it at all.
It was a fantastic era, but I do think the modern era is the best it's been since then. I mean 2018 will have a 32 car race grid. Wasn't that long ago that they could barely fill the grid.
Super Touring BTCC was the Group A rally or Group C Le man equivalent of the day. Full Factory teams and International pedigree drivers. Will never ever been seen again, BTCC today unfortunately is a privateer series
What a great category this was, great variety of car brands, racing in some of the best tracks of the world, Silverstone, Thruxton, Knockhill, Snetterton, Oulton Park, Brands fucking Hatch!!...etc: Audi, Peugeot, Ford, Volvo, Audi, Nissan, Vauxhall (Chevrolet/Opel) and two of the best looking touring cars ever: the Honda Accord and the Renault Laguna.
Am I the only one who thinks that the older racing cars look much cooler and more aggressive than the btcc of today? Also that sound 🔊😍 90's is the golden Era for motorsports.
Matt Neal and Jason Plato must have drove for over 20 years in BTTC as i remember Plato Driving for Chevrolet a few years back and Matt Neal was in a new shape Civic Legends they are
1994 dominated by Alfa 1995 mostly all Vauxhall 1996 dominated by Audi 1997 dominated by Renault 1998 could have gone one of three ways right to the penultimate round 1999 dominated by Nissan 2000 9 cars... 2001 new rules / new era
That Volvo 5-cylinger engine sings so nice around an open circuit like Thruxton. The Mondeo must've sounded good, too, with the V6 under the bonnet, but I can't really make the sound out in this video.
If you'd have told me at the time Yvan Muller would go on to have a 20+ year career and win titles and duel with some of the greats in touring cars across multiple series, I'd have thought you were mad. But look where we we are some 24-25 years later. Muller has done it all pretty much, he's driven just about every major tin top series, he's won in just about all of them, and he's turned laps on several of the world's greatest tracks.
brsrbck you don’t understand what I’m saying. You said “four door family saloons heavily modified”. That’s what I’m saying: you BUY sport cars, but you BUILD race cars.
