PEUGEOT 406 Super Touring Car. Getting to drive a legend. 

These were 400bhp

@@DaleSteel I know Peugeot 16-valve engines are special but that seems optimistic from 2 litres with a 8500rpm category limit!

Not less than 1055 kg with driver.

@@DaleSteel 98 btcc cars were limited to max 300hp.

@Cineo55 well on toca touring cars game they had around 400?

A detailed walkthrough of at least one of these types of car is available on RU-vid and lots of information is available elsewhere. Happy hunting.

I know right! I think this is why we love them so much. Some of the detail is just mega.

Hey Jake 👋🏼. Great video and insight mate. Love Super Tourers! Can you tell us how the lap times compare and the speed of the cars themselves to today's touring regulations at all please? Genuinely interested to hear if Super Tourers would still be competitive today. Cheers buddy 👍🏼.

Gutted I didn't get to see it! Enjoyed the behind the scenes details about the car. Always loved that gold on green livery 🤟

Haha I did didn’t I! Gutted but I think the video shows the car off well with massive thanks to you!!

@@jakehillracing it's a stunning looking machine with some fantastic details under the bodywork too! Hopefully you get another go behind the wheel soon! I wouldn't mind getting a few more shots myself too 😅

Would love to drive as many as I can! They are a real treat!

I hope you will! Something I wondered when watching this video and the one about the Honda: why did these cars, which are obviously custom built racing machines, have super barebones carbon interiors, yet still come equiped with the full plastic dashboard you'd have in your road car? Surely must have something to do with marketing, right?

I have pretty much all the RC touring cars from this era! Love them

I recon you are right. As the British touring car wasn’t a scratch on the French one

@@jakehillracing hi Jake, nice channel, i love it. And thanks for answering. Yes and i believe the STW team didn’t want to help the BTCC team, wich is a shame because the BTCC is also a masterpiece.

Were the other cars left hand drive? It seems odd they built RHD cars in the UK. In French cars, the RHD variant is famously an afterthought... Edit -- I see they very smartly solved the problem of the steering rack interfering with the manifold!

This ducting works remarkably well. The front has a huge high pressure area like all the cars. And sides have fast moving air pulling it very well out (you see there are also vent ribs at the bumper corners). Also this has downforce benefit aswell as air from engine compartment is not blown under the car but rather to the sides of the car

@@Mart77 Absolutely. Nothing of this car as been left untouched, nor any bit of performance as been left on the table.

Heavy, turbo engine, wet sump, standardised suspension, hybrid too now -- you can find a few NGTC videos, there's one with Scarbs at West Surrey Racing. Most of the teams don't have fabricators anymore, as there isn't anything much to fabricate under standardised NGTC rules. The emphasis is just on tuning the shock absorbers and setting up the suspension geometry (it's still a little bit adjustable despite being standardised) now. TOCA bench flows the cylinder heads, so you get a boost level based on how much your cylinder head flows, so all the engines should perform about the same whether you have the category engine or your own engine. The body kits are matched in a wind tunnel to perform about the same too. The NGTC arrangement is definitely a million times better for privateers who don't have unlimited money, of course. Though TCR cars (also heavy) works pretty well too using BOP, despite needing to use the suspension pickup points & type from the road car, so those rules also work IMO. They are also wet sump IIRC.

Honestly no need. From a feeling point of view the current cars are heavy, turbo, less passion, less engineering and not as fun. The only reason our cars today are faster is they are over 100hp up, much wider tyre

@@jakehillracing brutally honest but yes that's what I assumed 😂

@@jakehillracing what can be done to make the current cars dance on the limit a bit more? Less weight and skinnier tyres?

I was looking at it going… you must be serious 😂

Will try! Got the super touring festival coming up soon which will be amazing to film

​@@jakehillracingMissing the super touring festival for the second year on the bounce, so many cool cars and names in attendance Make sure you get some incar of the Prim and it's SR goodness

Cannot wait Lewis! Thanks for all your help and hard work!

I would LOVE to jump in a Volvo

@@jakehillracing We'll all have to badger Jason Minshaw this weekend - see if he's willing to roll his out for an open test day somewhere!

Thank you!

Hard to say. By far the Honda engine was better in every way but this chassis feels very nice. However the 99’ Primera is just a masterclass

The French and German version was by far a very different car I am told.

@@jakehillracing I see the 406 dtcc was a top challenger. Btcc 406 just made up the numbers

Yeah a few did and few didn’t. Personally I prefer to not use the clutch and give a slight blip when changing down anyway. That helps take the load off of the dogs in the box. Allows a smooth change without hurting anything

@@jakehillracing thank you for the answer 😊 .

Hey, good question. The answer is no we don’t, the current BTCC cars have an auto blip but still sequential box. The super tourers I just blip the throttle as i downshift but no clutch needed

@@jakehillracing Excellent cheers for answering Jake. The Super Tourers sound similar to the V8 Supercars we have in Australia. They were going to get flappy paddles for gen 3, but good thing is it had lots of backlash from drivers and fans. They kept the sequential box and heel toe.