1980's touring cars
Discussion
3 of the most successful racing cars of the late 1980s
BMW's E30 M3
Fords Sierra Cosworth RS500
Nissans R32 Skyline GT-R (just scrapes in
)
Other notables
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Toyota Supra Turbo Mk3
Mercedes 190E Cosworth
Holden Commodore VL
BMW 635CSi
Maserarti BiTurbo
Nissan Skyline GTS-R
Mitsubishi Starion Turbo
Toyota Corolla GT
Rover Vitesse
Volvo 240 Turbo
Jaguar XJ-S
BMW's E30 M3
Fords Sierra Cosworth RS500
Nissans R32 Skyline GT-R (just scrapes in
) Other notables
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Toyota Supra Turbo Mk3
Mercedes 190E Cosworth
Holden Commodore VL
BMW 635CSi
Maserarti BiTurbo
Nissan Skyline GTS-R
Mitsubishi Starion Turbo
Toyota Corolla GT
Rover Vitesse
Volvo 240 Turbo
Jaguar XJ-S
We always used to go and watch the Birmingham Superprix. In fact I was trackside for every single minute of the event over the 5 years.
We would watch the touring cars practice from the corner where the cars come downhill past the mosque and turn right. We would stand at the exit of that corner.
The corner was totally blind, so you wouldn't see the cars coming, they'd just appear in to view doing, ooh, 500 miles an hour whilst running their righthand doorhandle around the curved armco. A spectacular site.
Time and again we would involuntary step back when the Sierra Cosworths or M3s would appear. Their speed round that corner was stunning. Time and again we'd step back thinking ooh, he ain't going to make it, but in fact all he'd do is swap scraping his righthand door handle to scraping his lefthand one along the armco on the straight. Great stuff.
Anyone remember when Tom Walkinshaw raced the Jag XJS's at Bathurst, and be interviewed as he raced?
We would watch the touring cars practice from the corner where the cars come downhill past the mosque and turn right. We would stand at the exit of that corner.
The corner was totally blind, so you wouldn't see the cars coming, they'd just appear in to view doing, ooh, 500 miles an hour whilst running their righthand doorhandle around the curved armco. A spectacular site.
Time and again we would involuntary step back when the Sierra Cosworths or M3s would appear. Their speed round that corner was stunning. Time and again we'd step back thinking ooh, he ain't going to make it, but in fact all he'd do is swap scraping his righthand door handle to scraping his lefthand one along the armco on the straight. Great stuff.
Anyone remember when Tom Walkinshaw raced the Jag XJS's at Bathurst, and be interviewed as he raced?
heebeegeetee said:
Anyone remember when Tom Walkinshaw raced the Jag XJS's at Bathurst, and be interviewed as he raced?
I've got a couple of late '80's / early '90's Bathurst 1000s on video and in one of them I remember Win Percy being interviewed during a safety car period whilst he was toodling along at a reduced pace, only to be told from the commentary team that the race had gone green and he'd better get a move on! I think it went something like [excited Aussie]Go For It Winnie!![/excited Aussie]. I think, IIRC, Percy was in Allan Grice's Skyline GTS-R.
Trackside said:
I've got a couple of late '80's / early '90's Bathurst 1000s on video and in one of them I remember Win Percy being interviewed during a safety car period whilst he was toodling along at a reduced pace, only to be told from the commentary team that the race had gone green and he'd better get a move on! I think it went something like [excited Aussie]Go For It Winnie!![/excited Aussie]. I think, IIRC, Percy was in Allan Grice's Skyline GTS-R.
This was the 1987 race. Mike Raymond along with Neil Crompton was interviewing Win Percy in the Grice/Percy Chickadee VL Commodore over the studio-car radio linkup. Gricey was in the studio with Raymond and Crompton and they were discussing the fact that Pecy was behind the pace car... :
Raymond : "Win Percy, what's the situation at the moment...?"
Percy : "Well I believe the situation is that we should stay behind the file for one lap after the flashing lights go off. Your guys are now displaying green flags but I don't want to take the risk of overtaking that's the problem".
Grice : "Yeah, but green flags has got to mean go though, Win..."
Percy : "You sure...?"
Grice : "Yes sir"
Percy : "Okay, I'm going"
Raymond : "Go for it Winnie...!"
Crompton : "Well that's the best cue I've ever seen..."
All from the top of my head - my favourite motor race ever - amazed my tape hasn't worn out...!!!
Hmm, Win Percy.
If my memory is good he was also driving in the meeting from which the following photo's are taken. However I can't remember if I have a shot with his name clearly visible.
I guess these are really late 70's (though they could just be early 80's ) - but what the hell. The SD1 tempted me to make the connection ...
Look closely and you will see the Mazda's damaged door and glass still flying through the air.
The Audi's are slightly earlier models than the ones posted above.
Mr. M. Brundle.
Mr. S. Moss.
SD1's with a Mazda between them.
If my memory is good he was also driving in the meeting from which the following photo's are taken. However I can't remember if I have a shot with his name clearly visible.
I guess these are really late 70's (though they could just be early 80's ) - but what the hell. The SD1 tempted me to make the connection ...
Look closely and you will see the Mazda's damaged door and glass still flying through the air.
The Audi's are slightly earlier models than the ones posted above.
Mr. M. Brundle.
Mr. S. Moss.
SD1's with a Mazda between them.
The circuit looks like Lydden to me.L100nyy said:
If we're going to be talking Rover Vitesse then we can't surely miss off the Bastos liveried monsters now can we?
It's for sale - 75000 EURO's
linky...www.racecarsdirect.com/cars/details.asp?id=32210&cat=0
Gassing Station | Classic Cars and Yesterday's Heroes | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff