PETER COLLINS
Introduction and acknowledgements
The end of the beginning
Flares, smoke and wheel-waving
Just like Dads or possibly not!
The rule-makers revenge: Group 1
but the fun continues
V is for victory: arrival of the Rovers
Just turn up the wick
Index
Features
Decade-spanning overview of the British Touring Car Championship
From the wheelarch flares of the late 1960s to the turbos of 1990
Evocative pictures of the crowd's favourite provide a 'through the spectator's eyes' view
Packed with paddock, driver and race shots
Living the manufacturer's hype you too could be driving cars like these ...
Description
Evocative pictures of British Touring Car racing the crowd's favourite from the flares of the late 1960s to the turbos of 1990.
Synopsis
An affectionate, mainly pictorial panorama of twenty-odd years of the British Touring Car Championship, from the anarchical 1960s and early 1970s of flared wheelarches, lifting wheels and smoking tyres, through the Group 1 years when the rule-makers tried to make the cars look standard and, as a result, slowed them down. This had the predictable effect of galvanising race car builders into trying to get round the restrictions, eventually resulting in cars that were faster, and evolved into the tarmac-melting fire-breathing, turbo-powered frontrunners of the late 1980s. The story takes us up to the point where the rule-makers attempted another clampdown as the final decade of the 20th century dawned ...
