Peter Collins British Touring Car Racing book:
This book is a brief but 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, slow them down. This had the classic effect on racecar builders, who were not worth their salt unless they could get around the restrictions. The eventual results were faster cars than before, which evolved into the tarmac-melting, fire-breathing turbo powered front-runners of the late 1980s. The story stops at the point where the rule-makers tried another clampdown as the final decade of the 20th century dawned.
Features:
- An enthusiasts twenty-odd year overview of the British Touring Car Championship
- Those really were the days
- How the spectators saw them
- Saloons – the crowd’s favourite
- Living the manufacturers hype – you too could be driving cars like these ...
- Paddock shots
- Driver shots
- Race shots
- Circuits from Brands Hatch to Birmingham
205x190mm. 100 colour and black & white pictures
Author: Peter Collins
Title: British Touring Car Racing - The crowd’s favourite – late 1960s to 1990
Format: Paperback Book 96 pages
Publisher: Veloce Publishing
Pub date: August 2009
ISBN: 9781845842475
