Was the 1998 season the zenith for Super Touring cars?
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- As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of British touring cars, Peter Windsor caught up with one of the BTCC's living legends, Anthony Reid.
For Anthony, the zenith of super touring cars was in the summer of '98, when he was racing a Nissan Primera GT, Nigel Mansell was in the championship, the major manufacturers were all out in force, it was on national TV and the crowds were huge.
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BTCC to me is the peak of Touring Cars, worldwide. The 90's we're astonishing
Who would have thought a cavalier would ever be a cool car .
Thank you BTCC .
Great days back then,loved the cars, drivers, the races, just everything seemed so right
The Super tourer era of the BTCC was the pinnacle of touring cars - 1998 was a classic. When they started adding weight ballast to hinder touring cars post super tourer era and turning it into like horse racing, was the death of me of watching, following it anymore. Even the stupid reverse grids and a ballot for who is on pole was all farcical. Even legend Steve Soper feels the same about modern BTCC rules. Yes, they had to get costs down but the weight restrictions and reverse grids is not what pure racing fans want. The late 80s and 90s was the golden era of crash, bang wallop racing full of adrenaline and excitement!
I remember spend some of my afternoons playing Toca 2 with the S40 in my Playstation.
97 98 99 seasons were pure gold BTCC racing
It was a great period of BTCC and 1999 was probably the last year there were loads of Factory Cars. This is a great interview, although Reid does neglect to mention he was stripped of the win, after booting Rydell out of the way🙂
The late 90's was a motorsport zenith in many classes. BTCC super tourers, WRC with the Evo and Impreza, GT1 cars of '98 at Le Mans, and even F1 cars looked and sounded cool! That's not even mentioning the DTM and Super GT cars being icons too
Great interview on such a memorable time in touring car history. Was the only time I ever followed the BTCC. Small engines, yet massively exciting to watch. Thanks.
Small engines? 2000 ffs
Someone from the FIA should totally start a real touring car series with limited aerodynamic and encourage drivers to drive like the 90s, touring cars nowadays doesn’t even look remotely like the production car so no one care because people can’t make connection between the car they have and the car that’s racing bumper to bumper on track
It exists, its called TCR
Globally,I think ST peaked in 96/97 when they were like 15 national/regional championships. It was a really sad day when the NATCC collapsed.
That year was the reason BTCC became one of my favorite tour car racing.
Reid was quick but he was also a battering ram and well known for ramming, both Muller and Rydell almost smacked him one post race for his antics.
90s are the pinnacle of human kind in general...
A combination of everything made this period of touring cars as good as it was. The cars, the colours chemes, the drivers, the racing, the crashes, the atmosphere, the spectators, the commentators the buzz. Oh yes, the buzz. The exitement. Im so happy to be able to say I was fortunate enough to go to so many meetings in the mid to late 90's, but it transferred to TV so well.
I love the super touring era, I grew up watching them at donnington as it was the closest track to us. I think the Williams blend 37 Laguna probably looked the best.
Anthony Reid , jag tror du glömde berätta att Rydell vann BTCC i en Volvo 1998 the year of zenith of the peak for the BTCC.
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Thank You for this video!
Nothing can be compared to 90s BTCC, STW and DTM.
Well done. More of this please !!
1997-1999 was the zenith for all motorsports in my opinion. BTCC, F1, WRC were above all in that time period. plus or minus a few years.
F1 had shit racing
My interest in the BTCC pretty much vanished when the manufacturers left and the Super Tourer era ended.
best touring car series in years, should re-do now, would be great, F1 stays the same only evolves so should touring cars but similar format, big wheels and 2L motors, cars that look like they are driven daily, not too much aero.
It's probably just me, but is Anthony Reid the Scottish James May?
I think the zenith was 1994 to 1998 .but i found 1998 with pit stop less interesting.
What a time!
great interviewww
The pinnacle indeed compare that with today's demolition derby!
funny how he neglects to mention that he was later penalised for his move on Rydell, losing the race victory...
Yes
I mean, you got a Volvo 850 ESTATE fighting with a BMW 318is
Why it died tho?
Costs were too high
Same thing that happens to just about every touring car series and most race series. Cost go up as manufacturers spend big wanting to win. Then when they don't win they pull out as costs are to high. Leaving the series with limited to no manufacturers left. Causing organiser's to try and come up with new rules or regulations to get manufacturers back.
I grow up loving all the auto racing back then. Now I dont watch any. Says alot.
Was BTCC as good as ITC of the mid 90s though? All those past and future F1 stars, future CART stars, DTM legends, etc. ITC really felt like a "world cup" of touring car for the two years it ran in 95 and 96.
1 dislike must be rickard rydell
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Yes, now i know.... i want a Volvo ! (and covert it to electric)