BDunnell
7th January 2011, 23:39
OK, it's not a touring car race, but this forum seems like the most appropriate place for this.
I think this has to be the best race in deeply unpromising cars I've ever seen. It's the race segment of the 1983 BBC Rallysprint, which used to be an annual mixed-discipline contest between racing and rally drivers, on this occasion involving a field of horrible-sounding road-specification MG Maestros — the main protagonists are Nigel Mansell, John Watson, Tony Pond, Stig Blomqvist, Danny Sullivan and Jimmy McRae. For a 'fun' event in these decidedly average cars, the intensity of the competition is quite something...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_sS011854
I think this has to be the best race in deeply unpromising cars I've ever seen. It's the race segment of the 1983 BBC Rallysprint, which used to be an annual mixed-discipline contest between racing and rally drivers, on this occasion involving a field of horrible-sounding road-specification MG Maestros — the main protagonists are Nigel Mansell, John Watson, Tony Pond, Stig Blomqvist, Danny Sullivan and Jimmy McRae. For a 'fun' event in these decidedly average cars, the intensity of the competition is quite something...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_sS011854