BTCC 1993 - Round 9 (Part 1)

Season review of the 1993 British Touring Car Championship: Round 9 - Silverstone (British Grand Prix support race)

[@nelsonr32]

Come on manufacturers, make it like this again!

[@leebot3000]

cars off everywhere and not a safety car in sight. beautiful.

[@skylined5534]

Nowadays "someone's hit a particularly large fly... OUT... YES! OUT COMES THE PACE CAR!"

[@MartinJSUK]

'The car upside down is a Toyota', classic moment

[@Coleshill1]

yes, as the Toyota car adverts were " The car in front is a Toyota " hilarious at the time, but on the official video it was removed , how pathetic, its so funny !!

[@EdiDrums]

No way, however, of cutting out the angry middle finger of John "I'm going for 1st place" Cleland - yet another historic Murray quick-thinkingism.

[@afrancis1582]

That’s the only reason I watched this video. I remember at the time thinking it was the best line of commentary I’d ever heard. However 3 decades later when no one remembers the advert it doesn’t really mean anything.

[@EdiDrums]

Here in Ethiopia it is a case of 'The car almost everywhere you look is a Toyota' although, as of 2021, Hyundai and Suzuki are making increasing inroads into Toyota's domination.

[@commentingpausedtoprotectus]

Such a cheeky sense of humour, I shed a tear when we lost our dear Sir Murray

[@kremmen64]

wow look at that crowd, i know it was the same weekend as the British GP but this race seems to have the same amount of people that was watching the British GP.

[@LUNATIC75]

My favourite Silverstone layout and my favourite touring car era. Perhaps, my favourite Murray Walker line too!

[@jeffwood1631]

Nah, nothing beats the classic "I'm going for first says Cleland" from the year prior 🤣🤣

[@skylined5534]

@Jeff Wood Didn't he say something similar ish when Frentzen gave Blundell the finger in an F1 race years back? 😂 Good times and then some!

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

The car upside down is a Toyota magnificent line from Murray Walker

[@Ravenuk]

I wish they ran this track configuration now

[@Bleifuss88]

Bailey's gas pedal must have been stuck ;-)

[@matthewmaloney1]

Thanks for this the BTCC in 93 was fantastic!

[@Demun1649]

The Australian Toyota is the one crash I will never forget. I was at that corner, had draped my usual sign over the barrier, "Japanese cars crash here please". As for Needell, he always drove as if he was on a fairground dodgems ride. He rammed a LOT of cars in his strange career.

[@SiVlog1989]

I wish the BTCC could be a support event for the British Grand Prix again. 22 years and counting since it last occurred

[@Spudchucker92]

"The car upsidedown is a Toyota!" Nice one Murray!

[@theberengersniper]

At the start he says "it was an all Nissan front row" and yet you can see he lines up next to a Toyota, then Murray reviews the grid and it's a Toyota number 2.

[@EdiDrums]

I noticed the same and assumed that he meant to say 'an all Japanese front row'. Murray (brain-can't-keep-up-with-mouth) Walker always meant quick-fire excitement at the (regular) expense of accuracy!

[@BungleBare]

@@EdiDrums It was Steve Ryder who introduced the grid and mentioned the all-Nissan front row. Then Murray took over the commentary. Murray made many a mistake, but not that one. I suspect an edit there, and that two Nissans qualified on the front row, but one of them was penalised and dropped down the order for some reason before the start of the race. That sort of thing was quite common in the BTCC - often after “punt and run” manouveres, where someone pitched the car ahead off track while overtaking, with grid penalties at the next race once the stewards had reviewed the footage of the incident.

[@cw205mi16]

This is 30yrs(!) old

[@daschmitty]

I missed out on so much good racing as a kid!

[@EdiDrums]

_I'm catching up on so much good racing as an adult_

[@michaelsnow7252]

RIP Kieth, fly high

[@tonywalker2782]

Early nineties best years of btcc so many great drivers each race was 30 mins of close panel bashing and so many works teams will we ever see that again. I don't think so

[@daftlad526]

I grew up thinking the driver was called "Patrick Watsis Mazda"

[@darkwarrior6465]

was that the same year the two toyotas took each other off at brands i think it was?

[@BioBiro]

That was the year before, with Rouse and Hoy.

[@jgizzy]

Tiff Needell passing at 7:41

[@TheGreatIndoors1979]

2:35 Afterwards Jeff Allam was quoted saying: "My teammate might be a superstar, but the man's an animal!"

[@Danny-os1sf]

TheGreatIndoors1979 no, John Cleland said it after contact with Steve Soper, wasn't at Silverstone

[@tonywalker2782]

Yes anonymous your right after that fantastic race at silverstone when the great Steve soper helped his team mate tim Harvey win the championship. Vintage year that was. Brilliant

[@stephentrout7879]

Cleland said after the incident in '92 - "He MIGHT do that in Germany where he MIGHT be Mr superstar. But this is clean, the man's an animal"

[@maza19]

@@stephentrout7879 Cleland being clean was the biggest joke though

[@JZXKenny]

Damn that sucks for the blue Toyota team. Shouldn't you give your teammate, who's in front of you, some room?

[@REI02021809]

The car upside down is a Toyota. The slogan for Toyota back then was the car in front is a Toyota. Such a good phrase

[@shivak2011]

That one line right there

[@DaleSteel]

BTCC peaked late 90s early 00s the money that manufacturers threw at it was mind boggling

[@6sodex]

4:45 - 4:55 XEDOS!:) yellow hod

[@hashrulsubzero]

Blame the regulations man :(

[@Danny-os1sf]

Will Hoy Rolls his Toyota, then Tim Harvey rolled his Renault. you only see that in Nascar or Arca

[@EdiDrums]

(or 1990s British touring car championships)

[@mosc7pc2]

Vettel must've watched this clip before he crashed into weber last season lol

[@thiscocks]

Bailey was way too hot going in...

[@nortonmartins]

nisson