BTCC 1997 Round 3

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@bowlingaz 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for uploading. BTCC was incredible in that era - its popularity in no small part helped by TOCA on Playstation. Didn't know Eurosport also had coverage. I remember watching on BBC with Murray Walker commentating - I'd even say I preferred it to F1. It's a shame what happened to it.

@GAZ87YORKSHIRESALT 3 ай бұрын

These were the best looking cars. All of them are memorable and bring back memories of gaming!👍

@fontheking5 8 жыл бұрын

Great racing, when Plato stalled his Renault in the start, and tryed to restart it, the engine restarted and stalled instantly, then on the next attempt, the starter broke, and just hissed when he tryed to start it. On the Swedish broadcast they showed that sequence.

@jacobwigley 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for these uploads.

@procta2343 Жыл бұрын

Hard to believe all of them are out of the btcc now, Plato been the last one to call time in after 2022 season, after Matt Neal calling time back in 2020. Shame the btcc is a shadow form of its self now, compared to these days.

@TheSergio1504 4 жыл бұрын

Codemaster we need toca touring car again!!!

@mechanicandi1064 5 жыл бұрын

I miss this era 🙏

@procta2343 Жыл бұрын

This era was the btcc at its very best, its a shadow form of its self, if that now. Its gone more club level and there are less teams joining, in the last couple of years, a few teams have come out of it, and the remaining teams have gone from been 2 car to 4 cars, Practically most of the teams are running 3 to 4 cars, and i think only 1 team is running 2 cars,

@hungrysurfer9471 Жыл бұрын

They put 90kgs of balast on the Audis to stop them winning. 40kgs was too much.

@procta2343 Жыл бұрын

I think the next season they binned off the 4x4 system and went either front wheel or rear wheel. but again it sounds like its the same war, with Rear wheel drive, " rear wheel has an advantage" laugh was a front wheel drive that wont champion ship the most and it was mainly a Honda. But the Rear wheel drive only got jumped on because to won the champion ship a couple of times in a row, and a certain driver kept complaining about it, laugh was he would later race in a rear wheel drive!

@Gavin-my6jb 3 ай бұрын

@@procta2343was this Plato by any chance

@procta2343 3 ай бұрын

@@Gavin-my6jb yep and got nowhere at all,

@Gavin-my6jb 3 ай бұрын

@@procta2343 yeah I can just remember him consistently complaining when he was driving I think it was the Chevrolet if I remember rightly always moaning about the turbos or something every race

@procta2343 3 ай бұрын

@@Gavin-my6jb yeah that was when the turbo was introduced, Toca said that they will balance the NA and Turbo. Which was a failure. Honda had installed the turbo setup , the Chevrolet team stayed with the NA setup, that team also had identical cars in the wtcc at the time, which they handed cars down, to the btcc, after a season. The WTCC regs also switched to 1.6 Turbo, so the Chevrolet team were not going to run two separate programs with different engines sadly. So honda ran away with the title, only airways with the ford focus was close enough to try and throw honda. I did feel for plato that year, as he was right, and toca was wrong. It was a stressful season that one for him, and rightly so. WTCC stated you wont be at the front of the grid, if you stay with the NA, as they were not going to faff on with balancing like the btcc did. He did come back with MG when the regs changed again in the btcc. So the match was equalized again. BMW got into the mix later on which broke honda run. He still never did win the champion ship at all, He was very close with the VW, which was his last proper go, and maybe his last successful season, things just went down hill from there.