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Originally Posted by racer69
I recall footage one year on a big pitfire in the All-Japan Touring Car Championship involving one of the RS500s. Any idea what car/year it was?
It's interesting to look at how many RS500s there were being used, especially in the BTCC, but there were very few teams/drivers to really get the hang of them properly to be competitive.
In the BTCC there was only really Andy Rouse Engineering (encompassing the Labatts cars & the Kaliber/ICS cars) & Trackstar who were consistently competitive, although Jerry Mahony did get a win to open the 1988 BTCC
In the ATCC you had DJR the only regular Sierra winners from 1988-1992. Longhurst's team scored a few wins, and Colin Bond got a pair of wins in the 1990 ATCC (thanks to his Toyo tyres it must be said), while most other runners locally were inconsistent when up the front.
Elsewhere you had Eggenberger & Wolf doing the bulk of the Sierra fornt-running.
Thoughts?
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The real enigma for me was always Graham Goode's cars- always beautifully presented, apparently well-funded, and usually quick- generally best of the rest after Rouse and Trakstar, but never able to translate that into race wins