Just throw away the TCS and your good to go

He talks and talks going over 120mph and breaking hard during a turn... His balls are bigger than the shift knob

And gay as hell 😄

Tiff was a great TV character but always worked backwards through the field when racing.

alphatrion100 He’s got kids I didn’t think he was gay? Just posh🤣

7 years later, I was just about to comment this.

Body-kitted 316-shed absolutely agree. The racing was fierce, the sport was pure and there was flare and prestige that you don’t see a lot of today.

Vic !ee to thank for that ... 2 times btcc winning team in BMW’s

@@miawallace2785 And 12 years in prison for smuggling cocaine from the Netherlands!

jcynavarro I'm surprised they let a rival drive their cars! All in the name of PR. :) The Toyota seemed a bit of a handful.

+TassieLorenzo Tiff isn't a regular player like Soper or Harvey so it doesn't really matter

I miss Speedvision :(

1999 night race was at Snetterton.... I was there! The best of times!

well, except 90s DTM :)

Touring Car racing will always be awesome than GT and DTM racing

How? It's totally inferior.

Cuz touring car racers likes to get into trouble :D

@@sparrowinarmor Well, you can't criticize BTCC just because of limitations against DTM of that era, speed is not everything in racing, just watch the entire 1992 season of the ESSO BTCC, you will not regret :)

non factory run teams can achieve great things too with the right people. and lots of money well, it stinks

Lots of screaming ITB noises... lovely!

and Keith O'Dor and David Leslie. All contributed to very memorable racing.

True say my friend...may they all RIP.

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I appreciate this comment, he was a legendary racing driver. They all were.

Is he gay?

@@alphatrion100 i dont know to be honest, ask his wife and kids

I knew Keith O'dor had passed away and now you mention it I do recall Will Hoy passing too but I didn't realise David Leslie wasn't with us any more either :(

BTCC and Murray Walker doing the F1 commentary. The 1990s were a golden age of motorsport

@@SportyMabamba Murray also commentated for BTCC... I remember excited yet horrified yelps from Murray when Tarquini rolled his Alfa hard at Knockhill in 1994!

That's interesting about the C20XE's cylinder head getting reversed! That must have taken some work!

From what I've read and remember, they were also apparently limited to using production cylinder heads too. Amazing what they came up with even back then.

It truly is man.

The highest power for touring cars today is 350hp but still slower than those from the 80s and 90s

late reply yep, i would say it is the e30 m3 engine, in Portugal and Italy there were e30 320is that were 2.0 m3 engines

Smilez101 were they m44’s??

Me too Charlie I was also born in 97 so like u I miss out the best moments in btcc and f1

That is a great idea.

+Brett Watson-Will Damn straight! :) I don't know what happened, eventually the cars cost 750,000 pounds each and then all the manufacturers quit. As to what happened to all the older-spec cars and privateers, I don't know, but either they didn't want to race in BTCC or somehow the rules made the older cars inelligible or uncompetitive.

Couldn't agree more. It was a wonderful era with cars you recognised from the roads, charismatic drivers and the closest racing imaginable. Happy childhood memories.

It's a shame. Loved watching this.

at later stages some works team spent as much as a privateer does in a year, in one weekend. this is a really big bubble about to blow up

evolved with aero kits thanks to the Alfa 155 big teams like williams got involved car makers threw massive budgets at there teams & costs went mad more racing parts got fitted suspension (though had to fit original fixing points) sequential-shift gearboxes with ignition cut for super fast upshifts times the budgets with races through europe and bang the series died the makers could not afford to keep making the cars better

To be fair to him he was usually thrust into an event he'd never raced at before usually in an unfamiliar car set up for someone else.

Hold up, how did that last part work?!

@@skylined5534 The Mondeo was a fwd transverse v6, so engine on one side, g/b on t'other, driving the front wheels. Originally the engine output shaft ran to the g/b thru a 10" clutch, with the g/b dropping the output driveshafts under the engine sump. In the race cars, the engine had been dry sumped, had a 3" multiplate clutch, and had been dropped down in the engine bay until the crank journals were within 2" of the ground. The g/b had been rotated thru 180*, so that the output shafts were above the engine. It exploited a rules loophole that said that major components couldn't be moved forward/back or side-to-side in the car, but neglected to mention anything about vertical movements. Remember, Ford's budget was in the region of £5,000,000 a year per car. Infamously, they spent £150,000 on aerodynamic research, to optimize the positioning of the windscreen wiper blades, which were then glued in place. In Britain. Where it rains. A LOT. BTCC at the time was the maddest racing on the planet, with the highest budgets outside of F1. All the manufacturers were in an arms race, and it got very silly, very fast. In the end, it's what killed the formula.

@@gchampi2 Yikes! And some people say Formula One shouldn't have such restrictive rules (though obviously a lot more freedoms than modern BTCC NGTC cars which are fairly spec), do they forget how carried away engineers can get?!

It's not even excessive either, totally polarizing those "slammed" kids

It is. 28 years now.

His driving was way better than your spelling and use of grammar though, which is seriously below average 🙂

He chose to work on Top Gear, but Tiff was definately not below average.

Wrong channel, buddy.

I think he was just ripping through the gears, clutch be damned.

😂😂😂 overtaken by Captain Slowly

It's all about head flow! The engines on these car were based on the road versions, but highly modified. The late 90's SR20 found in the Supertouring Primers made 320hp

+LittleBanditMicra Primera *

Interesting! The NGTC cars in the BTCC having mostly the same running gear, albeit FWD and RWD versions, (and most of them with the TOCA engine) is supposed to reduce costs.

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