Battle Royale Video: The Greatest Three Laps Of Road Racing Video You’ll Ever See


Battle Royale Video: The Greatest Three Laps Of Road Racing Video You’ll Ever See

(By Eric Rood) – April brings a fool’s day and showers, which coincidentally are also things that the British Touring Car Championship brings when it debuts in, you guessed it, April. I suppose many in racing entertain the notion that Americans have the market cornered in “Rubbin’ is Racin’” style motorsports, but the BTCC is right alongside that. Missing bodywork and some old school push-to-pass maneuvers (as in, “Push that other idiot out of the way”) are still part of the game in the series. Like NASCAR, the driver personalities and rivalries represent a huge part of the draw and guys like Jason Plato revel in the “bad guy” image.

The BTCC’s 2016 campaign kicks off this weekend at the bullring of a track at Brands Hatch and what better way could we at Bangshift prepare you for that than by showing you perhaps the most infamous moment in series history? The final three laps of the 1992 season at Silverstone erupted into a complete melee with Vauxhall driver John Cleland battling the BMW duo of Tim Harvey and Steve Soper for the championship in what was essentially a heads-up battle

That race took a fierce turn and when Harvey got by the Vauxhall for the effective championship lead in front of a rabid British crowd, Cleland responded with perhaps the best-timed one-finger-salute in the history of motorsports television. Legendary commentator Murray Walker doesn’t miss a beat with what, correspondingly, is one of the greatest racing calls of all time. In short order, Cleland’s season goes down the drain in a way that truly has to be seen to be believed.


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8 thoughts on “Battle Royale Video: The Greatest Three Laps Of Road Racing Video You’ll Ever See

  1. Chevy Hatin' Mad Geordie

    The world’s fastest demolition derby!

    A modicum of “contact” is still allowed in the BTCC to this day and it sure beats those pussies in F1 as they drone around for hours boring everybody to tears..

  2. Fiatdude

    “And I’m going for first said John” — — greatest cover for a bird being thrown LMAO

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