Originally Posted by Thrush

I thought that bit on the BTCC cars was great I love watching the old BTCC footage - manual gear shifting, RWD cars, some with big HP turbo engines like the RS500 - really shows how HARD it was back then to race! Just looking at how hard Tiff is having to work behind the wheel. Watch the vids from 1998/1999 season - just ten years on! - and it's nowhere NEAR as hard work as that, not with their FWD, limited HP n/a engines and semi-auto/sequential boxes....