BTCC star cars

July 7, 2014

The 50th anniversary season of the British Touring Car Championship opened during Autosport International at the Birmingham NEC with a display of cars charting the series’ development through half a decade.

The cars on show included the 1963 championship-winning Lotus Cortina raced by Jack Sears, who previously claimed the inaugural title in 1958 at the wheel of an Austin Westminster.

Against a video backdrop of classic film action from the 1960s and ’70s, other notable cars on show included a Ford Galaxie (below), a Ford Sierra RS500, an MG Metro Turbo and a Triumph Dolomite Sprint.

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Paul Lawrence

Here is a man who goes racing every weekend from March to October. Paul’s passion for the sport goes back to when he was a child of the 1960s. He has organised, competed in and marshalled on scores of events, and has written about the subject for 20 years. He is as at home in the paddock at Brands Hatch as in a Welsh forest or at Shelsley Walsh.

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