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I'm with gfm on this one - the late 60s / early 70s.
Fantastic racing without the stock car antics of 1990s touring car drivers.I won't even consider the driving of the competitors in this new millennium...if you can't get past,push him off the track! Should be at Wimbledon stadium.
I liked the four class system too, but did not agree that the champion could come from the lower classes. It should have been decided by the winners at the front.
But what it did do was provide plenty of backmarkers for the leaders to navigate through and give four 'seperate' lead duels within a race. Once the big American heavy metal had gone through the corner, we waited for the Escorts,the BMWs and the Imps and Minis at the back. All usually cornering sideways or on three wheels! Spectacular stuff with real characters at the wheel, the list goes on and on - Frank Gardner, Brian Muir, John Fitzpatrick, Chris Craft, Dave Brodie, Vince Woodman, Willie Green, Gordon Spice, Steve Neal, John Rhodes, Gerry Marshall, Bill McGovern, Bernard Unett, Richard Longman, Terry Sanger, Martin Thomas, Roy Pierpoint, Dennis Leech, John Buncombe, Mike Crabtree etc etc. Great days!
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