British Touring Car Racing –
The crowd’s favourite – late 1960s to 1990
By Peter Collins

These evocative pictures of British Touring Car racing will bring back some happy memories. British Touring Car Racing, a new book from Veloce Publishing’s Those were the Days … series is an affectionate, mainly pictorial panorama of twenty-odd years of the British Touring Car Championship, from the anarchical 1960s and early 1970s of flared wheelarches, lifting wheels and smoking tyres, through the Group 1 years when the rule-makers tried to make the cars look standard and, as a result, slowed them down.

Race car builders were subsequently galvanized into trying to get round the restrictions, eventually resulting in cars that were faster, and evolved into the tarmac-melting fire-breathing, turbo-powered frontrunners of the late 1980s. The story takes us up to the point where the rule-makers attempted another clampdown as the final decade of the 20th century dawned … this excellent little 96-page paperback book is available now from bookshops or www.velocebooks.com .

British Touring Car Racing –
The crowd’s favourite – late 1960s to 1990
By Peter Collins
Available now
ISBN 9781845842475
UPC 636847042479
UK ￡14.99, USA $29.95

BULLET POINTS

• Decade-spanning overview of the British Touring Car Championship

• From the wheelarch flares of the late 1960s to the turbos of 1990

• Evocative pictures of the crowd’s favourite provide a ‘through the spectator’s eyes’ view

• Packed with paddock, driver and race shots

• Living the manufacturer’s hype – you too could be driving cars like these …

THE AUTHOR
Born in London, Peter Collins has been a motoring journalist and photographer for fifteen years. He has a lifelong interest in motorsport and racing history and has been attending events worldwide since 1965. Co-founder and editor-at-large of Auto Italia magazine, he also contributes to American and other European magazines, as well as websites. This is his fourth book. Peter now lives in South London with partner Liz and cat Darcy, and travels extensively throughout the year covering motoring events of all disciplines and maintaining his close ties with racing people of all persuasions. This book is the result of a long-held passion for saloon car racing.

SPECIFICATION
Paperback • 205x 190mm • 96pages • 100 colour and b&w pictures

IINDEPENDENT REVIEWS
“Well worth a look.” – Thoroughbred and Classic Car Owners Club

“These books make no claim to be definitive accounts of era. They’re personal photo albums – and they’re all the better for it.” – MotorSport

“Long captions give lots of info, so it’s good value for a little ‘un,” – Octane

MORE INFORMATION
View sample pages and sample text on our website -
http://www.veloce.co.uk or contact John on 01305 260068/e-mail john@veloce.co.uk

RETAIL SALES
Veloce books are stocked by or can be ordered from bookshops by quoting the correct ISBN number. We will also take orders direct: telephone – 01305 260068 (0044 1305 260068 from outside UK), fax – 01305 268864 (0044 1305 268864 from outside UK) or e-mail – sales@veloce.co.uk . Books can also be ordered on our website – http://www.veloce.co.uk

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