The golden age of the British Touring Car Championship will be featured at the 74th Goodwood Road Racing Club Members’ Meeting, scheduled for March 19-20, 2016 at the Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex, England. Sixteen cars, spanning Super Touring\u2019s most outstanding years, will play a starring role with a colourful high-speed demonstration on each day of the event.<\/p>\n
The ‘Super Touring’ name came into being in 1995 and was applied to the set of touring car regulations that became the BTCC\u2019s sole class in \u201891 that centered around two-litre, normally-aspirated saloons such as the Vauxhall Cavalier and Nissan Primera.<\/p>\n
The 2016 Goodwood Members Meeting track activity will focus on the spectacular winged machines of 1995-2000 that resulted in championship successes for John Cleland, Frank Biela, Alain Menu, Rickard Rydell and Laurent Aiello.<\/p>\n
Two-time BTCC Champion Cleland and podium finisher Patrick Watts — both of whom race in the HSCC\u2019s Super Touring Championship — will take part in the Goodwood demonstration in, respectively, their own 1997 Vauxhall Vectra and \u201898 Peugeot 406.<\/p>\n
The 2000 Honda Accord in which Le Mans legend Tom Kristensen won the last BTCC race held to Super Touring rules, the Ford Mondeo in which Rickard Rydell won three times the same season, and Jo Winkelhock\u2019s 1994 BMW 318i are also confirmed.<\/p>\n
So are an ex-works Audi A4 Quattro like the one in which Frank Biela won the 1996 title, one of the Volvo S40s used by Rydell in his title-winning campaign of \u201898 and David Leslie\u2019s Nissan Primera, in which the Scot finished second in the championship the following season.<\/p>\n
Another Leslie car, the RML-run Ecurie Ecosse Cavalier in which the he took his maiden BTCC success at Thruxton in 1993, will take part, as will the ex-Jean-Christophe Boullion Renault Laguna from the 1999 season, with more names added in due course.<\/p>\n
The Super Touring high-speed demos join those for sensational ground-effect Formula 1 cars and monstrous five-litre Group 5 sportscars on the Members’ Meeting line-up.<\/p>\n
Goodwood also announced the names of all 11 races that will be held over the weekend. New events include the Hailwood Trophy for two-stroke grand prix motorbikes of 250 and 350cc, and the Alan Mann Trophy for Ford GT40s.<\/p>\n
2016 Goodwood Members Meeting – Full Race List<\/strong><\/p>\n