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Old 13 Feb 2017, 22:35 (Ref:3711920)   #76
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A bit more info re the Metro Turbo series.

An Austin Rover information sheet (Racecard) that announced the change to Turbo power and the accompanying body kit.

Also added a qualifying sheet from a European Championship round in 1988 that gives many names from the series.
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Old 14 Feb 2017, 10:30 (Ref:3712058)   #77
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The 'names' seem to have reduced a bit by this time, a few stalwarts of the category and there were 2 guest cars most of the time, in this instance Steve Parrish and Dai Llewellyn is seems? Parrish at one point was quite strongly linked to a BTCC campaign with Andy Rouse....

Although wasn't there another David Llewellyn to the rally star during the period?
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Old 14 Feb 2017, 21:28 (Ref:3712200)   #78
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The 'names' seem to have reduced a bit by this time, a few stalwarts of the category and there were 2 guest cars most of the time, in this instance Steve Parrish and Dai Llewellyn is seems? Parrish at one point was quite strongly linked to a BTCC campaign with Andy Rouse....

Although wasn't there another David Llewellyn to the rally star during the period?
Yes you're right, this is the other one, with a y not an i

I can remember Steve Parrish running in the 1986 series too, my brother Dave Carvell was asked to take him round the circuit for a few laps during the lunch break to show him the lines !!, he used Richard Potter's TWR XJS road car for the task.

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Old 20 Feb 2017, 15:51 (Ref:3713426)   #79
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Y'know, in the first race I did in a Metro at Donington I did exactly the same thing coming into Gerrards. The CoC suggested I was "over exuberant". The photographers suggested it was just one wheel less than normal.
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Y'know, in the first race I did in a Metro at Donington I did exactly the same thing coming into Gerrards. The CoC suggested I was "over exuberant". The photographers suggested it was just one wheel less than normal.
Peter, for two reasons I think you may be mistaken here. Firstly, if your race was at Donington and you did that coming into Gerards you must have been using the very long circuit layout which also involves the M1 as Gerards is at Mallory Park! Secondly, if your race was at Mallory & you did do that on the way into Gerards, I suspect you would have rolled quite spectacularly into the sleepers!
I think you mean Goddards at Donington, the Chicane on to the start-finish straight...
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Old 20 Feb 2017, 17:08 (Ref:3713454)   #81
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I always thought Gerald's was the chicane. But yes Goddards.
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Old 28 Feb 2017, 08:17 (Ref:3715268)   #82
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Isn't Goddards the hairpin leading onto the main straight?
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Old 28 Feb 2017, 15:25 (Ref:3715324)   #83
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Yes it's Melbourne, then Goddards
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Old 27 Dec 2019, 17:23 (Ref:3948699)   #86
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Old 9 Nov 2020, 15:28 (Ref:4015670)   #88
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Maguires was a cracking prep firm. Really was.

I look back to the leading drivers in the series in the mid 80's and a fair few of them went onto touring cars, or production saloons.
Some continued in one-make stuff.
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I wonder where all these cars are now.
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Patrick Watts has the Computervision MG Metro Turbo he used in BTCC in 1984
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Yes and the one that went out to Greece. But these are the Metro Championship cars. Different spec.
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Would that have been Richard Belchers Metro? His later Escorts were always sponsored by John Jeffries Engineering.
Looks like it was a different 'Jeffreys' Viv!
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Looks like it was a different 'Jeffreys' Viv!
Actually John, it's my spelling.
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Good work there. That was a very good colour scheme with or without sponsorship. I can see why people liked it so much
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Yes, Richard Belchers Metro 1984
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