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Great Read: when Robb Gravett and the Trakstar team took on the BTCC |
October 2020 | Gary Watkins |
In 1990, Robb Gravett and the rag-tag Trakstar team took on the benchmark of the British Touring Car Championship, and used all of their nine lives to come out on top. Damien Smith tells their story
Gravett can barely look. No wonder. Stig Blomqvist, 1984 World Rally champion but hardly the most obvious choice of partner for an hour-long, two-driver British Touring Car Championship race, is just seconds away from victory in the bare white Ford Cosworth RS500 – and for Gravett and Trakstar there's a great deal riding on it. The lack of stickers on the flanks of the steroidal saloon are the tell-tale. A £6000 Ford bonus for every RS500 race victory really counts and this being just the second round of the 1990 BTCC, with a long season stretching out ahead and not a sponsor bean in sight, the cash is crucial to get them to the next round... |
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Mark Hughes: How Piastri's fearless Eau Rouge gamble decided the Belgian GP |
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