DONT CALL ME ‘BABY’
“BERTHA WAS DESIGNED FOR ONE THING ONLY: TO WIN THE SUPER SALOON CHAMPIONSHIP”
Here’s a question: would you book two weeks off work and fly half way around the world with your wife and two kids in tow, just to see a Vauxhall? Thought not. But that’s exactly what an Aussie family did at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and you’re looking at the reason for that mammoth trip right here – Baby Bertha.
A bit of background first. Bertha hails from the mid-Seventies, a time when the wildly popular British club racing scene featured drivers with mutton chop sideburns and cars with cartoonish proportions. She was built by Blydenstein Racing for Dealer Team Vauxhall, which and Frank Bough’s beige jumpers; when a win on Sunday meant the dealers got mobbed on Monday. And one place you could really earn the public’s adoration was the Tricentrol Super Saloon Championship.
