It’s an enduring reality of motorsport that race cars aren’t built for posterity or longevity. They aren’t conceived to one day become icons. They’re just built to win. The team in question takes all of the know-how and technology – and budget – available to them and puts together the most competitive machine they can. And then, after a season or two, they build something better and chuck the old one away.
Yet with a renewed and growing interest in the Supertouring era of the British Touring Car Championship, it’s pleasing to find that enough of these racers of various brands exist to fill a grid or two and let them ride again in period style, and the car we have here is a genuine ex-BTCC entrant from 1995, wearing its period-correct livery. However, looking under the bonnet we find a Cosworth YB, transversely mounted no less, and anyone with a smattering of old-school BTCC knowledge will know that these cars ran hugely complicated small-capacity V6 engines… and yet, this Cossie motor is
