A Super Touring Throwback With Andy Rouse and Paul Radisich

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🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It's the Super Touring Power 2 event this weekend at Brands Hatch, celebrating the famous golden era of the British Touring Car Championship. With that mind, we decided to share a throwback interview from the 2023 event, with our own Tom Howard and Marcus Simmons sitting down with two legends of the sport - Andy Rouse, four-time series Champion with 60 wins to his name, and his former teammate Paul Radisich, twice a Top 3 finisher in the series and twice a Bathurst 1000 runner-up. The pair talk about re-driving some of the cars that made that era such as the Ford Mondeo, as well as why that era of the BTCC is looked at so fondly by fans. There's more on Paul's closest challenges for the title in 1993 and 1994, their relationship as teammates, Paul's World Cup success representing New Zealand and beating Alfa Romeo in their own backyard at Monza, and the comparions between the 90's and today's class of Touring Car drivers like Colin Turkington and Jake Hill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dre Harrison and you're listening to the Autosport Podcast.
0:05.0	This weekend marks the second Super Touring Power event at Brands Hatch,
0:14.0	celebrating the very best of the Super Touring Era of the British Touring Car Championship.
0:19.0	With that in mind, we thought we'd give you a throwback of the 2020-Event
0:22.6	and a sit-down interview with our own Tom Howard and Marcus Simmons,
0:25.6	alongside two legends of the sport, four-time British Touring Car Champion Andy Rouse,
0:30.6	and teammate Paul Radisich, twice finishing in the top three in the series,
0:34.6	as well as being a Bar- 1,000 runner up twice.
0:38.4	The interview talks about the happy memories of the Super Touring era,
0:41.7	it's staying in power even in 2023, Paul's time racing in Australia and how he came to England
0:47.2	in the first place, those near misses for Paul in 93 and 94, and just how fun those cars
0:52.9	were to drive again after 25 years away. Enjoy.
0:57.0	It's time now for our last touring car interview of the day and a couple of absolute legends from the BTCC.
1:04.0	We've got Andy Rouse and Paul Radisich who's come all away from New Zealand for this. So welcome.
1:09.0	Great to be here. Thank you. Yeah, firstly, I mean, I guess
1:12.4	what does it like to be back here at Brown's Hatchapal? It's been a while since you've been here
1:17.0	and driving them before Mondaya. Well, it's a little bit like time is stood still, but I think from
1:23.2	a track point of view, they resurfaced the front of it. I think they're taking out the best
1:26.9	part of the track, which is the chicane um now there's just one one corner which uh you know i was looking forward
1:33.5	to trying to get the 94 car to fly through the air again there but no chance now but um no exactly
1:40.0	so it looks great to be back here great to see so many people enthusiastic about the era.
1:45.8	And, you know, I think living in New Zealand, over time it sort of drops all the way.
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