Hi, I'm Dreh Harrison and you're listening to the Autosport podcast.

Welcome back to the final episode of our Super Touring Power 2 mini-series, featuring the best of the celebration of the greatest era of touring car racing.

Joining our own Marcus Simmons for our fourth and final sit down

interview are two more great names of the series, Patrick Watts and Jeff Allen. They share the

great memories of the BTCC's massive growth in the 90s, how the super touring era influenced

over touring car series around the world like Australia and how Jeff very nearly ended up driving

for the great Andy Rouse. Hope him enjoy the show.

Afternoon everybody, welcome to the Autosport stage for the latest group interview for

Super Touring Power. I'm Marcus Simmons, the Deputy Editor of Autosport.

I have a couple of Super Touring Legends with me here.

Patrick Watts and Jeff Allen.

Good afternoon, everybody.

Chaps, you both were mainstays of the super touring era

Jeff pretty much for the first half

Patrick sort of through the middle of it

so what are your what are your memories of those cars

because they were fantastic pieces of kit weren't they

and very advanced from what we knew about touring car racing up to that point.

I'm really privileged to being part of the super touring era, where we're all paid a lot of money by manufacturers

to compete against other manufacturers. It was an unprecedented time in touring cars throughout the world.

You might be able to compare it with the supercars in Australia,

where it's one manufacturer against another,

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