YOUTUBE REVIEW
With this Motorsport News being a special Ford celebration, Andy Rouse being our esteemed readers’ Q&A guest, and the Sierra RS500 featuring in our favourite Ford poll, there’s only one place our YouTube review can go.
We head back to 1988 at Brands Hatch, and one of the British Touring Car Championship’s most famous battles. RS500 on RS500. Rouse vs Steve Soper in the Eggenberger Sierra version. Proof positive of the adage that you only need two cars to make a race.
Rouse and Soper leave the rest behind (Karl Jones ran third before a turbo failure) and engage in the most frantic scrap. Rouse had an experimental engine giving extra straightline urge, but Soper doesn’t relent. Even the weather intervenes. And at the battle’s crunch point look out for the unidentified car having a curious off-track moment. You can experience all this at: youtube.com/ watch?v=M41XoBNWDAc or search for ‘Rouse Soper 1988’.