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By: Graham Robson .
Ford has been active in touring car racing since the very start. From the first modest performance with Zephyrs in the 1950s, through spectacular success with LotusCortinas in the 1960s, the Escort RS1600s, Capri RS2600s, and the Sierra RS500 Cosworth domination in the 1980s, to the standard-setting Mondeo victories in the late 1990s, all are described in this fascinating chronicle. The American connection has also played an important part and there is detailed analysis of the successes of the much larger Galaxies, Mustangs and Falcons on European circuits.
European Fords have been winning Touring Car Championships in Britain, in Europe, and all round the world. Here, every programme, type of car, success, and technical development along the way is featured. Many of the key characters have been interviewed, including drivers, engineers and team owners, with profiles of those involved, from every decade in the story — Jim Clark, Frank Gardner, Keith Duckworth of Cosworth, Holman & Moody, Walter Hayes, Alan Mann, Ralph Broad, Prodrive, Eggenberger, and Zakspeed among them.
Fully illustrated throughout, and with appendices providing all the race results, this book will be of great interest to motorsport fans and to Ford enthusiasts in particular.
The author, Graham Robson, is a distinguished motoring writer, historian and motorsport enthusiast, and an experienced Ford-watcher with inside-track knowledge of all the teams. As with his previous bestselling titles, which include The Works Escorts and Cosworth: The Search for Power, when preparing this book he received top-level support from the company and team bosses.
