A SPLASH OF OLD SPICE: Spice Capris dominated the BTCC's forerunner in the 1970s - and this one's now poised for a racing comeback

摘要

The Ford Capri is one of those iconic automotive designs. In its various forms, the fastback brought sporting coupes to the masses in the UK and almost two million were sold between 1969 and 1986. But some Capris are more special than others. Gordon Spice and his line of 3.0-litre V6 versions dominated the British Touring Car Championship (or British Saloon Car Championship as it was then known) in the second half of the 1970s. The idiosyncratic nature of the scoring system, which allowed class winners to record the same number of points as outright victors, meant that Spice never won the overall championship, but six class titles and 26 wins underlined the combination's impact on the Group 1 era of tin-tops.