Andy Rouse is regarded by many people as one of the most successful drivers ever to appear in the BSCC.His 60 overall wins in the category was the highest total by any driver for many years, until being overhauled by Jason Plato at Brands Hatch in the opening round of the 2011 season.…
Allam made his move on team-mate Cleland at Becketts to take the lead and win, a struggling Cleland eventually finished third behind Hoy.Allam's victory had moved him into third place in the championship after Andy Rouse was plagued by engine problems early in the race.The Knockhill circuit played host to its first BTCC rounds, though heavy rain was to spoil the parade, the event was to prove memorable.…
Andy Rouse won his third consecutive BSCC championship in a Ford Sierra, making it a record four titles in total.
The 1992 British Touring Car Championship began at Silverstone where stringent winter testing appeared to have paid off for Vauxhall as John Cleland dominated the proceedings, taking with him the victory and a new lap record.Cleland would also win the second round, held at Thruxton, ahead of works Toyota driver Andy Rouse.Champion manufacturer BMW meanwhile struggled with their new 318iS (which used a variant of the E30 M3 S14 engine in 2.0 size) model.…
His win was also his 60th, equalling Andy Rouse's BTCC record.Plato remained with the same team in 2011 and won the first round of the season at Brands Hatch, setting a new BTCC record of 61 victories.…
The team made their international debut at the 1981 1000 km Monza, where drivers Richard Lloyd and Tony Dron finished in eighth place and second in their class.Victory quickly followed as Lloyd and driver Andy Rouse won their class in their home event, the 1000 km Brands Hatch.…
Teammate Steve Soper put Harvey under pressure but could not find a way past and finished second, while Tim Sugden was a distant third.By now Andy Rouse had pretty much dropped out of contention for the title and would focus on supporting teammate Will Hoy's championship bid.The fight for the title now appeared to stand between Hoy, Vauxhall teammates Cleland and Allam, and Tim Harvey, who was backed up by teammate Steve Soper.…
Second place overall was Phil Dowsett who dominated class D. Andy Rouse finished third on points, winning nine races outright of the twelve rounds.
The title was won by Andy Rouse in a Rover Vitesse, claiming his third BSCC title.
The cars, prepared by former series champion Andy Rouse, did not enter the 1993 season until the 8th round at Pembrey in Wales.Rouse and Paul Radisich were the drivers in the Mondeo's first season.…
Andy Rouse had lost his Toyota contract to famous Toyota tuners TOM'S Norfolk-based European arm known as Tom's GB, who had previously run Group A Toyotas in BTCC in the eighties.Andy Rouse's seat was taken over by Julian Bailey, and the new shape Carina E GTi replaced the older model.Toyota also supported a junior team run by Park Lane Racing, who would run two older shape Carinas for James Kaye and Bobby Verdon-Roe.…
With no works deal for 1978, Ralph Broad sold his stake in the company and Broadspeed soon went into liquidation.In 1981, Rouse set up his own engineering company, Andy Rouse Engineering, taking many of the ex-Broadspeed employees with him.His success on the track continued with Championship wins in 1983 and 1984.…
Leslie then finally won a race when the series visited Thruxton.Ford was second and third with Radisich and Andy Rouse, while a sixth place from Soper closed the gap between him and Winkelhock to twelve points.Donington Park hosted the penultimate weekend of the championship and the last double header meeting.…
With only a lap remaining Harvey could now cruise to fourth and the championship title, Hoy finishing three seconds behind in fifth place.Up front Andy Rouse only just claimed the win a tenth of a second ahead of Jeff Allam and seven tenths ahead of David Leslie in third.This was one of the most controversial moments in BTCC history; commenting on the move by Soper which had cost him the title, a dejected Cleland famously remarked "The man's an animal!"…
Andy Rouse won his second drivers title in an Alfa Romeo GTV6 after the disqualification of the works Rovers.
However, while that did not come to light, he did surface again as a test driver for Arrows in 1996.For 1995 he had his first full BTCC season, replacing the retiring Andy Rouse in Rouse's Ford team.He took 8th overall, only 2 places behind experienced team-mate Paul Radisich.…
In September Dron managed 3rd place overall in a Sprint competing in the RAC Tourist Trophy race of that year.In 1975 Andy Rouse won the British Touring Car Championship outright by taking the driver's title in a Sprint.…
Founded in 1981, WSR has won more than 70 races in Formula 3 and more than 20 class and outright wins in the BTCC.WSR moved to the BTCC in 1996 having been chosen to run the works Ford team, with Andy Rouse having left running the team to attempt to establish his own Nissan team.…
There Hoy was able to finish ahead of Cleland, and thus claiming the first Super Touring championship win.Andy Rouse finished third for Toyota, and Steve Soper ended up fourth overall despite missing several races due to clashing commitments in the German DTM championship.…
At Silverstone the race was red flagged following an accident involving Robb Gravett's Peugeot.Will Hoy led away in the Toyota after the restart, but was later passed by both Paul Radisich and Andy Rouse, who took a one-two finish for Ford.Hoy held on to third, and while Steve Soper finished ahead of Winkelhock he did not get the result he needed and it was Joachim Winkelhock who won the 1993 British Touring Car Championship.…
