The British Touring automobile championship may have crowned Ash Sutton as its newest champion, but you’ll shortly be able to relive the wild days of the championship in the 1980s in a new continuation Ford Sierra RS500 group A car.
Engineering company CNC engineering AWS is building three of the automobiles in collaboration with former Touring automobile racer and automobile builder Andy Rouse – a four time BTCC champion and winner of the 1988 and 1989 championships in an original Sierra RS500.
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Each example will be based upon an original Ford Sierra bodyshell, with the first example using an original motorsport shell that has been stored because the late Eighties. All will be supplied in plain white paint, but with the option of customized liveries.
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The CNC Motorsport AWS team has access to drawings and data to produce parts particular to the Rouse race-prepared title winning machine, such as the front suspension uprights, rear arms, fuel tank enclosure and the trademark side-exit exhaust. The automobiles will be produced to 1990 specification.
The continuation Sierras will all come with relevant papers, a motorsport fuel cell and roll cage certificates, and an Andy Rouse engineering build plate. They will all be ready to race in various historic series, including HSCC touring automobiles and the Silverstone Classic.
