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Turkington meets Rouse: The BTCC's greatest in conversation

The two four-time British Touring Car champions discovered they had far more in common than they realised when Autosport brought them together to discuss all things tin-top for its 70th anniversary special earlier this year

Andy Rouse arrived 29 years before Colin Turkington in what we now know as the British Touring Car Championship. But this morning he's only beaten him to Silverstone by five minutes. The purpose? Autosport has invited the only two drivers to have won four BTCC titles to sit down for a chinwag. The British Racing Drivers' Club has kindly made its clubhouse available for us, and Rouse and Turkington are going to compare eras and...

Actually, there's a fair bit of star-struck stuff going on here. It turns out that Turkington was a schoolboy fan of Rouse and the 1990s Super Touring set. Yes, they've met before, but they've never spent an hour in each other's company. And it can only be an hour, because Turkington needs to hot-foot it to the MIRA proving ground to shake down his West Surrey Racing BMW 330i M Sport ahead of the coming weekend at Croft.

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