THE BRITISH TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP’S GREATEST ONE-HIT WONDERS
Dan Rowbottom probably didn’t realise it at the time, but he became part of a club he won’t want to be a member of when he won his first British Touring Car Championship race in his Team Dynamics Honda Civic at Oulton Park in August last year.
Although his career is a long way from finished and he has more silverware in his sights in 2022, Rowbottom became the 50th BTCC driver to register a single victory.
The list of one-time winners is a real glance into the history books.
BMW tin-top legend Roberto Ravaglia is on there, as is F1 driver Jochen Mass. Dan Gurney appears, as does Tiff Needell and legend Tony Lanfranchi. Current-day driving standards chief James Cole appears on the list too.
Here, we have picked out some of our favourites.
1 Julian Bailey
When: July 25, 1993
Where: Knockhill
Car: Toyota Carina E
Perhaps the most famous line in British Touring Car Championship commentary is from Murray Walker: “The car
