Tim Harvey

They'd replaced the M3s at BMW campaign before 1992, and they were very different propositions, especially the rear suspension, which was very complex to set up.

Longer-term fans of the pod will know that even Steve Soper and Tim Harvey in interviews for episodes on the pod disagreed on where the issues lay.

But by now, we were quite a long way into the season, and Vic Lee, apart from anything else, knew his way around the race car, and he was starting to simplify the rear suspension setup and actually make it work.

And, of course, this was even before their weight penalty.

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Race day brought a huge crowd to Brands Hatch, but there was drama before the lights had even gone out.

Steve Soper and Tim Harvey had qualified 3rd and 7th respectively, yet neither BMW would actually start from those positions.

Vitkli Movesport failed to get the pair out of the tit lane before it closed, forcing both cars to the back of the grid, with Vitkli himself accepting responsibility for the mistake.

I think year two would have hopefully been a lot better.

But there was people like Tim Harvey who replaced me with nothing to do.

So, yeah, who wouldn't take that? option because Tim was fantastic and him and Patrick I bet got on like a house on fire and he's hugely experienced so you know I can completely understand the decision it was just didn't quite do what I needed to do that year uh and uh there was too much competition, but, you know, I'm very proud to have been part of that incredible eight manufacturer wild year where it was on BBC Grandstand with Murray Walker commentating.

Yeah, I do remember it very fondly.

Right, shall we get on to...

I think that's it for the news, isn't it? Apart from a throwaway comment that Tim Harvey said in qualifying that got you so excited you called me, which very rarely happens.

It's not only me bugging you, but you felt the need to pick up the phone to me immediately.

Yeah, so Tim mentioned that in his conversations that he possibly has with Mr

So good race intelligence.

I don't know

whether you noticed it, but the amount of times that Tim Harvey said tactical scrap within like three corners of each other was...

It was

is.

One thing I did find interesting, actually, and I don't know whether it was Harvey or Addison said it in the final race when we had all of that rain.

One, people weren't going anywhere near the kerbs because they were wet.

So they weren't getting track limits.

But I'm in for Cook, you're in for Sheldon, and of course it was Mikey Doble.

Yes, yeah.

Despite Tim Harvey saying all weekend, oh, that hatchback's not very good

around here, they did actually score quite a lot of points.

In 1995, Rydell qualified on pole 13 times and won four races.

Tim Harvey added two more.

At the end of it, Rydell was third in the Drivers' Championship on 255 points and Volvo third amongst the manufacturers.

In 1996, against Audi's four-wheel drive A4, Rydell won four more races and finished third again, Kevin Burt adding a single victory at Silverstone in May.