Autosport/Motorsport best touring car driver article?

[Chunkychucky]

Bit of a shot in the dark here (mods please move this if it's in the wrong area), I remember reading an interesting article ranking the top 50 saloon/touring car drivers, and really want to buy a copy of the magazine. I'm 90% sure it was a copy of Autosport as it had the article advertised on the front cover, although I have seen a reference made to it on the internet as being in Motorsport. It was from the past 10 years I know that, however unfortunately that's where my knowledge ends.. Anyone possibly be able to help?

Cheers

[frodo_monkey]

I am pretty sure that its Motorsport and I think I have a copy - wasn't Steve Soper the winner? Shall have a look next time I'm home...

[IainW]

It was definitely Motorsport. I had a copy of it purely for that article.

[chevronb37]

I'll check my archive. I think it was Motorsport and Steve Soper won.

[Chunkychucky]

Yeah Steve Soper won, that's the bugger! Cheers thanks guys, would anyone be able to supply an issue date? Will start scouring the 'bay

[Martian O]

How Steve Soper beat Andy Rouse I don't know!

[thunderbelmont]

Martian O said:

How Steve Soper beat Andy Rouse I don't know!

Probably door handled him down the back straight, then punted him off at the last corner.......

[IainW]

Exactly. Driver, engineer, team boss and more. He's definitely above Soper in that list. Taking off my Cleland-tinted spectacles, I can appreciate how good Soper was having seen him wrestle that dog of a Peugeot 406 around Oulton Park in his final year. But he was just a driver, Rouse was master of all trades.

[supertouring]

Motorsport Feb 2005 - Top 20 Tin-Top Stars.

1. Soper
2. Brock
3. Rouse

I admit to being a Rouse fanboy also.

[Martian O]

There was a more recent poll, sometime within the last 6 months IIRC. Think it was in Octane magazine.

[DanielSan]

supertouring said:

Motorsport Feb 2005 - Top 20 Tin-Top Stars.

1. Soper
2. Brock
3. Rouse

I admit to being a Rouse fanboy also.

I'd put Brock 1st here to be honest, Rouse 2nd, 3rd is a tricky decision, probably Tarquini. For me Soper isn't Top 3 greatest.

[chunder27]

My top guys in a top 5 would be.

Brock simply because he was touring car racing for millions, was a top bloke and did things in cars that made you smile.
Win Percy, drove just about everything and was also damn good in sports cars.
I would add Soper as he won everywhere in all sorts of cars and everywhere in one the E30 and including sports cars later.
Yvan Muller as he largely dominated the category in every country he raced in pretty much in several types of car.
And for me Aiello who did the same in numerous disciplines at the height of their popularity.

[Mr Red Barron]

Where was Bernd Schnieder in the list out of curiosity? Surely one of the greatest ever touring car drivers?

[DaveGoddard]

I'm going to be controversial here, but looking at his results away from Bathurst I would not even rank Peter Brock as the best Antipodean driver. Jim Richards and Dick Johnson were better all-rounders in my opinion.

[chunder27]

I had forgotten about Schneider! Good shout, but perhaps coz he never really did anything outside of Germany whereas Soper did? As did Percy.