Metro 6R4 Superprix: Time for Tea?

Remind yourself why road races are magnificent with this grid of Metro 6R4s

This evening, ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix at Silverstone, there'll be a parade of F1 cars in London.

No doubt 'F1 Live' will be marvellous and quite exciting and everything. And thanks to the incredible hard work by the Motorsports Association (MSA), in helping local authorities to suspend the Road Traffic Act without an Act of Parliament there's an ever increasing hope that we'll be able to see racing cars going quickly on the road more often.

Which, inevitably, means our minds are drawn to one thing: the Birmingham Superprix, the annual summertime race event held between 1986 and 1990 near Birmingham city centre, which did require its own Act of Parliament to get approved.

But thankfully it did, because it was terrific. The headline act was the F3000 race - one rung below F1 at the time - but there were a number of support races, too, including rounds of the British Touring Car Championship.

And in 1988 and 1989 there were, can you imagine it, Metro 6R4 challenge races, solely for 'Clubman 300' spec Metro 6R4s, whose owners were facing a limited number of places where they could compete, following Group B rallying's demise.

And, well, not a lot more needs to be said, except here it is that 1988 race. Enjoy. And, perhaps, dare to dream.