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Bennani you're a plum.
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http://www.touringcartimes.com/2017/05/ ... e-penalty/
So Stewards would you rather he cream into the back of a stalled car? Or he just slam on the breaks in the middle of the straight?
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It's not as if WTCC needs to look any more stupid, they've been doing a pretty good job to self-destruct over the last couple of years without help from stewards.
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I'm going to Thruxton on Sunday with a paddock pass. I haven't been for many years. Any advice particularly on when I should get there very welcome.
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Spectoremg wrote:People.
I'm going to Thruxton on Sunday with a paddock pass. I haven't been for many years. Any advice particularly on when I should get there very welcome.
I have only been to Thrixton a few times. I have only viewed from the grandstand and the hospitality on inside of turn 1. Much better views from the grandstand. But the paddock pass sounds interesting.
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As far as where to watch is concerned, the disappointing thing about Thruxton is you can only watch from the section between the last chicane, and the entrance to Noble corner. That last bit is high up on a big bank so you get a good view back to the first chicane but it's not the best track for spectating in my view. While a lot of action happens at the chicanes, you miss out on the chance to see the cars at full chat on the far side of the circuit. Compared to Thruxton, Oulton, Brands and Donington have much more variety in their vantage points.
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AndreaModa wrote:Compared to Thruxton, Oulton, Brands and Donington have much more variety in their vantage points.
Don't forget Rockingham!
But you can still have an enjoyable time at Thruxton.
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Meanwhile, Jeff Smith can bathplug off. Bloke's been driving like an utter assclown all day.
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
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Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
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watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
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I was there today. We weren't told that was the case. Either way it took far too long for them to sort it out.East Londoner wrote:BTCC needs to stop racing at Thruxton until the track owners pull their fingers out of their arses and update the facility. A bare armco barrier at the fastest corner in the UK is quite frankly unacceptable. Why the bathplug is there not a tyre wall in that location?
Meanwhile, Jeff Smith can bathplug off. Bloke's been driving like an utter assclown all day.
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Spectoremg wrote:I was there today. We weren't told that was the case. Either way it took far too long for them to sort it out.East Londoner wrote:BTCC needs to stop racing at Thruxton until the track owners pull their fingers out of their arses and update the facility. A bare armco barrier at the fastest corner in the UK is quite frankly unacceptable. Why the bathplug is there not a tyre wall in that location?
Meanwhile, Jeff Smith can bathplug off. Bloke's been driving like an utter assclown all day.
I remember it took an hour to fix a bit of armco at the British GP at Silverstone just a year or two ago...
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East Londoner wrote:BTCC needs to stop racing at Thruxton until the track owners pull their fingers out of their arses and update the facility. A bare armco barrier at the fastest corner in the UK is quite frankly unacceptable. Why the bathplug is there not a tyre wall in that location?
There has never really been any barrier at all at church over the years though. The major crashes at church have occurred in the NGTC era over the last few years. I dont recall any major accidents at church in the Supertouring era when the cars were faster then what we have now or even when we had the BTC-T spec cars which lapped thruxton in similar lap times to what we have now.
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andrew wrote:Matt Neal got penalised for something, the shock!
Was that in the final race? I only finished watching today, checked the results and noticed that he had been classified 11th whereas I'm sure they said he crossed the road 10th - I don't remember actually seeing anything noteworthy, though.
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Barbazza wrote:andrew wrote:Matt Neal got penalised for something, the shock!
Was that in the final race? I only finished watching today, checked the results and noticed that he had been classified 11th whereas I'm sure they said he crossed the road 10th - I don't remember actually seeing anything noteworthy, though.
Final race yes, he overtook Chilton by cutting the chicane (final) apparently, getting a 0.5 second penalty.
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Shoutout also to that backmarker chap Jason Plato for scoring points.
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
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Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
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Utter shithouse of a weekend for Tom Ingram, I don't think he finished higher than P25 all day. Turkington did a great job to recover as high as he did.
Shoutout to Luke Davenport for his first points finish.
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
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This is either a case of him running out of money or, more likely from what I've gleaned, that he's fed up of driving an ancient car which isn't being properly maintained, and is getting out of there before the excrement hits the fan. 888 is now owned by Warren Scott and basically run out of a corner of Team BMR's factory in Hertfordshire. They've got barely any money, so after Lloyd's shunt at Thruxton last month, they had to bring out a chassis which had been badly damaged at Snetterton last year. I absolutely don't blame him if he's taken his money and run.
There is something very, very rotten at the heart of Warren Scott's BTCC empire (just look at the myriad of problems at Subaru), and I daresay it'll all come out in the fall.
Incidentally, most of the old Triple 8 crew are now working for Power Maxed, so it's pretty much a case of them going full circle with the new Vauxhalls.
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
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East Londoner wrote:888 is now owned by Warren Scott and basically run out of a corner of Team BMR's factory in Hertfordshire. They've got barely any money,
I missed this news somewhere along the line. I was wondering why their performance was so poor for so long, and unable to attract top-name drivers. This explains a lot.
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East Londoner wrote:
There is something very, very rotten at the heart of Warren Scott's BTCC empire (just look at the myriad of problems at Subaru), and I daresay it'll all come out in the fall.
I always found it a bit odd how BMR expanded from an uncompetitive one car S2000 operation in 2013 to running four NGTC cars with two front-running drivers in 2014. I mean they did merge with Team HARD, but they were never particularly great financially or performance-wise. BMR seem to have almost unlimited funds on the surface considering their astronomical rise to the top in several categories (if B-TEC had gone ahead, they would have been running 11(!) NGTC cars out of their factory in 2016), so the question really is where these funds are coming from (they don't have that much sponsorship).
If anything, this has whiffs of a Vic Lee Racing-style setup...
Named after HRT, now on HRT
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l