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Taking inspiration from the Indycar Rejects thread and using the same criteria as for F1 Rejects.

I'll start by listing the current rejects in current field.

Liam Griffin Best finish, 8th. Arguably the 2011 ROTY. Has spent two seasons running at the back in a Motorbase Focus while his teammates are regularly at the front.

Howard Fuller Best finish, two 11ths. Ran two meetings for Tony Gilham in a Honda Civic, will share a Passat with Rob Holland this season, hopefully from Donnington onwards.

David Nye Best finish, 17th. Gentleman driver running his first season for Welch Motorsport in S2000 Focus, unlikely to even come close to unrejectification this season.

Will Bratt Best finish, 8th. Running first full season in Rob Austin's 2nd Audi. Stands a good chance of unrejectification, maybe in a reverse grid race.

Ollie Jackson Best finish, three 8ths. Did well last season in what was probably the weakest car on the grid. Like Bratt, he stands a good chance to get off this list with a Speedworks Avensis.

James Cole and Jack Goff Best finish, one 13th each. Pair of rookies running in Tony Gilham's Insignias.

Chris Stockton Best finish, 8th. Solid underdog driver who has always been saddled with awful cars. Looking forward to seeing him return to the series once his NGTC Cruze is built.

Warren Scott Best finish, 15th. Former Superbiker running the aging SEAT Leon for his first season.

Lea Wood Best finish, 5th with no other top 6 finishes. Probably would have unrejectified himself at Snetterton last year until his car failed him while running 2nd in the reverse grid race. Unlikely to now until he gets into an NGTC.

Andy Neate Best finish, two 6ths. No surprises here. Has run awfully with front running teams for several seasons now. This season he will run for his own team.

Joe Girling Best finish, 18th. Rookie driving for Tech-Speed in a S2000 Cruze. Looks to be a wooden spoon contender for this season with Nye and Scott.

Sam Tordoff and Adam Morgan successfully unrejectified themselves at Brands Hatch last weekend.
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Ian Heward - The only person I know of who's ever failed to qualify for a BTCC race.
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Shouldn't this belong in the "ROTR for Other Motorsports Thread"? (Slightly different subject, but.......)
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DOSBoot wrote:Shouldn't this belong in the "ROTR for Other Motorsports Thread"? (Slightly different subject, but.......)


This isn't a reject of the race thread, its for those BTCC drivers who would be classed as a reject by this site's criteria.
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Although you mentioned him, you missed a separate entry for Robb Holland (best finish: 14th), a rare American import who raced Tony Gilham's Civic in two at Snetterton and Knockhill last year, and should be making a return this season as you mentioned.

From the 2012 season:

John Thorne (best finish: 16th)
Demonstrated an NGTC Vauxhall Insignia at the final round of the 2011 season, and raced it in the first two rounds of the 2012 season to embarrassingly limited effect before giving up the unequal struggle and withdrawing. Tony Gilham raced the car later in the year before buying it for his own team.

Aaron Williamson (best finish: 14th)
Another of Gilham's drivers, he was given the garish HARD Civic for the final round of the season, but fell victim to a moment of madness from Andy Neate (see above).

Tony Hughes (best finish: 12th)
A successful businessman who sells his own brand of bathroom showers, Hughes drove his own team's Toyota Avensis for part-seasons in 2011 and 2012. In the latter season he started getting points on the board, despite stepping aside on more than one occasion to let Paul O'Neill drive the car when his budget allowed. Decided to retire from driving duties this year to focus on team management, and now fields Dave Newsham and Ollie Jackson.

Chris James (best finish: 12th)
Another gentleman driver in his own team, James drove a Chevrolet Lacetti in 2011 before switching to a Vauxhall Vectra for 2012, also expanding to a second car for Dave Newsham. Whilst Newsham had a brilliant season, winning two races and finishing eighth in the championship, James was a perennial tail-ender, attracting attention for a series of collisions with other drivers and the armco, which, combined with other disciplinary infringements, saw him become the most-penalised driver of the season. The mission of winning a race accomplished, he shut the team down at the end of the season.
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I'll add a few more notables to the list:

Hyla Breese - Best finish 21st. Possibly the unluckiest driver ever in the BTCC. Spent the second half of 2002 in a Team B&Q Accord in the Production Class, but only managed to start three races. Had so many engine changes, he became the only driver in BTCC history to score minus points...

Stuart Oliver - Best finish 15th. Multiple times British Truck Racing champion: joined the series with BTC Racing in 2008, but was generally uncompetitive, and left after the first half of the year.

John Batchelor - Best finish 13th. Most famous for changing his name to John B&Q to gain sponsorship from the company, spent one and a half years driving for the team, before concentrating on a team management role. They didn't get much better. Bought York City in 2002 and nearly ran the club into the ground, for more of which see here. Probably the closest the BTCC has got to a Sassetti-type figure...
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Some more past rejects.

Tom Coronel (07) Best finish, 7th. Ironically a BTCC reject but not a WTCC reject. The longtime WTCC independent ran a third works Leon for the final meeting of 2007.

Matt Allison (07-08) Best finish, 6th. Promising youngster hampered by average cars and lack of money. He raced for Motorbase in 2007 back when they were a young team running old SEAT Toledos. He did enough to impress many fans but he could only find a drive for the new Robertshaw team in one of their two Lacettis. Though he managed to drag that car into the top ten to embarrass some of the better funded teams he would loose his drive after three meetings due to lack of funding, never to be seen in the series again.

Eoin Murray (06-07) Best finish, 6th. Had plenty of talent but stuck on a shoe string budget and an Alfa 156 with awful reliability. Despite running 8 of the 10 meetings in 2007, he only finished in six races.

John George (04, 07-11) Best finish, 8th. One of the most experienced rejects. The Cornish mobile phone retailer drove the BTCC's first ever gas powered car in 2004 then returned in 2007 onwards driving an Integra first for TH Motorsports, then for Tech-Speed. Though he was certainly there for his wads of cash, he did prove to be a competent enough driver. Suffered one of the largest crashes in recent memory in the final race of 2008.

Mark Smith (06) Best finish, two 11ths. Drove one of the slowest cars the BTCC has seen in recent memory for the ironically named InFront Motorsport. Though their pace did improve towards the end of the season, both Smith and the team were never to be seen again after the 2006 season.

Harry Vaulkhard (08-09) Best finish, 5th. Only driver to be a reject in both the BTCC and WTCC. Drove for the short lived Robertshaw Racing in a Lacetti and did okay considering how average his car was. Moved to Tempus Sport and a newer Lacetti and surprised many by running near the front several times, doing especially well at Donnington where he qualified on the front row. In the midseason break, the team became Bamboo Engineering after some strange off track antics after which he would sink back into midfield obscurity before he and the team moved to the WTCC for 2010.

Jason Hughes (03-08) Best finish, 4th. Not a reject but the textbook definition of a 'lucky bastard'. He only escapes reject status thanks to Darren Turner's exclusion from the second Knockhill race in 2006 which promoted him to 4th. Hughes was otherwise a solid underdog, racing an old MG for his own Kartworld team, occasionally embarrassing some of the better funded teams, perhaps most notably giving Yvan Muller a hard time at Mondello Park in 2004.
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Samster wrote:Some more past rejects.

Tom Coronel (07) Best finish, 7th. Ironically a BTCC reject but not a WTCC reject. The longtime WTCC independent ran a third works Leon for the final meeting of 2007.

Matt Allison (07-08) Best finish, 6th. Promising youngster hampered by average cars and lack of money. He raced for Motorbase in 2007 back when they were a young team running old SEAT Toledos. He did enough to impress many fans but he could only find a drive for the new Robertshaw team in one of their two Lacettis. Though he managed to drag that car into the top ten to embarrass some of the better funded teams he would loose his drive after three meetings due to lack of funding, never to be seen in the series again.

Eoin Murray (06-07) Best finish, 6th. Had plenty of talent but stuck on a shoe string budget and an Alfa 156 with awful reliability. Despite running 8 of the 10 meetings in 2007, he only finished in six races.

John George (04, 07-11) Best finish, 8th. One of the most experienced rejects. The Cornish mobile phone retailer drove the BTCC's first ever gas powered car in 2004 then returned in 2007 onwards driving an Integra first for TH Motorsports, then for Tech-Speed. Though he was certainly there for his wads of cash, he did prove to be a competent enough driver. Suffered one of the largest crashes in recent memory in the final race of 2008.

Mark Smith (06) Best finish, two 11ths. Drove one of the slowest cars the BTCC has seen in recent memory for the ironically named InFront Motorsport. Though their pace did improve towards the end of the season, both Smith and the team were never to be seen again after the 2006 season.

Harry Vaulkhard (08-09) Best finish, 5th. Only driver to be a reject in both the BTCC and WTCC. Drove for the short lived Robertshaw Racing in a Lacetti and did okay considering how average his car was. Moved to Tempus Sport and a newer Lacetti and surprised many by running near the front several times, doing especially well at Donnington where he qualified on the front row. In the midseason break, the team became Bamboo Engineering after some strange off track antics after which he would sink back into midfield obscurity before he and the team moved to the WTCC for 2010.

Jason Hughes (03-08) Best finish, 4th. Not a reject but the textbook definition of a 'lucky bastard'. He only escapes reject status thanks to Darren Turner's exclusion from the second Knockhill race in 2006 which promoted him to 4th. Hughes was otherwise a solid underdog, racing an old MG for his own Kartworld team, occasionally embarrassing some of the better funded teams, perhaps most notably giving Yvan Muller a hard time at Mondello Park in 2004.

InFront Motorsport being a back marker... NASCAR has it as well with Front Row Motorsports which has never been above 5th in qualifying.
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Fiona Leggate: Best finish, 1 5th in her first season.

Ben Collins (aka "The Stig"): One race meeting at the end of 2010 at Brands Hatch, soon after being outed as The Stig. 14th, 12th, DNF.

Michael Caine: two race meetings at Rockingham and Brands Hatch, one tenth, 3 x 12ths (all at Brands, consistent!)
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Chris Swanwick (best finish: 17th)
Briefly raced a second Audi for Rob Austin Racing in the final two rounds of the 2011 season.

Martin Byford (best finish: 14th)
Drove the underfunded VW Golf for AmD Milltek in the second half of the 2011 season after Tom Onslow-Cole (who had frequently dragged it into the top ten) opted to depart for the greener pastures of Team Aon.

Shaun Hollamby (best finish: 13th)
Owner of AmD Milltek, he drove the Golf in its first season (2010), before acting as a tenporary replacement for Onslow-Cole in 2011 before Byford was signed. According to his Wikipedia page, he is also a TV director for FOM!
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Martin Johnson (09-10, Best finish 9th)
Spent two seasons driving for his father's team in a, by that time, ancient Vauxhall Astra Coupe, occasionally managing to drag the car into the top 10, most memorably passing Giovanardi for the last points position at the end of Rockingham 2009.

Johnny Herbert (09, Best finish 7th)
3 meetings in 2009 as a late season replacement for James Thompson at Dynamics. Showed reasonably impressive pace, considering he'd never driven a touring car before, and sewed the seeds for a reasonably successful couple of years in Superstars.

Erkut Kizilirmak (06-08, Best finish 10th)
2005 Turkish Touring Car Championship winner made two guest appearances for Triple Eight Vauxhall in 2006, before spending two largely unproductive years at Tech-Speed. Probably best known for crashing into a camera spot at Oulton Park.
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David Coulthard in 1990 had 1 race and didnt do to well finished 33rd (old multi class racing must of finished 3rd in class so 4 points)
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NIGEL MANSELL !!! Only one top-10 finish, that being a single 5th place (according to Wikipedia)

Not sure about Roland Ratzenberger - he definitely entered some BTCC rounds, but I don't know what results he scored...
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If we're continuing down the well-known drivers route, then I'll nominate Colin McRae. A guest drive at Knockhill 1992 in a Prodrive BMW, finished a decent eighth in race 1 before being disqualified in Race 2 for an avoidable collision with Matt Neal.
dr-baker wrote:Not sure about Roland Ratzenberger - he definitely entered some BTCC rounds, but I don't know what results he scored...

Depends whether you count class wins pre-supertouring the same as overall wins once the class system was abolished: he took part in 7 races in a class B M3, taking 1 class win, along with three other class podiums. His best position overall was eighth.
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dr-baker wrote:NIGEL MANSELL !!! Only one top-10 finish, that being a single 5th place (according to Wikipedia)


But he has had a storming drive in Donnington 1998 in the (I think the new at the time?) Ford Mondeo.

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dr-baker wrote:NIGEL MANSELL !!! Only one top-10 finish, that being a single 5th place (according to Wikipedia)


But he has had a storming drive in Donnington 1998 in the (I think the new at the time?) Ford Mondeo.

Yes, one storming drive to 5th, some great races ruined by DNFs, and an 11th and a 14th...
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dr-baker wrote:Not sure about Roland Ratzenberger - he definitely entered some BTCC rounds, but I don't know what results he scored...

Depends whether you count class wins pre-supertouring the same as overall wins once the class system was abolished: he took part in 7 races in a class B M3, taking 1 class win, along with three other class podiums. His best position overall was eighth.

Well, it depends. He is in a special class on the main ebsite, where his profile ends up in Centrale, because he crashed and died in F1. But he survived BTCC... An overall reject, but a winner in class?
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dr-baker wrote:Not sure about Roland Ratzenberger - he definitely entered some BTCC rounds, but I don't know what results he scored...

Depends whether you count class wins pre-supertouring the same as overall wins once the class system was abolished: he took part in 7 races in a class B M3, taking 1 class win, along with three other class podiums. His best position overall was eighth.

Well, it depends. He is in a special class on the main ebsite, where his profile ends up in Centrale, because he crashed and died in F1. But he survived BTCC... An overall reject, but a winner in class?


I'd say he should be considered unrejectified. There were considerable differences between the BTCC classes.
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Phil Glew (best finish: 6th)
The 2009 Renault Clio Cup champion, Glew moved up to the BTCC the following year with Triple 8. He performed respectably against team-mate and double champion Fabrizio Giovanardi, but both lost their seats after the opening round, when the team's title sponsor Uniq pulled out (with the unique, haha, excuse of having too much exposure too soon from Giovanardi's two wins), in favour of James Nash. Later appeared as a one-off team-mate for Tom Boardman in the Special Tuning Seat León, and has since raced in British GT.

Matt Hamilton (best finish: 9th)
A single-seater graduate of Formula BMW UK, British Formula Ford and Formula Palmer Audi, Hamilton switched GT racing in 2009 and also made his BTCC début at the end of the season in an old-model Honda Civic run by TH Motorsport. He competed in the first four rounds of the following season before running out of money and has not raced regularly since. His best moment came at Brands Hatch, when he finished in the points in very wet conditions. He planned to enter the 2012 season with a TH-run Skoda Octavia, but the plans fell through.

Arthur Forster (best finish: 13th)
Owner-driver of Forster Motorsport, and a long-term Mini Challenge competitor (winning the title in 2005), he stepped up to the BTCC in 2010 in a patriotically-livered BMW 320si, but was unable to challenge the scorers. The team missed the opening round and the trip to Scotland for budgetary reasons.

Martin Depper (best finish: 12th)
Forster Motorsport's second driver, and another Mini Challenge champion (2008), he drove another BMW 320si alongside the team boss, and generally showed slightly more promise, with an especially competitive performance at Croft in which he hung onto the battle for points-scoring positions.
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Steve Robertson (96) Best finish, two 10ths. Scored a mere two points for the works Ford team, admittedly in a rather average car. Even managed to take out his teammate, Paul Radisich in his debut race. He went on to form a British F3 team with Kimi Raikkonen.

Owen McAuley (96) Best finish, 9th. Raced for Rouse Sport in their final year when they ran the 95 spec Nissans on a semi works deal. They managed to build a new car which they gave to McAuley's teammate Gary Ayles causing him to throw a strop and leave the team and never returned to the series since.

Lee Brookes (96-99) Best finish, 4 9ths. Won the 1996 Independents cup in a 95 Toyota Carina with his own team. He continued to run for another few seasons first in a Peugeot 406 before switching again to a Honda Accord but he was never able to repeat his title. He also entered the 1998 Bathurst 1000 with Robb Gravett.

Paula Cook (98-99) Best finish, 9th. The only female driver from the Super Touring era. She raced an independent Honda Accord for her family team and did a respectable job scoring a few points before budget issues forced her team out part way through the 99 season.

Russell Spence (99) Best finish, 8th. Former F3000 driver best known for having his car lifted in a crane with him still in it at the Birmingham Super Prix. Raced for Arena Motorsports in an independent Renault Laguna where his most notable moment saw him crash his car over the catch fence at Oulton Park. He was soon replaced by Will Hoy. Recently he was jailed for fraud.

Fariqe Hairuman (04) Best finish 11th. Malaysian driver clearly hired for his nationality by Proton in their final season. Quite possibly the most incompetent driver of the 2 litre era.
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Nick Leason (best finish: 13th)
A veteran club racer to no great effect, Leason's most memorable moment was probably losing a wheel on a reconnaissance lap to the grid at Silverstone in 2006. He drove an aging Vauxhall Astra Coupé for NJL Racing in the final two meetings of 2006, an uncompetitive Lexus for BTC Racing for the first three rounds of the 2007 championship, before returning to the series in 2009 with the diesel-powered BMW 120d, again lasting for the first three race meetings before running out of funding.

Liam McMillan (best finish: 13th)
Winner of the SAXMAX championship for young drivers in 2006 at the age of 16, McMillian found the going tougher in the senior leagues. After two further years spent competing in various one-make Seat championships, he graduated to the BTCC in 2009 with an obsolete Toledo run on a shoestring by his family team, Maxtreme, lasting three rounds before folding.

Martyn Bell (best finish: 8th)
A BMW stalwart, Bell competed in the marque's British championship for nine consecutive years after switching from motocross in 1997, winning several class titles and the championship outright in 2004. He moved up to the BTCC with a, you've guessed it, BMW 320i run by Geoff Steel Racing, and scored eight points. The following year was tougher, with the BMW novelty over now that West Surrey Racing had adopted the same model to much greater effect, and the series' grid size on the up, restricting him to three points. In 2008 he switched to a Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch (not a great car when run by the factory team) run by a collaboration between team-mate Erkut Kizilirmak's Arkus Racing outfit and Tech-Speed, the drivers scoring one point between them. For 2009, Tech-Speed switched to the more competitive Honda Integras, but Bell was thoroughly outperformed by new team-mate Paul O'Neill.
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Alan Taylor (best finish: 10th)
Taylor, the owner of a seafood restaurant in Newcastle, first competed in the final two rounds of the 2007 season, driving a Honda Integra for Robertshaw Racing, scoring a point in his very first race at Knockhill. Things went downhill after that and he never came close to repeating the feat, despite a full season in 2008 with the Integra.

Michael Doyle (best finish: 8th)
Young Scottish driver who campaigned a family-run Honda Civic for the 2008 season, having graduated from the Renault Clio Cup. Hampered by a lack of funding, he shone in wet conditions, securing his two points finishes in the rain at Croft and Silverstone. Returned to the TOCA package for three rounds of the Ginetta Supercup in 2011.

Richard Marsh (best finish: 11th)
A perpetual backmarker, Marsh made his début part-way through the 2003 season in a Production Class Peugeot 307 run by John "B&Q"'s Varta team, finishing seventh overall in the class's final year. He returned with a Touring Class version of the car, and also a Honda Civic, to no great effect in 2004. Two years later he returned with the 307 for the second half of the season, but was significantly hampered by reliability problems. In 2007, he switched to an A-Tech Alfa Romeo 156 alongside David Pinkney, to whom he was definitely the number two.

Jim Pocklington (best finish: 11th)
A BMW privateer, Pocklington took part in four rounds of the 2007 season before running out of money.

Rick Kerry (best finish: 11th)
Another BMW driver - with a successful marque record - but on this occasion Kerry had the novelty of being the first driver of a diesel-powered car in the BTCC, driving an AFM Racing 120d in seven rounds of the 2007 season. Unfortunately the new technology and the team's lack of budget rendered it extremely slow and unreliable.

Simon Blanckley (best finish: 10th)
An enthusiastic club racer who sold his house to finance his 2007 BTCC season in a Honda Integra, Blanckley lasted for seven of the ten rounds before pulling out, having scored a point at Rockingham in the meantime.

Tom Ferrier (best finish: 4th)
A Lucky Bastard, Ferrier took a class podium in a partial Production schedule in 2000. He was almost signed by Vauxhall for 2001, but instead had to make do with an appallingly underdeveloped and unreliable JS Motorsport Alfa Romeo 147 instead. Good runs at Donington and Brands Hatch were inevitably ended by engine failures, but the second race at the latter circuit saw the car hold together in the heavy rain, allowing him to claim fourth place in a thin and depleted Touring field. He went on to produce decent cameo performances in Motorbase SEAT Toledos in 2006 and 2007, and now co-owns club racing team Scuderia Vittoria with another BTCC reject, Danny Buxton.
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Andrew MacKenzie - Drove a slow Peugeot 405 in one round in '91 and failed to start in 2 others, interestingly before Peugeot entered the BTCC with works 405s.
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Think a thread bump is in store here

What about John Thorne in the awful Thorney motorsport team? did just 2 meetings in 2012 with a best finish of 16th and 3 DNS's at Donington

Can someone please tel me a little bit about Farique Hairuman so I don't have to ask about it anymore?
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Freeze-O-Kimi wrote:Think a thread bump is in store here

What about John Thorne in the awful Thorney motorsport team? did just 2 meetings in 2012 with a best finish of 16th and 3 DNS's at Donington

Can someone please tel me a little bit about Farique Hairuman so I don't have to ask about it anymore?


In their final season, Proton decided to sign two seemingly random foreign rookies in South African, Shaun Watson-Smith and Malaysian, Farique Hairuman. While SWS proved to be halfway decent, even scoring a couple of fastest laps, Hairuman was hopelessly slow and prone to accidents, only ever being ahead of John George and Richard Marsh in their awful S2000 Civics on a regular basis. His performance can be summed up by the fact he was the only driver all season to fail to score either overall points or indy points (for which he was of course ineligible for), even Marsh and George managed to score soem indy points.
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What about John Thorne in the awful Thorney motorsport team? did just 2 meetings in 2012 with a best finish of 16th and 3 DNS's at Donington

Can someone please tel me a little bit about Farique Hairuman so I don't have to ask about it anymore?


In their final season, Proton decided to sign two seemingly random foreign rookies in South African, Shaun Watson-Smith and Malaysian, Farique Hairuman. While SWS proved to be halfway decent, even scoring a couple of fastest laps, Hairuman was hopelessly slow and prone to accidents, only ever being ahead of John George and Richard Marsh in their awful S2000 Civics on a regular basis. His performance can be summed up by the fact he was the only driver all season to fail to score either overall points or indy points (for which he was of course ineligible for), even Marsh and George managed to score soem indy points.

I know Fariqe Hairuman due to him being eternally hyped up by F1 Racing Malaysia after his good results in the Super Taikyu series, despite all of the good results coming from his co-driver Yanagida, who proceeded to win the SuperGT title three times in a row :P
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Samster wrote:Steve Robertson (96) Best finish, two 10ths. Scored a mere two points for the works Ford team, admittedly in a rather average car. Even managed to take out his teammate, Paul Radisich in his debut race. He went on to form a British F3 team with Kimi Raikkonen.

Owen McAuley (96) Best finish, 9th. Raced for Rouse Sport in their final year when they ran the 95 spec Nissans on a semi works deal. They managed to build a new car which they gave to McAuley's teammate Gary Ayles causing him to throw a strop and leave the team and never returned to the series since.

Lee Brookes (96-99) Best finish, 4 9ths. Won the 1996 Independents cup in a 95 Toyota Carina with his own team. He continued to run for another few seasons first in a Peugeot 406 before switching again to a Honda Accord but he was never able to repeat his title. He also entered the 1998 Bathurst 1000 with Robb Gravett.

Paula Cook (98-99) Best finish, 9th. The only female driver from the Super Touring era. She raced an independent Honda Accord for her family team and did a respectable job scoring a few points before budget issues forced her team out part way through the 99 season.

Russell Spence (99) Best finish, 8th. Former F3000 driver best known for having his car lifted in a crane with him still in it at the Birmingham Super Prix. Raced for Arena Motorsports in an independent Renault Laguna where his most notable moment saw him crash his car over the catch fence at Oulton Park. He was soon replaced by Will Hoy. Recently he was jailed for fraud.

Fariqe Hairuman (04) Best finish 11th. Malaysian driver clearly hired for his nationality by Proton in their final season. Quite possibly the most incompetent driver of the 2 litre era.


Err...what about Swedish lady driver Nettan Lindgren (89-91) Best finish 1 x 5th place outright and Class Victory but lasted only 3 races and 1 10th place in 2 litre era but long enough to put Jonathan Palmer on her hit-list!
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1993DonningtonNo1 wrote:
Samster wrote:Steve Robertson (96) Best finish, two 10ths. Scored a mere two points for the works Ford team, admittedly in a rather average car. Even managed to take out his teammate, Paul Radisich in his debut race. He went on to form a British F3 team with Kimi Raikkonen.

Owen McAuley (96) Best finish, 9th. Raced for Rouse Sport in their final year when they ran the 95 spec Nissans on a semi works deal. They managed to build a new car which they gave to McAuley's teammate Gary Ayles causing him to throw a strop and leave the team and never returned to the series since.

Lee Brookes (96-99) Best finish, 4 9ths. Won the 1996 Independents cup in a 95 Toyota Carina with his own team. He continued to run for another few seasons first in a Peugeot 406 before switching again to a Honda Accord but he was never able to repeat his title. He also entered the 1998 Bathurst 1000 with Robb Gravett.

Paula Cook (98-99) Best finish, 9th. The only female driver from the Super Touring era. She raced an independent Honda Accord for her family team and did a respectable job scoring a few points before budget issues forced her team out part way through the 99 season.

Russell Spence (99) Best finish, 8th. Former F3000 driver best known for having his car lifted in a crane with him still in it at the Birmingham Super Prix. Raced for Arena Motorsports in an independent Renault Laguna where his most notable moment saw him crash his car over the catch fence at Oulton Park. He was soon replaced by Will Hoy. Recently he was jailed for fraud.

Fariqe Hairuman (04) Best finish 11th. Malaysian driver clearly hired for his nationality by Proton in their final season. Quite possibly the most incompetent driver of the 2 litre era.


Err...what about Swedish lady driver Nettan Lindgren (89-91) Best finish 1 x 5th place outright and Class Victory but lasted only 3 races and 1 10th place in 2 litre era but long enough to put Jonathan Palmer on her hit-list!

Same issue that is seen with Roland Ratzenberger given the class victory given his 8th outright and a flurry of class victories and class podiums.
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Onxy Wrecked wrote:
1993DonningtonNo1 wrote:
Samster wrote:Steve Robertson (96) Best finish, two 10ths. Scored a mere two points for the works Ford team, admittedly in a rather average car. Even managed to take out his teammate, Paul Radisich in his debut race. He went on to form a British F3 team with Kimi Raikkonen.

Owen McAuley (96) Best finish, 9th. Raced for Rouse Sport in their final year when they ran the 95 spec Nissans on a semi works deal. They managed to build a new car which they gave to McAuley's teammate Gary Ayles causing him to throw a strop and leave the team and never returned to the series since.

Lee Brookes (96-99) Best finish, 4 9ths. Won the 1996 Independents cup in a 95 Toyota Carina with his own team. He continued to run for another few seasons first in a Peugeot 406 before switching again to a Honda Accord but he was never able to repeat his title. He also entered the 1998 Bathurst 1000 with Robb Gravett.

Paula Cook (98-99) Best finish, 9th. The only female driver from the Super Touring era. She raced an independent Honda Accord for her family team and did a respectable job scoring a few points before budget issues forced her team out part way through the 99 season.

Russell Spence (99) Best finish, 8th. Former F3000 driver best known for having his car lifted in a crane with him still in it at the Birmingham Super Prix. Raced for Arena Motorsports in an independent Renault Laguna where his most notable moment saw him crash his car over the catch fence at Oulton Park. He was soon replaced by Will Hoy. Recently he was jailed for fraud.

Fariqe Hairuman (04) Best finish 11th. Malaysian driver clearly hired for his nationality by Proton in their final season. Quite possibly the most incompetent driver of the 2 litre era.


Err...what about Swedish lady driver Nettan Lindgren (89-91) Best finish 1 x 5th place outright and Class Victory but lasted only 3 races and 1 10th place in 2 litre era but long enough to put Jonathan Palmer on her hit-list!

Same issue that is seen with Roland Ratzenberger given the class victory given his 8th outright and a flurry of class victories and class podiums.


I'd say only outright results can allow a driver to escape reject status, so both still qualify as rejects.
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Although it may not happen, Martin Depper will have a chance to un-rejectify himself next year as he is replacing Jeff Smith as Andrew Jordan's team-mate next year.
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1993DonningtonNo1 wrote:Although it may not happen, Martin Depper will have a chance to un-rejectify himself next year as he is replacing Jeff Smith as Andrew Jordan's team-mate next year.


...and it didn't happen and he still hasn't, scored a 5th at Thruxton in 2016 but 2nd best is 9th at Donington in 2015, apologies for reviving a 5 years dormant thread.
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Think I'll take the opportunity to update this thread then. Of my original list from 2013, Ollie Jackson, James Cole and Jack Goff are now unrejectified, the former only doing so at the start of this season by virtue of a 3rd place in the wet-dry Brands race 2. Everyone else on that list left the BTCC as rejects.

Now several drivers escaped reject status this season and I'll list them all below.

As well as Ollie Jackson, Senna Proctor also escaped rejectdom by winning the aforementioned round 2, the other man on the podium, Jake Hill only had the bare requirement of a single 5th and 6th before that race.

Moving on to Donnington, Dan Cammish escaped by finishing 2nd in the first race before Chris Smiley did the same in the second race. Brett Smith also escaped in the first race with a 4th.

The next driver to escape was Matt Simpson when he won the opening Oulton Park race from pole, he had never scored a top ten before 2018. Daniel Lloyd then became the third driver of the season to escape with a victory in the third Croft race.

At Rockingham Mike Bushell finished 6th which along with a 5th at Brands earlier allows him to escape reject status. Finally at Silverstone Ricky Collard escaped with a podium in the first race.

So that was a total of 9 drivers unrectifying themselves this season, now for those that remain rejects.

Rory Butcher Best result 6th x2 - Is the closest to escaping after a very solid season doing the best he can with the knackered old MG. Possibly in my top ten drivers for the season.

Ant Whorton-Eales Best result 6th - A rookie for AmD last season where he showed well against Ollie Jackson and got the teams best result of the season at Silverstone. Sadly he couldn't secure a drive for this season and had to resort to cleaning up in the Mini Challenge. He did get a one off return in the MG thanks to the Jake Hill situation where he managed to grab a top 10.

Tom Oliphant Best result 7th - A decent effort as a rookie, overshadowed of course by fellow Carrera Cup graduate Cammish. Has potential but suffered more than most from dodgy driving from other drivers.

Bobby Thompson Best result 7th - Another rookie struggled with Gilham's circus show. Had a couple of great showings at Snetterton and Rockingham particularly the latter where he drove to 7th from near the back. Elsewhere he was near the back.

Michael Caine Best result 8th - Has been in the series on and off for the past several seasons for Motorbase, then TGR. A firm and anonymous back-marker this season before the money ran out again.

Josh Price Best result 9th - Youngster who struggled for a season and a half with the Subaru with little to show for it before BMR decided to cut his car to focus on Sutton and Plato. Showed well in his TCR UK appearances though.

Glynn Geddie Best result 12th - A rookie for United Autosports token season back in 2014, Geddie had a reasonable season going before getting canned midseason after a DUI incident away from the track. AmD brought him back this season in their 2nd MG after they were blocked from signing Jake Hill by Gilham. He scored a single point before Josh Caygill took over.

Sam Smelt Best result 18th - Came into the BTCC with very little experience but didn't embarrass himself nearly as much as expected. That said, the only driver to run the full season and fail to score.

Ollie Pidgley Best result 20th, Ethan Hammerton Best result 20th, Josh Caygill Best result 21st, Carl Boardley Best result DSQ. All rookies brought in late in season by either TGR or AmD. Touch and go whether any will be back next season.
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If this were a tentenths.com forum, I'd have got a rollicking most likely. Back on subject, what about Grahame Davis with his Rover in 1991?
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Samster wrote:Think I'll take the opportunity to update this thread then. Of my original list from 2013, Ollie Jackson, James Cole and Jack Goff are now unrejectified, the former only doing so at the start of this season by virtue of a 3rd place in the wet-dry Brands race 2. Everyone else on that list left the BTCC as rejects.

Now several drivers escaped reject status this season and I'll list them all below.

As well as Ollie Jackson, Senna Proctor also escaped rejectdom by winning the aforementioned round 2, the other man on the podium, Jake Hill only had the bare requirement of a single 5th and 6th before that race.

Moving on to Donnington, Dan Cammish escaped by finishing 2nd in the first race before Chris Smiley did the same in the second race. Brett Smith also escaped in the first race with a 4th.

The next driver to escape was Matt Simpson when he won the opening Oulton Park race from pole, he had never scored a top ten before 2018. Daniel Lloyd then became the third driver of the season to escape with a victory in the third Croft race.

At Rockingham Mike Bushell finished 6th which along with a 5th at Brands earlier allows him to escape reject status. Finally at Silverstone Ricky Collard escaped with a podium in the first race.

So that was a total of 9 drivers unrectifying themselves this season, now for those that remain rejects.

Rory Butcher Best result 6th x2 - Is the closest to escaping after a very solid season doing the best he can with the knackered old MG. Possibly in my top ten drivers for the season.

Ant Whorton-Eales Best result 6th - A rookie for AmD last season where he showed well against Ollie Jackson and got the teams best result of the season at Silverstone. Sadly he couldn't secure a drive for this season and had to resort to cleaning up in the Mini Challenge. He did get a one off return in the MG thanks to the Jake Hill situation where he managed to grab a top 10.

Tom Oliphant Best result 7th - A decent effort as a rookie, overshadowed of course by fellow Carrera Cup graduate Cammish. Has potential but suffered more than most from dodgy driving from other drivers.

Bobby Thompson Best result 7th - Another rookie struggled with Gilham's circus show. Had a couple of great showings at Snetterton and Rockingham particularly the latter where he drove to 7th from near the back. Elsewhere he was near the back.

Michael Caine Best result 8th - Has been in the series on and off for the past several seasons for Motorbase, then TGR. A firm and anonymous back-marker this season before the money ran out again.

Josh Price Best result 9th - Youngster who struggled for a season and a half with the Subaru with little to show for it before BMR decided to cut his car to focus on Sutton and Plato. Showed well in his TCR UK appearances though.

Glynn Geddie Best result 12th - A rookie for United Autosports token season back in 2014, Geddie had a reasonable season going before getting canned midseason after a DUI incident away from the track. AmD brought him back this season in their 2nd MG after they were blocked from signing Jake Hill by Gilham. He scored a single point before Josh Caygill took over.

Sam Smelt Best result 18th - Came into the BTCC with very little experience but didn't embarrass himself nearly as much as expected. That said, the only driver to run the full season and fail to score.

Ollie Pidgley Best result 20th, Ethan Hammerton Best result 20th, Josh Caygill Best result 21st, Carl Boardley Best result DSQ. All rookies brought in late in season by either TGR or AmD. Touch and go whether any will be back next season.


Well, out of that list, Boardley will be and so will Bobby Thompson as confirmed thus far.
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1993DonningtonNo1Mk2 wrote: 09 Nov 2018, 13:04
Samster wrote:Think I'll take the opportunity to update this thread then. Of my original list from 2013, Ollie Jackson, James Cole and Jack Goff are now unrejectified, the former only doing so at the start of this season by virtue of a 3rd place in the wet-dry Brands race 2. Everyone else on that list left the BTCC as rejects.

Now several drivers escaped reject status this season and I'll list them all below.

As well as Ollie Jackson, Senna Proctor also escaped rejectdom by winning the aforementioned round 2, the other man on the podium, Jake Hill only had the bare requirement of a single 5th and 6th before that race.

Moving on to Donnington, Dan Cammish escaped by finishing 2nd in the first race before Chris Smiley did the same in the second race. Brett Smith also escaped in the first race with a 4th.

The next driver to escape was Matt Simpson when he won the opening Oulton Park race from pole, he had never scored a top ten before 2018. Daniel Lloyd then became the third driver of the season to escape with a victory in the third Croft race.

At Rockingham Mike Bushell finished 6th which along with a 5th at Brands earlier allows him to escape reject status. Finally at Silverstone Ricky Collard escaped with a podium in the first race.

So that was a total of 9 drivers unrectifying themselves this season, now for those that remain rejects.

Rory Butcher Best result 6th x2 - Is the closest to escaping after a very solid season doing the best he can with the knackered old MG. Possibly in my top ten drivers for the season.

Ant Whorton-Eales Best result 6th - A rookie for AmD last season where he showed well against Ollie Jackson and got the teams best result of the season at Silverstone. Sadly he couldn't secure a drive for this season and had to resort to cleaning up in the Mini Challenge. He did get a one off return in the MG thanks to the Jake Hill situation where he managed to grab a top 10.

Tom Oliphant Best result 7th - A decent effort as a rookie, overshadowed of course by fellow Carrera Cup graduate Cammish. Has potential but suffered more than most from dodgy driving from other drivers.

Bobby Thompson Best result 7th - Another rookie struggled with Gilham's circus show. Had a couple of great showings at Snetterton and Rockingham particularly the latter where he drove to 7th from near the back. Elsewhere he was near the back.

Michael Caine Best result 8th - Has been in the series on and off for the past several seasons for Motorbase, then TGR. A firm and anonymous back-marker this season before the money ran out again.

Josh Price Best result 9th - Youngster who struggled for a season and a half with the Subaru with little to show for it before BMR decided to cut his car to focus on Sutton and Plato. Showed well in his TCR UK appearances though.

Glynn Geddie Best result 12th - A rookie for United Autosports token season back in 2014, Geddie had a reasonable season going before getting canned midseason after a DUI incident away from the track. AmD brought him back this season in their 2nd MG after they were blocked from signing Jake Hill by Gilham. He scored a single point before Josh Caygill took over.

Sam Smelt Best result 18th - Came into the BTCC with very little experience but didn't embarrass himself nearly as much as expected. That said, the only driver to run the full season and fail to score.

Ollie Pidgley Best result 20th, Ethan Hammerton Best result 20th, Josh Caygill Best result 21st, Carl Boardley Best result DSQ. All rookies brought in late in season by either TGR or AmD. Touch and go whether any will be back next season.
Well, out of that list, Boardley will be and so will Bobby Thompson as confirmed thus far.
Since then, Rory Butcher, Tom Oliphant and Bobby Thompson have unrejectified themselves.
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BTCC 2023 is about to get underway...

...and already, it's got off to a rather rejectful start for Nick Halstead...
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...just look at his race number!
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Har1MAS1415 wrote: 13 Apr 2023, 11:41 BTCC 2023 is about to get underway...

...and already, it's got off to a rather rejectful start for Nick Halstead...

...just look at his race number!
Yeah, it was so rejectful for Lewis Hamilton in 2008 and Jenson Button in 2009!




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dr-baker wrote: 13 Apr 2023, 16:29
Har1MAS1415 wrote: 13 Apr 2023, 11:41 BTCC 2023 is about to get underway...

...and already, it's got off to a rather rejectful start for Nick Halstead...

...just look at his race number!
Yeah, it was so rejectful for Lewis Hamilton in 2008 and Jenson Button in 2009!




What am I supposed to be thinking?
I should have been more clear. I was referring to the fact that the numbers on the rear window are all cockeyed. They got it right on the other side.
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Har1MAS1415 wrote: 13 Apr 2023, 18:36
dr-baker wrote: 13 Apr 2023, 16:29
Har1MAS1415 wrote: 13 Apr 2023, 11:41 BTCC 2023 is about to get underway...

...and already, it's got off to a rather rejectful start for Nick Halstead...

...just look at his race number!
Yeah, it was so rejectful for Lewis Hamilton in 2008 and Jenson Button in 2009!




What am I supposed to be thinking?
I should have been more clear. I was referring to the fact that the numbers on the rear window are all cockeyed. They got it right on the other side.
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Oh, I did notice that. I just assumed it was stylised or something. But if the number is straight on the other side, than that is a very strange thing indeed!
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dr-baker wrote: 14 Apr 2023, 06:03
Har1MAS1415 wrote: 13 Apr 2023, 18:36
dr-baker wrote: 13 Apr 2023, 16:29

Yeah, it was so rejectful for Lewis Hamilton in 2008 and Jenson Button in 2009!




What am I supposed to be thinking?
I should have been more clear. I was referring to the fact that the numbers on the rear window are all cockeyed. They got it right on the other side.
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Oh, I did notice that. I just assumed it was stylised or something. But if the number is straight on the other side, than that is a very strange thing indeed!
Yes, especially as they managed to arrange the rear window numbers properly on both sides when Halstead stood in for Rick Parfitt Jr at Croft in 2021.
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