The BTCC Thread

[marsh]

Thruxton, back again and the only change to the circuit is to Church corner. There's no gravel there, just grass imo. Although they have at least stopped a car from heading off into the woods like they used to.

 

MSV need to buy it up, place is an utter toilet.

[marsh]

And some tyres in front of the barrier often help.....

[ryodi]

Another red flag, Thruxton is a track the BTCC has clearly outgrown.

[wev]

It's amazing neither of those accidents were bigger than they were

[Sureshot]

Red flag in the Clios too, they'll be racing until midnight at this rate...

[Dudley]

They can't, they've got a curfew at (I think) 6pm.  Hence the rushing through these races.

 

The circuit is fine, but the lack of tyres at Church is a bit weird.

[wev]

Do the Ginettas have brake pedals?

[Dudley]

You've got to save some budget somewhere.

[Dudley]

Meanwhile let's all enjoy Formula Jamie Caroline.

[marsh]

No Dudley, it really is a shithole. Almost every other facility they race at has moved on in leaps and bounds in the ten years I've either been to them or seen them on the TV. Except Thruxton, which remains stuck in the dark ages. Even when they try and fix stuff they manage to royally balls it up.

 

I would imagine that the curfew in the village on racing is holding anyone back from investing. I don't want to see it go, but for fucks sake spend some money on it. Snetterton has massive banks built round any area adjacent to the circuit to contain the noise. I'm not a fan of Dr Palmer after feeling that he fouled his way through Justin Wilsons investment shenanigans, but when it comes to the circuits he owns, you cannot fault it.

 

If I'd paid money to go and watch that today, I'd be fucking steaming.

[Dudley]

Nic Hamilton is coming back to the Clio Cup from Oulton.

[SharkyOB]

Great, a famous name trolling around at the back of the field.  At least it's more publicity for what is an amazing series.

 

I really enjoyed the racing at the weekend but mainly because I wasn't watching live, so I could skip the red flags.  The circuit definitely needs some investment and Church is a death trap.

[ryodi]

Oulton Park today and Matt Neil has qualified on pole for race 1.

 

http://www.btcc.net/2017/05/20/matt-neal-at-the-double/

 

Jason Plato is miles behind Ash Sutton again. Even though Subaru is his idea I wouldn't be surprised if he moves teams if this kind of form continues.

 

 

[ryodi]

The BTCC guys kept it relatively clean in race 1 but there are parts flying everywhere in the support races including a heavy accident in the Clio Cup with the car rolling over.

[marsh]

Good action today, Ingram might as well have stayed in bed. Total disaster.

[ryodi]

He does have those weekends more often than the other drivers. I'm surprised Sheddon has gotten away with taking Josh Cook out of the race, Cook didn't brake test him and he just rammed into the back of him taking him out of the race. Lots of talk about driver standards today and for the touring cars at least the track looks very narrow with not much run off if there is an accident. 

[marsh]

Oulton is a bit narrow for those boys to be going round, I did think the last race was going to get red flagged after they re-arranged the tyre barrier again, but it's an msv circuit and not that toilet thruxton so.... 

[Dudley]

Dan Lloyd has walked out on 888/MG.  If they can't replace him by the weekend they could lose their right to run 2 cars.

[marsh]

Tordoff is free, was at the british GT last weekend driving the Lambo. They just need to get anyone with a licence in the car, sort the finer details out later.

[Dudley]

And weirdly they've dragged Josh Cook back from Maximum motorsport.  There's something else going on there because no way would I be swapping the competitive Focus for the ageing MG unless I had to.

 

Maximum can just run Stewart Lines, so that's the TBLs protected.

[marsh]

That is weird, didn't he leave under a bit of a cloud? or am I making shit up....

[Dudley]

Well he left because he didn't have the budget.  And indeed it seems Lloyd has left because he didn't have the budget.

 

 

Given there aren't exactly a billion Josh Cook sponsors on the Ford, I've no idea what the hell is going on here.

[Dudley]

Oh yeah I forgot to share another lovely discovery.

 

The lead of AmD Essex is a bit of a wanker

 

 

 

Who also blindly shares Leave.EU and DailyMail links as the gospel truth.

 

Shame, used to like that team.

[marsh]

Oh dear, grids going to be a bit light after today.....

 

 

Having been overtaken during a quad bike race recently when a red flag was out, some of these wankers need a good talking too. Seems to be fairly common across all disciplines to completely ignore the flags.

[ryodi]

Driving standards have been an issue for a while but that's crazy and it did even show how Luke Davenport's Ford ended up with a huge impact damage on the side of it. Should make the start of the coverage on ITV4 tomorrow interesting.

[marsh]

Still piling in at speed. Appreciate conditions were very poor however that's not acceptable.

[wev]

There's two cars there that have taken massive hits. I presume everyone walked away ok?

[marsh]

Last I heard they were still trying to cut two of them out, though I must stress, all drivers involved were ok.

[marsh]

Latest update is that Luke Davenport and Jeff Smith are still in induced coma, and judging by the list of injuries they've suffered I can't see either one of them getting back in a car this year. That is of course if they pull through from this as it stands. Pretty grim.

[ryodi]

Thanks for the update. Those are horrific injuries which you just never see in BTCC races.