BTCC Donington Park round 25,26,27

skells22 · 11 Sep 2010, 19:04 (Ref:2757768)

I have some driver news to say about. James Kaye is back for this and the Brands Hatch Indy round for next weekend.

Last2LiftOff · 11 Sep 2010, 19:10 (Ref:2757770)

Oh, there we are, a Donington BTCC thread. Hmm, looking forward to it.

skells22 · 11 Sep 2010, 19:42 (Ref:2757778)

any other cars joining or re-joining the fray? I glad we did not have to find a replacement round for this and ITV4 is happy as well. I get to see the changes on TV. can i have a time table for the event please?

mattt · 11 Sep 2010, 19:44 (Ref:2757779)

Timetable

skells22 · 11 Sep 2010, 20:43 (Ref:2757802)

thank you Matt.

Alfa Fan · 11 Sep 2010, 22:57 (Ref:2757837)

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Originally Posted by skells22

any other cars joining or re-joining the fray? I glad we did not have to find a replacement round for this and ITV4 is happy as well. I get to see the changes on TV. can i have a time table for the event please?

We'll have the usual suspects..

2 RML Chevrolet (Plato & McDowall)
2 Dynamics Honda (Neal & Shedden)
2 Motorbase BMW (Jackson & Kane)
2 WSR BMW (Collard & Neate)
2 888 Vauxhall (Nash & TBA(quite a few potentials, the car WILL be out I hear))
2 Arena Ford (Chilton & Onslow-Cole)
2 Special Tuning SEAT (Boardman & Glew)
1 Boulevard Vauxhall (Johnson)
1 Techspeed Honda (George) + possibly O'Neill
2 Forster BMW (Forster & Depper)
1 Central Group Honda (Wood)
1 Pinkney Vauxhall (Pinkney)
1 Jordan Vauxhall (Jordan)
1 AmD Volkswagen (Hollamby)
1 Barwell Honda (Kaye)

So back up to 21-23 cars for Donington which should be good

gregc · 16 Sep 2010, 23:33 (Ref:2760646)

From facebook it looks like Owy should be there.

This makes me very happy

Icebaby · 17 Sep 2010, 18:50 (Ref:2760991)

If Paul O'Neill asked for a fiver off everyone he signed an autograpgh for, firstly most would pay and secondly it should keep him in the series

, Great to hear he will be back.

Last2LiftOff · 19 Sep 2010, 14:50 (Ref:2761536)

Well that was a whole lot of fun (Race 2). Applause all round, esp. Plato and Onslow-Cole to name only two.

Race 3 17:05

d.rocky · 19 Sep 2010, 16:32 (Ref:2761569)

so glad btcc is back at donington!
been watching itv4 all day.
Macdowell was pretty lucky to not end up having a huge shunt... race 3 is another good one!
C'mon Plato and O'neil!!!

d.rocky · 19 Sep 2010, 16:40 (Ref:2761572)

how scary did plato's eyes look driving back to the pits at the end!
great race!
shame Jordan couldnt have finished higher up after starting P1.

Urgentemente · 19 Sep 2010, 17:33 (Ref:2761587)

Anyone know what happened to Owy's Integra in race 3, commentators said he had to come into the pits and it showed +5 laps on the final results. With the coverage mainly focussing on the lead battles I don't think it showed him disappearing.

Craner Curves · 19 Sep 2010, 20:02 (Ref:2761636)

Best races of the season today, glad to see Donington back. My only complaints were the silly amount of time we lost in race one when O'Neill's car was being retrieved and the hurried safety car in race two which wasn't needed at all. I'm sure the first one was due to the circuit not having any rescue vehicles stationed round there, something that can be forgiven with the rush they had to get the place ready.

All set up nicely for Brands isn't it.

medius · 19 Sep 2010, 21:30 (Ref:2761675)

Got back from Donington a while ago, the place is nearly the same as it was for BTCC last May. Not a bad thing but its clear where the place can be improved for coming years. And there was a decent crowd too, similar numbers to last year.

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Originally Posted by Urgentemente

Anyone know what happened to Owy's Integra in race 3, commentators said he had to come into the pits and it showed +5 laps on the final results. With the coverage mainly focussing on the lead battles I don't think it showed him disappearing.

Alan Hyde tried to get an interview during the race, but Owy kept his helmet on, so I'm guessing he wasn't amused by whatever it was.

dyewat808 · 19 Sep 2010, 21:42 (Ref:2761680)

Yeah, the best racing of the season, and great its happened at Donington.

In terms of number of people who could become champion, isn't this officially the closest championship ever or something I seem to remember the commentators saying?

Bring on Brands!

99hjhm · 19 Sep 2010, 21:49 (Ref:2761683)

Fantastic racing today, so glad racing is back at Donington.

Urgentemente · 19 Sep 2010, 21:51 (Ref:2761688)

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Originally Posted by medius

Alan Hyde tried to get an interview during the race, but Owy kept his helmet on, so I'm guessing he wasn't amused by whatever it was.

Cheers for that medius, wasn't aware of it. I wonder if he got hit again, or it was 'just' car failure.

Poor Owy had a pretty grim weekend all things considered, especially after the efforts in the last 2 weeks to get the funds together just to make it to Donny. He looked understandably p!ssed off in race 1 when he was at the side of the track for ages, just hope they can get to Brands to end the season, fingers crossed.

TWRv12 · 19 Sep 2010, 23:39 (Ref:2761713)

Race one, looked like Plato sent Neal sideways into the chicane, then crash, bang, wallop!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjChl4EmFn4

davyboy · 20 Sep 2010, 08:24 (Ref:2761786)

Fantastic race weekend... I thoroughly enjoyed that. Scintillating 'Soperesque' drive by Plato.

safc_fan89 · 20 Sep 2010, 09:55 (Ref:2761805)

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Originally Posted by TWRv12

Race one, looked like Plato sent Neal sideways into the chicane, then crash, bang, wallop!

It was quite funny to listen to him being interviewed on ITV4 afterwards, the closest you will ever get to hearing him say he was to blame.

redshoes · 20 Sep 2010, 17:13 (Ref:2762036)

There was no radio coverage at Donington and I was struggling to hear the PA system so not entirely sure what happened during the day. To cap it all my Sky+ box failed to record to I'll need to wait for the highlights show.

However I have to say that drive of the day for me has to be Plato in race two. From third last to third overall could well be a championship winning (or at least championship saving) drive.

Icebaby · 20 Sep 2010, 21:28 (Ref:2762165)

12 hrs coverage for Brands so the Honda Racing Drivers can list all their sponsers when being interviewed, what a mess that car looks.

Plato's title to lose now, more games being played by TOC in race 1 to help Chilton it seemed, crazy tactics.

If Im right Chilton has only beaten a teamate once in his BTCC career that being Arron Slight in 2002.

Great to have Donnington back, shame about O'Neill but at least he made it out.

Hazard · 21 Sep 2010, 20:21 (Ref:2762700)

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Originally Posted by Icebaby

12 hrs coverage for Brands so the Honda Racing Drivers can list all their sponsers when being interviewed, what a mess that car looks.

Plato's title to lose now, more games being played by TOC in race 1 to help Chilton it seemed, crazy tactics.

If Im right Chilton has only beaten a teamate once in his BTCC career that being Arron Slight in 2002.

Great to have Donnington back, shame about O'Neill but at least he made it out.

You're wrong. Slight was 13th in the standings, Chilton 15th

However, Chilton did finish ahead of Gavin Smith in 2006, but was behind Giovanardi of course at Vauxhall - and it's fair to say he was outperforming Alan Morrison in the first half of last year before Arena swapped him out for Tom Onslow-Cole.

davyboy · 21 Sep 2010, 20:45 (Ref:2762715)

Well whatever the situation with Chilton, and I'm not a fan of his by the way, he's put two front running cars on the grid this year, run very professionaly by Mike Earle, and given TOC a season's racing he probably wouldn't have had otherwise.

Icebaby · 22 Sep 2010, 20:22 (Ref:2763234)

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Originally Posted by davyboy

Well whatever the situation with Chilton, and I'm not a fan of his by the way, he's put two front running cars on the grid this year, run very professionaly by Mike Earle, and given TOC a season's racing he probably wouldn't have had otherwise.

A valid point although the team is their for Chilton so there must be a few long faces in the Chilton camp when Onslow Cole wipes the floor and ends up as the driver in with a shot of title, could we see next year a much lower caliber driver in as a team mate to Chilton to cover this senario off again.

I still think their will be game played at Brands to ensure Chilton finishes as high up as possible to the determent of Tom OC.

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