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BTCC Rounds 22/23/24 Rockingham 2017
Quick word of warning for anyone going to Rockingham this weekend
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Hopefully Rob Austin will get his first win of the season having gone well here before.
HARD / TAG should be strong too, no reason why Hill & Epps can't fight for podiums. |
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Rockingham is a strange place (although to be fair I've only been there once and visiting in December probably doesn't show it at its best). What's access like at the BTCC meets? Can you get onto the pit garage roof or are you stuck in the grandstands?
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As always at Rockingham all tickets include access to a grandstand seat offering panoramic views of the entire circuit, the pit garage roof and race paddock, which means there are no hidden costs So you're all good there. |
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Bit unfortunate those circumstances
This is gonna be a hard one to pick a winner. It could go anybody's way. Would love to see Jelley doing well on a circuit he has won twice at |
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Its not like Rockingham are short of grandstands!
Personally I hate the place and would not venture there to view. The only decent place to watch is the approach to the hairpin and of course you are not allowed stand or sit there. |
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Great drive by Cole there, well done!
It's so close, that extra half tenth makes all the difference. |
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Great session that because just look at the timings, not so much the positions. We're all in for some close action tomorrow.
Nice driving by Cole there, getting better and better. |
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if Cole can take pole on a suppsoed FWD track you know they have too much advanatge no matter how you take it
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Cole has been improving a lot lately, putting in some impressive performances and did the best job today. You seem to find it hard to give credit to Cole for his drive, if they had too much advantage wouldn't Price be up there too? |
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I think porsche962fan has jumped to a conclusion far too early, but it is quite amusing that after Knockhill people kept saying RWD would be no where at Rockingham and it's actually all fine. Well...lol.
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Not sure what relevance a top speed chart has when discussing lap times? Wouldn't it be better to show a lap time chart?
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Oh right. I was assuming it was all about the driven wheels. I think mr porsche has jumped to a conclusion far too early, but Knockhill was clearly a RWD circuit and we did keep reading that it'll be different at Rockingham. So it does look a little silly when a RWD car is on pole after those comments.
Although it does backup that the Honda is massively pegged back. And I did say that Newshams car was underpowered at Knockhill and I was told I was clearly wrong and it wasn't, yet on that chart it's pretty bad. So yeah, that chart just backs-up the obvious observations from Knockhill. |
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why the heck did TOCA strangel the Hondas so much ? do they really want an all RWD title battle between Sutton and WSR ? because every other FWD car is out of it
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The simple thing about today's qualifying is that the Subaru and BMW carried their ballast better than the Honda. |
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and seems Jack Goff also thinks the Subarus have too much boost
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As I see it there really is not that much between the fastest and the slowest car on that chart.
Go forth and compare the gaps between fastest and slowest in F1 or Nascar for example and they are much much bigger. Cole really does seem to have come on in leaps and bounds. Has he really improved his driving or has he learnt how to get the best from the car? Or indeed both these things? I've been critical of him in the past and am now taking it back. Go on young man, get it on the podium tomorrow morning! |
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Surprised to see how low down the speed trap charts the Subaru is there. I think a bit more respect should be shown to James Cole, he's up there on merit and has closed the gap to Sutton and Plato rather than enjoying an advantage due to boost. As the speed trap data shows on the first page. All credit to him, he seems to have really got a handle on that car.
Top 27 cars covered by less than a second on a pretty long track, looks like TOCA are doing a pretty decent job of equalizing the cars to me. The only anomaly being the Hondas who shouldn't be as low as they are, although the gap isn't as big as their drivers like to make out (as all drivers do I hasten to add). |
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Any predictions for today? I'll guess...
R1 - Sutton R2 - Goff R3 - M. Jackson ....with a podium for HARD |
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