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I'm not convinced by the conspiracy theory but it does seem that the consistency levels vary depending on the championship!
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Even if the huge conspiracy theory was true, what answer would you expect from Alan Gow?!
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The thing is he hasn't told us what excuse, sorry reason, the officials gave for overturning the penalty.
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ITV just showed the footage
Plato was at least over a car lengh behind Austin, noway near to launch a torpedo dive.... footage speaks for itself |
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Notably there's no mention of conspiracy or complaints about the ruling (and methods) in the paddock.
Perhaps that's because the same process is available to everyone, and perhaps they've benefitted from it in the past? |
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Plato up his dirty tricks again on Shedden
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Great race, Turkington a true champion without TOCA favoritism ..
good race for Menu, his best result this season , glimpses of the old GIO back !!! and rather dissster for all Hondas... |
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The Plato/Shedden incident looked to me as a racing incident, unlike everything done by Rob Austin. Jack Goff drove a mighty defensive drive in the end.
Plato, however, is talking crap right now to Steve... |
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i think we might need to say bye to Lea woods car after that as his car has a lot of damage after hitting Warren Scotts car which triggered the safety car
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something else
I think this was the 1st race GIO beat Jackson on pure speed alone |
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Good to see the Fords finally on equal or similar pace - maybe a little bit rougher between teammates than the team would suggest was ideal, but it made for great viewing.
Shedden didn't seem to see it that way, all but taking responsibility in the post race interview. And as possibly second-greatest BTCC moaner (to Mr Plato, obviously) I'm sure he'd have had something to say if he felt wronged. I was disappointed to hear another RWD advantage moan from Plato, though. It's evident that the BMW at least is very fast, but so is Mr Turkington. Despite consistently being at the front of the grid in terms of qualifying, success ballast or not, I'd like to believe that if there was a need to 'peg back' the BMW's performance then it would have been dealt with officially. Side note: interesting that the officials can be trusted to decide that the BMW doesn't need to be penalised, but not on matters pertaining to a Mr Plato... Anyway. First race good, great mid-field battling as ever, and nice to see Giovanardi back up to speed. Would love to see what actually happened with Lea Wood to cause him to come at T2 backwards. |
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TOCA must be happy, the Hondas totally out of the picture thanks to base boost
and great driving for Turks BTW shouldn't MG slapped with LESS boost ? |
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That Porsche race was just bizarre!
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great result for Austin and Menu !!!
and Turks further outscoring Plato rather sterile race 3 with not that much passing utter disaster for Dynamics, they were the big loser this weekend |
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7 Sep 2014, 16:49 (Ref:3451059) | #46 | |
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in Plato's defense I must say that Louise was provoking him to moan about RWD..
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done the maths,
Turks extended his lead from 23 to a whooping 55 points now if Turks can further extended his lead to 82 points at the end of Silverstone he can be crowned right there champion , realistically 75 points would be perfectly enough to just cruise in race 1 Brands in a top 10 finish as for Shedden unless he gets a real boost increase his title hopes are over seems EBAY will outdo even Honda racing by wining 4 of the titles instead of just 3 .. - driver titles - teams titles (this one is really certain) - indy driver - indy team http://www.tsl-timing.com/toca/2014/143603ptstrg.pdf BTW is it just me or is Matt Neal a shadow of his former self from back of 2011-2012 ??? even today he had 0 ballast and Shedden with 36 kg still did a much better job ? it's pattern since 2-3 years now with him maybe he got old, his motivation is gone or a combination of this factors , Last edited by porsche962fan; 7 Sep 2014 at 19:40. |
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Three great drives by Colin this weekend and thanks to that he should have championship in the bag by the end of Silverstone.
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7 Sep 2014, 20:36 (Ref:3451108) | #50 | |
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Me and other people have been saying that about Neal for a while. Whilst it is surprising in some ways, Neal's career is one of the most illustrious in touring cars, and Knockhill proved he still has it in him to win. Whilst he may no longer be a title contender, he will almost certainly be remembered as one of the greatest touring car drivers of his generation, if not ever.
He's been (literally) a giant of the sport for a while now, and maybe with the likes of Turks returning, AJ winning, and Ingram, Smith, etc rising up, it's about time we saw new faces right up front! |
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