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Old 26 Apr 2017, 15:57 (Ref:3729330)   #76
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That's a rather silly comment, considering that the Lambo has been the best car since the middle of last season.
Let's see what wins the Championship and how the BOP goes .....again
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Old 30 Apr 2017, 14:13 (Ref:3730095)   #77
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Interesting to see what happens regarding the SC driver waving Griffin through to gift him a 30 second + lead on the restart.
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Old 30 Apr 2017, 16:40 (Ref:3730142)   #78
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SRO can't steward races at all. That's two weeks in a row they've completely ballsed it up.
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Old 30 Apr 2017, 17:09 (Ref:3730149)   #79
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They've apparently decided they wrongly gained a 26s advantage, and have adjusted the result, putting them second.

That seems pretty much entirely arbitrary. I've seen a few terrible GT stewarding decisions around safety cars over the last couple of years. That's yet another one.
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Old 30 Apr 2017, 17:15 (Ref:3730150)   #80
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So they gave them a free 30 second gap, and then when the Ferrari slowed down to cruise to the win, they gave them a penalty that puts them behind the restart position? That's mental.
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Old 30 Apr 2017, 18:45 (Ref:3730162)   #81
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There seemed to be a bit of that going and this weekend in gt racing.
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Old 1 May 2017, 00:28 (Ref:3730222)   #82
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Its all very bizarre, even the post race report confuses things further.
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Old 1 May 2017, 09:25 (Ref:3730301)   #83
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Having read the post race report, it seems like madness. The crux of the matter seems to be applying the 5 second penalty while the race is going on, something which I don't remember seeing in the past. Pretty much every series which runs a retrospective time penalty applies it at the end of the race, which would have made this situation trivial. You're leading on track = you're the leader, but not necessarily the winner once penalties have been applied.

The matter of contact between the Ferrari and Bentley seems to have been created/inflated post-hoc to provide justification here - nobody seemed to be complaining about it during the race - the Bentley crew never mentioned it in interviews that I saw. From the perspective of the Ferrari crew, they've been penalised for obeying the clerks orders - a ridiculous state of affairs, and something which, if it happened to me while racing, would cause some seriously heated discussion.

They need to fix this scenario so it can't happen again, while also making sure that they have sufficient discretion (which I think they probably do anyway, but fluffed it) to deal with future situations where the letter of the law would lead to an absurdity.
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Old 1 May 2017, 20:20 (Ref:3730434)   #84
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Having read the post race report, it seems like madness. The crux of the matter seems to be applying the 5 second penalty while the race is going on, something which I don't remember seeing in the past. Pretty much every series which runs a retrospective time penalty applies it at the end of the race, which would have made this situation trivial. You're leading on track = you're the leader, but not necessarily the winner once penalties have been applied.

The matter of contact between the Ferrari and Bentley seems to have been created/inflated post-hoc to provide justification here - nobody seemed to be complaining about it during the race - the Bentley crew never mentioned it in interviews that I saw. From the perspective of the Ferrari crew, they've been penalised for obeying the clerks orders - a ridiculous state of affairs, and something which, if it happened to me while racing, would cause some seriously heated discussion.

They need to fix this scenario so it can't happen again, while also making sure that they have sufficient discretion (which I think they probably do anyway, but fluffed it) to deal with future situations where the letter of the law would lead to an absurdity.

The contact between the Ferrari and the Bentley was being looked into as I know that the team manager of the Bentley team was already up at the CoC argueing about the contact while the safety car was out.
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Old 1 May 2017, 20:51 (Ref:3730436)   #85
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I watched the race and couldn't see the contact. Is there a video of it? And it just happened to be a penalty that puts it less than a second behind the leader? It's all very messed up and not fair for anyone in any way.
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Old 1 May 2017, 21:38 (Ref:3730444)   #86
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Interesting. It would be interesting to see it, i've gone back through the broadcast but don't think it was shown. Still, a very odd situation. CoC and stewards in general have a really tough job at times, and as someone that races things, they'll always have my respect - but sometimes, like this, things really do look poor from the perspective of the casual observer.
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Old 7 May 2017, 10:46 (Ref:3731908)   #88
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After watching the highlights im surprised that they didn't show the contact, afterall the Ferrari had an onboard camera which the tv production made use of.
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Old 16 May 2017, 13:47 (Ref:3733857)   #89
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Having read the post race report, it seems like madness. The crux of the matter seems to be applying the 5 second penalty while the race is going on, something which I don't remember seeing in the past. Pretty much every series which runs a retrospective time penalty applies it at the end of the race, which would have made this situation trivial. You're leading on track = you're the leader, but not necessarily the winner once penalties have been applied.

The matter of contact between the Ferrari and Bentley seems to have been created/inflated post-hoc to provide justification here - nobody seemed to be complaining about it during the race - the Bentley crew never mentioned it in interviews that I saw. From the perspective of the Ferrari crew, they've been penalised for obeying the clerks orders - a ridiculous state of affairs, and something which, if it happened to me while racing, would cause some seriously heated discussion.

They need to fix this scenario so it can't happen again, while also making sure that they have sufficient discretion (which I think they probably do anyway, but fluffed it) to deal with future situations where the letter of the law would lead to an absurdity.
Si why didn't they appeal to the stewards? Imagine the scene Steward to driver " Did you obey the order of an official?" Driver "yes" Steward to race director " Did you issue the order?" Race director " Yes" Appeal upheld...... how could it be anything else?
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Old 28 May 2017, 11:45 (Ref:3736630)   #90
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Another win for Minshaw and Keen. What happened to the Ginetta GT3s?
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Old 28 May 2017, 15:00 (Ref:3736749)   #92
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Another win for Minshaw and Keen. What happened to the Ginetta GT3s?
It would seem AMR 's BOP domination is on the back burner after all these years! Nice to see another car getting the BOP rub of the green for a change
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Old 28 May 2017, 15:07 (Ref:3736753)   #93
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Another win for Minshaw and Keen. What happened to the Ginetta GT3s?
It would seem AMR 's cheque hasn't cleared this year!!!
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Sat in the sun at bombhole did the safety car deployment go to plan?! What a nice change!!!
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Sat in the sun at bombhole did the safety car deployment go to plan?! What a nice change!!!
Was somewhat warm there today wasn't it - makes a change for Snetterton (Bentley Straight overlooking the infield for me). Couple of good races. Roll on Silverstone in a couple of weeks.
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Old 30 May 2017, 08:44 (Ref:3737320)   #96
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How come the Barwell car got a drive through and not a stop and go for the time amount they lost in their pitstop? Is this new for 2017? I am sure in y
the past if a car was 2 seconds short it got a 2 second stop and go ?

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BGT going GT4 only in one or two years' time?
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BGT going GT4 only in one or two years' time?
Some of the participants didn't see a path forward with GT3. However, things can change quickly and next season there could be 15-20 GT3's or just as easily the class could be dropped. The bigger question for me is if the series does indeed drop the class, is this a harbinger of things to come in other series?
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With GT3 cars over half a million and LMP3s under half the price, this isn't a surprise. Richard Dean of United Autosports said it was clear that GT3 was boom and bust. It'd had its boom, and on a national level it was about to have its bust.
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With GT3 cars over half a million and LMP3s under half the price, this isn't a surprise. Richard Dean of United Autosports said it was clear that GT3 was boom and bust. It'd had its boom, and on a national level it was about to have its bust.
That's ok, the FIA series continue to flourish. However you have to worry when a UK series for these wonderful cars can't work when glorified banger racing does so well. Depressing!
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