BGT/F3 Silverstone 16/17 Aug

[minimangler]

Is anyone going?

More importantly, can anyone possibly give me a lift on Sunday, from the Rugby area? Maybe Friday, but that's doubtful.

I can't offer monetary exchange, as my last £16 is going on a weekend ticket

I can offer photo prints?

Any help GREATLY appreciated

If not, I'll not go, but if anyone is going through/from Rugby, I'd be grateful beyond belief.

Thanks again, Jake.

[minimangler]

PS: In horndawg tradition...

http://www.britishgt.com/ Official site
http://www.silverstone.co.uk/pdf/tim...S_29_07_08.pdf timetable

[cmk]

Originally Posted by minimangler

PS: In horndawg tradition...

http://www.britishgt.com/ Official site
http://www.silverstone.co.uk/pdf/tim...S_29_07_08.pdf timetable

You're missing the psychedelic rainbow though! Maybe you need to be asking Horndawg for his hook-up?

PS: Am I the only one troubled by the fact that the Brit GT champions were decided in July? It's kind of early to have all the suspense gone out of the series.

[sceptic]

Originally Posted by cmk

PS: Am I the only one troubled by the fact that the Brit GT champions were decided in July? It's kind of early to have all the suspense gone out of the series.

On the surface it would be a concern, however you have to look at the reasons why it happened.

It wasn't like F1 in 2001, where Schumacher was so dominant he couldn't be caught half way through the year, this was purely down to the GT calendar:

A fourteen race championship, of which twelve of those races happen before the end of July and only two happen afterwards.

Hopefully they can come up with something which is more evenly spread through the season next year.

[minimangler]

It's taken the drama from the championship, but not the cars

Looks i'm not going now anyway, gotta work

[minimangler]

Looks like I am going now! But I don't need a lift.

I now can't wait

[airbusA346]

Might be very slightly off topic, but does anybody know why a Tech9 Lambo is for sale in this weeks Autosport magazine??

Tom.

[PorscheFanNo1]

Originally Posted by airbusA346

Might be very slightly off topic, but does anybody know why a Tech9 Lambo is for sale in this weeks Autosport magazine??

Tom.

Cause they want to sell it?

[Aslak Vind]

Originally Posted by PorscheFanNo1

Cause they want to sell it?

[cmk]

Originally Posted by sceptic

On the surface it would be a concern, however you have to look at the reasons why it happened.

It wasn't like F1 in 2001, where Schumacher was so dominant he couldn't be caught half way through the year, this was purely down to the GT calendar:

A fourteen race championship, of which twelve of those races happen before the end of July and only two happen afterwards.

Hopefully they can come up with something which is more evenly spread through the season next year.

That was my point, the scheduling seems to have been accomplished with a lot of logistical sense but little conceptual sense! Having a top-loaded season like that doesn't really seem to make sense to me, especially as it caused a lot of running in rainy spring weather and then has largely ignored the Jul-Sept height of summer.

[AstonGeoff]

Originally Posted by cmk

That was my point, the scheduling seems to have been accomplished with a lot of logistical sense but little conceptual sense! Having a top-loaded season like that doesn't really seem to make sense to me, especially as it caused a lot of running in rainy spring weather and then has largely ignored the Jul-Sept height of summer.

Height of summer? In England?
Rain is forecast for this weekend.....

[airbusA346]

Originally Posted by PorscheFanNo1

Cause they want to sell it?

Yes, I gathered that.

But why... ??

Originally Posted by AstonGeoff

Height of summer? In England?

Rain is forecast for this weekend.....

Have we even had a summer this year??

Tom.

[KA]

Originally Posted by airbusA346

Yes, I gathered that.

But why... ??



.

Think it's the #8 Oliver Morley car- it was reported on DSC a few weeks back that Morley (who owns the car as well as driving it) wasn't happy about the performance balancing in the series and was withdrawing the car

[cmk]

Originally Posted by AstonGeoff

Height of summer? In England?
Rain is forecast for this weekend.....

Hey, we're having an all-time record (well, 150 years, but it's the New World...) for rainfall here this summer, but it's still summer! I realize your fair isle is rather climatologically distinct from this continent, but across the Northern Hemisphere it would be fair to say that the height of summer is from mid-June to mid-August, with more variable weather either side. It's a simple function of where the sun is!

It's great to see the Ascari back this weekend, even if we are still down a Lambo. I'm getting rather tired of seeing so many people in GT3 throw their toys out of the pram whenever they don't win for a few races. I mean, guys, with 20-something cars out there and a limited number of races, not everyone is going to win all of them, especially if the performance balancing is fair. Saying 'boo-hoo, we only won a single race early this season' might provoke a more sensible reaction, like, I dunno, testing and driver coaching? Crazy talk!

[minimangler]

Who is there? I'll see you there tomorrow

I have a bright yellow hedgehog on the end of one of my camera lenses, and black jeans. Say hi, I don't bite!

[mosler lover]

Wel, there was enough sun to give me sunburnt ears. High attrition rate, though. Was that the first time that more Ginettas that GT3s have taken the chequered flag?

[minimangler]

Originally Posted by mosler lover

Wel, there was enough sun to give me sunburnt ears. High attrition rate, though. Was that the first time that more Ginettas that GT3s have taken the chequered flag?

High attrition rate, great racing! I'll have a gallery up at www.racexposure.com in an hour or so

Oh, and the weather was excellente!

[Rikki Cann]

I must say that i was embarrassed at the size of the grids and the amount of finishers in a 2hour race, and why did Silverstone not open the bar up on Saturday night??? there was alot of pivgved off people in the Paddock Saturday night.