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24 Oct 2011, 22:15 (Ref:2976275) | #1 | ||
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co-driver format for Texas, USA race
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I think that would be the best thing they can do! Only this time also grab drivers from Nascar (if they have a free weekend, or night race)........& relax the 'drive thru' penalties for bump & run. Result would be a spectacle the locals would go nuts for. Kinda like IROC on acid!
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that's all well and good for teams that have 500 chassis sitting in their sheds like NASCAR teams do. Avoiding the BTCC at all costs would be good. The result would actually be carnage, a ruined championship tilt or 2, and a few very angry team owners...
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25 Oct 2011, 05:13 (Ref:2976376) | #4 | ||
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It's a pity the France family choose DTM to 'Americanise' rather than V8's. You could then have drivers who understand the demands of the V8 discipline ready for an annual Australian-American clash -- perhaps as a non-championship cash bounty event. Last edited by Paradise City; 26 Oct 2011 at 11:22. |
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As for turning into a crash fest, I wouldn't worry too much as the top Sprint Cup drivers these days are rather respectable road course drivers. |
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25 Oct 2011, 08:45 (Ref:2976414) | #15 | |
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i really fail to see how ever of those rate as a better tin top driver
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thats true, but frank spent most of his career as an open wheeler, so you can hardly claim him as one of the best tin top racers to come out of australia
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maybe better to pack a spare car for Texas
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Certainly Frank did a lot of races in open wheelers and sports cars but his "tin top" wins included 3 British Touring car championships (Falcon Sprint, Escort and Camaro), a second at Bathurst, The Australian Sports Sedan championship at a time when it was at least the equal in importance with the Touring cars, He also set up and drove for the BMW team in Australia, sorted and prepared the Tony Longhurst Bathurst Sierra. About the only thing he did wrong was getting Paul Morris started in racing Edit: The Sports Sedan was a Chev Corvair which was probably what you saw at the farm Blue, although he may have run a Camaro at some stage. Last edited by Oldtony; 25 Oct 2011 at 10:48. Reason: Add Corvair |
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Tony, I think it was a Camaro. Frank was racing in the UK at the time and he brought the car downunder. I did read later that it wasn't his current BTCC Camaro but rather his previous machine that he brought out of mothballs.
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Franks greatest success in the UK and Europe came late later in his career as a tin top driver rather than in single seaters where he was a fill in or drove for private more often than works teams.
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