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28 Feb 2005, 19:51 (Ref:1238315) | #1 | ||
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BTCC Night races
Does anybody know if there are gonna be any more of these races?
They were an awesome spectacle, but hopefully not gone forever |
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28 Feb 2005, 20:04 (Ref:1238323) | #2 | ||
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At present I would say no, but you never know it maybe repeated one day. I never made a night race but I was at the early evening race at Snetterton in 2003 and that was a fantastic spectable.
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28 Feb 2005, 20:48 (Ref:1238372) | #3 | ||
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Don't forgt the EERC Britcar 24hr race at Silverstone in September - A huge grid with a wide mixture of saloons.
BTCC needs the live TV coverage, and night races don't work live - head on headlights in the camera shot for 30mins doesn't give good coverage. Shame, as the Snetterton & Silverstone races in the super-tourer days were great fun to marshal in the pit lane. Al. |
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28 Feb 2005, 21:20 (Ref:1238394) | #5 | ||
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I don't think there will be anymore in the near future as it was so expensive to put on.The light gantries used at Snet were something like £80,000 to hire. Pity really. I marshalled at all the Snet night races as well as the evening race in 2003. The first one in 1999 was the best, the atmosphere was like a GP. But I shall never forget the 2001 race. I was at Corum when Dan Eaves went in the tyre wall. That was the scariest time I've ever had marshalling what with Collard and Muller just missing his Peugeot.
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1 Mar 2005, 23:14 (Ref:1239528) | #6 | ||
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Ah yes I remember that year well. I was at Russells but on the outside post and we had Rob Collard for company. Yvan's driving and recovery from that near incident was incredible! Yep I enjoyed that night race. All I remember about the following year was that it was very very late and we got wet! And the starting lights failed I believe and they had to use a flag, in the dark!!
24hour 2cv race is a good event though. Last edited by manicmarshal; 1 Mar 2005 at 23:16. Reason: spelling mistake - whoops! |
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2 Mar 2005, 07:47 (Ref:1239736) | #7 | ||
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I can't see the night races returning in the near future, partly because of costs, but also because of the problems caused by the regs requiring drivers to have a qualifying session in the dark. I know Britcar have got around this by running qualifying immediately before the race, but \i'm not sure that would work for the touring boys.
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