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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!
I can just see Marcos itching to get into it & race his old mates again! . |
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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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Go for it.
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25 Oct 2011, 08:45 (Ref:2976414) | #9 | |
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i really fail to see how ever of those rate as a better tin top driver
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25 Oct 2011, 09:00 (Ref:2976418) | #11 | |
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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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25 Oct 2011, 09:58 (Ref:2976437) | #13 | ||
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maybe better to pack a spare car for Texas
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25 Oct 2011, 10:44 (Ref:2976449) | #15 | ||
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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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I'd love a Nascar vs IndyCar vs ALMS vs Grand-Am drivers fight on V8s.
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Please no... Everyone says we have the best touring cars in the world - prove it on the international stage without a crashfest...
Or without the predictable co-drivers then main drivers "strategy" - boring. |
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26 Oct 2011, 02:52 (Ref:2976880) | #21 | |
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you put some yankie stars in guaranteed a crowd and tv audience over there... smart move to make it viable first time round..
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26 Oct 2011, 06:29 (Ref:2976896) | #23 | |
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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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26 Oct 2011, 07:11 (Ref:2976908) | #24 | |
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We may be talking about the wet race at the Farm in early-73 that featured on "Late Night Legends" a few years back. Gardner was racing his older Camaro, Moffat was in it in the Coke Mustang, John Harvey in the Jane XU1 Sports Sedan, Pete in the Super Falcon...
That car then, i think, was driven by Martin Thomas in that years British Saloon Car Championship, while Gardner stepped into his newer Camaro. As for Gardner's career, to say he spent most of his time in open-wheelers is laughable |
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