[BTCC] 2024 BTCC Rds. 7/8/9 - Snetterton 25/26 May

[Alfaholic]

Originally Posted by InYourMirrors45

I’ll probably get slaughtered for this but what on earth has happened to the TOCA Package?!

Snetterton just half hour down the road for me so I attend both days every year, but will give today a miss and save some money after yesterday.

The Radicals and Porsche Caymans are absolute garbage. Simply not suitable for a headline event IMO. The F4’s have always been average at best, understandably so as it’s a one make single seater series. The Mini’s just isn’t competitive this year unfortunately. Other than the BTCC Sessions it felt like a glorified club event, it really was dire. I know we lost the presence of Ginetta a season or two ago but they really need to find a suitable replacement for that soon. Think it’s a bit of a cheek that the ticket prices for entry stay the same when the support races are a massive step down in quality and in some cases quantity (aware that’s not the circuits fault) I never thought I’d say it but I was actually bored at a BTCC event yesterday.

You're not wrong about the Caymans and the Radicals - with two different car specs & then splitting both classes into pro & am, it seems like all you need to do in the Caymans is to finish to get a trophy. Having spent both days there this weekend another observation is that if it wasn't for the Donington catch-up races, there would have been a severe lack of racing.
With essentially the same package at Silverstone (just substitute the Porsche Carrera Cup for the Radicals) which is the other event each year I normaly go to for both days, for the first time I'm going to buy a Sunday ticket only and drive up & back on the day.