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16 Jun 2017, 07:33 (Ref:3742109) | #76 | ||
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He has said all those things but he's never said that's the reason and that's the reason alone. They were set to dominate the season before the COG and ride height changes and they would have affected the team (as they have done) regardless of other problems. |
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16 Jun 2017, 09:34 (Ref:3742129) | #77 | ||
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But given all of the 'problems' the car has, Sutton has managed to get the car up the front and is a genuine title contender.
They have received a boost adjustment, but every other factor mentioned comes across as whinging just to get a free ticket to the front of the grid. Sutton has shown that if the chassis is in good order, then it will only be ability keeping the car back. A lot of things are claimed to be planned over the summer break to fix the problem, ifPlato is not challenging for wins at the next event, then the support within the team must surely come under question? |
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Plato can whine and blame outside factors as much as he likes, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Ash is simply the faster driver. He is without doubt a much better racer, actually being able to overtake efficiently and cleanly. Take Rob Austin at Croft as a case in point. Plato took the whole race and a run to the flag to overtake (and if there was another lap, he wouldn't have passed at turn 1 from there, so things may have played out differently. Perhaps extra boost helped him here). Sutton, with extra ballast, charged up to Plato, drove past him after one lap of tailing him, and proceeded to pass Rob within moments too. There's only one lead driver at BMR, and there's only one with the attitude that could take him reliably to a championship given the competition, and it's not JP. The way I see it, Plato will be heading off come 2018, no doubt without a star driver alongside so that he can take the credit. I don't think that Scott will be happy for Sutton to make way for an ageing driver who has spent half a year repairing a car only to find out that his teammate is simply the championship contender. Even if they could afford to lose Turkington, with Sutton stepping up, he is surely more of an asset, especially in the current circumstances...? |
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16 Jun 2017, 20:22 (Ref:3742320) | #79 | |
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I'm not a Plato fan but some of the things being said on here are just plain stupid. The Plato chassis clearly has defects, unless you believe that Sutton is about half a second a lap up on Turkington too (although for some reason I would imagine the Plato-bashers would disagree with this). Sutton may well be a better driver (I personally think Sutton is the most talented driver on the grid currently), but for Plato to be 0.7-1 sec slower a lap than Sutton compared to 0.2-0.4 sec slower than Turkington last year is not just going to be down to driver talent alone.
As others have also pointed out, the signs at Brands Indy, albeit limited, were that Plato was the top Scooby. |
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Where has the 0.7-1s figure come from. It has previously been claimed that the gap to Sutton was about 0.5s (a figure given by JP himself).
'I now know why there’s a 0.5 second gap between me and Ash'. Is it plausible that Sutton could be 0.1s quicker than Turkington was? |
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17 Jun 2017, 18:14 (Ref:3743091) | #81 | ||
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Looking in more detail at last year, the average qualifying delta overall was 0.25 in favour of Turks (excluding the wet/dry Donington session) - however pre-Oulton it was 0.55s (again excluding Donington) and 0.2s from Oulton onwards, although ballast may have swung this in Plato's favour a bit. The average delta this year (excluding Brands) is 0.55s. That's still a 0.3s difference overall between '16 and '17, although the delta is the same when you just take into account the troublesome start to '16. Perhaps Plato can't drive around problems as easily and isn't as adaptable as other drivers? |
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His problems happen when the car is carrying an issue, which he struggles to understand. This has come across in some of his interviews this year, where the continued strive to find the problem has come across as clutching at straws. I can only imagine what is going on behind the scenes within the team where their headline driver is not getting results, but the team seem unable to provide resource to find or eliminate the problem. |
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I don't see another RWD manufacturer option, so possibly Toyota? If so, I expect a concerted effort to see RWD hampered if he goes back to FWD. That would possibly see the Subara dead in the water as WSR will be FWD soon. Which would pose the question of Warren Scott allowing it to happen if it means he takes away his own competitiveness. |
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Maybe he has lost something. Andy Rouse went on longer than he wanted to and started to lose that pace he once had. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case with Plato, that he's the bit he once had. Or maybe Sutton is driving round the car better
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It would also be a hard sell for Plato to portray it as anything other than a customer team of his biggest rival. |
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As the pinnacle of man – a 49-year-old smoker – maybe Jason could petition for the races to be a few laps shorter.......
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Maximum Motorsport perhaps departing BTCC ?
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Well, say what you will about TCR, but it's a heck of a lot more affordable for some of the smaller BTCC teams, I wouldn't be surprised if a few made the transition. Lower level or not, the TCR could represent better value for money for teams which could be bad news for BTCC I get the TCR UK guys say they don't want to compete, but I can't help but feel it's going to happen wether they wish or not. The market will dictate that one |
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They could just let Team Parker take over the car fully, it would be easier
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If the car is cheaper, great, but if the exposure for sponsors is lower, then perhaps not. Companies sponsor in the BTCC because of the exposure it provides for the money spent. Car cost is one element. |
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A lot of it depends on what kind of TV package is TCR going to get, if any at all?
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I don't see TCR being on TV other than maybe than motorsport.tv. But streaming is an easy option. |
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