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Great racing at Thruxton, none of those complaints about rev limits like we did at the last meeting.
Nice to see Tordoff get his first win of the season, he’s been quite consistent of late. Also good to see Morgan back up there after a difficult season The BMWs were not suited to the circuit, so Colin and AJ did a good job banking points. Good to see Oliphant up there though, even if he had zero ballest compared to his team mates Cook is back on form after a below par meeting at Snett and it’s nice to see Cammish finally break his 2019 duck. With those two winning, the title fight is nowhere near over, which proves the naysayers wrong that it was going to be a Beemer walkover Plato can’t blame the rules if he is the only one to fall foul of this particular rule twice now. Still his R3 drive showed he can race with proper clean racecraft unlike R2. I agree, it was good to see clean racing between Cammish and Collard for the win too. All the drivers did well on that slippery surface towards the end, although it was probably just as well it ended when it did before it really came down. What happened to Chilton though? He seemed to save that slide, then was down outside the top 20 at the finish The Clio race was looking like it was going to end that, glad Young has been punished, there was no need for that driving |
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18 Aug 2019, 19:36 (Ref:3923301) | #103 | |
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the updated standings, Colin lost 6 points to Jordan the whole meeting but the others catch up a lot
Turks 249 Jordan 219 Cammish 215 Cook 211 Butcher 188 Sutton 179 Neal 168 Tingram 165 |
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Either way, that knocks him out of the title battle. Realistically down to Turkington, Jordan, Cammish & Cook now. |
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Juniors & Clios were the highlights of the day. Cracking racing all the way through in both but a shame that they only had one race each on Sunday. It should come as no surprise to anyone that Jack Young has been disqualified from the Clio race. I'd love to hear what he and Coates had to say after that one! F4 was disappointing, they've produced far better racing at Thruxton in the past and the races a couple of weeks ago at Snett were better as well. The Porsches were decent too, especially with the rain arriving just before the start of race 1. You had a few cars gambling on wets at the end of the formation lap, who then carved their way through the field pretty quickly and then dropped back again as the track dried out. Good battle between Harper & Webster in race 2 as well. Supercup was meh. Not enough cars on the grid. I think it's apt that Carl Garnett is sponsored by a company called Telescope. He was so far behind in today's races that the leaders would have needed one to see him. BTCC was so, so. I suppose the third race was the best of the day. I can't believe it's taken Dynamics 21 races to win this year. At least we can say that the right driver from the team won. |
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https://www.touringcartimes.com/2019...ton-penalties/
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18 Aug 2019, 21:26 (Ref:3923328) | #110 | |
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well it does have an advanatge
they don't have to bother about qualy setup , just race setups on all practice and qualy wasn't Cooky the last naughty guy to start from back a few seasons ago ? if i remember it went even furthe rand he had a 1 race ban |
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18 Aug 2019, 21:35 (Ref:3923331) | #111 | |
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3 reprimands is a strike. 3 strikes is a back of the grid. So we’ve got a while yet before we’re invited to a race again with some free tickets I think.
— ‘Strike’ system revision As with previously, some on-track driving offences will continue to receive ‘reprimands’. From 2019, three reprimands will now constitute a ‘Strike’. A Strike will also be automatically applied for a more serious offence; as an example, when a driver is found to be wholly to blame in an incident that causes another driver to be unable to finish the race. In this case the recipient of the Strike will also receive the additional penalty of a minimum 20 seconds added to their race time. The current Strike tally-system remains as is, with a third Strike resulting in a driver being demoted to the back of the grid, a fourth resulting in a race ban and so on. A reprimand or Strike remains recorded against a driver for 12 months, as is currently the case. |
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Worth pointing out the ban is 1 race, not 1 weekend so the team will not field a sub whilst it's being served (if it happened) |
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Not 100% sure but I don't think they are allowed to reverse on the grid. Certainly not when the green flag has been waved at the back and, with the TV coverage delays that JP mentioned, by the time the team saw the pictures it probably would have been too late. They would only have been able to see on the TV like the rest of us as they aren't allowed on the pit wall at the start. |
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I suspect you're right on all counts Johno.
If they're not allowed to reverse (and assuming they are stationery before the lights) then that would be a bit silly in my books. I did notice Dan Cam was (to my eye) a good 2 foot behind the P2 spot for R3. So either it is tricky or he was being particularly cautious bearing in mind JPs punishment. Grids. Grrrr. I prefer our American cousins rolling starts... |
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It is the driver's responsibility to correctly position the car on the grid, no one else's.
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Cue PMR installing a parking cam for JP...
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A tweet during the green flag lap, and then when he gets 1,000 likes he knows he is in position. (it helps as an ego boost at the same time and gives positive reinforcement that he is in the right and everyone else is wrong).
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For the good of TD's sponsors, I'm glad they got the win.
Got excited for a minute about the championship with Cook and Cammish closing in, but then remembered the next event is a BMW/Subaru whitewash. |
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Oliphant qualified in the ten and finished 5th, 4th and 7th, one of his better weekends. Turkington and Jordan had high ballast in qualifying which put them in the mid-field.
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He had a power steering failure, so the fact he was able to get around the lap at all was incredible.
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19 Aug 2019, 12:45 (Ref:3923387) | #122 | |
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Not really. You can't expect the driver to pull up on the dummy grid, get out of the car. Work out the angles to the pit wall with loads of people around and put the tape on the wall all by themselves. It's the responsibility of the team to do that and make sure the car is in exactly the same position on the dummy grid as it will be at the start by getting people out of the way etc. The drivers responsibility is to make sure that they pull into the same position at the starting grid. Of course, in JP's case, if the first bit hasn't been done properly then it's irrelevant what the driver does. Cammish had exactly the same issue earlier in the season.
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Easiest solution is to prevent teams from being able to add an 'artificial' aid for positioning their car.
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