No ban for Chilton - woohoo!!

[Elaine]

Just received excellent news!! After watching the incident the Stewards have decided that it wasn't Tom's fault and so he hasn't recieved a ban. Well done Tom and good luck for the rest of the season.

[andrew_marsden]

Thats good news - good luck to him for the rest of the season!

[Les]

thank goodness for that

[jase]

Never doubted him for a minute.

[Radisichrox]

Good for him. Although I haven't seen any video footage of the accident, it sounds to me that Chilton should be let off for this occasion.

[rick vaux]

Talking over a pint at Donington, my mate hadn`t heard that Tom could be facing a ban," WHAT THE HELL FOR " he said, " HE DIDN`T DO ANYTHING WRONG ";He saw both incidents at Brands and just couldn`t believe what i was telling him.

So why does it take so long for incidents to be looked at,and judgement made ?????

It beats me...

[andrew_marsden]

well put, IMO Harvey broke a bit early and Chilton wasn't expecting it so it wasn't his fault

[icu_jo]

woooohooooo!! and he's back in the game!

[king_rico]

Good news good news. It would have been stupid if he had recieved a ban for brands. Good decision by the stewards in my opinion.

[RickP:Clio51]

He hit him up the back and punted him off.
I am amazed that anyone here can not consider it Chiltons fault... the rules of the track are pretty clear, if you aren't alongside and can't claim the corner but you gain an advantage by hitting the guy in front you are in the wrong.
Last I heard he'd been banned until June from a usually very reliable source, it would appear therefore there may have been an appeal which would explain the time delay.
RickP

[touringlegend]

Even if he did hit him up the back and punt him off no way was it worthy of a ban. Try and tell me of one Touring Car driver who's never been involved in a situation like that. The whole situations been blown well out of proportion.

[Elaine]

Originally posted by touringlegend
Even if he did hit him up the back and punt him off no way was it worthy of a ban. Try and tell me of one Touring Car driver who's never been involved in a situation like that. The whole situations been blown well out of proportion.

Well said touringlegend - punting people off is a regular occurence in the BTCC, ban one person and you'd have to ban just about everyone. And banning Tom would have been stupid. Tim braked far too early anyway there wasn't a lot Tom could do, it wasn't his fault.

[redshoes]

Originally posted by touringlegend
The whole situations been blown well out of proportion.

Very true. We've done the whole "did he, didn't he" debate in 2 other threads already, lets not start it all over again.

[Minardi fan]

Excellent news.

[touring_car_fan]

It might not have been worthy of a ban, but the problem was he already have 3 endorsements from T-cars, so had he got the endorsement for this he would have been banned. I think it was worth an endorsement and therefore a ban. TH might have braked early, but pugs have more tyre wear than astras and he was on the inside so he had to. TC wouldn't have got round the corner if he hadn't hit him. But i dont want to start that again. Just to let you know he wasn't getting a straight ban. but i cant beleve he has got away with it with no punishment at all. I have seen less worse things get at least disqualification from the race!