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Old 13 Oct 2020, 20:24 (Ref:4010474)   #1
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Old 13 Oct 2020, 22:26 (Ref:4010490)   #2
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Jess Hawkins making her debut in the PMR Astra this time.

TPC with a big rebuild.

Tight end of the season looming with a 6 way scrap for the title. Turkington, Sutton, Cammish Ingram, Butcher and Oliphant. Make or break weekend for Butcher and Oliphant I feel. Cammish and Ingram have hit form just as the RWD cars got pegged back.

Point of note race 3 at croft was pretty dusky, so any timetable delays or bad weather may bring night racing to Snetterton once again. Definitely the case at Brands.
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Old 13 Oct 2020, 23:52 (Ref:4010494)   #3
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tux should be qualifying in the top 3 on the gridtux should be qualifying in the top 3 on the gridtux should be qualifying in the top 3 on the grid
Will they finish the season? Seems we are heading for another full on lockdown at some point in the near future.
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Old 14 Oct 2020, 07:43 (Ref:4010523)   #4
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Point of note race 3 at croft was pretty dusky, so any timetable delays or bad weather may bring night racing to Snetterton once again. Definitely the case at Brands.
Don't forget that the clocks go back that weekend, so it will be darker even earlier. Race 3 starts at 4pm.
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Old 14 Oct 2020, 08:01 (Ref:4010529)   #5
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Don't forget that the clocks go back that weekend, so it will be darker even earlier. Race 3 starts at 4pm.
Dynamics revealed a fluro livery which looks pretty cool!
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Old 14 Oct 2020, 08:09 (Ref:4010533)   #6
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Too soon?
Still drafting the Race Intro - a bit early to confirm some of the details, will get it posted up early next week.
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Old 14 Oct 2020, 09:26 (Ref:4010561)   #7
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Bobby Thompson needs to pass a medical if he is to race

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Old 14 Oct 2020, 09:51 (Ref:4010574)   #8
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Don't forget that the clocks go back that weekend, so it will be darker even earlier. Race 3 starts at 4pm.
cries of joy from the entire support paddock, who will be allowed to leave more than an hour earlier than normal....
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Old 14 Oct 2020, 10:04 (Ref:4010579)   #9
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If it falls behind schedule, they might have to run it night like they used to lol
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Old 14 Oct 2020, 10:17 (Ref:4010581)   #10
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the porsche race on saturday wasn't far off a night race - it started late plus it was very overcast, even for up north in october.
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Old 14 Oct 2020, 14:38 (Ref:4010630)   #11
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Bobby Thompson needs to pass a medical if he is to race

https://www.autosport.com/btcc/news/...-massive-shunt

Standard procedure after an accident like that - Butcher had to have one before Croft
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Old 14 Oct 2020, 15:50 (Ref:4010654)   #12
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last year Cammish took a pair of 2nd places , so he might leave as championship leader into the finale
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Old 14 Oct 2020, 16:39 (Ref:4010664)   #13
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last year Cammish took a pair of 2nd places , so he might leave as championship leader into the finale
But of the last 9 races there, Butcher(1), Turkington(1), Ingram(1) and Sutton(3) have shared 6 of the wins, so we should be in for a good close 3 rounds. I'd also expect Hill and Cook to be right up there too.
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Old 14 Oct 2020, 17:09 (Ref:4010674)   #14
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Will they finish the season? Seems we are heading for another full on lockdown at some point in the near future.
I think if they carry a chef in the car who can cook them a substantial meal on an open stove at 100mph + then so long as only 6 cars are fighting over 1 position then we're OK.

However if one of them has a curly woolly head and says "eh eh calm down!" then there'll be trouble at t"mill.
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Old 14 Oct 2020, 18:41 (Ref:4010700)   #15
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Slightly earlier than I thought it might be, intro is as follows:

The BTCC grid moves to Snetterton next. Another circuit built on the site of a former airfield, Snetterton was one of the circuits that featured in the first BTCC calendar in 1958 as a non-championship round. Class winners that day were:
A-John Sprinzel, B-Les Leston, C-Edgar Wadsworth, D-Tommy Sopwith.

Snetterton underwent extensive redesign ahead of the 2011 season, and the ‘300’ layout came into use by the BTCC from that point onwards. The first time that constructor NGTC cars raced there, Tom Onslow-Cole took the sole RWD podium of the day, with a Civic, Vectra and MG taking the wins that day.

2019 saw Ingram set pole in his Corolla, which was converted to a win in the first race on Sunday. This was the first pole for the new model, as well as second win. The top three from qualifying held position to see the R1 podium reflect the qualifying result. The second race of the day saw BMWs take a 1-3 finish, however the last race of the day went back to a FWD (and in fact Civic) dominance with a Type-R taking all three podium places.
If the first race was seen as processional, the third race was far from it though. Smiley held the initial lead, before Plato took over. Sutton and Plato than battled for a succession of laps and exchanged the lead. Meanwhile Butcher and Cook were moving through the pack from 12th and 15th, and when Butcher joined the leading pair it was 3-wide going into Brundle’s. Contact between the three saw Sutton and Plato lose out and Butcher took the win in what many feel was the race of the season.
Over the course of the day, the Civic Type-R model took six of the nine podiums. This put a dent in the BMW lead of the championship, but Turkington and Jordan remained in the top two places as the teams packed up.

When the series visits for the next meeting, a familiar site from the past will be missing. Snetterton’s ‘Scary Tree’ suffered damage at the start of 2020 and is now just ‘Tree’.


The current table reads:
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1Ash SUTTON261 
2Dan CAMMISH254 
3Colin TURKINGTON249 
4Tom INGRAM232 
5Rory BUTCHER209 
6Tom OLIPHANT207 
7Tom CHILTON174 
8Matt NEAL160 
9Adam MORGAN147 
10Josh COOK146 

With 67 points available over the course of the weekend, it looks like Butcher may be too far back to sustain a title challenge. Ingram will be hoping to make up ground at Snetterton and keep it a realistic 4-way fight going into the last event.
Ingram should be confident though, taking pole and race win in 2019. Hondas locked out the podium in R3 last year too, so will hope for more of the same, although the nature of the circuit meant that a BMW also took a race win – so everyone at the top of the title race can feel they have chance.

The form table in this year’s championship shows that, over the last 9 races the top five drivers are:
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1Dan CAMMISH129  
2Josh COOK114 
3Tom INGRAM109 
4Matt NEAL105 
5Ash SUTTON89 

The form table for the last 6 races at this venue shows top five drivers as (excluding the double points):
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1Dan CAMMISH66 
2 Tom INGRAM62 
3 Josh COOK57 
4Colin TURKINGTON52 
4=Ash SUTTON52 

Paul Rivett will be making his debut in TPC, replacing Gornall, while the team are working hard to get Thompson’s car repaired in time. Jess Hawkins will also be making her debut, piloting the PMR Astra. Onslow-Cole and Bushell have both stated they are not planned to be in the VW CC, so it is anticipated that Brown will be fit to return.

Qualifying is scheduled to be on the ITV Hub at www.itv.com/btcc , with the Sunday coverage starting at 10:05 on ITV4. The full timetable can be found at - https://www.barc.net/wp-content/uplo...Snetterton.pdf



Early weather forecast shows that Saturday is forecast to be 14deg with a 55% chance of rain, cloudy with a little rain in the afternoon.


Sunday 13deg and Cloudy; a little rain in the morning followed by a thunderstorm in the afternoon.
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Old 14 Oct 2020, 18:51 (Ref:4010702)   #16
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you can have a weather forecast that early ? if it's those greasy conditions it's all in favour of Cammish

Turkington must be again that all attack mode otherwise it's game over and Tingram already is in that mode
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55% chance of rain basically means we haven't got a clue, remember
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55% chance of rain basically means we haven't got a clue, remember
Exactly. When the TV weather man says "mixed" then the only thing that's 100% is they have no clue and they're hedging their bets. Where's Michael Fishy Fingers when you need him?
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I thought Michael Fish was no better at predicting the weather after the great storm of 87?
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I know Brits are supposedly a nation that loves to talk about the weather.
Who would have thought that there would be so much concern over a weather forecast?
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half of all british conversation is about the weather. we’ve got a lot of catching up to do here
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not going to be fun for the teams stripping down awnings and packing up in the dark, hope msv bring in some lighting towers for both paddock and pits
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much of the support paddock is usually driving out or nearly ready to go as soon as the last touring car race starts on sunday. there's very few awnings still up at least; you're allowed to bring them down when the second race starts iirc.

the touring car teams usually pack up in the dark anyway...?
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So an amendment to the intro is due.....

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half of all british conversation is about the weather. we’ve got a lot of catching up to do here
That's because every other country has a climate whilst we have weather !
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