BTCC Silverstone Weekend Thread

Hazard · 17 Sep 2005, 10:05 (Ref:1409824)

Vauxhall's looking slow...

Howell again the fastest Dynamic.

First Practice
1 - James Pickford - Seat Sport UK - Seat Toledo Cupra - 1:00.704
2 - Rob Collard - West Surrey Racing - Mg Zs - 1:00.803
3 - Gareth Howell - Team Dynamics - Honda Integra - 1:00.882
4 - Tom Chilton - Arena Motorsport - Honda Civic Type-R - 1:00.883
5 - Matt Neal - Team Dynamics - Honda Integra - 1:00.888
6 - Jason Plato - Seat Sport UK - Seat Toledo Cupra - 1:00.990
7 - Dan Eaves - Team Dynamics - Honda Integra - 1:01.001
8 - Colin Turkington - VX Racing - Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch - 1:01.008
9 - Gavin Smith - VX Racing - Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch - 1:01.012
10 - Yvan Muller - VX Racing - Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch - 1:01.123
11 - Luke Hines - Seat Sport UK - Seat Toledo Cupra - 1:01.131
12 - James Kaye - Synchro Motorsport - Honda Civic Type-R - 1:01.362
13 - Richard Williams - HPI Racing - Lexus Is200 - 1:03.090
14 - Mark Proctor - Fast-Tec Motorsport - Vauxhall Astra Coupe - 1:03.194
15 - Ian Curley - HPI Racing - Lexus Is200 - 1:03.652
16 - Fiona Leggate - Tech-Speed - Vauxhall Astra Coupe - 1:04.350

**Dani Filth** · 17 Sep 2005, 13:30 (Ref:1409927)

16 cars ?? ?? . at least the top 12 are within .6 of a second

Hazard · 17 Sep 2005, 13:42 (Ref:1409934)

16 cars...one less than last time (No Jason Hughes/Kartworld Racing)

Free Practice 2
1 - Tom Chilton - Arena Motorsport - Honda Civic Type-R - 1:00.590
2 - Gareth Howell - Team Dynamics - Honda Integra Type-R - 1:00.607
3 - Dan Eaves - Team Dynamics - Honda Integra Type-R - 1:00.703
4 - Jason Plato - Seat Sport UK - Seat Toledo Cupra - 1:00.828
5 - Rob Collard - West Surrey Racing - MG ZS - 1:00.838
6 - Matt Neal - Team Dynamics - Honda Integra Type-R - 1:00.875
7 - James Pickford - Seat Sport UK - Seat Toledo Cupra - 1:00.892
8 - James Kaye - Synchro Motorsport - Honda Civic Type-R - 1:00.951
9 - Colin Turkington - VX Racing - Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch - 1:00.969
10 - Yvan Muller - VX Racing - Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch - 1:01.010
11 - Luke Hines - Seat Sport UK - Seat Toledo Cupra - 1:01.080
12 - Gavin Smith - VX Racing - Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch - 1:01.246
13 - Fiona Leggate - Tech-Speed - Vauxhall Astra Coupe - 1:02.529
14 - Mark Proctor - Fast-Tec - Vauxhall Astra Coupe - 1:02.978
15 - Richard Williams - HPI Racing - Lexus IS200 - 1:03.403
16 - Ian Curley - HPI Racing - Lexus IS200 - 1:03.417

Hazard · 17 Sep 2005, 15:08 (Ref:1409961)

Howell takes pole! Top two championship men right in the pack

Qualifying
1 - Gareth Howell - Team Dynamics - Honda Integra - 1:00.270
2 - Tom Chilton - Arena Motorsport - Honda Civic Type-R - 1:00.538
3 - Dan Eaves - Team Dynamics - Honda Integra - 1:00.542
4 - James Pickford - Seat Sport UK - Seat Toledo Cupra - 1:00.554
5 - Colin Turkington - VX Racing - Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch - 1:00.565
6 - Matt Neal - Team Dynamics - Honda Integra - 1:00.582
7 - Jason Plato - Seat Sport UK - Seat Toledo Cupra - 1:00.677
8 - Yvan Muller - VX Racing - Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch - 1:00.710
9 - Rob Collard - West Surrey Racing - Mg Zs - 1:00.741
10 - Luke Hines - Seat Sport UK - Seat Toledo Cupra - 1:00.876
11 - Gavin Smith - VX Racing - Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch - 1:01.022
12 - James Kaye - Synchro Motorsport - Honda Civic Type-R - 1:01.105
13 - Fiona Leggate - Tech-Speed - Vauxhall Astra Coupe - 1:02.054
14 - Mark Proctor - Fast-Tec - Vauxhall Astra Coupe - 1:02.230
15 - Ian Curley - HPI Racing - Lexus Is200 - 1:03.111
16 - Richard Williams - HPI Racing - Lexus Is200 - 1:03.287

**touringlegend** · 17 Sep 2005, 15:27 (Ref:1409968)

At least I predicted Howell on pole, the points will be rolling in this weekend for me!

Hazard · 17 Sep 2005, 15:40 (Ref:1409971)

Well, here's hoping he's got to take a ten place penalty as well then!

BootsOntheSide · 17 Sep 2005, 16:35 (Ref:1409992)

This is definitely a Hodna circuit, but a great effort by Gareth to upstage the regulars. Let's hope he's out there full-time next year.

Hazard · 18 Sep 2005, 10:34 (Ref:1410307)

Race One Result
1 - Tom Chilton - Arena Motorsport - Honda Civic Type-R - 25:26.083
2 - James Pickford - Seat Sport UK - Seat Toledo Cupra - 1.505
3 - Jason Plato - Seat Sport UK - Seat Toledo Cupra - 3.378
4 - Yvan Muller - VX Racing - Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch - 6.691
5 - Gareth Howell - Team Dynamics - Honda Integra - 7.259
6 - Luke Hines - Seat Sport UK - Seat Toledo Cupra - 9.571
7 - Colin Turkington - VX Racing - Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch - 10.011
8 - James Kaye - Synchro Motorsport - Honda Civic Type-R - 11.21
9 - Matt Neal - Team Dynamics - Honda Integra - 13.283
10 - Rob Collard - West Surrey Racing - Mg Zs - 13.493
11 - Gavin Smith - VX Racing - Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch - 13.976
12 - Richard Williams - HPI Racing - Lexus Is200 - 41.111
13 - Fiona Leggate - Tech-Speed - Vauxhall Astra Coupe - 53.156
14 - Ian Curley - HPI Racing - Lexus Is200 - 53.995
DNF - Mark Proctor - Fast-Tec - Vauxhall Astra Coupe - Mechanical
DNF - Dan Eaves - Team Dynamics - Honda Integra - Accident

Points gap between Neal & Muller now down to 24pts.

Good race by Chilton - Seat with a surprisingly fast race pace.

Matt Neal's playing it a bit too safe maybe.

**Dani Filth** · 18 Sep 2005, 12:13 (Ref:1410383)

first . very good racing in Porsche Cup and FRenault .

Race 1 was good . glad that Muller recovered some points

**touringlegend** · 18 Sep 2005, 12:36 (Ref:1410408)

It was a pretty clean race that one, no outrageous moves at all. Let's hope SEAT can keep this up, I really want them to overtake Vauxhall and get the manifacturers trophy.

**Dani Filth** · 18 Sep 2005, 13:46 (Ref:1410516)

action packed just as i change the channel .
Chilton spun .
Plato . again

**Dani Filth** · 18 Sep 2005, 13:51 (Ref:1410521)

Neal in plenty of contacts ,. and spun with help from Collard .. way down the field now .
Muller should be pleased

**Dani Filth** · 18 Sep 2005, 13:54 (Ref:1410523)

NOOOOOOOOOOO .. not again

Muller out

Hazard · 18 Sep 2005, 14:07 (Ref:1410537)

Insane race!

Plato still driving as poorly as ever. Unlucky for...well, pretty much everyone! Straight panel count starts now.

Why's Proctor so worried about getting pole? He's shedding indie points out to Leggate, as she takes 6th.

Neal now leads by 30 points from Muller. It's not likely now he can wrap the title up today, but he'll be leaving Muller with an impossible job to do at Brands.

Hazard · 18 Sep 2005, 14:08 (Ref:1410540)

And Chilton! A 3 point turn on a straight in motion, incredible!

Hazard · 18 Sep 2005, 14:32 (Ref:1410584)

FINALLY!

Plato has been excluded from race two - given a 4 point endorsement and awarded a 6 place grid penalty for Brands Hatch.

Win is therefore given to Luke Hines, with Smith 2nd, Eaves 3rd.

Collard inherits pole(?)

Neal extends lead to 32 points over Yvan

maximus · 18 Sep 2005, 14:55 (Ref:1410612)

Its the right decision. Platos move was bang out of order.

There were so many stupid collisions in that race, Hines made one, Collard, Plato. It needs to be sorted, its disgusting.

Hazard · 18 Sep 2005, 15:28 (Ref:1410642)

Excellent win for Howell in race three.

Just competed in two meetings this year and has outshone team mates Neal & Eaves in both of them IMO.

Hazard · 18 Sep 2005, 15:47 (Ref:1410657)

Championship Standings

Matt Neal - 291
Yvan Muller - 261
Dan Eaves - 238
Jason Plato - 182
Tom Chilton - 175
Colin Turkington - 165
Rob Collard - 154
James Pickford - 97
Luke Hines - 83
Gavin Smith - 63
James Kaye - 46
Gareth Howell - 40
Jason Hughes - 15
Mark Proctor - 13
Richard Williams - 12
Fiona Leggate - 11
Ian Curley - 3

Silk Cut Jaguar · 18 Sep 2005, 16:37 (Ref:1410683)

Quote:

Originally Posted by maximus

Its the right decision. Platos move was bang out of order.

There were so many stupid collisions in that race, Hines made one, Collard, Plato. It needs to be sorted, its disgusting.

Agree completely. The racing just isn't entertaining any more when a lot of the results come down to who hits hardest, it's just frustrating seeing drivers get punted every other lap.

BootsOntheSide · 18 Sep 2005, 17:02 (Ref:1410699)

Not sure if Plato's move was deliberate, but he still deserved to be penalised. ITV should be penalised for their shoddy coverage of race 2 - Howell's engine failure wasn't shown (although they referred to it about 6 times during race 3), and the fact that Hines inherited the race 2 win wasn't mentioned until race 3.

maximus · 18 Sep 2005, 17:06 (Ref:1410703)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silk Cut Jaguar

Agree completely. The racing just isn't entertaining any more when a lot of the results come down to who hits hardest, it's just frustrating seeing drivers get punted every other lap.

I love the BTCC and I used to defend it to the hilt, but this years making it hard for me to do so.

To be fair though, Race 3 was clean today.

Super Tourer · 18 Sep 2005, 17:49 (Ref:1410740)

Good call by TOCA - and very timely.

JP doesn't need to pull these moves. he drove beautifully last year - Thruxton 04 he held off Muller for lap after lap to score SEAT's first win, etc. It's a shame to see him involved in so much overt contact.

Alfa Fan · 18 Sep 2005, 17:54 (Ref:1410745)

Quote:

Originally Posted by BootsOntheSide

Not sure if Plato's move was deliberate, but he still deserved to be penalised. ITV should be penalised for their shoddy coverage of race 2 - Howell's engine failure wasn't shown (although they referred to it about 6 times during race 3), and the fact that Hines inherited the race 2 win wasn't mentioned until race 3.

To be fair to them, the decision was annouced just before race 3.

redshoes · 18 Sep 2005, 18:17 (Ref:1410759)

Quote:

Originally Posted by maximus

To be fair though, Race 3 was clean today.

Clean but pretty dull, especially during the second half when they were all strung out. Even Titch and Addison were suggesting we needed a safety car to bunch them all up again.

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