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15 May 2022, 15:47 (Ref:4110088) | #126 | |
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So pleased for Thompson to get on the podium, well deserved, in far from the best car on the grid.
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15 May 2022, 15:48 (Ref:4110089) | #127 | |
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congrats to Thompson for his podium !!
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15 May 2022, 15:50 (Ref:4110090) | #128 | |
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Tingram quite a big lead already
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15 May 2022, 16:21 (Ref:4110093) | #129 | ||
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Cookie proved his position as probably the best on the grid today in my opinion. A real champions drive in all 3 races. Sutton has lost his cutting edge in the Focus. It’s just not doing what he wants at the moment. It looks like it has no front end which is a shame. Chilton and Plato both showing they are no where near as competitive as the new crop of drivers. Pleased for Bobby Thompson, rate him highly. All in all a good days racing, dare I say the hybrid looks like it’s working well. Better than it did at Donny. Last edited by JDMROB; 15 May 2022 at 16:28. |
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15 May 2022, 16:27 (Ref:4110094) | #130 | |
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I feel it might be Tingram's year finally. Fortunes may change very quickly in the BTCC of course but after two rounds it seems the whole package is very strong, Ingram is a consistent racer and can bank as many points as possible.
I feel Hill, as fast as he is, he's not really ready to become a champion. Having Colin Turkington on the other side of the garage requires a lot of speed but also consistency and maturity - the latter two he might lack. Cook seems very strong but somehow I feel BTC Racing is always a bit too inconsistent. If Sutton and NAPA find a Holy Grail quickly, it might not be too late - I'm afraid, however, Sutton may be seeking the right package every weekend and this will put his title ambitions in huge jeopardy. |
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15 May 2022, 17:27 (Ref:4110103) | #131 | |
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Unless I'm misunderstanding the graphics there seem to be many drivers who aren't using all the available hybrid. Wonder why that is as it would seem to be a no brainer to use it every lap if you have it?
Still some cars having issues. I noticed Lloyd posting that he had no hybrid in race 2. |
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15 May 2022, 17:37 (Ref:4110104) | #132 | ||
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15 May 2022, 17:40 (Ref:4110106) | #133 | |
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Ricky Collard disappointing so far, thought he'd be much closer to Butcher.
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Some drivers will have 'locked out' by deploying too early. Some drivers will have been focusing on other matters. |
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15 May 2022, 17:45 (Ref:4110108) | #135 | |
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Does anyone know whether the Sutton/Cammish Fords and the Jackson/Osborne Fords are being run as one team of four or as two separate teams? So far it would appear the NAPA cars are quite a bit faster, even accounting for the driver lineup, but this may be just a bad couple of weekends for Jackson and Osborne.
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15 May 2022, 17:47 (Ref:4110109) | #136 | ||
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Maybe the extra power was not that helpful in the wet when it might lead to wheel spin?
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15 May 2022, 19:10 (Ref:4110115) | #138 | ||
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True, but I don’t know if when the hybrid power comes in it has a curve or it’s just a big lump of power. If it’s a lumpy power delivery it might spin the wheels then stop if it can only be deployed with full traction?
What happens in a scenario of deployment at the point of full traction but the hybrid element causes the wheels to spin up? |
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16 May 2022, 07:03 (Ref:4110151) | #140 | |
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Great racing across all 3 rounds once again - the wet always makes thing interesting though.
Does anyone else feel Chilton is now past it? Only a few years back (2018) he was challenging for the title - now he is struggling to stay in the points. While there was a question mark around the team for last year, he has been in decent cars every year but sadly seems to be going backwards. |
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16 May 2022, 08:34 (Ref:4110168) | #142 | ||
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Chilton is a mid-pack driver, no better or worse than a lot of other drivers out there. Potential podium finisher or reverse grid race winner if things go his way. I assume that he had mechanical or tyre issues in the final race which contributed to him falling backwards pretty badly.
I had assumed that the switch back to FWD would suit him this season. |
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The weather forecast was pretty good when I left home (showers until 8 then sunny intervals all day, dry and warm). By the time I got to Brands the forecast was overcast all day and rain. Not ideal! |
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16 May 2022, 09:11 (Ref:4110172) | #144 | ||
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The big unknown is the Hybrid We dont know when it is working correctly or not A mate of mine who works for a team in a support series heard some drivers had boost when they shouldn't and some had none. It seemed odd that suddenly Crees was right in it when others such as Camish and Sutton were nowhere. Cook fast Plato nowhere Is it all as it seems?
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16 May 2022, 09:19 (Ref:4110174) | #145 | ||
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I think he had a puncture - pitted to get that changed and then dropped it on his own at Clearways (I was watching the last race from Clearways and there was nobody near him when he threw it in the gravel).
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16 May 2022, 10:32 (Ref:4110186) | #146 | |
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It's still way too early to say too much, especially as the weather yesterday really changed what would have happened had it been a continuation from Saturday.
One thing I'll say is that I don't think the current Hybrid System is a very effective balance of power. It had little to no effect at all yesterday. Obviously, wet conditions caused the old Ballast System to have less of an effect than in the dry, but even in perfect conditions, the Hybrid System needs a lot of tweaking to be as effective as the Ballast was. The M-Sport Engine is also way off the pace I think. Cook shone due to the weather, but if that car had the Honda engine, I think he'd have had a much stronger Donington and sailed to pole at Brands Hatch. Ingram is always going to be there or thereabouts as he's consistent in a strong all-round package. Should be strong at Thruxton too, especially if the lack of effect of the Hybrid Penalty system continues. Cook is a Thruxton specialist and you'd put money on him winning at least one race there if he had the Honda engine underneath him, so it will be interesting to see how he goes with the M-Sport engine. For all the talk of Sutton being nowhere, he's 3rd in the Championship, above Hill, Turkington, Shedden, Butcher, Cammish, Lloyd and the Ciceley BMW's, all of whom seem to have taken more Plaudits than Sutton. Sure, he's never going to have the same level of dominance as in a RWD car set up in the way that suits him, but he's never going to be far away..... Plato has been desperately unlucky and has gone far better than his 10 results have suggested. He'll be gutted to finally get into a Honda, only for it not to have a Honda engine, but still doing OK. A puncture spoiled what would have been surely at least 3 top 10 finishes at Donington. Mechanical failure put him 22nd on the grid yesterday, and after being ran out wide at the first corner to put him even further down the order, he recovered well. Then in race 2 he climbed up to 11th before coming off worse in a 4 car battle and ended up finishing 13th, when he would have been 12th at worst, which would have put him on pole for race 3, for tiny margins between a potential brilliant result and being stuck down in the pack and making an error for a DNF in Race 3. With better luck, he would have been somewhere between Butcher and Thompson in the standings now, comfortably, so he's doing ok and has been very unlucky for mee. Collard is another unlucky driver. Great pace, and he is still learning in a a FWD BTCC car, but mechanical failures and small errors have left him on one point, when again he should at least be somewhere between Rowbottom and Plato in the current standings. Chilton isn't far off where I'd expect. Yes, he's better than his standings suggest, but it's still a new car to him, and when he's the 3rd best driver in the team behind two very, very good drivers, it can't be easy. I hope he improves, but he's never going to be a contender as things stand, just a decent midfield driver. |
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16 May 2022, 11:24 (Ref:4110189) | #148 | ||
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Can I just go back to this point about the hybrid only being able to be deployed at "full traction", what critera is used to determine if "full traction" has been achieved? Wheel slip sensor? A simple "above a certain speed" threshold?
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16 May 2022, 11:35 (Ref:4110191) | #149 | |
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Excelr8 report says ‘contact induced’ puncture for Chilton that caused him to pit. No detail on why he then came off and his race was ended.
In a decent car on pole at his home track with full hybrid availability and all his experience he was swamped pretty easily and very early by others from behind. Not a favourite of mine isn’t Chilton. Just full of lame excuses after bursting with positivity and puppy dog enthusiasm pre meeting and it’s been like that for a couple of seasons now. Very poor recent showing compared to team mates and also in some very good cars. |
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16 May 2022, 11:57 (Ref:4110197) | #150 | |
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Yes - it will be wheel speed vs GPS speed. There is a minimum speed (120kph I think) it can be activated from too.
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