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5 Jul 2024, 21:59 (Ref:4217913) | #3429 | |
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You'd guess that they have the specific written authorisation then. It's not exactly an oversight, the teams know the rules.
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6 Jul 2024, 08:19 (Ref:4217940) | #3430 | |
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Oh yeah, not trying to call them out on it, just wondering.
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6 Jul 2024, 16:58 (Ref:4217991) | #3432 | |
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The last time a driver entered a race at a track that hadn't been raced on that season was Mark Smith in 2019.
He entered a 750 Motor Club endurance race in a Seat Leon Supercopa (effectively a TCR car) at Croft two weeks before the BTCC round, but because he hadn't been cleared by TOCA he was banned from the first practice session on the Saturday morning for the BTCC meeting. I remember reading at the time that the rules were as crcmalcom quoted, and that it was kind of on a case by case basis at the discretion of the championship. I do remember in 2020 that James Gornall and Bobby Thompson were testing Citroen C1/Toyota Aygo/Peugeot 107 for the new City Car Cup at Croft, but they said were given dispensation because it was thought the cars gave no 'step up' for someone racing an NGTC machine. I've also seen the likes of Butcher and Cook in cars as driver coaches (including behind the wheel) for Fiesta Jr and Fiesta Snr cars - but I'm not sure if coaching at a track without permission is a thing? |
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6 Jul 2024, 17:31 (Ref:4217996) | #3433 | ||
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6 Jul 2024, 18:45 (Ref:4218007) | #3434 | |
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Given the quality of high-end sim experiences that can't be regulated these days the restrictions on racing other series are extremely silly.
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As already mentioned by crmalcom, the only restriction placed on drivers in the BTCC is that they need to receive written confirmation from TOCA if they wish to take part in a race in another type of competition car at a circuit or circuit layout that haven't yet been to in the championship. That is it, and that doesn't seem to me to be too onerous; I would imagine that a quick phone call to TOCA to notify them, and then they send you an email confirmation. No big deal provided that they don't consider the car to be driven is similar to a BTCC car. |
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7 Jul 2024, 08:55 (Ref:4218044) | #3437 | ||
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Additionally in 2016, JJ Ross was excluded from the Clio Cup Rockingham results because it later was discovered he'd raced his Clio Cup car in CTCRC Classic Thunder at Rockingham earlier that year so I believe the rule is blanket across most of the TOCA package (or was back then).
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7 Jul 2024, 17:29 (Ref:4218108) | #3438 | |
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Is it true that Team Hard will be back at the end of the season?
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7 Jul 2024, 17:50 (Ref:4218118) | #3440 | |
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On the subject of drivers not being allowed to race at circuits in other series, not sure if the rules are more lenient if they're in other cars? I was at a Team HARD hot lap day a few years ago with Nic Hamilton and a big group of his sponsors, it was only as the day was due to start that they realised he couldn't drive his NGTC Volkswagen CC around Brands GP for the same reason...
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25 Jul 2024, 20:27 (Ref:4220579) | #3441 | |
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Napa teasing a 10am team announcement tomorrow it seems? Assuming it will just be a livery or something like the charity partnership they had for Knockhill last season.
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26 Jul 2024, 09:12 (Ref:4220618) | #3444 | |
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That's a nice surprise! Hopefully Dan can have a proper tilt at the title this year and not be besieged by the worst luck possible. Smart from Alliance to get their 2 key drivers on long term deals.
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26 Jul 2024, 10:09 (Ref:4220621) | #3445 | ||
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You have to read right to the last sentence in the very last paragraph to understand that multi-year means a two year extension. Why not say that right from the start?
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And of course the contract doesn’t mean he will stay, things can easily change like that
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30 Jul 2024, 06:01 (Ref:4221110) | #3450 | |
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A few nuggets of information got released from Croft.
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