Qualifying at Oulton

[Carrie]

Just been looking at the qualifying times for the feature race at Oulton, so much for Vauxhall having the advantage with no weight penalty, best they could manage is 6th for Plato. Wonder why Muller couldn't manage any better than 9th. Are we looking at another Menu / Ford win at Oulton tomorrow? Anyone know what was wrong with Lemmer's car? I assume something must have been wrong or else he'll be being lapped on the first lap tomorrow. He only did 4 laps in qualifying.
The grid for the sprint race looks like this:
1 11 Alain MENU Ford Mondeo 1:23.673
2 77 Tom KRISTENSEN Honda Accord 1:23.827
3 9 I Matt NEAL Nissan Primera 1:23.882
4 3 Rickard RYDELL Ford Mondeo Zetec 1:23.944
5 12 Anthony REID Ford Mondeo Zetec 1:24.031
6 5 Jason PLATO Vauxhall Vectra 1:24.071
7 4 James THOMPSON Honda Accord 1:24.142
8 8 Vincent RADERMECKER Vauxhall Vectra 1:24.247
9 6 Yvan MULLER Vauxhall Vectra 1:24.279
10 18 Gabriele TARQUINI Honda Accord 1:24.800
11 45 I Colin BLAIR Nissan Primera GT 1:26.823
12 33 B James KAYE Honda Accord 1:34.413
13 13 B Alan MORRISON Peugeot 306 1:34.749
14 21 B Robert COLLARD Nissan Primera 1:36.980
15 20 B Marc NORDON Nissan Primera 1:37.080
16 23 B Mark LEMMER Honda Integra 4:24.060

[This message has been edited by Carrie (edited 28 May 2000).]

[RIKB]

Lemmer had a big off in testing yesterday causing the session to be red flagged.

He was quoted as saying "I just missed a gear, got a wheel on the dirt and it got
away from me. I went in quite hard but hopefully the car will be ready for
qualifying tomorrow."

Obviously it wasn't

[RIKB]

Just a small correction, the above results are for the feature race not the sprint. Qualifying takes place in reverse for some reason

I have just looked at the MST site and they report that both Menu and Rydell have been excluded from these results. No reasons why yet, we'll have to wait for the official annonucement.

[Carrie]

Yep, realised that after I'd written it - suitable amendments made

[RIKB]

Autotrader BTCC Round 9 - Qualifying Oulton Park Island Circuit 28th/29th May

1 11 Alain MENU Ford 1:23.742
2 77 Tom KRISTENSEN Honda 1:23.770
3 6 Yvan MULLER Vauxhall 1:23.801
4 3 Rickard RYDELL Ford 1:23.901
5 4 James THOMPSON Honda 1:24.347
6 5 Jason PLATO Vauxhall 1:24.361
7 12 Anthony REID Ford 1:24.362
8 8 Vincent RADERMECKER Vauxhall 1:24.822
9 18 Gabriele TARQUINI Honda 1:26.210
10 45 Colin BLAIR Nissan 1:26.928
11 33 James KAYE Honda 1:34.038
12 13 Alan MORRISON Peugeot 1:34.177
13 21 Robert COLLARD Nissan 1:37.425
14 20 Marc NORDON Nissan 1:38.197
15 9 Matt NEAL Nissan 16:04:36.146
16 23 Mark LEMMER Honda N/A

Weather / Track : Cloudy / Dry

[Carrie]

Presumably Matt fell off the track somewhere because he only posted 1 lap, so mustn't have got a fast lap in because I don't really think he set a time of over 16 hours

[Sparky]

He could have... er... left the handbrake on..!

[RIKB]

If he had left that handbrake on and been towing a caravan he could have got round faster than that!

Which makes me suspect a misprint somewhere!

[RIKB]

Apparently Matt crashed in qualifying for the sprint race.

And Menus' feature race pole was dissallowed because of a "technical infringement"

[Carrie]

And it doesn't sound like he's a very happy bunny about it either

[Peter Mallett]

Looks like Vauxhall told Plato to slow down in second qualifying. Or am I being too cynical?