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He pushes everything to the max now. Tends to be the bumpers of other cars, using his Power Max ultra Xtreme Pro Astra.
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meanwhile in the standings an anomaly
Manuf. BMW 577 Honda 550 but in teams standings Halfords Yuasa 378 Team BMW 367 Cobra Sport 325 BTW who the heck finances Oliphant ??? as he doesn't seem to have a big sponsor like Pirtek , his car hardly looks different than Turkintons Last edited by porsche962fan; 19 Aug 2019 at 18:30. |
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Different titles using different scoring system.
Manufacturer championship uses 2 nominated entries, selected from Turkington, Oliphant and Jordan. Depending on who they think will get a better result, they may include Jordan in the nomination. Team championship is only for cars from the same team, so for Team BMW that can only mean Turkington and Oliphant. Jordan is entered BMW Pirtek Racing, which is a separate team. Also Manufacturer championship counts only the nominated entries and ignores everyone else. Thruxton R1, Cammish and Neal were 2nd and 8th in the results but score Manufacturer points for 1st and 3rd. |
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Was there not something about him opting to start from pitlane because of a bad qualy result and therefore have a good chance at fastest lap
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He did that at Croft, but at Knockhill he deliberately started a long way back
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Or just let them line up the way they did for years before using the wheels rather than the splitter as pretty much every other series does to my knowledge. Far easier to judge where the wheels are than where some part of the car sticking way out in front is. It's not like JP is the only one who has had this penalty this year although you'd think he was the only one who couldn't "park" properly going by the comments.
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Doesn't matter where they put the tape if the car is at an angle on the dummy grid or the start grid. Whether you believe both circumstances are the drivers fault seems to be a difference of opinion on many social media posts. To me it's the drivers fault for the start grid and the teams fault for the dummy grid as they have a better view and the driver is trying to weave between people. |
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There are no penalties for the dummy grid, so if it's driver's fault for the start grid, that's the only gird that matters. Whether it is the marshal's fault, the team's fault or the person who painted the lines on the grid - what counts is that twice JP has picked up a penalty for being out of position on the grid this season. Someone of his experience should not be letting this happen twice in the same season. Add to his two penalties for R3 Snetterton and his penalty for R2 Thruxton makes a total of at least five penalties at least this season. If three penalties equals a strike - is it known how many strikes and penalties drivers are currently on? |
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Whether your lining the wheels or the splitter up doesn't matter. You can't see either as a driver and still need a marker.
This really isn't much of an issue tbh. |
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Tremendous sweeping under the carpet from Jack Youngs event report 😂
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Catching up with the recording, and it was mentioned that Rob Smith was a third generation BTCC driver.
I had no idea. Who's his old man (and his old man's man?) |
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His father Paul was mainly a sports car and single seat racer, who had a class win at Le Mans in 1982 and took part in HSCC in 2014. |
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I remember them mentioning that on the commentary that he was a third generation in the series
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Bit of both. That grid position is the most awkward one to see, and bearing in mind Cammish got done for the same thing as Plato earlier in the season and he'd just seen Plato get done for it, then he's bound to want to play it extra safe.
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AJ is saying the car suffers in traffic, so no surprise the Beemers were not able to make progress
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Thanks for that - I had no idea, and not knowing was eating away at me inside.
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Crmalcolm is quite correct, Rob's grandfather, Don, did race Jaguars in the BSCC in the early sixties, being Birmingham based he was able to pop down to Browns Lane to have the latest factory modifications. Racing was much simpler then!!
His father, Paul, scored a class win at Le Mans in 1982 in the Charles Ivey Racing Porsche 935 and again the following year in a Porsche 930. In 1984 he raced a Terry Drury Racing Alfa Romeo in the BSCC. In 1985 he returned to sports cars until retiring from racing in the early nineties. He is often mistaken for the Paul Smith who competes in HSCC events and endurance races. |
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The Paul Smith who ran in HSCC SuperTouring wouldn't have been old enough to race at Le Mans in 82. If he had, then a class win in the same year he left school would have been pretty impressive. I think driverdb has got a bit muddled up.
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