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what his this future wish list got to do with a discussion on oulton park this weekend anyway?
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It should be like it is in most club level racing, one qualifying session, your fastest time is taken for race one, second fastest time for race two.
Winning race one putting you on pole for race two doesn’t seem to work, there’s far too many occasions where the same driver wins race one and two. The issue there is getting a qualifying session where people are able to get two laps in without a red flag... |
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Personally I think the Hard tyre is one of the reasons for the poor races, along with the resurfacing at Croft and bits of Thruxton. Its meant we haven't seen the difference in car speed between people who've looked after tyres better as there has been virtually no drop off like years prior. Doesn't help that the last three rounds have had that tyre.
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Yes, but my point is that the facility is there, the Friday support session seems to finish at about 4,I don't believe they couldn't roll the btcc cars out if an extra practice was so crucial
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Except at Donington, where it's on Thursday and Thruxton, where it's about three weeks earlier. There really isn't any scope for BTCC testing on a Friday. As well as there not being any free track time, Friday is used for scrutineering the BTCC cars. And some of the drivers aren't available on Fridays. So the two practice sessions both need to be on Saturday, and there needs to be a minimum 90 minute gap between them, and a further minimum 90 minute gap before qualifying. The Saturday timetable works pretty well as it is, and there's not much scope for changing it. The qualifying format could be, probably should be, changed however. It just needs to fit into a 30-40 minute window. |
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Necessitating that teams are able to run a full practice session every Friday as not an insignificant extra burden. |
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I don't really understand why the success ballast was decreased - it was increased to 75kg in the first place in order to avoid repetitive R1/R2 results, which we now seem to be getting fairly regularly again....
In my opinion, if we went back to 75kg race winning ballast, there is actually no need for a reverse grid race. When the reverse grid was first introduced in the mid noughties, the drivers finishing at the back of the top 10 were (with respect) not usually anywhere near the pace of the top 5 or 6 drivers in the championship Therefore, excitement was guaranteed as those slower drivers fought tooth and nail to drag a result out of race 3, and the faster drivers found themselves racing people they didn't often come across. Nowadays, even drivers finishing somewhere like 15th position are more than capable of holding on at the front with no weight, especially if they are on the preferred tyre. By getting rid of the reverse grid, you guarantee that for races 2 and 3, the cars at the front will be slower (or at least in theory) than the cars behind them, thus guaranteeing overtaking/more exciting racing. As for Oulton this weekend, I think only AMD and BTC are likely to be able to challenge the rear wheel drive cars, and BMW are likely to win at least 2, maybe all 3 races - first ever win for Oliphant perhaps....? |
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I think the current system is right. There's no need to go back to high ballast of the last few seasons. It makes it too hard for a title leader to qualify in the top ten, which doesn't seem right
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then can we not consider qualifying ballast free, with championship ballast then added in for the race?
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So maybe it would be better to reverse whole field? 🙄 racing is racing, the best wins at the end. When a random driver gets pole and the championship leader struggles to qualify inside the top ten it's just a sign that something's not right. Similar to WTCR where you can dominate one weekend and be last the other just because someone is changing BoP...
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Jack Goff has the ITV4 in car camera this weekend. Any takers for the bet he doesn't make it past Cascades in R1, mechanical drama in R2 and a lonely mid 20-something in R3?
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Bit of a waste giving it to a team hard car really. It was great to have Jack back but what a complete waste of talent that is
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