BTCC Night races

[mike_slh]

Does anybody know if there are gonna be any more of these races?
They were an awesome spectacle, but hopefully not gone forever

[rdjones]

At present I would say no, but you never know it maybe repeated one day. I never made a night race but I was at the early evening race at Snetterton in 2003 and that was a fantastic spectable.

[Alan Green]

Don't forgt the EERC Britcar 24hr race at Silverstone in September - A huge grid with a wide mixture of saloons.

BTCC needs the live TV coverage, and night races don't work live - head on headlights in the camera shot for 30mins doesn't give good coverage. Shame, as the Snetterton & Silverstone races in the super-tourer days were great fun to marshal in the pit lane.

Al.

[rdjones]

Originally Posted by Alan Green

Don't forgt the EERC Britcar 24hr race at Silverstone in September - A huge grid with a wide mixture of saloons.

Don't worry Al, I havn't I will be there for that, saying that I have another 24 hour race to do before then, it's a little race in France in mid-June........

[stevebrown]

I don't think there will be anymore in the near future as it was so expensive to put on.The light gantries used at Snet were something like £80,000 to hire. Pity really. I marshalled at all the Snet night races as well as the evening race in 2003. The first one in 1999 was the best, the atmosphere was like a GP. But I shall never forget the 2001 race. I was at Corum when Dan Eaves went in the tyre wall. That was the scariest time I've ever had marshalling what with Collard and Muller just missing his Peugeot.

Steve B

[manicmarshal]

Ah yes I remember that year well. I was at Russells but on the outside post and we had Rob Collard for company. Yvan's driving and recovery from that near incident was incredible! Yep I enjoyed that night race. All I remember about the following year was that it was very very late and we got wet! And the starting lights failed I believe and they had to use a flag, in the dark!!

24hour 2cv race is a good event though.

[Cynic]

I can't see the night races returning in the near future, partly because of costs, but also because of the problems caused by the regs requiring drivers to have a qualifying session in the dark. I know Britcar have got around this by running qualifying immediately before the race, but \i'm not sure that would work for the touring boys.