Knickerbrook renamed?

[Tony2or4]

Allyc85 said:

Got to admit that last Saturday was the first time in 20 years of following motorsport that I had heard the kink before Cascades being called Dentons

Same here.

[GAjon]

Dentons kink is a very exciting little piece of race track, Mr Tilke would benefit from studying it!

[tapkaJohnD]

Well, thanks to all!
A most educative thread, although I'm still confused about City Hall/Clay Hill. Got to be an Americanism, surely? It's not such a difficult a bit of track that people to say, "You can't fight City Hall!"

JOhn

[FourWheelDrift]

Maybe the hill (straight) is called Clay Hill but the corner is called City Hall?

A quick google search finds it's mention on here, 1st paragraph under qualifying - http://racecarbuzz.com/events/2013-british-gt-oult... and on here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpw-galleries/8672140...

Maybe it's new?

[mmm-five]

Maybe someone with bad eyesight just misread Clay Hill as City Hall - after all they do look similar if you squint.

[DJRC]

Always been Clay to me.

In reality they had to do something about Knickerbrook, the whole stetch from Island up and over Knickerbrook in modern machinery was just becomming mental. It wasnt a problem whilst they just used Fosters during the 80s as such because the straight and speeds over Knickerbrook were much reduced. But putting the whole lot back in just made it a mental place to be. Also challenging as hell!

[Tony2or4]

mmm-five said:

Maybe someone with bad eyesight just misread Clay Hill as City Hall - after all they do look similar if you squint.

Deffo this, I'd say: la easily becomes it, then the mind's eye automatically sees Hall after City

You get a similar situation, magnified many times, on the Gutenberg Project books you can get on Kindle: they've scanned the pages of old, out-of-print books, then used character-recognition software to digitize the text to make it suitable for the Kindle digital format - and many of the 'words' you come across are simply unintelligible, where the character-recognition has failed.

[Dave Brand]

FourWheelDrift said:

Maybe the hill (straight) is called Clay Hill but the corner is called City Hall?

There is NO feature at Oulton called City Hall.

It's just a misreading of Clay Hill. A big problem with the internet is that lazy people just cut & paste others' work without bothering to proofread or check facts, so errors are copied ad nauseam.

[ginettajoe]

Dave Brand said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Maybe the hill (straight) is called Clay Hill but the corner is called City Hall?

There is NO feature at Oulton called City Hall.

It's just a misreading of Clay Hill. A big problem with the internet is that lazy people just cut & paste others' work without bothering to proofread or check facts, so errors are copied ad nauseam.

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[thunderbelmont]

I would love to know why MSV had to change Foulstons to Brittens, as it was named after the late, and some say great, John Foulston who held the helm of the Brands Hatch group. I could understand renaming it if it had been named after Nicola Foulston, the woman who helped destroy everything her late father achieved.

Same goes for Snetterton with various corners and parts being renamed.

At least they've left Cadwell alone.

[Dave Brand]

thunderbelmont said:

I would love to know why MSV had to change Foulstons to Brittens,

Maybe this will help explain the reasons:

http://www.british-cars.org/mg-midget-sprite-gener...