Donington: BTCC & support chat

[greeny12]

Let's not forget the Pro-Am class podium for our Wookie!

I think the additional hybrid boost is going to generate some decent racing as it beds in too.

And there's some serious competition for Ash this year too, by the looks of it...

[Speed Badger]

I finally caught up with Race 3 on ITVX. Really fun race, well done to Moffat for holding them off, good race for Huffy although Watson seemed strangely off the pace all weekend, had him tipped as a dark horse for the title. It looks like the hybrid boost really makes a difference this year, and is it me or does Mr Turkington look a bit more fired up this year?

[FredericRobinson]

SpudLink said:

Was on a trackday when it was only drizzling, but the cloud was so low you could only see the landing gear as the planes were on approach over the circuit. Slipperiest surface I've ever experienced. That was the first time someone explained to me how the unburned fuel mixes with the rain.
I've been there on other occasions when it was wet, but felt like any other wet circuit.

Probably one for a different thread on a different forum, but are plane engines particularly inefficient then?
If car and truck exhausts did the same busy motorways would be undriveable.

[hammo19]

Just watch the broadcast from Donnington, and yes it cut out before the last race.

I thought Jade was excellent, very natural and has great insight having raced in Fiestas and BTCC, a very welcome addition to the presenting team.

The new hybrid set up seems to work well and created more overtaking but I’m not sure about the limited grid size this year.

[Milkyway]

The pit lane seemed quite hectic with just nineteen cars...sounds like it will be twenty four max.
( Poor 'Huffy).

[GlobalRacer]

As said grids won't get much bigger. They committed to 24 years ago and have been slowly getting there but the demise of Hard and One taking a sabbatical pushed it under faster than expected.

[Milkyway]

GlobalRacer said:

As said grids won't get much bigger. They committed to 24 years ago and have been slowly getting there but the demise of Hard and One taking a sabbatical pushed it under faster than expected.

I'm quite happy to accept quality & exciting racing over quantity.
Twenty four will be plenty...

[Speed Badger]

Even in the Super Touring days there weren't many more than 20 odd cars on the grid and that was pretty good, different time and quality etc, but still.

[covboy]

Meanwhile British GT's are getting 40+ car grids

[Sebring440]

covboy said:

Meanwhile British GT's are getting 40+ car grids

Thank goodness it's not like that for BTCC!

[Drumroll]

covboy said:

Meanwhile British GT's are getting 40+ car grids

And your point is?

[egor110]

Drumroll said:

covboy said:

Meanwhile British GT's are getting 40+ car grids

And your point is?

I guess one series that traditionally has full grids is struggling this year and another series is booming.

[Drumroll]

egor110 said:

Drumroll said:

covboy said:

Meanwhile British GT's are getting 40+ car grids

And your point is?

I guess one series that traditionally has full grids is struggling this year and another series is booming.

And there have been times when British GT' s have struggled with grid sizes.

Alan Gow has said for a few years now that he felt the BTCC grid was too big.

Perhaps egor110 needs to explain what he means.

[egor110]

Drumroll said:

egor110 said:

Drumroll said:

covboy said:

Meanwhile British GT's are getting 40+ car grids

And your point is?

I guess one series that traditionally has full grids is struggling this year and another series is booming.

And there have been times when British GT' s have struggled with grid sizes.

Alan Gow has said for a few years now that he felt the BTCC grid was too big.

Perhaps egor110 needs to explain what he means.

Exactly what i said .

one series is thriving one less so , simple as that .

[Milkyway]

I think that the some of the circuits struggle with the size of the pits & the teams infrastructure... hence the twenty four car limit.

[emicen]

Also helps not have the tail end cars half way round a corner for the start with the fully staggered grid.

[jasonrobertson86]

Drumroll said:

And there have been times when British GT' s have struggled with grid sizes.

Alan Gow has said for a few years now that he felt the BTCC grid was too big.

Perhaps egor110 needs to explain what he means.

he did explain what he meant

[Milkyway]

emicen said:

Also helps not have the tail end cars half way round a corner for the start with the fully staggered grid.

Go back to the old 3 - 2 - 3 grids.

[GlobalRacer]

egor110 said:

I guess one series that traditionally has full grids is struggling this year and another series is booming.

BTCC is only 4 cars off the maximum grid size it wants plus GT racing is a completely different thing. Oulton Park there were 19 GT3's and 17 GT4's which compares well with BTCC which is a single class series.

It's comparing apples to oranges.

[Speed Badger]

Watching on TV I didn't feel like there weren't enough cars, although could do with a couple of Civic Type R's in there but I'm biased! It's better than having four or five donkeys knobbing around that the back, now there's only one.

Edited by Speed Badger on Wednesday 1st May 21:34