Btcc snetterton

[MG CHRIS]

Well after a 2 month break the btcc is back at the newly devloped 300 circuit.

Some news over the break, toca has announced a 0.05 bar reduction on all hybrid turbo cars but will over the weekend adjust if neccessery.

A new car is set to debut at the next round the proton gen-2 of welch motorsport is almost finished and should be set to run before the irst practice sessions which will boost the number of cars to 26. With 4 ngtc cars.

The two toyota teams are confident after sorting out problems accured at the begining of the sesion and are hoping for strong results.

AmD have a new driver of martin byford who raced in support champonships and won a champonships.

Rob austin has announced chris swanwich will be testing with the teams and may be out very soon in the 2nd audi.

Gsr have put turbo engines in their bmw and are planing a return at the end of the season.

A new make will join next year TH motorsport will develope a skoda octavia for matt hamilton to drive and will build another if the right driver comes along.

There might be more but cant think of anything else so whos going and whos watching i will be watching at home but hope to be going to silverstone and rockingham.

[V8mate]

I'm there for the weekend.

Arriving late Friday afternoon and taking it real easy, not leaving until Monday morning.

Really looking forward to it. Weather forecast is for occasional showers on both days, which should keep the action lively.

[3319jane]

We'll be there too - Sat to Mon - fingers crossed for a great weekend of racing

[Ponk]

I'm there as a guest of Team Aon. Can't wait!!

[matts4]

If anyone has spare/free ticket they wanna sell (at a reasonable cost) then please PM me.

I will pay full price on the gate if needs be, but I know in the past Ive given away tickets in the car park (when I've had too many myself as part of hospitality.)

Cheers
Matt

[metalsteve]

first pic of the welch motorsport proton from btcc.net, looks pretty bloody cool if you ask me! How wide are those arches! They're based just down the road 1/2 mile or so from me so i'll be rooting for them! Good luck guys!

[Allyc85]

Plato fastest in Fp1 and leading Fp2 as I write this. The new Proton did 5 laps and wasnt slowest!

Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap
1. Jason Plato Chevrolet 1m59.797s
2. Gordon Shedden Honda 1m59.923s + 0.126s
3. James Nash Triple 8 Vauxhall 1m59.954s + 0.157s
4. Matt Neal Honda 2m00.511s + 0.714s
5. Tom Chilton Arena Ford 2m00.615s + 0.818s
6. Andrew Jordan Eurotech Vauxhall 2m00.691s + 0.894s
7. Alex MacDowall Chevrolet 2m00.778s + 0.981s
8. Dave Newsham Special Tuning SEAT 2m00.791s + 0.994s
9. Mat Jackson Motorbase Ford 2m00.926s + 1.129s
10. Paul O'Neill Tech-Speed Chevrolet 2m00.972s + 1.175s
11. Tom Boardman Special Tuning SEAT 2m01.101s + 1.304s
12. Martyn Byford AmD Milltek Volkswagen 2m01.119s + 1.322s
13. Frank Wrathall Dynojet Toyota 2m01.354s + 1.557s
14. Rob Collard WSR BMW 2m01.571s + 1.774s
15. Rob Austin Austin Audi 2m01.764s + 1.967s
16. Jeff Smith Eurotech Vauxhall 2m01.887s + 2.090s
17. Tom Onslow-Cole Arena Ford 2m01.911s + 2.114s
18. Nick Foster WSR BMW 2m02.493s + 2.696s
19. Tony Gilham Triple 8 Vauxhall 2m02.586s + 2.789s
20. Andy Neate Arena Ford 2m03.189s + 3.392s
21. Liam Griffin Motorbase Ford 2m03.542s + 3.745s
22. John George Tech-Speed Chevrolet 2m04.824s + 5.027s
23. Tony Hughes Speedworks Toyota 2m04.855s + 5.058s
24. Lea Wood Wood Honda 2m05.387s + 5.590s
25. Daniel Welch Welch Proton 2m06.104s + 6.307s
26. Chris James ES Chevrolet 2m06.626s + 6.829s

live timing here http://www.tsl-timing.com/toca/LiveTimingTOCA.html

[metalsteve]

another pic of the welch proton from btccpages.net. I think it looks absolutely stunning, i actually like that more than i like the audi! Wishing welch motorsport all the best! good luck guys!

[MG CHRIS]

That does look nice. very cool, only note why is there such a cleareance between the wheel and the wheel arch.

Looks like frank has improved the toyota and is now ahead of rob should be a intresting battle between them. Cant wait for the vauxhall to enter at the end of the year.

[Allyc85]

The first thing I noticed was the wheel arch gaps, maybe they need some phat coil overs to slame it on its arse

Fp2 times...

Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap
1. Alex MacDowall Chevrolet 1m59.025s
2. Jason Plato Chevrolet 1m59.063s + 0.038s
3. James Nash Triple 8 Vauxhall 1m59.336s + 0.311s
4. Matt Neal Honda 1m59.485s + 0.460s
5. Tom Chilton Arena Ford 1m59.491s + 0.466s
6. Gordon Shedden Honda 1m59.594s + 0.569s
7. Andrew Jordan Eurotech Vauxhall 1m59.739s + 0.714s
8. Tom Boardman Special Tuning SEAT 1m59.985s + 0.960s
9. Mat Jackson Motorbase Ford 2m00.030s + 1.005s
10. Martyn Byford AmD Milltek Volkswagen 2m00.078s + 1.053s
11. Dave Newsham Special Tuning SEAT 2m00.079s + 1.054s
12. Jeff Smith Eurotech Vauxhall 2m00.190s + 1.165s
13. Rob Collard WSR BMW 2m00.288s + 1.263s
14. Tom Onslow-Cole Arena Ford 2m00.517s + 1.492s
15. Frank Wrathall Dynojet Toyota 2m00.544s + 1.519s
16. Paul O'Neill Tech-Speed Chevrolet 2m00.988s + 1.963s
17. Nick Foster WSR BMW 2m01.273s + 2.248s
18. Tony Gilham Triple 8 Vauxhall 2m01.304s + 2.279s
19. Andy Neate Arena Ford 2m01.639s + 2.614s
20. John George Tech-Speed Chevrolet 2m01.925s + 2.900s
21. Rob Austin Austin Audi 2m02.004s + 2.979s
22. Liam Griffin Motorbase Ford 2m02.982s + 3.957s
23. Lea Wood Wood Honda 2m03.559s + 4.534s
24. Daniel Welch Welch Proton 2m03.562s + 4.537s
25. Tony Hughes Speedworks Toyota 2m04.617s + 5.592s
26. Chris James ES Chevrolet no time

Qualy now at 4.05 due to the event running 20 minutes behind schedule.

[MG CHRIS]

The ngtc runners are not as strong as i thought even though not to bad for welch being only 4.5s behind, marin byford seems to be going well to and the vectras look stronger too should be an intresting days racing tommorrow.

[IainW]

Welch Motorsport are saying the car will have bodywork upgrades for Knockhill, quite possibly for cooling purposes. From photos it looks like the Audi has had some upgrades to the front end as well for cooling.

[Allyc85]

Live stream not working for me

[skeggysteve]

Look at the Twitter feeds on the right of the page.
They have a technical problem - or maybe they have sold it to Sky!

[MG CHRIS]

Quali results plato on pole

1 1 Jason Plato Chevrolet Cruze 1m58.691s 11 -- 90.04mph
2 52 Gordon Shedden Honda Civic 1m58.716s 6 +0.025s 90.03mph
3 20 Alex MacDowall Chevrolet Cruze 1m58.908s 4 +0.217s 89.88mph
4 2 Matt Neal Honda Civic 1m58.939s 11 +0.248s 89.86mph
5 14 I James Nash Vauxhall Vectra 1m59.067s 11 +0.376s 89.76mph
6 5 I Tom Chilton Global Ford Focus 1m59.084s 10 +0.393s 89.75mph
7 11 I Frank Wrathall Toyota Avensis 1m59.084s 12 +0.393s 89.75mph
8 17 I David Newsham SEAT Leon 1m59.252s 11 +0.561s 89.62mph
9 29 I Paul O'Neill Chevrolet Cruze 1m59.420s 9 +0.729s 89.49mph
10 4 I Tom Onslow-Cole Ford Focus 1m59.515s 11 +0.824s 89.42mph
11 77 I Andrew Jordan Vauxhall Vectra 1m59.558s 10 +0.867s 89.39mph
12 8 I Robert Collard BMW 320si E90 1m59.664s 11 +0.973s 89.31mph
13 7 I Mat Jackson Ford Focus ST 1m59.809s 11 +1.118s 89.20mph
14 13 I Rob Austin Audi A4 1m59.931s 11 +1.240s 89.11mph
15 55 I Jeff Smith Vauxhall Vectra 2m00.026s 11 +1.335s 89.04mph
16 18 I Nick Foster BMW 320si E90 2m00.161s 12 +1.470s 88.94mph
17 34 I Tony Gilham Vauxhall Vectra 2m00.303s 11 +1.612s 88.84mph
18 44 I Andy Neate Global Ford Focus 2m00356s 7 +1.665s 88.80mph
19 99 I Martin Byford VW Golf MK5 2m00.531s 9 +1.840s 88.67mph
20 42 I Daniel Welch Proton-Gen2 2m00.910s 10 +2.219s 88.39mph
21 28 I John George Chevrolet Cruze 2m02.117s 11 +3.426s 87.52mph
22 66 I Liam Griffin Ford Focus ST 2m02.374s 12 +3.683s 87.33mph
23 43 I Lea Wood Honda Integra 2m03.421s 8 +4.730s 86.59mph
24 50 I Tony Hughes Toyota Avensis 2m04.544s 6 +5.853s 85.81mph
25 77 I Chris James Chevrolet Lacetti -- 0 -- --
26 22 I Tom Boardman SEAT Leon -- 0 -- --

Some very good drives from frank wrathel, dave newsham and aslo paul o'neil up in the top 10 to. Good start for the proton only 2.2s down on pole for a car which only turned a wheel in anger this morning that is impressive.

Disapointing of neat, griffin, gilham who should be well up there and when there team mates are doing much better griffin the main person he is well of the pace.

Looks like the further boost reduction as closed the grid up again 1s covering the top 12 and 2s covering the top 20 that is very close. Can't wait for the racing to begining and if the track produces better races than last year.

[skeggysteve]

Qualifying is now up on www.itv.com/btcc

Only slightly spoiled by knowing the result

[woof]

Just got back from Snet - good day out with Team Dynamics as always.
Did ITV show the MacDowall fire ? That went bang right next to me !

[Allyc85]

MG CHRIS said:

Some very good drives from frank wrathel, dave newsham and aslo paul o'neil up in the top 10 to. Good start for the proton only 2.2s down on pole for a car which only turned a wheel in anger this morning that is impressive.

Disapointing of neat, griffin, gilham who should be well up there and when there team mates are doing much better griffin the main person he is well of the pace.

Looks like the further boost reduction as closed the grid up again 1s covering the top 12 and 2s covering the top 20 that is very close. Can't wait for the racing to begining and if the track produces better races than last year.

Agreed, thats one hell of an effort from the Proton team and Wrathels time is a blinder, especially compared to the other Toyota!

[IainW]

skeggysteve said:

Qualifying is now up on www.itv.com/btcc

Only slightly spoiled by knowing the result

And by ITV telling you the result at the bottom of the screen of the re-run........

[ThomDean]

I was there today! Epic day out, really enjoyed it and got a half decent haul of photos too. Only spotted one smiley - on a blue MX-5 with an H reg plate. Anybodies from here?