BTCC Andy Jordan: Driver of the Day
BTCC Andy Jordan: Driver of the Day
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pixelpimp

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674 posts

226 months

Sunday 18th May 2008
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Well done to Jordan junior today, hell of a race a real shame he had an engine problem on the 2nd to last lap.
That rallycross experience was really showing today.

K50 DEL

9,726 posts

257 months

Sunday 18th May 2008
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Damn good atmosphere at the track today as well, although I appear to be sunburnt!!

mat205125

17,790 posts

242 months

Sunday 18th May 2008
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Great drive and a great recovery. Takes a lot of commitment to run a private car at the front end, door handle to door handle with the "no expense to me" works drivers.

Not overly bothered about the Neal, Plato, Giovinardi and co battle for overall honours this year. The Jordan / Jackson battle for indy title and overall results is where the battle will be.

eccles

14,368 posts

251 months

Sunday 18th May 2008
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It really pissed me off that you had 3 privateers running together with good close racing and no contact.... up comes giovanadi, and bash, someones off straight away! furious

kleonard

767 posts

253 months

Monday 19th May 2008
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GREAT DRIVE BY HIM ALRIGHT..!! SOME SLIDES THRU ISLAND BEND...!!

mat205125

17,790 posts

242 months

Monday 19th May 2008
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eccles said:
It really pissed me off that you had 3 privateers running together with good close racing and no contact.... up comes giovanadi, and bash, someones off straight away! furious
That's typical in formulae with professional drivers. Matt Neal is the worst of the double standards bunch. When he was a privateer, he'd be on his soap box every 5 minutes about the cost of panel damage, but is now more than happy to bumps and bang everyone out of the way to make a pass.

Munter

31,331 posts

270 months

Monday 19th May 2008
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mat205125 said:
eccles said:
It really pissed me off that you had 3 privateers running together with good close racing and no contact.... up comes giovanadi, and bash, someones off straight away! furious
That's typical in formulae with professional drivers. Matt Neal is the worst of the double standards bunch. When he was a privateer, he'd be on his soap box every 5 minutes about the cost of panel damage, but is now more than happy to bumps and bang everyone out of the way to make a pass.
Oh course he may now be jaded into the "It happened to me so I'm not giving you an easy ride...take that" mindset.

Andy Jordan though had me shouting at the TV. Cracking stuff. thumbup

Marc W

3,782 posts

240 months

Monday 19th May 2008
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mat205125 said:
Not overly bothered about the Neal, Plato, Giovinardi and co battle for overall honours this year. The Jordan / Jackson battle for indy title and overall results is where the battle will be.
Surely you should add Jones to those two, especially as he's currently leading the independents!

It was an excellent race by Andrew, although I did wonder if that engine problem was caused by him straightlining the Club Chicane a few laps before as the underside of the car did take a bit of a whack on the kerbs.

MrKipling43

5,788 posts

245 months

Monday 19th May 2008
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kleonard said:
GREAT DRIVE BY HIM ALRIGHT..!! SOME SLIDES THRU ISLAND BEND...!!

JP_Midget

438 posts

240 months

Monday 19th May 2008
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mat205125 said:
eccles said:
It really pissed me off that you had 3 privateers running together with good close racing and no contact.... up comes giovanadi, and bash, someones off straight away! furious
That's typical in formulae with professional drivers. Matt Neal is the worst of the double standards bunch. When he was a privateer, he'd be on his soap box every 5 minutes about the cost of panel damage, but is now more than happy to bumps and bang everyone out of the way to make a pass.
I'd been enjoying the racing up until Giovanadi started to bump his way through. I thought it was rather shameful to be honest, like something I used to do when I was rubbish on Gran Turismo!

Cuzza

2,042 posts

282 months

Monday 19th May 2008
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kleonard said:
GREAT DRIVE BY HIM ALRIGHT..!! SOME SLIDES THRU ISLAND BEND...!!
Great drive indeed - even though they were at Thruxtonwink

Glad I wasn't the only one to be unimpressed by Giovanardis influence redcard

porscheuro

1,384 posts

221 months

Monday 19th May 2008
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I think as a whole the vauxhall team are bullying cars out of the way by blatantly bumping and not been penalised , look at neal alongside turner in race 2 he never intended to turn in at all and forced turner onto grass and likewise with gio on young jordan the git

gio redcard yes a redcard and jordan clap well done ..

chris_w

2,571 posts

288 months

Monday 19th May 2008
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That last race was great, I was a bit sceptical about lottery-style grids but when the result is that entertaining you can't complain!

And well done Andrew Jordan, some great driving, gutted for him when the car cried enough.

Timmolad

3,721 posts

232 months

Tuesday 20th May 2008
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Hate the lottery grid system. Championships decided by some st ITV lottery.

entropy

6,441 posts

232 months

Tuesday 20th May 2008
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Gio was really under the kosch and was getting desperate. Plato pulled a cracking move in race 1 and that really ruffled Gio's feathers for the rest of the day.

He's a hard but fair racer - that shove on Plato at Snetterton was aggressive yet perfect at not sending Plato off the track.

The pressure is really getting to him and pulled some dodgy moves.

wilson s

69 posts

222 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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wicked drive by him on sunday wen cumming into the corner b4 the straight great defending wicked drive

Munter

31,331 posts

270 months

Wednesday 21st May 2008
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wilson s said:
wicked drive by him on sunday wen cumming into the corner b4 the straight great defending wicked drive
It wasn't wicked it was very well driven I thought. It didn't have anything naughty about it. I also trust he wiped down the car after cumming everywhere. And could you point me to the corner you refer to as b4? I could swear they all had names not numeric tags.
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