BTCC Donnington

[anonymous-user]

anyone watching?

What a farce, repeat of silverstone as it looks like team daddy chilton are making onslow cole slow down from 1st so that chilton can get past shedden.

This is the points standing so its quite clear that they do not want onslow cole to win the championship which he has a good chance of if the team would let him get on with it,

01/ Jason Plato/ 202/
02/ Matt Neal/ 182/
03/ Tom Onslow-Cole 178/
04/ Gordon Shedden/ 169/
05/ Tom Chilton/ 143

If i was a paying sponsor for team aon,id pull out. Is it any surprise that everyone hates that cock chilton

[EDLT]

Its wacky races.

EDIT - Looks like Plato took himself out.

Edited by EDLT on Sunday 19th September 12:32

[Daz68]

Oh dear Plato. What have you done.

[anonymous-user]

To be fair Onslow Cole has no pace in this race for some reason. Annoying to see the bumper car tactics are back again considering how clean the driving has been last couple of rounds.

[Steamer]

Carnage!!!

The first G40 junior race was excellent though. The brother & sister that came in 2nd & 3rd were so close! They managed to keep it cleaner than the BTCC boys too

[Rude-boy]

How unfortunate that one of Plato's 'push the other chap off the track to pass' moves ended up with him the in the kitty litter.

[topless_mx5]

I'm not a regular watcher of BTCC, but how did Matt Neal get away with nudging the rear corner of Jordan and the BMW driver in the first race, causing them to run wide and therefore resulting in a pass. Surely that's just not fair in any form of racing?
It's frowned upon when playing Forza on Xbox Live, let alone in real racing.

[EDLT]

topless_mx5 said:

I'm not a regular watcher of BTCC, but how did Matt Neal get away with nudging the rear corner of Jordan and the BMW driver in the first race, causing them to run wide and therefore resulting in a pass. Surely that's just not fair in any form of racing?
It's frowned upon when playing Forza on Xbox Live, let alone in real racing.

Quite simply, because they are allowed to do it.

People in online racing games complain about everything so its not a fair comparison imo.

[EDLT]

BTCC Race 2 starts at around 14:25 and Race 3 at around 17:05 for people who've got other things to do this afternoon.

[Jez64]

EDLT said:

BTCC Race 2 starts at around 14:25 and Race 3 at around 17:05 for people who've got other things to do this afternoon.

Thanks for that, hadn't realised it was on.

Glad to see there's racing at Donnington again.

[deadslow]

Holy moly, that formula ford race was outstanding!

[indigorallye]

deadslow said:

Holy moly, that formula ford race was outstanding!

That was proper edge of the seat stuff.
Circuit looks good too.

[oobster]

deadslow said:

Holy moly, that formula ford race was outstanding!

It was good yes. Pity Josh Hill binned it in the 2nd race though.

[anonymous-user]

oobster said:

deadslow said:

Holy moly, that formula ford race was outstanding!

It was good yes. Pity Josh Hill binned it in the 2nd race though.

think it was the 3rd race of the day, he won the first 2 races

[AlexS]

Steamer said:

Carnage!!!

The first G40 junior race was excellent though. The brother & sister that came in 2nd & 3rd were so close! They managed to keep it cleaner than the BTCC boys too

A large chunk of the field had a trip to the Clark of Course for a complete dressing down a couple of meetings back (plus one driver suspended for the following race meet) so I suspect they are still trying to be on their best behaviour.

[rhysenna]

How good does the Focus look going through the Old Hairpin? Beautiful!!

[kam tunio]

WTF are ford doing?!? Stupid tactics.

[rocket]

topless_mx5 said:

I'm not a regular watcher of BTCC, but how did Matt Neal get away with nudging the rear corner of Jordan and the BMW driver in the first race, causing them to run wide and therefore resulting in a pass. Surely that's just not fair in any form of racing?
It's frowned upon when playing Forza on Xbox Live, let alone in real racing.

That's generally the way Nudger Neal makes his overtake unfortunately.

kam tunio said:

WTF are ford doing?!? Stupid tactics.

It may have been the case at Silverstone but I don't think there were any 'tactics' today. Just another opportunity for the Ford/Chilton bashers to have a go.

[Allyc85]

I dont think there were any tactics in race 1. If you looked closely the Fords seemed to be all over the road, hence why Shedden was able to over take so tightly out of Coppice.

Great second race though, its brilliant to have Donington back

[FourWheelDrift]

I looked to me as if Onslow-Cole's Ford was a bit unstable at the rear turning in, cold tyres, wrong tyre pressures or maybe a heavy success ballast issue. Losing the rear into the corners but still being able to pull the car out on the throttle. He probably got it a bit wrong a couple of times to allow Sheddon back onto him and again when he got past. Chilton had (I believe) no success ballast.