Blancpain Endurance Series - Silverstone - 14th May 2016

[geordiecraig101]

Had another great day out watching the Blancpain at Silverstone yesterday.

Here's my pics n vid if anyone interested, all comments welcome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yqkjsj4HkE

https://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiecraig101/albu...

[indigorallye]

Why were they using the National pits, and not the Wing?

[Truckosaurus]

I suspect they save the use of the Wing for the events they know will draw a big enough crowd to make it worthwhile putting on the buses etc.

[mcdjl]

indigorallye said:

Why were they using the National pits, and not the Wing?

A few of them tried on Sunday afternoon. The reason I heard was that the paddock is too small.

[joema]

To do with size of pits. Moto GP uses national pits as well for this reason.

[FredericRobinson]

It was an excellent weekend, reasonable crowd too considering how under-promoted the Blancpain is, it'd be even better with a longer race and less support racing

[Zed 44]

FredericRobinson said:

It was an excellent weekend, reasonable crowd too considering how under-promoted the Blancpain is, it'd be even better with a longer race and less support racing

I have to say I thought I'd arrived at a track day. Hardly anyone around, only 2 grandstands open, one burger van, one waffle van, one beer van and 2 ice cream vans. One guy I met said he thought it was a real shame. He said he'd been coming to most major motor racing events since the 60's and the Blancpain was the worst in terms of promotion and spectators.

I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed the racing made all the more enjoyable by following it on the Blancpain app live timing facility.

[88racing]

Using the Wing adds considerably to the cost. We ran Britcar from the National pits to kick off our new season.

[BarryP]

Link to my pictures from the Silverstone Blancpain meeting.


Link: www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?t=524073