Donington: BTCC & support chat

[Milkyway]

I thought that we could have a separate thread just for today's meeting...

I know that the BTCC has a general thread, but it would to be nice to cover the meeting as a whole.

Support races:
Porsche Carrera Cup
Vertu Mini Challenge
F4
Legends
Radicals

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 28th April 13:49

[Milkyway]

egor110 said:

Nice lake forming in the gravel trap bottom of craner curves !

Good start to the season... Craner curves into Craner lake.
Plus, the track will be extra slippery due to the nearby airport.

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 28th April 10:53

[Milkyway]

FredericRobinson said:

I’ve never understood the airport thing, are we to believe planes spray aviation fuel all over the surrounding area?

I know that it used to be a problem in the past...current aviation fuel must to be a lot cleaner.

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 28th April 11:34

[Milkyway]

FredericRobinson said:

How does it get out of the plane?

It must fall out when the wheels are down.
( ... Really hope that the racing starts sometime today... Picked a good day to start a new thread,)

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 28th April 12:14

[Milkyway]

Dinoboy said:

Looks no worse than knockhill last Sunday where multiple grids of club racers managed to have a great day's racing without much incident.

Maybe they are being a bit cautious, as it's on National TV.

[Milkyway]

Big thumbs up to Jade... Doing a great job.
Baptism of fire...obviously, she has good insight about the drivers & teams, it's also nice to hear the views of a driver from the current era.

Ahhh... finally some racing.(2023).

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 28th April 12:36

[Milkyway]

A mixed up grid in mixed conditions... It's going to be interesting.
( It's GO, GO, GO...).

[Milkyway]

SpudLink said:

Very relieved to see the driver walk away from that legends car. The way his head shook around as it landed was horrific.

... coming to a dead stop like that would certainly have produced a few G's.

[Milkyway]

Using Jade as a pundit... seems like a good role for an unemployed driver.
(No doubt... a few quid in the pot as well).

Edited by Milkyway on Monday 29th April 09:41

[Milkyway]

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

[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...

[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.

[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.

[Milkyway]

Whilst its still fresh on my mind... those live lifts are a bit butt clenching.

I quite agree with Paul O' Neill's comments & hope that he didn't get his knuckles rapped by Mr Gow... too hard anyway.

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 2nd May 13:20

[Milkyway]

It will be interesting to see how. Nick will compare to Tom & Ronan as the season progresses.