Blancpain Endurance Series - Silverstone - 14th May 2016

Blancpain Endurance Series - Silverstone - 14th May 2016

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geordiecraig101

Original Poster:

80 posts

112 months

Sunday 15th May 2016
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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

555 posts

224 months

Sunday 15th May 2016
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Why were they using the National pits, and not the Wing?

Truckosaurus

11,183 posts

283 months

Monday 16th May 2016
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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

5,438 posts

194 months

Monday 16th May 2016
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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

2,644 posts

178 months

Monday 16th May 2016
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To do with size of pits. Moto GP uses national pits as well for this reason.

FredericRobinson

3,668 posts

231 months

Monday 16th May 2016
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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

1,242 posts

155 months

Monday 16th May 2016
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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

1,748 posts

155 months

Tuesday 17th May 2016
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Using the Wing adds considerably to the cost. We ran Britcar from the National pits to kick off our new season.

BarryP

584 posts

143 months

Thursday 19th May 2016
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Link to my pictures from the Silverstone Blancpain meeting.


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