BTCC - Round 1 - Brands Hatch

[Big Fat Fatty]

Robmarriott said:

99hjhm said:

Three wheels off? How can they run this standard of racing with that happening?

3? Neal's was his fault, I assume the third was Cook? From where I'm sitting on the pit stop straight bank it looked like someone had punted the back of the car so that doesn't count either, obviously I don't have commentary to go from so correct me if I'm wrong.

Who was number 2? Smith? I'm sat opposite his garage and his crew were looking at the left front, is that what the issue was? Again, nothing mentioned over the tannoy other than he retired...

Three total so far, Burns' on media day, Moffat's yesterday in qualifying and Newsham's during the race today with Smith's and Lloyd's suspected but unconfirmed.

[Robmarriott]

Crafty_ said:

As you saw he had a train of cars behind who couldn't pass. The lap he retired on he was slow in to the first corner, car looked a bit fidgety on the brakes, then around that lap he gave up and others got past, pitted at the end of it. I was wondering if it was a brake issue.

The guy from Dunlop was waiting in their garage for the car to come in, not sure if that was a coincidence.

[swooshiain]

lucido grigio said:

Newsham was the first to lose a wheel,came off at Graham Hill bend.

Only thing about that one was that he'd already been off when we first saw him, and then we saw the wheel come off afterwards; was unsure if he'd had a normal off and damaged the car, or if the wheel was the initial cause.

[swooshiain]

Robmarriott said:

Crafty_ said:

As you saw he had a train of cars behind who couldn't pass. The lap he retired on he was slow in to the first corner, car looked a bit fidgety on the brakes, then around that lap he gave up and others got past, pitted at the end of it. I was wondering if it was a brake issue.

The guy from Dunlop was waiting in their garage for the car to come in, not sure if that was a coincidence.

It looked like they tried to put the new wheel and on couldn't; as soon as they started looking at the hub, the camera cut away. Nothing to see here, folks!

[Robmarriott]

Just confirmed it over the (crackly) radio mike with Jeff on the drivers parade, he had a vibration, thought it was a puncture, came in and the team realised it was a wheel nut failure.

[lucido grigio]

Mostly clean Clio race,which makes a change.

16yo novice looks promising.

[acer12]

Wow, neal just blamed turkington, even acknowledged seeing turkington coming through yet stayed steering into him, what an a55! as usual turkington being mr nice guy and holding back.


https://twitter.com/dunlopbtcc/status/848485123687...

[Crafty_]

^ thats because Neal is an arse, he was interviewed on ITV and blamed wheelspinning off the start "dragging him down the track".

No, you made a crap start and tried to head off the BMW, but it was too late.

Robmarriott said:

Just confirmed it over the (crackly) radio mike with Jeff on the drivers parade, he had a vibration, thought it was a puncture, came in and the team realised it was a wheel nut failure.

Jeff was just on ITV, all loose wheels in testing and this weekend seem to be caused by new mandated TOCA wheel flanges..

[skeggysteve]

Wheelspin in a FWD car will drag the car towards the pit wall because of the slope, Neal knows that he also know that the BMW is a fast starting car and to say that he couldn't get of the throttle is just stupid.

[Crafty_]

This is just an utter joke. Can't line up, can't get a clean start and even then they're still turning cars around at Druids.

[rscott]

FFS what was Plato doing? Drove across the front of the Focus and completely caused the crash .
Totally different to the Neal/Turkington incident as far as i can see.

[Allyc85]

So much silliness in such little time.

[Ben Jk]

Can't wait for Plato to try and blame someone else.

[steve2]

Too many cars on a tight track, I have a plan, make the drivers pay for any damage they get, that might mean a bit less contact and more racing

[lucido grigio]

Ingram is an arse too,causes aborted start,starts in wrong place.

[lucido grigio]

Great interview Lou......

[RoadRunner220]

Looks like a massive amount of damage on Plato's car, time for the mechanics to be hero's again to get it ready for race 3.

[Crafty_]

RoadRunner220 said:

Looks like a massive amount of damage on Plato's car, time for the mechanics to be hero's again to get it ready for race 3.

Must have bent the chassis leg, surely - it was a pretty hard hit.

[egomeister]

Crafty_ said:

RoadRunner220 said:

Looks like a massive amount of damage on Plato's car, time for the mechanics to be hero's again to get it ready for race 3.

Must have bent the chassis leg, surely - it was a pretty hard hit.

They don't have chassis legs as such. The front end of the car is replaced with a fabricated subframe, so they'll basically replace everything forward of the bulkhead.

[Crafty_]

I thought the subframes were fitted to OE legs. In any case, its had a good whack.

Standard amount of bumpers cars going on as usual.