BTCC - Croft - Rounds 13, 14, 15

[swooshiain]

Well, here we go again. Two wet FP sessions down in Yorkshire, with Ash Sutton being the fastest in both, and Plato up at the sharp end as well. Reports of quite a few cars slithering off at the chicane, with Ingram damaging his car enough in FP1 that he missed FP2. Hondas and MGs also going well. Quali is on the ITV site at 15.45. Will be interesting to see how Strandberg gets on in the Maximum Focus.

[Sebring440]

I see the Subarus' extra boost is helping again. Mr Plato 3rd in Free Practice 1 and 4th in Free Practice 2. Hopefully that will stop his moaning for a while. As this extra boost obviously works, I think it should be offered to all the teams.

[swooshiain]

Either things are running behind schedule, or someone at ITV forgot to hit the "transmit" button.

[ONtheROCS]

Quali red flagged. What a mess.

[N0ddie]

Nasty nasty incident. ATS and JS cars look a proper mess. They'll be lucky to walk away injury free me thinks (ATS in particular). Cars may not make Sunday's races.

[swooshiain]

That was one of the nastiest situations I've seen at a BTCC race in a long time. Hope Taylor-Smith is ok. I think two or three of those cars could be done for the weekend.

[N0ddie]

The Shredded Wheat Focus definitely wont be racing I dont think. Whole side of it is mashed in. Top down view of it looks like a banana.

[N0ddie]

2 guys needing to be cut outta the cars. Surely that means no racing for them this weekend. ATS will be ruled out too surely as he was knocked out?

[swooshiain]

Taylor-Smith out and on the way to hospital after being briefly knocked out. Davenport and Jeff Smith being cut out of their cars; no life-threatening injuries, according to Alan Gow.

[Allyc85]

Horrible incident, glad to hear things aren't worse than they are..

https://t.co/quWmB9AUVr

[swooshiain]

Allyc85 said:

Horrible incident, glad to hear things aren't worse than they are..

https://t.co/quWmB9AUVr

Davenport went over the grass at the previous corner; the speculation from the commentators is that he probably ripped something off the bottom of the car, possibly even the sump, and dropped oil all over the track.

[airbusA346]

Who or what did Davenport hit to cause that much damage?

[airbusA346]

The MG...

https://twitter.com/AndyGrayNI/status/873568436961...

[swooshiain]

airbusA346 said:

The MG...

https://twitter.com/AndyGrayNI/status/873568436961...

Ooft. A lot of damage, and not a team that wanted another bent car.

[airbusA346]

Qualifying abandoned.

[airbusA346]

https://twitter.com/rebeccaramseyy/status/87357416...

The Ford is scrap. B pillar has been cut off.

[N0ddie]

I'd say the 3 are scrap surely?

[airbusA346]

According to Touring Car Times on Twitter, Jeff Smith is being readied in the medical centre before being airlifted to hospital.

[airbusA346]

From BTCC:

"UPDATE FROM CROFT: Aron Taylor-Smith is already en route to hospital. Jeff Smith is being readied at the Croft Medical Centre before being airlifted to hospital. Luke Davenport is currently being assessed at the Medical Centre. None of the injuries suffered are thought to be life threatening."

[airbusA346]

Jordan's BMW is a bit squashed at the rear end... after hitting Davenport.

https://twitter.com/Official_WSR/status/8735606218...