2022: BTCC and support series

[Milkyway]

Brands Hatch: News update.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BtccManagment/status/15...

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 5th May 21:33

[Driveline Shunt]

Milkyway said:

Brands Hatch: News update.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BtccManagment/status/15...

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 5th May 21:33

Never thought I'd see a Marina in the BTCC!

[cuprabob]

Driveline Shunt said:

Milkyway said:

Brands Hatch: News update.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BtccManagment/status/15...

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 5th May 21:33

Never thought I'd see a Marina in the BTCC!

ISWYDT

[Milkyway]

cuprabob said:

Driveline Shunt said:

Milkyway said:

Brands Hatch: News update.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BtccManagment/status/15...

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 5th May 21:33

Never thought I'd see a Marina in the BTCC!

ISWYDT

Bernard Unett in the Avenger was quite close.

Edited by Milkyway on Friday 6th May 10:03

[Driveline Shunt]

Milkyway said:

cuprabob said:

Driveline Shunt said:

Milkyway said:

Brands Hatch: News update.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BtccManagment/status/15...

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 5th May 21:33

Never thought I'd see a Marina in the BTCC!

ISWYDT

Bernard Unett in the Avenger was quite close.

Edited by Milkyway on Friday 6th May 10:03

Excellent - though there can be few more unlikely Touring cars/ saloon racers than Tony Lanfanchi's Moskvich..

[Milkyway]

Driveline Shunt said:

Excellent - though there can be few more unlikely Touring cars/ saloon racers than Tony Lanfanchi's Moskvich..

Great days... when they ran a class system.

[bigbadbikercats]

Milkyway said:

Driveline Shunt said:

Excellent - though there can be few more unlikely Touring cars/ saloon racers than Tony Lanfanchi's Moskvich..

Great days... when they ran a class system.

Was that the period when they ran a cost based class structure and the Moskvich had about a 50% capacity advantage over anything else it would have been racing against?

[Milkyway]

bigbadbikercats said:

Milkyway said:

Driveline Shunt said:

Excellent - though there can be few more unlikely Touring cars/ saloon racers than Tony Lanfanchi's Moskvich..

Great days... when they ran a class system.

Was that the period when they ran a cost based class structure and the Moskvich had about a 50% capacity advantage over anything else it would have been racing against?

I seem to remember that it was based on engine capacity...
Class A was the for big bangers down to about E for the lower capacity.
But each class had its own individual points... so a successful driver in the lower classes could win the overall Championship.
( Half points if less than six cars started in the class... I think)

Edited by Milkyway on Friday 6th May 20:49

[Smollet]

Milkyway said:

bigbadbikercats said:

Milkyway said:

Driveline Shunt said:

Excellent - though there can be few more unlikely Touring cars/ saloon racers than Tony Lanfanchi's Moskvich..

Great days... when they ran a class system.

Was that the period when they ran a cost based class structure and the Moskvich had about a 50% capacity advantage over anything else it would have been racing against?

I seem to remember that it was based on engine capacity...
Class A was the for big bangers down to about E for the lower capacity.
But each class had its own individual points... so a successful driver in the lower classes could win the overall Championship.
( Half points if less than six cars started in the class... I think)

Edited by Milkyway on Friday 6th May 20:49

Definitely run on a capacity basis. I don’t recall costing ever being a factor back then and I saw my first race in 1966.

[Driveline Shunt]

Tony ran the Moskvich as a cost rule was introduced that season, good article here:

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article...

[Smollet]

Driveline Shunt said:

Tony ran the Moskvich as a cost rule was introduced that season, good article here:

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article...

Well I never. Thanks.

[Milkyway]

Smollet said:

Driveline Shunt said:

Tony ran the Moskvich as a cost rule was introduced that season, good article here:

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article...

Well I never. Thanks.

It mentions the Production cars series... wasn’t this just for ‘standard’ cars as opposed to the full fat Touring cars.
Still, that was a great series too... lots of variety.
( But, I still didn’t know that price was a factor

Edited by Milkyway on Saturday 7th May 09:50

[Milkyway]

A bit off piste I know...
I was watching an old ‘Tipping point’ on W.

Question: Jason Plato is a Champion in which sport.
A: Motor Racing
B: Horse Racing
C: BMX Racing.

Of course the answer was ‘C’... maybe that’s one of JP’s hidden talents.

[Milkyway]

Looking forward to hearing & watching the Ginettas this weekend.
https://www.ginetta.com/news/ginetta-gt4-supercup-...

[SpudLink]

Milkyway said:

Looking forward to hearing & watching the Ginettas this weekend.
https://www.ginetta.com/news/ginetta-gt4-supercup-...

It's worth subscribing to the Ginetta youtube channel. They live stream races that are not part of the BTCC package.

[bigbadbikercats]

Driveline Shunt said:

Tony ran the Moskvich as a cost rule was introduced that season, good article here:

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article...

Phew! I was beginning to wonder if I’d imagined that! :-)

It seems like a very Tony Lanfranchi story, he always seemed to me to be one of those guys with an eye for an angle and a gleefully ruthless willingness to exploit it when he found one…

[Milkyway]

bigbadbikercats said:

Driveline Shunt said:

Tony ran the Moskvich as a cost rule was introduced that season, good article here:

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article...

Phew! I was beginning to wonder if I’d imagined that! :-)

It seems like a very Tony Lanfranchi story, he always seemed to me to be one of those guys with an eye for an angle and a gleefully ruthless willingness to exploit it when he found one…

Along with Gerry Marshall... great characters.

[Milkyway]

No Marina!
( Would have looked good from the blimp)

[Smollet]

Weird tv schedule today. I always record the whole meeting then skip to the bits I want. If I hadn’t noticed the regular showing was interrupted by the showing of the film Twins. I’d have missed the second BTCC race. Fortunately it’s being shown live on ITV. Seems a very bizarre move by ITV though

[scjgreen]

Smollet said:

Weird tv schedule today. I always record the whole meeting then skip to the bits I want. If I hadn’t noticed the regular showing was interrupted by the showing of the film Twins. I’d have missed the second BTCC race. Fortunately it’s being shown live on ITV. Seems a very bizarre move by ITV though

It annoys me that they can't just show it all on ITV in HD rather than jumping it between ITV and ITV4