BTCC 20-09 Rockingham ***spoilers***

[Munter]

Well Race 1. Turn 1. Neal smashes his car up.... Why am I not surprised.

[woof]

looked like he got pushed on to the grass to me - or a of brake failure ??

[Chocmonster]

Felt sorry for Herbert but at least he got to talk to Louise like in his F1 days.

[oobster]

It's quite a good format on ITV4 (apart from the adverts). Good to see Jelley take his 1st win.

[EDLT]

I missed the first race again, they should put them on slightly later so I have time to get out of bed

Has there ever been a race at Rockingham where all those stands are full?

[FourWheelDrift]

woof said:

or a of brake failure ??

Looked like locked brakes to me, more brain failure.

[jamiebae]

Steve Neil thinks that Matt is a 'category A' driver, along with Fab, Thommo and Plato

I guess he's biased though

Good race there, nice to see Jason win it, it really could go down to the wire now. I'm gutted I'm in bed with man-flu so couldn't go to the race today, and I can't make it to Brands either

[FourWheelDrift]

Neal's not fit to touch Thommo's boots, 2 epic drives at Imola today in the Lada.

[jamiebae]

FourWheelDrift said:

Neal's not fit to touch Thommo's boots, 2 epic drives at Imola today in the Lada.

So I see, I wish I had Eurosport here

[Glenn McMenamin]

Munter said:

Well Race 1. Turn 1. Neal smashes his car up.... Why am I not surprised.

I didn't see the touring cars race today, but in our race that turn could prove to be lethal !!

2 Cars had big ones there this weekend, as the track was littered with rubber on that turn, and if you pick too much up, it had some scary consequences !!!

It was only flat on Brand new rubber for me !!

[gassolinebonce]

That third race was fantastic, best racing action in the BTCC this year. I thought Plato had completely cocked it up for Turkington but luckily Colin didn't completely spin. The next couple of laps were heart-in-mouth stuff, nice to see Herbert really getting in the grove of the touring cars and I'm glad Colin had got a couple more points over Gio than before they came to the Rock.

[Kinky]

And our PH favourite PHer Mr. Jelley won

[kevin ritson]

Had to chuckle at Chilton's comment. Plato got his just desserts for that move

[jamiebae]

Kinky said:

And our PH favourite PHer Mr. Jelley won

Congratulations to Steven

A couple of weeks ago I was chatting to someone about how he hadn't really taken to BTCC and wasn't very impressive but this weekend has been a totally different story.

Race 3 was great, loads of wheel-to-wheel action and if JP isn't going to win I'd rather see Colin win it than Fabrizio. Roll on Brands Hatch, let's hope it goes down to race 3, because I might just be able to see that one!

[gassolinebonce]

kevin ritson said:

Had to chuckle at Chilton's comment. Plato got his just desserts for that move

Was nice to get an interview with Chilton again, been so long. Glad to see he was so so pleased with the third place. I laughed at his comment about JP too...


"Plato being Plato set about trying to ram off the whole world"

[Kinky]

We have about 30+ PHers going to Brands, to support Mr. Jelley and the team (who are all a cracking bunch of lads - especially boyband)

Shaved heads and all

[woof]

excellent 3rd race - Plato is a dick though - what the fk was he thinking - so glad that he's out of the hunt now.

Go Johnny !

[Wh00sher]

gassolinebonce said:

That third race was fantastic, best racing action in the BTCC this year. I thought Plato had completely cocked it up for Turkington but luckily Colin didn't completely spin. The next couple of laps were heart-in-mouth stuff, nice to see Herbert really getting in the grove of the touring cars and I'm glad Colin had got a couple more points over Gio than before they came to the Rock.

Agree with that.

Great afternoons racing and the last race was the best of all.

[williamp]

Yes, well done Stephen Jelley. About time too...!!


...so is he a pher?

[skeggysteve]

Why were there so many safety cars?
Almost every race that I looked at had a safety car.

Last weekend the LMS 1000k race at Silverstone did not have one safety car and from what I've read there were plenty of cars off.

Is it the drivers or race control?