BTCC - Thruxton (August) - Official thread & stuff

[AlexRS2782]

Following on from the thread a couple of weeks back for Snetterton:

Tordoff on Pole by a very narrow margin - repeating the achievement from earlier in the year. Plato 2nd - which should be enough to wind up all the people that don't like him Cammish 3rd. Top 20 all within .7 secs of the fastest lap.

Full Qualification Results from Thruxton:

1 Sam TORDOFF (GBR) Cobra Sport AmD AutoAid/RCIB Insurance 1m15.876s (111.78 mph)
2 Jason PLATO (GBR) Sterling Insurance with Power Maxed Racing +0.014s
3 Dan CAMMISH (GBR) Halfords Yuasa Racing +0.073s
4 Adam MORGAN (GBR) Mac Tools with Ciceley Motorsport +0.119s
5 Josh COOK (GBR) BTC Racing +0.235s
6 Rory BUTCHER (GBR) Cobra Sport AmD AutoAid/RCIB Insurance +0.306s
7 Tom OLIPHANT (GBR) Team BMW +0.312s
8 Tom INGRAM (GBR) Team Toyota GB with Ginsters +0.364s
9 Chris SMILEY (GBR) BTC Racing +0.399s
10 Rob COLLARD (GBR) Sterling Insurance with Power Maxed Racing +0.477s
11 Colin TURKINGTON (GBR) Team BMW +0.484s
12 Ashley SUTTON (GBR) Adrian Flux Subaru Racing +0.486s
13 Andrew JORDAN (GBR) BMW Pirtek Racing +0.505s
14 Ollie JACKSON (GBR) Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Gallagher +0.534s
15 Bobby THOMPSON (GBR) GKR Scaffolding with Autobrite Direct +0.553s
16 Tom CHILTON (GBR) Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Gallagher +0.570s
17 Matt NEAL (GBR) Halfords Yuasa Racing +0.615s
18 Senna PROCTOR (GBR) Adrian Flux Subaru Racing +0.647s
19 Jack GOFF (GBR) RCIB Insurance with Fox Transport +0.679s
20 Jake HILL (GBR) TradePriceCars.com +0.721s
21 Daniel ROWBOTTOM (GBR) Cataclean Racing with Ciceley Motorsport +1.030s
22 Matt SIMPSON (GBR) Simpson Racing +1.114s
23 Stephen JELLEY (GBR) Team Parker Racing +1.195s
24 Nicolas HAMILTON (GBR) ROKiT Racing with Motorbase +1.383s
25 Aiden MOFFAT (GBR) Laser Tools Racing +1.429s
26 Mark BLUNDELL (GBR) TradePriceCars.com +1748s
27 Michael CREES (GBR) GKR Scaffolding with Autobrite Direct +1.961s
28 Rob SMITH (GBR) Excelr8 Motorsport +2.013s
29 Carl BOARDLEY (GBR) RCIB Insurance with Fox Transport +2.082s
30 Sam OSBORNE (GBR) Excelr8 Motorsport +3.146s

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Dinoboy said:

Sutton getting a bit silly now, seemed to be constantly pushing others off the track.

Quite amusing given his own protestations over Plato making contact with him at Snetterton He certainly seemed to be repeatedly giving Ingram quite a few taps, runs wide, etc.

Good drive from Plato in race 3 though to finish 5th. Shame he buggered up the start (for the 2nd time this season) in the first race though.

Great for Cammish to finally get a win as well - he's had enough 2nd's up until now.

I bet most of the drivers were happy that Butcher's non start knocked 1 lap off the total distance as i don't think they'd have lasted another lap with the way the rain had set in at the end - it certainly seemed pretty heavy when they were doing the post race interviews.

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poosemon said:

...how come his team didn't let him know to reverse back a couple of inches?...

Jason mentioned in his interview with Louise that there is evidently a deliberate delay in comms between the pit wall & car during the grid formation so they wouldn't be able to advise him. Although by the sounds of what else he said, he did admit he pretty much messed up, should have known better and basically judged the position of the tape on the pit wall wrongly from when he set off for the formation lap & when he pulled up in the box.

I think it's also been mentioned either on this thread, or a previous one, that once the grid is forming / formed you can't engage reverse to reposition without a penalty anyway, so he was effectively shafted the moment he came to a halt.

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Kraken said:

There was another driver who did the same in that race, can't remember who without watching it again. JP isn't the only one who's done it (Cammish has definitely done it as well and I'm sure there are others) but he's the only one who's done it from the front row (twice) so it's far more obvious.

I think it was Jack Goff? I seem to remember something in commentary about his name being called for a drive through at the same time as Jason was.