A round-up of yesterday from my POV as a spectator:
- The 3 BTCC races were by far the best races of the day, mainly due to it being the only series with an acceptable sized entry.
- Juniors & Clios also put on some good racing, although the latter was spoilt by a little girl crying at nothing for the entirety of it (she needed a smack, tbh. There should be a minimum age limit for spectators, say 8 or 9).
- The first FFord race was fairly good, so was the lead battle in the last Gineatta race, but the rest of the support races were
. I actually nodded off during the second Porsche race, but that was due to tiredness rather than boredom.- The MSA need to give the organisers of the support series a good kick up the arse. It's not much fun watching barely a double-digit number of cars circulate around a 3 mile circuit. Ginetta Juniors are the only series this year with an acceptable sized entry and they could only muster 19 cars this weekend. This has been the worst year for the supports in the 11 years that I've been attending events.
- BTCC = 31 cars
- Carrera Cup + FFord + Ginetta GT4 = 33 cars
- Clio Cup + Ginetta Juniors = 33 cars
It's pretty poor when you consider that other UK series have many more entries than that, e.g. VW Cup, Ginetta GT5, Caterhams, Fiestas.
- There was a disgusting cave-dweller behind me who spent the entire day deliberately belching as loudly as possible, and a woman who spent a lot of the day talking just to hear her own voice.