ETCC Touring Car Cup

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:25 pm

From when Simon Arron was a member here (he now works at Motor Sport Magazine!), from that funny F3000 results thread:

Simon Arron wrote:

It was often a wonderfully comedic series (albeit unintentionally so). I can can think of no other that involved plagues of frogs (Enna), practice having to be delayed because the organisers had forgotten to arrange a medical helicopter (Enna), rescue trucks towing cars out of gravel traps, flipping them upside down and continuing to drag them along with the driver still inside (Enna), medical centres being located in chicane escape roads and being inaccessible unless the doctor drove along the main straight while the race was in full flow (Enna, in the days before the Safety Car existed) and marshals who seemed to think the middle of track was the safest place to stand and wave a yellow flag (have a wild guess).

I do miss it.

Metzo · PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:10 pm

and they dropped Pergusa for 2016

but will race on the Nordschleife instead

2016 ETCC Calendar:
April 3rd – Paul Ricard, France (with WTCC)
April 17th – Slovakiaring, Slovakia (with WTCC)
May 28th – Nürburgring Nordschleife, Germany (with WTCC)
June 12th – Vila Real, Portugal (with WTCC)
July 10th – Magny-Cours, France (with GT Tour)
October 2nd – Imola, Italy (with Formula 3)

Gaara · PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:15 pm

Gah, good and bad news there.

And yet they go to the eyesore.

pimmy · PostPosted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:57 am

No Enna

. At least the races will be streamed next year, so we won't miss a third of the season like we did in 2015. I hope they can encourage more people to take part in the S1600 class, whatever happened to the Chevrolet Aveos that appeared a few years ago?

It's a bit rubbish that they have two rounds in France, although I suppose it's to be expected considering the nationalities of Ribeiro & Eurosport. Magny-Cours should provide some novelty for me though, as I haven't seen a race from there since the last time F1 visited the track.

Metzo · PostPosted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 1:02 am

pimmy wrote:

I hope they can encourage more people to take part in the S1600 class, whatever happened to the Chevrolet Aveos that appeared a few years ago?

Maurer Motorsport wanted to sell the Aveos but there was no one interested in buying them so far.

i think there could be more S1600 cars in ETCC next year as the S1600 class has been dropped from the ADAC Procar, so some new drivers/teams could join ETCC instead.

pimmy · PostPosted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 1:58 pm

Metzo wrote:

i think there could be more S1600 cars in ETCC next year as the S1600 class has been dropped from the ADAC Procar, so some new drivers/teams could join ETCC instead.

And just like that, some Peugeots appear!

Petr Fulin's livery:

Philthy82 · PostPosted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 4:46 am

Really like that scheme.

pimmy · PostPosted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 1:53 am

Rather action-packed races this weekend. Drive throughs galore!

maclauren · PostPosted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 2:04 am

Both races were streamed live on Eurosport Player, by the way (with commentary from Martin Haven).

Wreckinturn4 · PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 12:19 am

The racing was good but it felt like I was watching TCR. Actually TCR has more field diversity, this was just Leons and Civics. Also the version I watched had a ton of video glitches, which got distracting after a while.

pimmy · PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:10 pm

Sebastien Loeb Racing will run a couple of Peugeots at the Nurburgring.

Wreckinturn4 · PostPosted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 12:37 am

I didnt see a post about it but the slovakia races were pretty entertaining

pimmy wrote:

Sebastien Loeb Racing will run a couple of Peugeots at the Nurburgring.

that 308 looks really good

Wreckinturn4 · PostPosted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 12:33 pm

19:45 look at fulin's pass in the grass, imagine if that finish was for first place instead

pimmy · PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2016 3:18 pm

The racing seemed good from what little Euroshit showed of it during their amazing 15 minute highlights show. The fact it was commentated on by ~~a retard~~ Tom Gaymor only heightened the experience. It was rather obvious he was attempting to read a script, to the point where I think he'd struggle with this:

Wreckinturn4 · PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 1:42 am

magny-cours was interesting. first race was meh until richard gave up the lead to serve a penalty...except he was never issued one.
second race was better with some good battles. richard and fulin are tied for points going into the last round

pimmy · PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 2:27 am

Kris Richard won the title, despite Jake Sanson trying to convince everyone of the opposite on the broadcast, but that's Euroshit for you. He won the tie-breaker going down to second place finishes.

Wreckinturn4 · PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 3:27 am

that's a big :slaphead:

pimmy · PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 12:15 pm

And then there was the editing. In race 1, Stefanovski was all over Richard trying to get the lead, coverage goes to a break, comes back 3 laps later with Stefanovski leading. No mention of the pass in commentary and no replay. In race 2, there was a safety car for two cars off in the gravel and it looked like a fairly big shunt considering the damage. Replays? Nah, you'd be more likely to see a polkadot unicorn.

Gaara · PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 12:34 pm

Well that's Euroshite for you.

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