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There are five or six videos on Youtube of Neate's crash already - warnings and all, it's a serious crash.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q3I5b_PULVA

Damn, that was a massive hit for the TVR.

Yeaa and Adam Sharp who started it all by spinning his Mosler was excluded from the rest of the race.

That's why rolling starts are dangerous

Apparently he has a pretty badly broken neck. Sounds very bad

Thx for the video Toto


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Damn, thats not good

It looks like a pretty huge crash, although its not too easy to make out what happens in that youtube vid

He got turned into the pit wall head on, and I think maybe got hit by another car - looking through 10 Tenths, 2 hits were mentioned

All the spectator vids concentrate on the Mosler spinning at first before going back to the other crash after it's already happened

Apparently they kept it quiet about how bad his injuries were, because most people that were there got the impression he only had minor injuries

That doesnt look good at all.Pretty nasty hit for him.Hopefully he recovers soon

John George has been released from hospital.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/70791

Only injury is bruising from his HANS device.

Only just got round to watching the races - I had to get them off racing underground as I was at work, and couldn't record the races like I usually do. Was good racing as usual, although it was a shame Plato couldn't do better in race 1 to take the championship to the final race, and Giovanardi couldn't pick up a win or two to finish his championship in style. It's been a great season though overall, with some of the most consistently good racing of any series all year. Hopefully this'll continue next year without SEAT; I think the series is in good hands with Alan Gow though, so I'm sure there'll be no problem. And hopefully these manufacturer rumours are true too!

Oh, and Darren Turner's a fucking wanker. Great to see that John George is ok.

Has Turner been given any sort of punishment? Even if it wasn't deliberate it was bloody stupid. Good job it wasn't Plato or we wouldn't hear the end of it

Nope no punishment at all. He's already said he won't be back in BTCC next season so he knew he could get away with driving like a twat.

He did phone JG in hospital to apologise and ask how he was though. To me it looked like a racing incident, even JG's account of the accident says no-one was at fault.

Some interesting stats for the 08 season from btcc.net.

Statistics, 2008 BTCC season, 600 laps = 1019.39 miles:

Pole positions (achieved in Saturday qualifying)
Jason Plato 3
Darren Turner 2
Tom Onslow-Cole 2
Mat Jackson 1
Gordon Shedden 1
Stephen Jelley 1

Race wins
Jason Plato 8
Fabrizio Giovanardi 5
Mat Jackson 5
Colin Turkington 4
Darren Turner 2
Gordon Shedden 2
Tom Onslow-Cole 2
Matt Neal 1
Tom Chilton 1

Second places
Mat Jackson 5
Colin Turkington 4
Fabrizio Giovanardi 4
Adam Jones 3
Steven Kane 3
Matt Neal 3
Darren Turner 2
Tom Chilton 2
Robert Collard 1
Jason Plato 1
Gordon Shedden 1
Tom Onslow-Cole 1

Third places
Tom Onslow-Cole 6
Fabrizio Giovanardi 6
Matt Neal 5
Jason Plato 3
Adam Jones 2
Robert Collard 2
Darren Turner 2
Andrew Jordan 1
Tom Chilton 1
Colin Turkington 1
Gordon Shedden 1

Fastest laps
Fabrizio Giovanardi 8
Jason Plato 5
Mat Jackson 4
Darren Turner 4
Tom Onslow-Cole 3
Colin Turkington 2
Steven Kane 2
Gordon Shedden 1
Matt Neal 1

Bonus point for leading a race
Jason Plato 12
Colin Turkington 7
Mat Jackson 7
Fabrizio Giovanardi 7
Gordon Shedden 5
Tom Onslow-Cole 4
Darren Turner 4
Andrew Jordan 1
Robert Collard 1
Matt Neal 1
Tom Chilton 1

Laps led (out of 600)
Jason Plato 171
Mat Jackson 102
Fabrizio Giovanardi 87
Colin Turkington 82
Darren Turner 53
Gordon Shedden 46
Tom Onslow-Cole 27
Tom Chilton 25
Andrew Jordan 3
Matt Neal 3
Robert Collard 1

Miles led (out of 1019.39)
Jason Plato 219.8093
Fabrizio Giovanardi 149.252
Colin Turkington 148.917
Mat Jackson 146.021
Gordon Shedden 98.833
Darren Turner 85.0491
Tom Onslow-Cole 54.921
Tom Chilton 29.965
Andrew Jordan 6.678
Matt Neal 5.820
Robert Collard. 2.125

Looks like Plato was statistically the best guy out there this year but just got unlucky

Plato is usually the driver who spends the most time at the front of the field, but just can't seem to hold it together for a full season (whether it's his own fault or the car's).

I'll add some notes about the meting that haven't been posted yet:

Vicki Butler-Henderson was due to race a guest car in the Carrera Cup but crashed in Friday testing and wrecked the car.

The Clio race was pretty ordinary (by their standards). Three cars went off on the first lap causing a safety car, and there were a couple of sideways moments at Paddock.

More on Neate's crash. Seems that he clipped Sharpe's car (which according to Adam had a gearbox problem all weekend) or spun in avoidance, hit the outside barrier which knocked him out initially, spun back across into the pit wall and got hit hard in the passenger side by the works Ginetta of Richard Dean. The car looks a complete mess although that is after they cut him out. Apparently he's in a serious but stable condition

Those figures are interesting, thanks Danny. Just shows what a poor season Matt Neal had, he only lead 3 laps all season, whilst his team mate in the same car won the championship.

Neal was a big disappointment this year, he was probably the weakest Vauxhall driver even behind the inexperienced TOC (who impressed me a lot this year).

Yeah same here, i thought Neal would have a strong season, and be a championship contender.