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The seven week mid-season break has come to a close as the BTCC arrives at the Snetterton circuit in Norfolk for rounds 16, 17 & 18 of the 2010 championship:


Croft providing some very exciting racing last time out, with Gordon Shedden claiming two victories and a first ever win for Pirtek Racing’s Andrew Jordan in race 3 of the day. At the head of the championship the top two got identical point hauls in North Yorkshire so the eight point lead for Matt Neal is maintained. The big winner last time out was Gordon Shedden who jumped from 6th to 3rd in the standings:

1.  Matt Neal            119  
2.  Jason Plato          111
3.  Gordon Shedden       100
4.  Tom Onslow-Cole       97
5.  Steven Kane           92
6.  Mat Jackson           79
7.  Paul O'Neill          79
8.  Rob Collard           67
9.  Tom Chilton           60
10. Andrew Jordan         51
11. Tom Boardman          40
12. Fabrizio Giovanardi   38
13. Alex MacDowall        35
14. James Nash            30
15. Phil Glew              9
16. David Pinkney          9
17. Daniel Lloyd           7
18. Andy Neate             4
19. John George            2
20. Martin Johnson         2
21. Matt Hamilton          2
22. Lea Wood               0
23. Arthur Forster         0
24. Martin Depper          0
25. Shaun Hollamby         0 

Sunday timetable
09.10 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain
09.50 Michelin Formula Renault UK Championship
10.30 Ginetta Junior Championship
11.00 Elf Renault Clio Cup with Michelin
11.50 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship
13.20 Michelin Ginetta G50 Cup
14.10 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship
14.50 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain
15.30 Michelin Formula Renault UK Championship
16.10 Ginetta Junior Championship
16.50 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship
17.30 Heritage Grand Touring Car Challenge

TV coverage
ITV4 @ 1130-1830, Sunday 8 August (Live BTCC & Supports)
ITV4 @ 1530-1700, Tuesday 10 August (BTCC highlights)
ITV1HD @ 0220-0335, Friday 13 August (BTCC highlights)
ITV4 @ 1530-1700, Saturday 14 August (BTCC highlights)

Thanks God. Proper racing is back.

WooHoo!! Glad to have BTCC back

I gather you guys had fun last year with this race and a certain tree...

Snett's always good fun. I'm probably going to miss the beginning of the action but I'm not going to miss race 3. Always good fun here

Oh yes lot's of fun with the tree, a driver called Dick and a certain Alice Powell

Ohhh, this will be good

Don't forget Simples

Oh yeaa that fucking meerkat too...

How many times are we going to hear "Quiet it's just a fur wound"?

Wonder if they'll show the Heritage GTs this year? Seems to fit into the live schedule.

i love Snetterton great track

There was actually a really good shot of the during the BSB but i couldnt be bothered capping it

I don't know what to think ahead of this round. The races will be either really tame with the Fords driving away, or they'll be utterly insane.

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I usually go to Snetterton every year but I forgot it was this weekend. I'll probably just wake up early on Sunday and see if I have the urge to go or not.

Actually I missed it last year but at least I was a part of the Dick, Powell, tree, simples thread. Good times!

Wow! Seven hours of live coverage. Wish that would happen here in Canada so the support series could be seen at major races.

Just realised go-compare man is doing an excellent impression of the snetterton tree.

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Oh yeaa he is

No way the thread can be as barmy as last year. That just happened, you can't re-create that circumstance again.

Unless we did a drinking game for every time the tree was in shot!

So happy to have decent racing back unfettered by manufacturer bullshit or strange penalties or anything like that.

And at a damn fine track too...Yay(tree) for Snetterton!

Or spot yay! tree impersonations?

With this unbroken sequence of terrifying crashes that stretches back for months, I'm quite nervous that there'll be more of the same here.

Not like the circuit doesn't have a history of that sort of thing.

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Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

BTCC has largely been staying out of the large crashing phase for ages now...

I can only remember two massive shunts and they both took place in the same year, at the same track, at the same place!
(Albiet at different rounds... )

When it comes to Snetterton, you might get a lot of comedy with cars flying off into the crops, but only really the bombhole section has something to hit on the outside....
(Unless its an open wheeler wanting to go flying halfway down the straight, but FRenault rarely does things that exciting, especially in its latest guise!)

BTW, Has the summer break tempted out more Clios, anyone know?

Yeah, for a series that seems to have a bit of a reputation for crashes, they really haven't had that many huge, spectacular crashes in the last 10 years. John George's and Tom O-C's at Brands are the two that have made me go "oh shit", especially the John George one. I guess we had bigger crashes in the super touring era because the cars were faster.

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