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He's an amateur driver in a 5 year old Astra, been doing a pretty decent job this year really.

That third race was insane, but it still doesn't make up for how poor ITV are.

Best race of the year that third race, especially Johny Herbert was a star, driving hard but fair. If he is in BTCC next year he'll definitely be a race winner.

I didn't watch all the coverage today, did they discuss what or who caused Matt Neal's first race accident? I noticed Reid was nearby so wasn't sure if he was involed.

They never mentioned at all who pushed Neal off.

Reid wouldn't surprise me at all.

Just got back. Absolutely fantastic day, bloody knackered now though.

Great racing for the most part, the only real let down being the second Clio race surprisingly. Oh, and the G50 grid NEEDS more cars. It's a shame to see what could be a great series being wasted by dwindling grid numbers.

The first lap of pretty much every race was epic fail. I think 9 out of the 10 races there were today had a SC, the majority of them for first lap clusterfuckery I think the Juniors win the award for best first lap pile up, so... congrats to them?

The final BTCC race was ridiculously awesome, only problem being I didn't know where to look half the time! Best BTCC race of the year though imo.

Oh, and the house band thing that some of the drivers played in at the end of the day was good fun. Potato didn't show up - we left early, but just after we left the circuit a Porsche flew past us with the registration "P1ATO" (as well as on the way there in the morning on the A43 - overtaken by Plato twice in one day and didn't end up in the hedge!) so we're assuming he didn't turn up at all. I've got a great video of Louise Goodman and Johnny Herbert singing "Johnny B. Goode" ( ) so I'll try and get that up here sometime tomorrow. Also, Sarah Moore was standing right infront of me while the band were playing, but only me and the guy standing next to me seemed to know who she was

All in all, great day.

I was at Rockingham, so don't know what they showed on TV, but this is a photo I took of the beginning of the accident.

I don't think there was any contact between Neal and Reid, but it looked like Neal arrived pretty hot up the inside, desperate to make up places. Reid went pretty defensive, but Neal I think had already committed to the move. It looks from the picture that Reid has squeezed Neal on the grass, but I think it was more of a case of Neal arriving quicker than Reid, completely locked up (look at the skid marks - they start ages before he gets to the grass).

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"Whoops, there went my braking point."

Although Reid shouldn't have been that far over either.

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Reid revenge for Silverstone 2004 probably

"I see you there Matt, like hell are you coming through, now eat grass!

Again an awesome BTCC meeting, have they ever had a bad one?

It seems that oval infield racing is boring for lots of other types of racing (Looking at you, Grand-Am) but the twistyness of them are perfect for Touring Cars.

Now onto Brands Hatch where we finally get the use of the GP loop! We'll show those WTCC fools how decent Touring Car racing can be on the longer layout

I've just sorted out my 600+ photos I took on Saturday and will be uploading over the next couple of days (ie when I get time)

Very enjoyable meeting. Julio: looks like you were sat pretty near me from that photo angle.

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Facepalm at Gio's comments. I assume this interview was conducted before he watched the TV replays?

Any vid's from the mentioned incidents?

Yep

Thanks. Sad to see Plato keeps on driving like he's in WTCC. Actually. The only difference between that part and the WTCC is that they don't actually crash and cause a safety car.

How can Gio make a comment like that, when Herbert and Colin were side by side he simply drove into the side of Johnny so it was his fault. I was shouting at the TV when Plato hit Turkington, but without that move we wouldn't have had the 3-way battle with Gio, Colin and Herbert, so thanks to Platard.

It was a little unnecessary for Herbert to run Gio out wide out of the corner before the chicane, but the chicane was all Gio's doing. Given that Gio's car was slower than Herbert's, and Gio has a championship to think about, he would have been much better letting Herbert and Turkington fight it out.

I was at Rockingham on Sunday sat at the turn 1 grandstand where you can see the whole track except where the Giavanardi and Herbert incident took place. I had no idea it was that amazing!
Seeing that reminds me of the 1992 season final at Silverstone! Great stuff!

Yeah, it's the same place Neal and a few others decided to have their crash at the start of a race when I was there in 2006, the one place that was out of view of the turn 1 Grandstand and of COURSE there was a crash there

I wish they'd finally have the balls to open grandstand halfway down the straight towards turn 3 though, that'd give much better views of the hairpin and the rest of the track. You can hardly see any of the grandstands on TV so sheparding us all in so it looks like a big crowd on TV isn't helping anything.

I was also sat in turn 1 for the races on Sunday (right at the top, best views and nice cooling breeze). The North and South stands have only ever been used for the CART races in 2001/2002. I don't think they have ever been used for anything else and theres never a crowd big enough to warrant them.

IMO, it was a waste of money building them.

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Same here. I was sat right at the far end, closest to T2. I was the one with the purple hoodie and slightly wild blonde hair incase anyone was sat near me