BTCC Season Finale @ Brands Hatch GP 3/4 October *SPARTA*

jdh · PostPosted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:55 pm

This is it, after 27 rounds across England and Scotland, the British Touring Car Championship heads to the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit in Kent for its final three races of the season, and to declare the 2009 BTCC Champion. Will it be Turkington, Giovanardi or Plato who takes the crown?

Rockingham didn’t make the championship any less clear with Giovanardi and in particular Plato eating into Colin Turkington’s lead until a manic final race of the day where Jason and Fabrizio both got involved in incidents and failed to score allowing Colin to extend his lead to 13 points over Giovanardi and 28 over Plato with 52 points on offer at the final weekend of the year:

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1.  Colin Turkington     249
2.  Fabrizio Giovanardi  236
3.  Jason Plato          221
4.  Mat Jackson          165
5.  Matt Neal            153  
6.  Stephen Jelley       132
7.  Rob Collard          132
8.  James Thompson       114
9.  Andrew Jordan        106
10. Jonathan Adam        103
11. Adam Jones            62
12. Paul O'Neill          54
13. Gordon Shedden        30
14. Tom Chilton           25
15. James Nash            24
16. Harry Vaulkhard       22
17. Dan Eaves             10
18. David Pinkney          9
19. Johnny Herbert         8
20. Tom Onslow-Cole        2
21. Martyn Bell            2
22. Alan Morrison          2
23. Martin Johnson         2
24. John George            0
25. Liam McMillan          0
26. Nick Leason            0
27. Anthony Reid           0
28. Matt Hamilton          0

Sunday timetable
10.05 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain
10.50 Formula Renault UK with Michelin
11.45 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship
12.25 Ginetta Junior Championship
13.35 Ginetta G50 Cup
14.25 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship
15.05 ELF Renault Clio Cup
15.45 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain
16.35 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship
17.15 Formula Renault UK with Michelin

TV coverage
ITV4 @ 1130-1815, Sunday 4 October (Live BTCC & Supports)
ITV1 @ 0020-0140, Tuesday 6 October (BTCC Highlights)
ITV4 @ 1530-1700, Tuesday 6 October (BTCC Highlights)
ITV4 @ 1530-1700, Saturday 10 October (BTCC Highlights)

Further highlight repeats on Men & Motors. Check schedules for these.

Weather forecast
Saturday: Cloudy, Temperature 19°C, chance of rain 0%
Sunday: Cloudy, Temperature 17°C, chance of rain 10%
http://uk.weather.com

jdh · PostPosted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:56 pm

I'm going on Saturday and Sunday. Should be epic.

Fox · PostPosted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:25 pm

Great Track for the Final Races

kart99 · PostPosted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:42 pm

Can't wait for this. Booked the tv so I can't be bothered all day Sunday. Looks like itll be wet as well, which should play into Gio's hands.

Should also hopefully find out what Triple 8 are doing next year.

jdh · PostPosted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:47 pm

kart99 wrote:

Booked the tv so I can't be bothered all day Sunday.

As you may have noticed, ITV's coverage is 6 hours 45 minutes, the longest of the season I would think.

Another thing to remember is that this is Johnny Herbert will be returning to the scene of his horror crash some 21 years ago:

Herbert unfazed by Brands Hatch return

Gaara · PostPosted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:57 pm

It's hard to believe he hasn't driven here since.

Schumifan · PostPosted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:10 pm

Can't wait for this, going to be bloody awesome

kals · PostPosted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:03 am

F1 from Suzuka, BTCC from Brands, MotoGP from Estoril and then NASCAR. Can Sunday get any better than this?

phil1993 · PostPosted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:10 pm

Schumifan wrote:

Can't wait for this, going to be bloody awesome

Yep

I was thinking of going but I'm a bit busy to be travelling for ages but Suzuka-Brands Hatch

Hopefully Porsches are on during MotoGP

Whofan · PostPosted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:00 pm

kals wrote:

F1 from Suzuka, BTCC from Brands, MotoGP from Estoril and then NASCAR. Can Sunday get any better than this?

+ Superleague Formula from Monza. Theres too much going on this weekend. Its awesome

gd49 · PostPosted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:16 pm

jdh wrote:

As you may have noticed, ITV's coverage is 6 hours 45 minutes, the longest of the season I would think.

They did have an earlier start one weekend to show more races didn't they?

Suspect it'll be a very long post-race for the final BTCC race, rather than showing the last FRenault race of the day

Metzo · PostPosted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:05 pm

kals wrote:

F1 from Suzuka, BTCC from Brands, MotoGP from Estoril and then NASCAR. Can Sunday get any better than this?

+ WSBK at Magny Cours and Fia GT at Paul Richard :flag:

Jonny · PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:33 pm

My god, in my area today digital boxes need to be retuned and many people will lose ITV4.

Andy · PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:23 pm

Schumifan wrote:

Can't wait for this, going to be bloody awesome

this^

Brands is a great track

should be amazing

Whofan · PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:08 pm

Cash wrote:

My god, in my area today digital boxes need to be retuned and many people will lose ITV4.

You can watch all ITV channels on the ITV website

jdh · PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:04 am

http://uk.weather.com have changed their forecast and are now predicting no rain on Sunday. The BBC's weather radar for the next few days seems to back this up.

jdh · PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:30 pm

Don't be surprised in Jason Plato rams Turkington off the track on Sunday:

btcc.net wrote:

"Of course he [Turkington] can’t afford to risk a collision if someone’s going to take a lunge – neither of them can – and if Colin spots me in his mirrors he’d be a wise man to pull over and let me past because I’m going to be as hard as I can be.

Look what happened at Rockingham two weeks ago – he turned in when I’d jumped down the inside when he had sufficient room to stay ahead of me on the outside. Maybe it’s a sign he’s beginning to crack and making a few wrong calls and if he keeps that up then it could just un-do him.

RtN · PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:37 pm

I hope for Colin's sake that Anthony Reid is back on form this weekend.

That'll even it up.

Schumifan · PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:51 pm

Don't have the laptop this weekend, so I'm going to miss out on all the Christian Dick/Alice Powell based fun

pimmy · PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 5:11 pm

jdh wrote:

Don't be surprised in Jason Plato rams Turkington off the track on Sunday:

btcc.net wrote:

"Of course he [Turkington] can’t afford to risk a collision if someone’s going to take a lunge – neither of them can – and if Colin spots me in his mirrors he’d be a wise man to pull over and let me past because I’m going to be as hard as I can be.

Look what happened at Rockingham two weeks ago – he turned in when I’d jumped down the inside when he had sufficient room to stay ahead of me on the outside. Maybe it’s a sign he’s beginning to crack and making a few wrong calls and if he keeps that up then it could just un-do him.

Plato says something like that before every event. It's nothing to be surprised about.

The Porsches might not be so boring this weekend as there are 27 of them.

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BTCC Season Finale @ Brands Hatch GP 3/4 October SPARTA

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