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-I was at the track and it's funny how some of these comments differ from my view of things. I honestly thought the third BTCC race was rather dull.

-There will be a lot of penalties after that third MSA Formula race. The initial incident looked to me like a typical Brooklands crash, nothing malicious or anything. The Norris/other guy (forgot who it was) crash was utterly stupid and dangerous, occurring under what were clearly waved yellow flags. We then nearly had a stack-up when some, apparently blind, drivers decided not to slow sufficiently for the SC boards.

Under the SC itself, Ticktum, who was at the back of the queue, overtook a number of cars until he reached Collard and proceeded to deliberately hit and force him off track. Ticktum has already been disqualified from an entire meeting before (Croft), and I wouldn't be surprised if it happened again here (I haven't checked yet, maybe he already has). He's easily the biggest dickhead in the series.

After the race got back underway Collard clearly had a loose front wing, and as you'd expect, he was shown the black & orange flag. He drove past the B&O four times and subsequently was shown the black flag, which he drove past twice. There is no way he could have not seen them.

That was some Bowman Gray shit and I hope the MSA throw the book at the lot of them.

-On a more light-hearted note, Murray Walker used to say that Mike Smith "guaranteed action by the bucketload". That can now very easily be said about Jeff Smith.

-Hamilton & Belcher had a rubbing/shoving match coming out of Luffield towards the end of race 2, which is what caused Hamilton's retirement.

-As Codename said, it was a Thruxton-like day for left-fronts. In fact, I don't think I've even seen that many failures at Thruxton! Funnily enough, most of, if not all, of the failures were of medium tyres.

-I've been disappointed by the Ginetta GT4 Supercup this year. Even with a good entry this weekend it was still not an interesting race. The Porsches were better.