BTCC @ Donington Park 14th-15th April

pimmy · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:20 pm

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Track Stats:
Length:      1.9791 miles
No. of laps: 16
Distance:    31.6656 miles
Races held:  101 (since 1977)

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2011 Winners:
Race 1: Matt Neal
Race 2: Andrew Jordan
Race 3: Mat Jackson

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All-time Winners:

Drivers:
12: Andy Rouse
 8: John Cleland
 6: Alain Menu, James Thompson, Matt Neal
 5: Jason Plato
 4: Tim Harvey, Yvan Muller, Gordon Shedden
 3: Frank Biela, David Leslie
 2: Steve Soper, David Sears, Paul Radisich, Rickard Rydell, Anthony Reid
 1: Stuart Graham, Brian Pepper, Tony Dron, Richard Longman, Richard Lloyd, Chris Craft, Gordon Spice, Tom Walkinshaw, Win Percy, Chris Hodgetts, Vince Woodman, Jeff Allam, Pete Lovett, Frank Sytner, Laurence Bristow, Tiff Needell, Robb Gravett, Will Hoy, Joachim Winkelhock, Giampiero Simoni, Gabriele Tarquini, Simon Graves, Alan Morrison, Tom Chilton, Colin Turkington, Fabrizio Giovanardi, Darren Turner, Rob Collard, Tom Onslow-Cole, Andrew Jordan, Mat Jackson

Manufacturers:
22: Ford
18: Honda
17: Vauxhall
 6: BMW
 5: Rover, Renault, SEAT
 4: Toyota, Nissan
 3: Audi
 2: Volkswagen, Mazda, Volvo
 1: Triumph, Mini, Alfa Romeo, MG

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Championship Standings:
 1. Jason Plato     52
 2. Matt Neal       48
 3. Andrew Jordan   45
 4. Rob Collard     43
 5. Rob Austin      30
 6. Jeff Smith      28
 7. Dave Newsham    24
 8. Tom Onslow-Cole 22
 9. Mat Jackson     22
10. Lea Wood        13

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codename_47 · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:25 pm

And after an empty easter weekend, what a full crammed racing day we'll be enjoying next week!

F1->BTCC->Indycar/NASCAR whoooo

I'm sure WTCC might be racing too, but no-one aside from Will Buxton gives two shits about that! :lol:

Double Clios too, whoooo

I hope the "special" atmosphere follows us to Donington too....

I don't know what it was about Brands, but every race seemed like it was on acid or something, never a dull moment.
I managed to pick up on it and I was watching it with a 12 hour delay for most races....

I hope that Donington provides the same excitement this weekend! :thumbsup:

*edit* Looking at that Timetable, there's no Guarantee both Clio races will be shown on Sunday...
Particularly as they'll probably waste our time showing both Porsche races

phil1993 · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:25 pm

Yay, Donington!

[youtubeidiot]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V09u0IFNFos[/youtubeidiot]

[youtubeidiot]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRkxpYLKKwQ[/youtubeidiot]

[youtubeidiot]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2losyrki0w[/youtubeidiot]

Oh, and Ben Constanduros is the WTCC fanatic, not Buxton.

kart99 · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:40 pm

Could be another expensive Sunday for some teams.

Gaara · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:41 pm

Plato crash please

pimmy · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:48 pm

codename_47 wrote:

I'm sure WTCC might be racing too, but no-one aside from Will Buxton gives two shits about that! :lol:

Yes, in Marrakech of all places. :lol:

codename_47 · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:55 pm

phil1993 wrote:

Yay, Donington!

[youtubeidiot]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V09u0IFNFos[/youtubeidiot]

[youtubeidiot]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRkxpYLKKwQ[/youtubeidiot]

[youtubeidiot]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2losyrki0w[/youtubeidiot]

Oh, and Ben Constanduros is the WTCC fanatic, not Buxton.

Oh yeah, that's the one.

I should remember because I was arguing with him on Twitter forgetting he was the WTCC pitlane reporter, no wonder he's so biased

phil1993 · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:01 pm

Yeah, Ben Constanduros is the WTCC guy. Son of Bob 'Champaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagne' Constanduros. Buxton is SPEED's pit reporter/GP2-3 world feed commentator.

I know too much about irrelevant things.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:03 pm

It's good that you know that, at least when we go to lynch him for daring to speak heresy about the holy BTCC we'll get the right guy instead of innocent Will like I thought! :lol:

ellis · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:09 pm

Double Clios on a Sunday is awesome if we get to see the other race. It's before the program starts, so it'd have to be one of the tape delayed ones.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:32 pm

ellis wrote:

Double Clios on a Sunday is awesome if we get to see the other race. It's before the program starts, so it'd have to be one of the tape delayed ones.

The first Porsche Race is right after it though, which is ominous...

And between BTCC race 1 and 2 is the Ginetta Junior race, which surely they'll show live.

Admittedly then there's the lunch break which I'm sure will bring us a tape delayed race, but....which one?

ellis · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:35 pm

Lunch is an hour and 5 minutes. You could probably get 2 races in there if the Clios don't have a huge red flag, and the Porsches hurry up about it. And even then, the build up to the BTCC event after the lunch has 12 minutes. So 1 hour 17 minutes of down time between races.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:39 pm

I guess we'll just have to be patient and bitch about it on Sunday if we're subjected to two Porsche races

The only thing that worries me is that its an open secret Porsche pay more for their broadcasts than the other series do (hence getting Ben and now Toby and Tim back into the comm box for them) so I assume because of that ITV give them priority...

Gaara · PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:41 pm

Yeaa, it's a shame that they throw money around to get top support priority

kals · PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:08 am

Gaara wrote:

Plato crash please

Ah yes, but into whom?

Gaara · PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:17 am

Neate, that would be bloody hillarious.

kals · PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:35 am

Only if fisticuffs ensued afterwards

pimmy · PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:08 pm

No more double Clios on Sunday

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Gaara · PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:12 pm

codename_47 · PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:00 am

Wat? Why?

Have they been moaning AGAIN about the lack of repair time?

If I was a Clio sponsor I'd be furious, turning down double the exposure time in favour of racing when the cameras aren't there, it defies all logic really.

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