BTCC Rd.6 @ Snetterton 2nd/3rd August 2014

pimmy · PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 2:51 pm

We return after a month's break to the flat and usually sunny Snetterton circuit in Norfolk for the second half of the season.

The teams have had some time to carry out development work on their cars and we've seen two teams enter a partnership, so will we see a change in the running order? The BMWs shouldn't be as dominant as before now that the RWD-friendly circuits are behind us, so that could allow Triple Eight & Team Dynamics to get back to winning ways. It's quite surprising, really, that Matt Neal still hasn't won a race this year. Returnees Menu & Giovanardi haven't either, but they've been improving all year, so look for them and their team mates to be somewhere near the front.

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Circuit length:               2.9689 miles
No. of laps:                  3x 12
Race distance:                3x 35.6268 miles
Races held:                   80
First race:                   14/06/1959
First race on current layout: 07/08/2011
Lap record:                   1:58.092, Sam Tordoff, MG6 GT, 2013

2013 Winners:
Race 1: Sam Tordoff
Race 2: Andrew Jordan
Race 3: Gordon Shedden

All-time Winners:

Drivers:
11: Jason Plato
5:  James Thompson
4:  Andy Rouse, Gordon Shedden
3:  Gawaine Baillie, Jack Brabham, Will Hoy, Fabrizio Giovanardi
2:  Mike Parkes, Stuart Graham, Robb Gravett, Alain Menu, Yvan Muller, Matt Neal, Tom Chilton, Mat Jackson, Andrew Jordan
1:  Jack Sears, Roy Salvadori, Mike Salmon, Jackie Oliver, Roy Pierpoint, Frank Gardner, Brian Muir, Win Percy, Gordon Spice, Jeff Allam, Pete Hall, Mike O'Brien, Steve Soper, Gabriele Tarquini, Kelvin Burt, Joachim Winkelhock, Anthony Reid, David Leslie, Peter Kox, Simon Graves, Paul O'Neill, Luke Hines, Rob Huff, Tom Onslow-Cole, Colin Turkington, Dave Newsham, Sam Tordoff

Manufacturers:
16: Ford
13: Vauxhall, Honda
7:  Jaguar
6:  Chevrolet, BMW, SEAT
3:  Renault
2:  Toyota, Rover, Nissan, MG
1:  Triumph, Holden, Alfa Romeo

Championship Standings:
1.  Colin Turkington  228
2.  Gordon Shedden    221
3.  Andrew Jordan     200
4.  Jason Plato       179
5.  Rob Collard       170
6.  Mat Jackson       138
7.  Matt Neal         127
8.  Sam Tordoff       122
9.  Árón Smith         86
10. Alain Menu         69

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Gaara · PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:09 pm

De Cesaris fan · PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:17 pm

If the tree is still standing... It was looking very drunk and still being propped up when I visited last month.

De Cesaris fan · PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:19 pm

*sniff*

Gaara · PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:25 pm

Yeaa because it died

RIP Yaytree

pimmy · PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:41 pm

First bit of news ahead of the weekend: BMR will be running 4 VWs, which means no Vauxhalls will be entered for a round for the first time since 1988!

pimmy · PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:13 pm

codename_47 · PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:29 pm

It's the Yaytree Testimonial 300 from now on.

kals · PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:40 pm

pimmy wrote:

First bit of news ahead of the weekend: BMR will be running 4 VWs, which means no Vauxhalls will be entered for a round for the first time since 1988!

I wonder if someone might pick up with Insignias and run them in 2015? It will be a shame not to have Vauxhall represented in the championship for the first time in 26 years, they've pretty much been synonymous with BTCC for as long as I can remember.

kals · PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:41 pm

codename_47 wrote:

It's the Yaytree Testimonial 300 from now on.

If the tree is now bending down, perhaps it has become the PrayTree? :oops:

Gaara · PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:51 pm

Nah it'd be more We'reNotWorthyTree in that case.

kals · PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:55 pm

Yeah but that doesn't sound like YAY, does it?

Gaara · PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:58 pm

So? It's getting a Wayne's World quote in XD

kals · PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 1:06 pm

As great as that is, it doesn't work I'm afraid!

Gaara · PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 1:07 pm

Psh! >.<

pimmy · PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:02 pm

kals wrote:

pimmy wrote:

First bit of news ahead of the weekend: BMR will be running 4 VWs, which means no Vauxhalls will be entered for a round for the first time since 1988!

I wonder if someone might pick up with Insignias and run them in 2015? It will be a shame not to have Vauxhall represented in the championship for the first time in 26 years, they've pretty much been synonymous with BTCC for as long as I can remember.

Well, it depends on whether they've been cannibalised to build the other two CCs.

kals · PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:36 pm

That's a good point, I didn't think about that.

kart99 · PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 7:48 pm

kals wrote:

pimmy wrote:

First bit of news ahead of the weekend: BMR will be running 4 VWs, which means no Vauxhalls will be entered for a round for the first time since 1988!

I wonder if someone might pick up with Insignias and run them in 2015? It will be a shame not to have Vauxhall represented in the championship for the first time in 26 years, they've pretty much been synonymous with BTCC for as long as I can remember.

Oh I don't know, we may see Vauxhall's of some sort next year.

Philthy82 · PostPosted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 1:46 am

So I guess AmD's 2013 Astra project is long since dead?

pimmy · PostPosted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 11:32 am

Yeah, that never even got off the ground.

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