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5 Feb 2001, 13:45 (Ref:62594) | #1 | |
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Does anyone agree that with the potential of 26 production cars on the grid they will provide far more entertainment than the modest number of touring cars?
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5 Feb 2001, 17:53 (Ref:62641) | #2 | ||
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As a spectacle the prod cars will be more entertaining. However, i believe that the tourers will actually be much closer in terms of performance with each other wheras withb the prods i think you will see the Pugs, Barwell Hondas and Alfas pulling away from the rest.
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6 Feb 2001, 10:00 (Ref:62829) | #3 | |
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Touring will be more exciting, simply because Steve Soper is going to be driving one of them!
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6 Feb 2001, 18:12 (Ref:62886) | #4 | ||
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What?! Yvan Muller is easily the most spectacular driver in the field!
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6 Feb 2001, 19:17 (Ref:62904) | #5 | ||
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To see Steve Soper knock everyone out of the race except of course his team mates would be a dream come true!
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6 Feb 2001, 22:32 (Ref:62954) | #6 | ||
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You mean knock everyone out of the race including his team mates!
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7 Feb 2001, 08:09 (Ref:63063) | #7 | ||
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National Saloons last year provided the best tin top racing I've seen since 1994....
I have to expect the same this year.. |
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7 Feb 2001, 18:35 (Ref:63188) | #8 | ||
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I've just realised you've got a point there Dan, but i believe with the new regs being somewhere in between production and super touring, and the fact they are new regs, i think the BTCT could be an excellent spectacle.
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7 Feb 2001, 19:27 (Ref:63205) | #9 | ||
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Its to early to say at the moment, only Vauxhall have started testing there car.
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7 Feb 2001, 20:15 (Ref:63226) | #10 | |
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Yeh if its anything like the National Saloons were then it will be great!!
Just hope they get more TV coverage than last years group B's |
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7 Feb 2001, 20:33 (Ref:63230) | #11 | ||
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I have to agree with that statement, I think TV viewers missed a lot of good racing last year because the camera's were concentrated too much on the ST's.
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8 Feb 2001, 17:03 (Ref:63425) | #12 | ||
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Remeber Oulton Park, when the largest Class B grid of the year was out, and the BBC were live, and the Class B race had no coverage whatsoever!!!!
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8 Feb 2001, 20:34 (Ref:63465) | #13 | ||
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They also went much in the Silverstone Programmes!
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9 Feb 2001, 19:07 (Ref:63637) | #14 | ||
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To be quite honest though, the class B cars are not spectacular to watch, on screen they look very slow compared to the super tourers.
They also are not a spectacle when you watch them at trackside, sure you see plenty of overtaking, but I want to see cars taking the same corners 20MPH faster. In my view they could improve the spectacle of class b very easily, 1. make the cars loader + beefier 2. Make the cars use fatter tyres 3. improve the look of the cars by making them run compulsary "road spec" wings (ie do bugger all) 4. and lastly all saloon cars should run a uniform wheel size (say 18" as a compromise) |
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