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9 Sep 2003, 00:58 (Ref:712544)
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Honda and ballast
Honda have a real problem with their cars when they are fully laden with ballast. Point in case, Matt Neal(who did some excellent driving of the podium truck before the race!!). Race one, superb. Got a good start and easily held off Thompson. Once out of the pits, closed Thommo down and passed him again too. Race 2, worse start than Thompson, who's been getting bad starts all year! Then continues to lose places to Reid, Hughes, Turkington, Muller, O'Neill, Morrison, Chilton and Breeze and struggled to keep Kaye behind at the flag. Whats going on??? Vauxhall have consistantly been able to run upfront whether ballast or no ballast, so why can't Honda? Donington Park suited the Civic Type-R due to its long sweeping high speed corners. I didn't expect Matt to win the second race with 42kg on board but to lose so many places is appauling when the car has the potential to challenge the Astra's.
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9 Sep 2003, 05:35 (Ref:712641)
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Matt had an engine problem in the second race so it probably wasn't a like for like comparison.
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9 Sep 2003, 08:51 (Ref:712802)
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MG and Honda need to get this sorted out for next year if they are to stand any chance of competing with VX for the championship (if they all stay that is!!!).
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9 Sep 2003, 15:06 (Ref:713224)
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ATF, I have a feeling ballest will be scraped next year with the ETCC cars coming along (not confirmed tho)
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