British GT 2024

[flatlandsman]

I would think it is not the car, they are normally pretty bulletproof

[stuart thompson]

Originally Posted by Adamcas87

Marciellos comments before donington
And after witnessing John Ferguson slamming and kicking the car after retiring it on Dunlop Straight at donington makes me think not all is good with that RAM BMW M4 and the team

What did Marciello say?

[flatlandsman]

He quit earlier in the year, probably from workload, but I would think also he was not happy about how the team was working either he never shone that much in British GT and only seemed interesting picking up a pay cheque.

[Adamcas87]

Originally Posted by stuart thompson

What did Marciello say?

He mentioned on Twitter before donington he decided to miss last 2 rounds of Season
In his words “he works in a different way to the team, so the working conditions in the team were no longer acceptable”

[stuart thompson]

Cheers guys,I did wonder why Hesse was in, I just assumed it was workload/availability.

[chunterer]

Marciello is a BMW factory driver.

So is Hesse.

So is Harper..

Do the the teams/owners request a works driver, or do the manufacturers say 'listen if you're going to buy/lease one of our cars and represent us you better have somebody who at least knows how to drive it'??

[flatlandsman]

I would guess Macdonald leases the cars and pays extra for a good driver, either way he is paying for the main driver.

[F1_fan]

On the off chance? Is anyone going to BrandsHatch tomorrow? Was supposed to be marshalling but had an accident, so just going as a spectator instead but public transport there is a nightmare. I can get to Swanley train station. I believe I can get you a free ticket as a marshall!

[v8supes]

I understand why they left the race under FCY because it came out just before the pit window opened and they didnt want to ruin the race but now we have had an almost 25 minute FCY/SC period for a car to be removed from the gravel. The GT4 leader was also able to gain the best part of a lap on the rest of the GT4 field. Why couldn't they just delay the pit window instead?

[v8supes]

Second FCY/SC period - 26 minutes.

[flatlandsman]

Main reason I dont watch British GT anymore, the rules dont suit our racing or our tracks. They are for good reason, but so m,any races are just endless periods under SC, it needs a shake up for British GT.

[stuart thompson]

I get the trying to be fair with allowing teams to pit before ending the FCY, but in the old days it was called good strategy calls and what made endurance racing interesting. All SRO managed championship s are merely sectioned out sprint races nowadays

[codename_47]

Originally Posted by stuart thompson

I get the trying to be fair with allowing teams to pit before ending the FCY, but in the old days it was called good strategy calls and what made endurance racing interesting. All SRO managed championship s are merely sectioned out sprint races nowadays

There seems to have been a massive sea change in recent years that its race control's business to ensure "fairness" in a race

In the past they just bothered themselves with safety concerns and the teams and drivers could sort out the fairness, but what started with Indycar waiting to throw full course cautions until the leaders could cycle through their pit stops in the name of fairness (the incident that is causing the Yellow to be thrown in the first place is apparently happy enough to sit there not being dangerous or getting any more dangerous until race control deem it so, apparently, which seems highly risky to me, something is either dangerous enough for a FCY or it can be cleared up under waved yellows, not "well, it'll be dangerous in about 2 laps so we'll throw the yellow then when the leaders have pitted") is now spreading across motorsport that Race Control have an obligation to ensure there's not this "random" element to a race that teams can react to, for good or ill....

Such a weird recent sydrome, if a SC is thrown at a "Random", strategy ruining moment, it affects everyone simultaniously, in the old days some of the best races across all catagories could be the ones where the pre-planned strategy script gets thrown out and fast cars get sent down the field and underdogs get a surprise result...it doesn't feel like this is "allowed" any more, and any time something happens that doesn't fit a strategy plan the teams have worked out before the race, they throw a fit

This, coupled with a similar circumstance in the wet, that any time the rain comes down its now race control's business to ensure the teams/drivers are running the right tyres for the conditions, removing a key strategy element of wet racing that makes it so exciting, teams gambling on the what the conditions might be like in 5/10 laps time and getting a march on their rivals, is part of the overreach of race controls around the world and is really having a sanatising effect on the racing

We need random events back in racing, you can't mandate them out of motorsport, or Motorsport will lose its soul!