Supertouring Classic race in 2009

[redshoes]

Originally Posted by redshoes

Without going back and checking all the race results I'd go as far as saying that we have never had 30 Supertourers in any UK race.

About 10 minutes after I posted this I realised that it might not actually be true. If we take the wider definition of Supertouring meaning anything build to 2.0 litre BTCC regs rather than strictly post-95 wings & spliters regs then the biggest UK gird of these cars would have been the FIA World Cup race at Donington in 1994. That was closer to 40 cars.

[KA]

Originally Posted by redshoes

About 10 minutes after I posted this I realised that it might not actually be true. If we take the wider definition of Supertouring meaning anything build to 2.0 litre BTCC regs rather than strictly post-95 wings & spliters regs then the biggest UK gird of these cars would have been the FIA World Cup race at Donington in 1994. That was closer to 40 cars.

Funnily enough that was my first thought when I saw your post- now that really was an impressive grid...

[Jimmy Magnusson]

Originally Posted by KA

Funnily enough that was my first thought when I saw your post- now that really was an impressive grid...

...which really should have been spaced out a bit more!

[KA]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Magnusson

...which really should have been spaced out a bit more!

Yes, as I remember, that first lap was fairly eventful..

[Craner Curves]

I'm honestly not too bothered about getting 30 period drivers, I'd rather see 30 period cars and a handful of drivers from the time if it's possible. After all, it's a celebration of the car and not the driver in my opinion.

[BertMk2]

I'd go along with that, it's the cars I'm interested in seeing - although I do have to admit I like to see them in their correct colour schemes (some of the cars do have current schemes that are in keeping with the originals in terms of colour and layout but with different sponsors and that works quite well too).

[FIRE]

Originally Posted by Craner Curves

I'm honestly not too bothered about getting 30 period drivers, I'd rather see 30 period cars and a handful of drivers from the time if it's possible. After all, it's a celebration of the car and not the driver in my opinion.

I agree

[RickP:Clio51]

Hearing plans are moving on for this... hoping Mr Reid will be busy that weekend so I can have the Nissan Supertourer.... esp. after he broke it at Goodwood before I got my 3rd run!

[PDS]

36 possibles already...

http://www.supertouringregister.com/Silverstone09.php

[Matt]

Originally Posted by KA

Yes, as I remember, that first lap was fairly eventful..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8eFuQXn_Ko Part 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8eFuQXn_Ko Part 2.

[gttouring]

that was good racing...
any supertouring seems to do better than the dullified racing we see more and more...
although WTCC is still far superior to SPeedWorldChallnge TC, but superproduction is not up with s2000...
ack rule packages
what did Supertouring do so well..

[nickyf1]

The current S2000 BTCC aint all that bad.. but thats for another thread

[kristof14]

Originally Posted by Matt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8eFuQXn_Ko Part 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8eFuQXn_Ko Part 2.

Both the same clip but good fun to watch!

[hawkenr]

Hi guys, we as a team are hugely excited at the prospect of running our car at the Silv Classic next year. Us ST owners are gagging for a grid of our own cars as we race competitively together. Mr Hammersley, Mr Hale, Mr Challis, Mr Blanckley and I have all had some superbly close races at varying circuits, but have not traded paint once. Mr Hale and I were lapping Snett within 1/100th of a second of each other earlier this year, then had a close race at Brands and not to mention the huge battle we had at a wet Pembrey last year. This is what we crave, not chasing a Noble which is very quick in a straight line. (but not unbeatable as we proved at Anglesey earlier this month setting fastest lap).

So for us (subject to regulations) we welcome with open arms and even hope we can launch a limited event series off the back of it.

As well as chassis 33 (ex-David Leslie car confirmed by Mallocks) which I race now, I also own chassis 34 which is a 90% bare shell in white with Vodafone livery, can be seen on the ST register.....if anyone has the bits to screw it back together and race it that would be great as is also an ex-David Leslie car.

[Aslak Vind]

Originally Posted by Matt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8eFuQXn_Ko Part 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8eFuQXn_Ko Part 2.

Very nice clip, I miss that era

Pinball kinda start!

[Matt]

Gah, here's the correct second part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk_-8...eature=related