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7 Jun 2024, 19:30 (Ref:4212244) | #51 | ||
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Apart from BTCC, which is semi-amateur championship, it also doesn't happen so frequently in more professional championships like NASCAR, DTM, let alone F1. |
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7 Jun 2024, 19:45 (Ref:4212248) | #52 | |
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Apparently Rory Butcher is down at Thruxton. Not sure whether that has anything to do with this mysterious familiar face everyone’s talking about or whether he’s just there helping a team. Seems a hell of a long way to travel down for no reason though ?
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7 Jun 2024, 20:36 (Ref:4212261) | #53 | ||
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Seems very odd for Butcher to be at Thruxton just to show his face around the paddock. |
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8 Jun 2024, 08:47 (Ref:4212333) | #56 | ||
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A few google searches show quite a few cases of the same thing happening in other sports but I don't recall ever reading about them at the time. |
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8 Jun 2024, 13:42 (Ref:4212380) | #60 | |
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Early practice promises much . As some predicted front wheel drive marginally quicker with Ingram and Sutton to the fore but Hill and Morgan are close behind. The new qualifying format gives them slight edge due to being able to go for it from off with no tyre swaps . Turkington is midway but Toyotas seem a bit low . Sandbagging maybe of perhaps slightly less slippery shape hinders them . The Vauxhalls are the red herrings and ATS may provide a shock .
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8 Jun 2024, 15:30 (Ref:4212401) | #61 | ||
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I don’t understand how the qualifying works, anyone care to knowledge me?
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8 Jun 2024, 16:48 (Ref:4212418) | #63 | |
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the stupid qualifying format has got to go , it's so tedious
and with much less car on the grid anyway normal qualifying traffic not that much of an issue anymore |
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8 Jun 2024, 18:37 (Ref:4212424) | #64 | |
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I like it. Much better than seeing a load of cars going round and round for 20 to 30 minutes when the only lap that really matters is the last one.
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8 Jun 2024, 18:42 (Ref:4212425) | #65 | |
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Slap on the wrist for ATS for dragging the car back to the pits.
https://www.barc.net/wp-content/uplo...ylor-Smith.pdf |
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I'm afraid that I still do not like the new format, and I don't think that it adds anything to what I believe is supposed to be entertainment. As mentioned on more than one occasion in the commentary, most of the drivers had just one lap to get their best time and for the FWD cars that was the first flying lap after they had swapped around their tyres. And they can't come back in for new tyres because a) they need to preserve their limited supply of new tyres, and b) with only 10 minutes their really isn't time to come back in, put new ones on, run them for one lap to warm them up before coming back into the pits to swap them around. And I think that I am correct in saying that only one driver, I think, managed to get their best time at the end of a session. The rest of the time they were all, relatively speaking, just cruising around with no attempt to better their times. Apart from which, having 4 ten minute sessions with a shortish break between each made it all very fragmented. I am not a great supporter of F1's relatively new qualifying format, which I don't bother to watch, but even that is somewhat better than the BTCC format. |
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8 Jun 2024, 20:16 (Ref:4212438) | #67 | ||
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Very lucky not to chucked out from the whole event. Daft driving at best. |
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8 Jun 2024, 22:04 (Ref:4212452) | #68 | |
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I blame the (stupid) “cause a red & you’re at the back” rule for ATS situation. You can’t blame him for what he did. Had he parked it anywhere other than the a303 then you know the red flag loving TOCA lot would have brought them out straight away and he’d have been put to the back and his Sunday ruined. He took the gamble and it paid off, fair play.
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9 Jun 2024, 09:32 (Ref:4212533) | #69 | |
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Good to see Cammish on pole, expect him to win. Great work by PMR to get ATS out again after his off. Huffy once again down in quali.
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9 Jun 2024, 10:29 (Ref:4212547) | #72 | ||
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Granted, it was a hazard to other drivers which is a huge no no, especially how fast Thruxton is, but you Can't blame the driver for being a racing driver. just an outcome of the current quali rules and format |
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9 Jun 2024, 11:14 (Ref:4212556) | #73 | |
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Hill romping off into the distance again. Yawn.
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9 Jun 2024, 11:39 (Ref:4212562) | #74 | |
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Hill seemed to have the pace but questionable whether he would’ve won that without the RWD Start advantage. All very status quo in the first 4 positions.
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9 Jun 2024, 11:43 (Ref:4212565) | #75 | |
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Hill's emerging as a favourite to the title this year, I'd say. He had a difficult start to the year but now it seems he's back to his top form and I presume he might be difficult to beat.
Turkington's season seems like going south on the other hand. All this 'old Colin is back' is now over or at least very much hindered, I'm afraid. |
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