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I am a club racer and everything the BTCC do as the pinacle of tin tops in this country filters down. I can afford to buy the car and enter the races. But if someone takes a leaf out the Matt Neal book, cant pass me so just stuffs me and my car in to the barriers, that'll probably see me miss a good few rounds of the season. Unless your name is Rothschild, nobody can afford to approach motorsport with that kind of attitude. |
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in my opinion just a racing incident .. and would be ridiculous if Neal gets penalised for it .. i've seen much much worse from both of them |
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He won't get penalised anyway. It'll get swept under the carpet and put down as a racing incident as usual, because it keeps the crash monkeys happy.
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there were a lot of incidents last year that I thought deserved a (big) penalty .. but I don't know . just not this time .. for me at least
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Neal should be penalised in my view, I think back to 2005 (I think) when Collard hit the back of Neals Integra at Brands and put him in the wall and was subsequently penalised for this. Its difficult to say what punishment should be given although I fail to understand why they need to wait three weeks before Rockingham.
Any penalty given should effect Neal directly rather than the team, a grid drop, licence endorsed suitable. If nothing happens then it simply opens the door that other drivers will do the same. In a year where budgets are tight stopping this sort of driving is the best way forward. |
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I have to agree, it's time to start taking bad driving seriously - marching him back ten places on the grid at Rockingham would be something. Hopefully it wouldn't be needed to start giving drivers the weekend off ...
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Put him further back in the pack? It'd be like watching a pinball machine......
I can't believe Phil Bennett and Gavin Pyper got bans back in 2001 and 2002 respectively for the things they did, which were angelic in comparison to everything Neal has totted up over the years. |
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Afternoon All,
Wow what a weekend that was and not bad for our first outing! I have updated our blog, hope you enjoy it. http://www.amdessex.com/btcc.blog.cfm Ben |
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Nah, Neal and Collard, it was just poetic justice. A "...shall perish by the sword" kind of thing. Hope they keep pushing only each other of the track the rest of the season and don't get into the way of any of the other drivers. They are just as bad as Pl... hold on, even Plato apologized for the race 2 incident. So I guess even he doesn't qualify in that category any more. Quote:
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Great to see you out there, think Shaun enjoyed his race with Mr Goerge in race 2. All you need now is a little more power, although Snetterton is probaly the fastest circuit the BTCC use. Good luck at "The Rock". |
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The tyre specs. are different this year, but the Thruxton tyre Dunlop brought along is the same as the one they've used in previous years.
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Officials punish Neal
Matt Neal has been fined £250.00 and had three penalty points added to his competition licence as punishment for his collision with Robert Collard at Thruxton three weeks ago. Honda Racing Team driver Neal and WSR's Collard clashed in the middle of the chicane in the third of Thruxton’s three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship races. Both drivers retired with damage to their cars, Collard’s BMW being spun round into a barrier. However, BTCC official have this evening reviewed the incident and punished former double champion Neal for “causing an avoidable collision”. Just laughable, sure the three points go some way to punish him but the fine is a joke and simply encourages further bad sportmanship. |
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I'm not sure. That is a fair bit of money, and the points mean that if he doesn't change his behaviour there will be consequences. I think that's a decent penalty, and I'm just glad they haven't ignored it like they have similar incidents in the past.
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Yeah, that's a pretty standard sort of thing. This isn't F1 after all!
He deserves it though, that was shocking driving. |
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??? Compared to the costs of running 1 car in a TCC it's lose pocket change.
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He should have been made pay for the damage to Collard's Bimmer. That'll have been slightly more than GBP250 !
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for some reason some idiots have it in their heads that £40k worth of damage was done to the BMW but all i say to that is bs. That car isnt even worth that anymore, the impact wasnt even that heavy and it didnt even hit the barrier hard. Pathetic from WSR crying like little babies. If they dont like it then get out of BTCC.
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There was plenty of damage to that car, both sides needed a lot of work done to them. Maybe not as much as 40 grand, but it will have cost a fair bit anyway. Especially with BMW and their expensive part prices. And of course the car is worth more than that, it's a 2009 spec BMW for goodness sake. You can't buy one of those for £30k. |
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