[BTCC] Rounds 10, 11 & 12 - Oulton Park

[BillWiskins]

Wot, no thread yet?

Qualifying was fairly interesting - Plato takes the lap record for the track with his time, and the top four covered by two tenths.

01 Jason Plato 1:26.872
02 Matt Neal +0.077
03 Robert Collard +0.117
04 Andrew Jordan +0.179
05 Gordon Shedden +0.585
06 Tom Onslow-Cole +0.631
07 Frank Wrathall +0.787
08 Daniel Welch +1.042
09 Dave Newsham +1.097
10 Mat Jackson +1.161

[nickyf1]

The sandwich king on pole again!

[BillWiskins]

Andrew Jordan going for it again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGvxr_0ql8Q

Hopefully he'll get to take part in a bit more racing this weekend.

[steve_r]

Impressive performance from Welch.

[simmo151]

I like the drivers who moan about the standards of others, or moan about being turned around... when they are well known for it themselves (sarcasm). Kind of just want them to shut up. Nice action so far today though.

[cos]

Football and tennis means race 3 is live on http://www.itv.com/btcc/live/ shortly...

[BillWiskins]

Interesting weekend. Felt that Mr Jackson was a little silly at times, and not just on track.

Race three was a little bit mad. Should a windshield be that easy to dislodge?

[GolddustMini]

Originally Posted by BillWiskins

Interesting weekend. Felt that Mr Jackson was a little silly at times, and not just on track.

Race three was a little bit mad. Should a windshield be that easy to dislodge?

no it shouldnt be, probably wasnt bonded on correctly in the first place

[Icebaby]

Questions again need to be asked how a driver at the back of the grid can come through and take a podium.

[cos]

Originally Posted by Icebaby

Questions again need to be asked how a driver at the back of the grid can come through and take a podium.

One of the best drivers + one of the best cars+ no ballast + relative lack of talent depth this year and that will happen.

[ascarracinguk]

Originally Posted by cos

One of the best drivers + one of the best cars+ no ballast + relative lack of talent depth this year and that will happen.

Plus idiotic driving ahead taking each other out

[ArnageWRC]

Originally Posted by ascarracinguk

Plus idiotic driving ahead taking each other out

Sounds like every BTCC race.....

[BillWiskins]

Questions again need to be asked how a driver at the back of the grid can come through and take a podium.

What questions?

Originally Posted by cos

One of the best drivers + one of the best cars+ no ballast + relative lack of talent depth this year and that will happen.

Quite.

[Speed-King]

Originally Posted by Icebaby

Questions again need to be asked how a driver at the back of the grid can come through and take a podium.

Bernd Schneider went from last to first in DTM at the Sachsenring once, must've been close to ten years ago and DTM is about as competitive as it gets - and back then it wasn't even like half the field were his team mates as Opel and Audi were in the series at that time.

[medius]

Originally Posted by cos

One of the best drivers + one of the best cars+ no ballast + relative lack of talent depth this year and that will happen.

Indeed. We've seen Shedden and Mat Jackson do it over the last couple of years, so its not new and not limited to Jason Plato.

[werner]

Originally Posted by ascarracinguk

Plus idiotic driving ahead taking each other out

Matt Jackson was on fire in that department. 4 penaltypoints on his license well earned. It is not what we are used from him are we?

[Wendy Wool]

Tim Harvey was absent from the TV commentary, anyone know why?

[MJones94]

Originally Posted by werner

Matt Jackson was on fire in that department. 4 penaltypoints on his license well earned. It is not what we are used from him are we?

Yeah, I think those points were well deserved tbh. The racing etiquette has been pretty shocking in the BTCC lately, mostly due to the lack of decent drivers out there at the moment.

[redshoes]

Originally Posted by Wendy Wool

Tim Harvey was absent from the TV commentary, anyone know why?

He was racing in British GT at Rockingham.