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1 May 2005, 10:25 (Ref:1290955) | #1 | |
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Well done Dan Eaves - a great win!
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1 May 2005, 11:00 (Ref:1290978) | #2 | |
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Shame about Chilton having to stop for a tyre change though.
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1 May 2005, 11:01 (Ref:1290979) | #3 | |
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Great racing. Despite the low number of cars many close battles.
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I was trying to avoid the result but managed to hover the mosue over the title of this thread, whcih of course gave it away. How about using the word 'spoiler' in the title next time?
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Not being cheeky, but why bother looking in the forum then ? And then, why bother even coming near this thread.
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1 May 2005, 12:55 (Ref:1291051) | #6 | |
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Another win for Eaves and a TD 1-2:
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1 8 EAVES 2 5 NEAL 3 2 MULLER 4 12 PICKFORD 5 11 PLATO 6 9 CHILTON 7 6 TURKINGTON 8 57 HINES 9 10 KAYE 10 88 SMITH 11 21 COLLARD |
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eleven cars. ELEVEN BLOODY CARS! seriously - something needs to happen now!!! What a joke.
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Alan Gow before the race said "the series is looking good".
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Great job by Danforth Eaves - a triple win!
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1 May 2005, 16:11 (Ref:1291125) | #10 | |
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What an incredible idiot that Yvan Müller is
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1 May 2005, 16:30 (Ref:1291133) | #12 | |
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Small field - but exciting racing - unlike the WTCC snorefest in France.
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Congratulations to Dan, a triple victory is still very special even if the field is reduced.
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They were blue as far as I remember... Some very entertaining races - despite the low grid level, 99% of the cars there can win races, and I reckon on TV it doesn't look any different to last year when the drivers get battling. And Tom Chilton showed his erratic side again too.. |
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1 May 2005, 18:57 (Ref:1291178) | #15 | ||
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Good racing at Thruxton today. Dan Eaves drove brilliant particularly in the last race.
Excellent sportsmanship from VX racing and Muller! I dont think. What they did in the last race with Plato was a disgrace and if it wasnt for the fact the BTCC has a small grid the series would be far better off without the arrogance of Vauxhall. I hope TD wipe the floor with them this year. Very surprised VX havent started whining to Alan Gow about the Integra winning too many races and asking for independents to be banned. Instead of pursuing a personal vendetta against Plato why dont VX and Muller concentrate on trying win races which they arent doing at the minute - Im sure that everyone is getting sick of all the petty antics. No doubt someone will remind me that what VX did was well within the rules. OK then if a drive through penalty is good enough for Plato, (even when he slowed down acknowlegding his mistake and indicating for Muller to retake him) why then was Muller not black flagged for the oil leak which went on for most of the race? I remember in 2001 at Oulton when Soper was leading in the 406 with a similar problem, Vauxhall whined like mad for it to be black flagged. Like I say hope TD win this year after the job they have done with the Integra. |
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Just got back from a great weekend at Thruxton , although the weather wasnt that great on Saturday .. Sunday really made up for it , just started going throught the 2500 pictures i took , the 1st couple can be seen :
http://www.motorsport-images.com/thruxtonbtcc.html i will be spending the next few days adding lots more images to the Thruxton pages and also i have another load for the Donington pages .. please keep checking for updates regards Tony |
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2 Lexi supposed to be at the next round?
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2 Great days at Thruxton my first visit for over 30 years well worth the journey from Lincoln Back home for 21:30 which is beter than some meetings at Donington
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Well done Dan Eaves, overall 3 good races today, it was a shame there was only 11 cars, lets hope for more cars at Brands in a months time and yes Seaney I understand both Lexi will be there.
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2 May 2005, 12:21 (Ref:1291459) | #21 | |
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I wish they'd put another speaker down at the complex though, couldn't hear a bleeding thing! yes yes i know i should have brought a radio All in all an excellent weekend racing, was having trouble getting there on the Sunday, mate roped his missus into bringing us down as long as i paid for her ticket + food, she wanted to know when and where the next meet was! Another convert
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hmmm... we stood at the entrance to the Compex for BTCC race 2 and were near deafened by the speakers
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Apparently there were 'too many bugs' so we had to move
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2 May 2005, 15:33 (Ref:1291521) | #25 | ||
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try wearing orange overalls and having to stay with "all the bugs" all day both days
grid was small but as someone else said all of them (perhaps not Kaye ...sorry) are capable of winning. More cars would be good though but face it, we are not going to see what we used to. Ford Volvo (same company) Seat VW Skoda Audi (same company) Vauxhall Opel (same company) Lexus Toyota....... get the picture these companies are not going to put teams against themselves. well thats how i see it anyway. support races were good as well, i have never been a single seater fan but i think both the Renaults and the BMW are good entertaining racing. |
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