Grand Prix Rejects

HonoraryNortherner wrote:

Samster wrote:

HonoraryNortherner wrote:Hines is being bathpluging bad. He better get his act together soon. Samster, what are the rules concerning mid-season driver changes? I'm not firing him yet but... if the crashing continues I'll look for other options.

Small engine and medium reliability upgrades, please.

You can changes drivers whenever, even during a race weekend but that will mean that you start at the back. I'll still use random.org to determine whether the replacement would sign.

I see. How would this affect his sponsorship money?

Alternatively, you could wait for him to be banned and then try and drop him for bringing your team into disrepute. Assuming, of course, that that's a thing.

Silverstone Entry List (33 Cars)


Track Map


Weekend Schedule

Saturday
BTCDS Race 3 Qaulifying
BTCC Race 8 Qaulifying
BTCDS Race 3 (75 km, 15 laps)
BTCC Race 8 (150 km, 29 laps)

Sunday
BTCC Race 9 Qualifying
BTCDS Race 4 (75 km, 15 laps)
BTCC Race 9 (250 km, 49 laps)

Silverstone Saturday Race 8 Qualifying Results


Fabrizio Giovanardi takes his second pole of the season winning out in an extremely close qualifying session with the top 12 all within one second. Wildcard, Mat Jackson qualifies an excellent 14th for his main series debut with a time that would have comfortably given him pole in the BTCDS race. Fellow wildcards, Mike Doble and Tom Onslow-Cole also beat their BTCDS times.

Samster wrote:Silverstone Saturday Race 8 Qualifying Results


Fabrizio Giovanardi takes his second pole of the season winning out in an extremely close qualifying session with the top 12 all within one second. Wildcard, Mat Jackson qualifies an excellent 14th for his main series debut with a time that would have comfortably given him pole in the BTCDS race. Fellow wildcards, Mike Doble and Tom Onslow-Cole also beat their BTCDS times.

Not a debut, he did a full season in Production-class in 2001, but yeah, that's a pretty awesome showing from him. All those Vauxhalls at the front is a bit worrying, though...

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

Samster wrote:Silverstone Saturday Race 8 Qualifying Results


Fabrizio Giovanardi takes his second pole of the season winning out in an extremely close qualifying session with the top 12 all within one second. Wildcard, Mat Jackson qualifies an excellent 14th for his main series debut with a time that would have comfortably given him pole in the BTCDS race. Fellow wildcards, Mike Doble and Tom Onslow-Cole also beat their BTCDS times.

Not a debut, he did a full season in Production-class in 2001, but yeah, that's a pretty awesome showing from him. All those Vauxhalls at the front is a bit worrying, though...

I know, I mean his touring class debut.

Might Gordon Shedden make a BTCC return as a wildcard for the Knockhill round...?

Stramala [kostas22] wrote:Might Gordon Shedden make a BTCC return as a wildcard for the Knockhill round...?

I dunno, do you want Mat Jackson to kick his ass?

Silverstone Saturday Race 8 Results


Finally found some time to write the review after uploading results on the wiki on Wednesday. Also I realized the day after that I ran a 300 km race instead of a 150 as planned. Oops. So I'll run Race 9 as a 300 too to match up.

So the three works Vauxhall were clearly the class of the field today as Warren Hughes and Robert Huff disposed of James Thompson's pesky Civic from the top three and ran off for the first stint. Hughes got by pole sitter Fabrizio Giovanardi on lap 5 and spend the rest of the stint pulling away from his teammates.

On lap 10, Andy Neate returned to his old tricks by binning his MG at Copse in a rather large shunt, bringing out our first safety car since the Cardiff races. Neate escapes uninjured but it looks likely that Kartworld will be unable to repair his car in time for Sunday's race with heavy damage to the front of the MG.

During the SC period, around half the field made their first stops including Giovanardi, leaving the Vauxhall pair of Hughes and Huff out in front from Thompson, Anthony Reid and the SEAT pair of Colin Turkington and Tom Chilton. Meanwhile in the pits, Luke Hines gets rear ended by wildcard Mat Jackson, causing both to loose several laps in the garage.

Hughes and Huff lead the second stint which unfortunately ended on lap 22 as Hughes suddenly coasted to a stop on the start finish straight with an electrical fault leaving his teammate in the lead from the SEAT pair of Turkington and Chilton who had picked their way past Reid and Thompson along with Alain Menu. Hughes car was left in a dangerous spot which brought out the SC again.

The next stint saw Alain Menu suddenly gain some speed as he made his way to the front, passing Huff for the lead on lap 31. Dan Eaves suffered yet another DNF when his piston broke, wrecking his engine and leaking oil on the circuit and bringing out another SC. More pitstops were made though Menu stayed out along with Turkington, Chilton and Darren Turner. Menu unfortunately lost his chance of victory on the restart as he picked up a puncture meaning he had to follow the SC back into the pits to make a pitstop. Strangely Turkington and Chilton soon followed to make scheduled stops, which makes no sense when just laps earlier they could have made their stops under yellow.

So the final third of the race saw the field spilt between two strategies. Those who pitted under the third SC were left in the lead once the rest of the field eventually made their final stops, some of which just barely fell short of not having to stop again like Matt Neal who lost out on the win by having to pit just three laps from the finish. Those who pitted after the green flag would loose track position but have the advantage of fresher tyres giving us our closest finish of the season. Huff and Giovanardi found themselves back in the lead once Neal finally had to make his stop, the latter just barely missing out on pipping Huff to the win on his fresher rubber.

Thompson made up the podium in third and actually re extended his points lead thanks to Hughes DNF. Reid took his best finish since his 2nd place at Thruxton by coming home 4th, his consistency keeping him up in 4th in the title race. Neal had to settle for 5th after his final splash and dash stop while Darren Turner on a similar strategy scored his best career finish in 6th, in stark contrast to his teammates fortunes.

While Menu dropped to the back of the lead lap after his puncture, eventually recovering to 14th, Gavin Smith ran an impressive race to 7th and even John George came a solid 17th after a brief cameo in the top 10. Satoshi Motoyama managed to take his first top 10 in 8th ahead of the SEAT pair of Turkington and Chilton down in 9th and 10th thanks to their awful strategy meaning that they had to make two green flag stops instead of one like the rest of the field. Finally credit must be giving to Charlie Butler-Henderson and Gareth Howell, both running in the top 5 thanks to running the 'Neal strategy' before their final pitstops dropped them back down the order.

Tech-Speed just haven't had any luck this season...

Stramala [kostas22] wrote:Tech-Speed just haven't had any luck this season...

SEAT Sport haven't been much better - I might write this season off and work towards 2005 if we have too many more races like this...

I'm amazed.... Hines didn't find anything to hit. Why was he so off the pace? Did he have car troubles or was he just that slow?

HonoraryNortherner wrote:I'm amazed.... Hines didn't find anything to hit. Why was he so off the pace? Did he have car troubles or was he just that slow?

No, as described in the review he got rear ended in the pitlane which forced him into the garage for a few laps. He had got himself up to 15th during the first stint.

Silverstone Sunday Race 9 Qualifying Results


Robert Huff backs up his first win with his first pole position. Can he make the Silverstone double? He just barely edges out Colin Turkington for pole by 2 thousandths of a second while Anthony Reid's MG looks fast in 3rd.

That's more like it! 3 SEATs in the top 6! Jackson also qualifying well in the midfield, Neate not taking part, this looks good.

Silverstone Sunday Race 9 Results


Vauxhall complete their domination of Silverstone with another 1-2, this time even closer than the last as Warren Hughes holds off Robert Huff. Fabrizio Giovanardi just misses out on an all VX podium as James Thompson keeps his pesky Civic in the way.

Huff was our early leader during the first stint, closely followed by Colin Turkington's SEAT who kept right on his tail until Hughes worked his way through and passed the SEAT. After the first round of stops, Hughes took over the lead and besides during each round of stops, led the rest of the way though Huff was quick during the final stint and managed to regain the time lost on his second stint and spent the final few laps right on Hughes' tail.

Thompson had a very slow first stint which saw him lead a train of cars making up the lower half of the top ten. Hughes got by him for 4th early on and Matt Neal and Giovanardi soon followed through while the Honda driver spent the rest of the stint holding off Alain Menu, Jason Plato and Tom Chilton. However after dropping to 9th after a bad first stop, Thompson picked up the pace and gradually made his way up to 3rd in the closing stages. He just barely managed to hold off Giovanardi for the podium despite the Italian briefly getting ahead.

Though SEAT showed great pace in qualifying, their race pace still leaves alot to be desired. Turkington kept up with Huff during the first stint but then Hughes got by him during the first stops and he lost the pace of the Vauxhall pair from there. Then at around the halfway point he managed to trip over Mike Jordan's MG through Becketts in a rather daft attempt at lapping the veteran. Jordan's car was tapped around then tagged again by Turkington. While the SEAT managed to carry on with minimal damage albeit a little delayed, Jordan was forced to bring his MG to the garage, dropping him from 18th to the very back of the grid. Neal meanwhile spent the majority of the race in 5th before Thompson demoted him to 6th just before the second stops while Chilton made a bad start which meant he was battling Menu and Plato all day.

West Surrey Racing had another disappointing day, though Dan Eaves finally got to the finish in 10th, Anthony Reid lost out on a possible podium with an early puncture forcing an extra stop meaning that he had to spend the race recovering to 11th. Dynamics finally got all of their cars to the finish trouble free but still remain off the leaders pace by some way. Jason Plato will only put up with finishes like 9th for so long. At least Luke Hines got a trouble free race into 14th. Likewise Tech-Speed were off the pace but Menu was their only finisher with Gavin Smith and John George both hitting mechanical troubles. Charlie Butler-Henderson scored another solid finish of 15th to round off an impressive weekend for the GA Motorsports driver.

You may now order your upgrades for Oulton Park. If you want to enter your BTCDS team as a wildcard then state so here.

I am amazed, Luke Hines manged not crash into some form of object.....

Small aero and chassis upgrades, please.

TH-L will like a small chassis update on our cars.

Proton will take a small aerodynamics upgrade please.

Large aero update please.

Large aero upgrade for SEAT. Mat Jackson will also return as a wildcard at Oulton Park.

9 seconds off the pace in qualifying? That's dreadful!


I wanted at least 10

Both regular drivers beaten by our pet project? If only Turkington the knob knew how to lap cars without driving into them

takagi_for_the_win wrote:Both regular drivers beaten by our pet project? If only Turkington the knob knew how to lap cars without driving into them

You have plenty of money built up to upgrade your cars if you want to improve.

Fosters 400 Preview

Entry List - 32 Cars


Track Map


Schedule
Friday
BTCDS Race 5 Qualifying
BTCC Race 10 Qualifying

Saturday
BTCDS Race 5 (75 km, 18 Laps)
BTCC Race 10 (150 km, 35 Laps)

Sunday
BTCC Race 11 Qualifying
BTCDS Race 6 (75 km, 18 Laps)
BTCC Race 11 (250 km, 59 Laps)

It has just been announced that Colin Turkington will receive three points on his license for his collision with Mike Jordan in Race 9.

Samster wrote:It has just been announced that Colin Turkington will receive three points on his license for his collision with Mike Jordan in Race 9.

BCS will have kittens when he sees this...

HonoraryNortherner wrote:

Samster wrote:It has just been announced that Colin Turkington will receive three points on his license for his collision with Mike Jordan in Race 9.

BCS will have kittens when he sees this...

No I won't. It's Turkington's fault. Sure, he won a race, but if he keeps this crap up I won't hesitate to dump him for Jackson after this season.

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

HonoraryNortherner wrote:

Samster wrote:It has just been announced that Colin Turkington will receive three points on his license for his collision with Mike Jordan in Race 9.

BCS will have kittens when he sees this...

No I won't. It's Turkington's fault. Sure, he won a race, but if he keeps this crap up I won't hesitate to dump him for Jackson after this season.

I was basically refering to Luke Hines's pinball impression earlier this season, which escaped unpunished.

HonoraryNortherner wrote:I was basically refering to Luke Hines's pinball impression earlier this season, which escaped unpunished.

Oh right. In that case, SEAT will petition the series management to retroactively add points to Hines' license in light of this.

can I have a medium engine upgrade please

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

HonoraryNortherner wrote:I was basically refering to Luke Hines's pinball impression earlier this season, which escaped unpunished.

Oh right. In that case, SEAT will petition the series management to retroactively add points to Hines' license in light of this.

He is on probation, one more collision caused by him and he gets a month ban.

Also no more requests for upgrades for Oulton, andrew's will be the last I accept till after the meeting.

Samster wrote:It has just been announced that Colin Turkington will receive three points on his license for his collision with Mike Jordan in Race 9.

Nothing less than he deserves

takagi_for_the_win wrote:

Samster wrote:It has just been announced that Colin Turkington will receive three points on his license for his collision with Mike Jordan in Race 9.

Nothing less than he deserves

Maybe if Jordan was less rubbish that wouldn't have happened!?

BTCC Oulton Park Saturday Race 10 Qualifying Results


Looks like Team Dynamics have found some speed! Jason Plato takes his first pole of the season by over a third of a second. He heads the SEAT pair of Matt Neal and Tom Chilton. James Kaye performs the impossible and drags the Proton into the top ten while our championship top two both have an awful session as James Thompson and Warren Hughes are down in 10th and 16th respectively.

Turkington needs to step it the hell up, if everything stays as is, I'm dropping him for Jackson at the end of this year.

Kaye's in eighth?! How the hell did that happen, and, more importantly, why can't either of my designated points-scoring drivers do that?

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:Turkington needs to step it the hell up, if everything stays as is, I'm dropping him for Jackson at the end of this year.

We'll take Turkington at TH-L next year. We need someone half-decent alongside whatever cashed-up never was we can find for the second car

Wizzie wrote:

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:Turkington needs to step it the hell up, if everything stays as is, I'm dropping him for Jackson at the end of this year.

We'll take Turkington at TH-L next year. We need someone half-decent alongside whatever cashed-up never was we can find for the second car

Whoa whoa whoa, I haven't sacked him yet! Though I imagine you'd have some competition for his services if it did come to that...

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

takagi_for_the_win wrote:

Samster wrote:It has just been announced that Colin Turkington will receive three points on his license for his collision with Mike Jordan in Race 9.

Nothing less than he deserves

Maybe if Jordan was less rubbish that wouldn't have happened!?

Running solid midfield in a 2-year old car is hardly rubbish I'm sure he'd whup Turk's arse given equal equipment

takagi_for_the_win wrote:

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

takagi_for_the_win wrote:Nothing less than he deserves

Maybe if Jordan was less rubbish that wouldn't have happened!?

Running solid midfield in a 2-year old car is hardly rubbish I'm sure he'd whup Turk's arse given equal equipment

Oh yeah? I'd be willing to arrange for Jordan to drive one of our SEAT's in a test to settle this little rivalry...