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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Brands Hatch GP Up!
Can I get any money back for selling my BMW 320s? I know I can't spend money I get back on upgrading the SEATs; this is fine.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Brands Hatch GP Up!
DemocalypseNow wrote:Can I get any money back for selling my BMW 320s? I know I can't spend money I get back on upgrading the SEATs; this is fine.
I don't think that would be particularly fair unless I let everybody else sell their '09 cars, which would mess up the budgets; sorry, you can't as of yet.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Brands Hatch GP Up!
Race pace and power for Maxtreme.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Brands Hatch GP Up!
Here are the upgrade RNGs before the rounds at Oulton Park:
Motorbase Race Pace I
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result:27, meaning Motorbase makes some improvements to their Civics in their quest to avoid having to pre-qualify...
Motorbase Race Pace II
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result: 9, ...and follow this up with further developments
Motorbase Quali Pace
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result:96, so attempts to improve the horrendous qualifying performances this year are not successful.
Boulevard Engine Power I
1-50 Succeed, 51-100 Fail
Result: 75, meaning Boulevard blows more money on fruitless development
Boulevard Engine Power II
1-50 Succeed, 51-100 Fail
Result: 92, leaving Boulevard with no development and an even bigger funding deficit
Maxtreme Engine Power
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result: 14, meaning Maxtreme will have a more powerful engine to aid them in holding on to their lead...
Maxtreme Race Pace
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result:80 ...but are unable to find any extra race pace
The actual races will probably be up in the next couple of days.
Motorbase Race Pace I
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result:27, meaning Motorbase makes some improvements to their Civics in their quest to avoid having to pre-qualify...
Motorbase Race Pace II
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result: 9, ...and follow this up with further developments
Motorbase Quali Pace
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result:96, so attempts to improve the horrendous qualifying performances this year are not successful.
Boulevard Engine Power I
1-50 Succeed, 51-100 Fail
Result: 75, meaning Boulevard blows more money on fruitless development
Boulevard Engine Power II
1-50 Succeed, 51-100 Fail
Result: 92, leaving Boulevard with no development and an even bigger funding deficit
Maxtreme Engine Power
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result: 14, meaning Maxtreme will have a more powerful engine to aid them in holding on to their lead...
Maxtreme Race Pace
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result:80 ...but are unable to find any extra race pace
The actual races will probably be up in the next couple of days.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Brands Hatch GP Up!
I'll sign up into the waiting list, if possible.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Brands Hatch GP Up!
Reject_Dom wrote:I'll sign up into the waiting list, if possible.
Cheers
It's done.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Brands Hatch GP Up!
I'm deee~lighted to announce that enthusiastic team owner-to-be, Reject_Dom, has made me an offer I cannot refuse, and purchased Alternative Fuel Motorsport.
I'll remember my time in the British Touring Car Championship with considerable fondness, and wish him all the success in the world!
I'll remember my time in the British Touring Car Championship with considerable fondness, and wish him all the success in the world!
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Oulton Park Up!
Really late again (I did have to races done by Monday night, but have been stupidly busy since) but here are the results from Rounds 10-12 at Oulton Park:
Pre-Qualifying:
In the final pre-qualifying before it's recalculation, Matt Neal topped the times for Tech-Speed, but the 407's awful reliability meant that O'Neill couldn't set a time, taking the team out of the equation entirely for the session. Instead it was BTC Racing who topped the aggregate times at the scene of their first DNPQ last year, helped by a lacklustre time by Alex MacDowell scuppering AmD's chances against them. In fact, the Scot's time was so poor that the second team to make it out of the session was in fact the more consistent AFM lineup, albeit over a second off the pace of BTC Racing; this must surely be a boost for the team however as rumours of a management buyout linger around the paddock. Debutants Forster were the last team classified in the session, half a second off decidedly lacklustre efforts from Boulevard and the faltering Eurotech squad.
Quali-1:
It was a Chilton-Muller front row for race 1, with championship challengers (it really is a two-horse race already...) Menu and Michelisz in 3rd and 6th respectively. Stephen Kane turned heads with another impressive quali session, putting his BMW 13th, one place behind Tom Coronel, who seemed to be able to extract more pace from the Focus than has been shown of late; not that serial poor qualifier Rob Collard could do anything with it, as he failed to qualify, joining Tony Gilham on the sidelines.
Race 1: (video coming soon)
After making it past his teammate on Lap 1, Alain Menu dominated what turned out to be a race of attrition, with no less than seven cars failing to finish, including said teammate Chilton, who's transmission packed up three laps from home. Indeed, transmission failure appeared to be a bit of an issue on the undulating Oulton Park Circuit, with Coronel and Bennani both suffering failures in the early laps, joined also by Pinkney by half distance, while Jordan and Jackson were both taken out in a bizarre incident when trying to avoid the smoking, slow-moving Cruze of James Thompson, both cars subsequently suffering front-end damage. Back at the front, Michelisz finished second after setting fastest lap, while Jonathan Adam managed another podium finish in the unfancied Vectra, although he himself narrowly avoiding falling off the track, something Gordon Shedden sadly didn't, spinning while running strongly at Oulton for the third time in two years, and in the same place!. Stephen Kane also scored BTC's first points of the year in 10th, while Ferrier's AFM BMW made the finish in a distant 16th, after a wheel fell off Eaves' car.
Quali-2:
Jason Plato joined Chilton on the front row for race 2, with Gene and Menu again just behind, while Tom Coronel again impressed by qualifying ninth. Tony Gilham put in a surprisingly competitive time in his Civic to qualify 19th, ahead of Bennani's works car, although off the grid were the other set of Hondas, with Turkington and Forster seemingly unable to get the Accords running properly during the session.
Race 2 (video coming soon)
Jason Plato fended off first Alain Menu (having swapped places over the first few laps and then Norbert Michelisz to take a long-overdue first win this year, after a somewhat muted start to his championship defence. This was another race of attrition; even by turn two on lap 1, there had been a retirement, with Fabrizio Giovanardi's gearbox losing its enthusiasm for transferring power to the wheels rather quickly, while Chilton and Eaves both had oil leaks not long after, and Thompson joining them in being consecutive retirees over the weekend. This meant that by lap 15, after Coronel had destroyed the front end of his Focus while running ninth, Tony Gilham was in 10th, just one place away from one that would save Motorbase from pre-qualifying. As luck would have it, Augusto Farfus' engine blew handing him ninth place...
...for the grand total of two corners, as his suspension failed, cruelly landing him in the same gravel trap that Farfus parked his Civic in moments later. Mehdi Bennani therefore scored his first ever BTCC points (and I believe the first ever scored by a Moroccan... feel free to correct me).In the meantime, Norbert Michelisz set fastest lap, and by virtue of finishing sixth, Jordi Gene got the most power for Quali-3 (although he didn't get pole).
Race 3 (video coming soon)
Norbert Michelisz carved his way through the field at the start to take a commanding win by the end, although many eyes were on Jonathan Adam, who put in a fighting if rather wayward drive to finish a season best second some way ahead of Menu in third in rather more orthodox top 10 than in the previous two races, although Coronel finally managed to keep his Focus running cleanly and was rewarded with Arena's first points in a while, just behind Tom Chilton who at least finished a race without a technical failure for once. After their double-DNQ in Quali-2, Forster at least made the grid but had a miserable third race, with Forster suffering an early engine failure and Turkington spinning on the first lap, rejoining at the back; he only climbed his way up to fourteenth by the end of the race, while AFM ran their most competitive race in a long while, benefitting from attrition but not actually running last for a good deal of the race with their hopelessly underpowered cars. Alain Menu set fastest lap.
Championship Standings After 12 Rounds
Driver's Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 136
2 Alain Menu 130
3 Jordi Gene 83
4 Jonathan Adam 80
5 Jason Plato 71
6 Yvan Muller 65
7 Colin Turkington 54
8 Tom Chilton 43
9 Augusto Farfus 37
10 Gordon Shedden 29
11 James Thompson 28
12 Rob Collard 12
13 Andrew Jordan 10
=13 Jeff Smith 10
15 Tom Coronel 9
16 Nick Foster 8
17 Paul O'Neill 3
=17 Dave Pinkney 3
19 Chris James 2
20 Mat Jackson 1
=20 Stephen Kane 1
=20 Mehdi Bennani 1
Michelisz still holds a six point lead over Menu in the driver's championship, which is effectively a two-horse race even at this early stage, with third placed Jordi Gene nearly fifty points behind already.
Independent Driver's Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 153
2 Jordi Gene 123
3 Yvan Muller 110
4 Colin Turkington 86
5 Gordon Shedden 80
6 Nick Foster 55
7 Dave Pinkney 30
8 James Nash 28
9 Ben Collins 18
10 Stephen Kane 17
11 Mat Jackson 12
12 Paul O'Neill 9
13 Alex MacDowell 8
=13 Gavin Smith 8
15 Tom Ferrier 7
=15 Andy Neate 7
=15 Matt Neal 7
=15 John George 7
19 Chris James 5
=19 Arthur Forster 5
=19 Dan Eaves 5
22 Tom Onslow-Cole 1
If the main championship is a two-horse race, then the Indy title race surely has only one- Michelisz is erring towards the unbeatable with a thirty point lead over Gene, although Yvan Muller is gaining ground in the standings fast.
Team's Championship
1 WSR 173
2 Maxtreme 139
4 CVR 94
3 GR Asia 91
5 Seat 81
6 888 80
7 Special Tuning 54
8 Honda 38
9 RML 38
10 Arena 21
11 Tech-Speed 3
12 Boulevard 2
13 Motorbase 1
=13 BTC Racing 1
WSR and Maxtreme are still holding their postitions in the championship, over sixty points ahead of anyone else. Elsewhere there has been no movement in this championship, besides BTC Racing's appearance in joint thirteenth and last.
Independent Team's Championship
1 CVR 190
2 Maxtreme 183
3 GR Asia 178
4 Special Tuning 91
5 Bamboo 46
6 BTC Racing 24
7 Tech-Speed 16
=7 AmD Tuning 16
9 Boulevard 12
=9 Motorbase 12
=9 AFM 12
12 Eurotech 1
A far closer battle is apparent in the Independent Team's standings, with the top three separated by just 12 points, with Maxtreme having overtaken GR Asia for second. Interestingly, Boulevard, Motorbase and AFM are equal points, despite doing massively differing amounts of rounds- and being well behind BTC, who've only qualified for two weekends!
Constructor's Championship
1 WSR/BMW 198
2 Seat 116
3 888/Vauxhall 108
4 Honda 70
5 RML/Chevrolet 67
6 Arena/Ford 52
WSR are still a long way ahead of Seat and Vauxhall, who are neck-and-neck at the moment, as are Honda and Chevrolet, with Ford still lagging behind after a disappointing Oulton Park.
Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for, the pre-qualifying calculation
Leaving Pre-Qualifying
Tech-Speed (11th in TC, 3pts)
Boulevard (12th in TC, 2pts)
Entering Pre-Qualfying
Motorbase (=13th in TC, 1pt)
Bamboo Engineering (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish 11th)
Staying in Pre-Qualfying
BTC Racing (=13th in TC, 1pt)
AmD Tuning (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish 12th)
AFM Racing (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish 14th)
Eurotech (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish 21st)
Forster Motorsport (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish DNPQ)
This will be recalculated again after Silverstone.
In the meantime before Croft, feel free to make upgrades/sack drivers/despair about falling into pre-qualifying.
Pre-Qualifying:
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1 Matt Neal
1m 33.603s (DNPQ)
2 Stephen Kane
1m 33.864s
3 Andy Neate
1m 33.952s (DNPQ)
4 Gavin Smith
1m 34.031s (DNPQ)
5 John George
1m 34.077s
6 Tom Onslow-Cole
1m 34.338s (DNPQ)
7 Tom Ferrier
1m 34.454s
8 Dan Eaves
1m 34.535s
9 James Kaye
1m 34.553s (DNPQ)
10 Martin Depper
1m 35.111s (DNPQ)
11 Alex MacDowell
1m 35.301s (DNPQ)
12 Carl Breeze
1m 35.695s (DNPQ)
13 Chris James
1m 35.736s (DNPQ)
14 Paul O'Neill
No Time (DNPQ)
Aggregate:
1 BTC Racing 3m 07.941s
2 AFM Racing 3m 08.989
3 AmD Tuning 3m 09.142 (DNPQ)
4 Eurotech 3m 09.449 (DNPQ)
5 Boulevard 3m 09.688 (DNPQ)
6 Forster 3m 10.248 (DNPQ)
NC Tech-Speed No Time (DNPQ)
In the final pre-qualifying before it's recalculation, Matt Neal topped the times for Tech-Speed, but the 407's awful reliability meant that O'Neill couldn't set a time, taking the team out of the equation entirely for the session. Instead it was BTC Racing who topped the aggregate times at the scene of their first DNPQ last year, helped by a lacklustre time by Alex MacDowell scuppering AmD's chances against them. In fact, the Scot's time was so poor that the second team to make it out of the session was in fact the more consistent AFM lineup, albeit over a second off the pace of BTC Racing; this must surely be a boost for the team however as rumours of a management buyout linger around the paddock. Debutants Forster were the last team classified in the session, half a second off decidedly lacklustre efforts from Boulevard and the faltering Eurotech squad.
Quali-1:
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1 Tom Chilton
1m 31.102s
2 Yvan Muller
1m 31.631s
3 Alain Menu
1m 31.826s
4 Jordi Gene
1m 31.875s
5 Jonathan Adam
1m 31.917s
6 Norbert Michelisz
1m 32.011s
7 Jason Plato
1m 32.286s
8 Gordon Shedden
1m 32.816s
9 Colin Turkington
1m 32.894s
10 James Thompson
1m 32.935s
11 Augusto Farfus
1m 33.047s
12 Tom Coronel
1m 33.542s
13 Stephen Kane
1m 33.630s
14 Nick Foster
1m 33.706s
15 Andrew Jordan
1m 33.771s
16 Jeff Smith
1m 33.882s
17 Fabrizio Giovanardi
1m 33.895s
18 James Nash
1m 33.910s
19 Ben Collins
1m 34.092s
20 John George
1m 34.115s
21 Mat Jackson
1m 34.121s
22 Dave Pinkney
1m 34.142s
23 Arthur Forster
1m 34.481s
24 Tom Ferrier
1m 34.495s
25 Dan Eaves
1m 34.676s
26 Mehdi Bennani
1m 34.703s
DNQ:
27 Tony Gilham
28 Rob Collard
It was a Chilton-Muller front row for race 1, with championship challengers (it really is a two-horse race already...) Menu and Michelisz in 3rd and 6th respectively. Stephen Kane turned heads with another impressive quali session, putting his BMW 13th, one place behind Tom Coronel, who seemed to be able to extract more pace from the Focus than has been shown of late; not that serial poor qualifier Rob Collard could do anything with it, as he failed to qualify, joining Tony Gilham on the sidelines.
Race 1: (video coming soon)
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³ 1st Alain Menu 32m 09.636s ³
³ WSR - BMW ³
³ 2nd Norbert Michelisz +2.625s ³
³ Maxtreme - SEAT ³
³ 3rd Jonathan Adam +12.046s ³
³ Triple Eight - Vauxhall ³
³ 4th Yvan Muller +13.120s ³
³ Clyde Valley - Seat ³
³ 5th Colin Turkington +14.334s ³
³ Sp. Tuning - Honda ³
³ 6th Jordi Gene +20.825s ³
³ GR Asia - SEAT ³
³ 7th Jason Plato +26.891s ³
³ SEAT Sport - SEAT ³
³ 8th Nick Foster +28.576s ³
³ GR Asia - SEAT ³
³ 9th Jeff Smith +33.079s ³
³ RML - Chevrolet ³
³ 10th Stephen Kane +35.414s ³
³ BTC Racing - BMW ³
³ 11th James Nash +37.045s ³
³ Bamboo - Chevrolet ³
³ 12th Fabrizio Giovanardi +39.424s ³
³ Triple Eight - Vauxhall ³
³ 13th Ben Collins +43.235s ³
³ Bamboo - Chevrolet ³
³ 14th John George +46.979s ³
³ BTC Racing - BMW ³
³ 15th Augusto Farfus +47.284s ³
³ Honda Racing - Honda ³
³ 16th Tom Ferrier +58.184s ³
³ AFM - BMW ³
³ 17th Arthur Forster +1m 13.515s ³
³ Sp. Tuning - Honda ³
³ 18th Gordon Shedden +1m 27.601s ³
³ Clyde Valley - Seat ³
³ 19th Tom Chilton -3 Laps ³
³ WSR - BMW ³
³ 20th Dan Eaves Loose Wheel ³
³ AFM - BMW ³
³ 21st Dave Pinkney Transmission ³
³ Maxtreme - SEAT ³
³ 22nd James Thompson Engine ³
³ RML - Chevrolet ³
³ 23rd Andrew Jordan Didn't Finish ³
³ SEAT Sport - SEAT ³
³ 24th Mat Jackson Didn't Finish ³
³ Motorbase - Honda ³
³ 25th Tom Coronel Transmission ³
³ Arena - Ford ³
³ 26th Mehdi Bennani Transmission ³
³ Honda Racing - Honda ³
After making it past his teammate on Lap 1, Alain Menu dominated what turned out to be a race of attrition, with no less than seven cars failing to finish, including said teammate Chilton, who's transmission packed up three laps from home. Indeed, transmission failure appeared to be a bit of an issue on the undulating Oulton Park Circuit, with Coronel and Bennani both suffering failures in the early laps, joined also by Pinkney by half distance, while Jordan and Jackson were both taken out in a bizarre incident when trying to avoid the smoking, slow-moving Cruze of James Thompson, both cars subsequently suffering front-end damage. Back at the front, Michelisz finished second after setting fastest lap, while Jonathan Adam managed another podium finish in the unfancied Vectra, although he himself narrowly avoiding falling off the track, something Gordon Shedden sadly didn't, spinning while running strongly at Oulton for the third time in two years, and in the same place!. Stephen Kane also scored BTC's first points of the year in 10th, while Ferrier's AFM BMW made the finish in a distant 16th, after a wheel fell off Eaves' car.
Quali-2:
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1 Tom Chilton
1m 31.508s
2 Jason Plato
1m 31.690s
3 Jordi Gene
1m 31.848s
4 Alain Menu
1m 31.856s
5 Yvan Muller
1m 31.903s
6 Jonathan Adam
1m 31.946s
7 Norbert Michelisz
1m 32.099s
8 Gordon Shedden
1m 32.573s
9 Tom Coronel
1m 33.209s
10 James Thompson
1m 33.277s
11 Augusto Farfus
1m 33.478s
12 Dave Pinkney
1m 33.728s
13 Andrew Jordan
1m 33.848s
14 Jeff Smith
1m 33.950s
15 Stephen Kane
1m 34.040s
16 Rob Collard
1m 34.047s
17 John George
1m 34.057s
18 Fabrizio Giovanardi
1m 34.112s
19 Tony Gilham
1m 34.277s
20 Ben Collins
1m 34.288s
21 Dan Eaves
1m 34.366s
22 James Nash
1m 34.446s
23 Mehdi Bennani
1m 34.457s
24 Mat Jackson
1m 34.476s
25 Nick Foster
1m 34.570s
26 Tom Ferrier
1m 34.714s
DNQ:
27 Arthur Forster
28 Colin Turkington
Jason Plato joined Chilton on the front row for race 2, with Gene and Menu again just behind, while Tom Coronel again impressed by qualifying ninth. Tony Gilham put in a surprisingly competitive time in his Civic to qualify 19th, ahead of Bennani's works car, although off the grid were the other set of Hondas, with Turkington and Forster seemingly unable to get the Accords running properly during the session.
Race 2 (video coming soon)
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³ 1st Jason Plato 32m 11.386s ³
³ SEAT Sport - SEAT ³
³ 2nd Norbert Michelisz +2.065s ³
³ Maxtreme - SEAT ³
³ 3rd Alain Menu +2.914s ³
³ WSR - BMW ³
³ 4th Yvan Muller +9.251s ³
³ Clyde Valley - Seat ³
³ 5th Jonathan Adam +13.567s ³
³ Triple Eight - Vauxhall ³
³ 6th Jordi Gene +15.216s ³
³ GR Asia - SEAT ³
³ 7th Gordon Shedden +25.734s ³
³ Clyde Valley - Seat ³
³ 8th Dave Pinkney +30.735s ³
³ Maxtreme - SEAT ³
³ 9th Jeff Smith +37.864s ³
³ RML - Chevrolet ³
³ 10th Mehdi Bennani +38.849s ³
³ Honda Racing - Honda ³
³ 11th John George +46.255s ³
³ BTC Racing - BMW ³
³ 12th Nick Foster +47.783s ³
³ GR Asia - SEAT ³
³ 13th Rob Collard +52.510s ³
³ Arena - Ford ³
³ 14th Ben Collins +53.451s ³
³ Bamboo - Chevrolet ³
³ 15th James Nash +54.528s ³
³ Bamboo - Chevrolet ³
³ 16th Tom Ferrier +58.009s ³
³ AFM - BMW ³
³ 17th Tom Coronel +58.517s ³
³ Arena - Ford ³
³ 18th Tony Gilham Transmission ³
³ Motorbase - Honda ³
³ 19th Augusto Farfus Engine ³
³ Honda Racing - Honda ³
³ 20th Stephen Kane Water Leak ³
³ BTC Racing - BMW ³
³ 21st Mat Jackson Transmission ³
³ Motorbase - Honda ³
³ 22nd James Thompson Engine ³
³ RML - Chevrolet ³
³ 23rd Andrew Jordan Transmission ³
³ SEAT Sport - SEAT ³
³ 24th Dan Eaves Oil Leak ³
³ AFM - BMW ³
³ 25th Tom Chilton Oil Leak ³
³ WSR - BMW ³
³ 26th Fabrizio Giovanardi Transmission ³
³ Triple Eight - Vauxhall ³
Jason Plato fended off first Alain Menu (having swapped places over the first few laps and then Norbert Michelisz to take a long-overdue first win this year, after a somewhat muted start to his championship defence. This was another race of attrition; even by turn two on lap 1, there had been a retirement, with Fabrizio Giovanardi's gearbox losing its enthusiasm for transferring power to the wheels rather quickly, while Chilton and Eaves both had oil leaks not long after, and Thompson joining them in being consecutive retirees over the weekend. This meant that by lap 15, after Coronel had destroyed the front end of his Focus while running ninth, Tony Gilham was in 10th, just one place away from one that would save Motorbase from pre-qualifying. As luck would have it, Augusto Farfus' engine blew handing him ninth place...
...for the grand total of two corners, as his suspension failed, cruelly landing him in the same gravel trap that Farfus parked his Civic in moments later. Mehdi Bennani therefore scored his first ever BTCC points (and I believe the first ever scored by a Moroccan... feel free to correct me).In the meantime, Norbert Michelisz set fastest lap, and by virtue of finishing sixth, Jordi Gene got the most power for Quali-3 (although he didn't get pole).
Race 3 (video coming soon)
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³ 1st Norbert Michelisz 32m 07.769s ³
³ Maxtreme - SEAT ³
³ 2nd Jonathan Adam +3.188s ³
³ Triple Eight - Vauxhall ³
³ 3rd Alain Menu +5.519s ³
³ WSR - BMW ³
³ 4th Jordi Gene +10.145s ³
³ GR Asia - SEAT ³
³ 5th Yvan Muller +12.722s ³
³ Clyde Valley - Seat ³
³ 6th Jason Plato +16.463s ³
³ SEAT Sport - SEAT ³
³ 7th James Thompson +16.931s ³
³ RML - Chevrolet ³
³ 8th Gordon Shedden +19.912s ³
³ Clyde Valley - Seat ³
³ 9th Tom Chilton +23.912s ³
³ WSR - BMW ³
³ 10th Tom Coronel +31.980s ³
³ Arena - Ford ³
³ 11th Fabrizio Giovanardi +37.885s ³
³ Triple Eight - Vauxhall ³
³ 12th Jeff Smith +38.508s ³
³ RML - Chevrolet ³
³ 13th Andrew Jordan +39.398s ³
³ SEAT Sport - SEAT ³
³ 14th Colin Turkington +46.630s ³
³ Sp. Tuning - Honda ³
³ 15th Ben Collins +50.781s ³
³ Bamboo - Chevrolet ³
³ 16th Dan Eaves +57.143s ³
³ AFM - BMW ³
³ 17th Tom Ferrier +59.508s ³
³ AFM - BMW ³
³ 18th Rob Collard +1m 02.763s ³
³ Arena - Ford ³
³ 19th James Nash +1m 16.972s ³
³ Bamboo - Chevrolet ³
³ 20th Stephen Kane -1 Lap ³
³ BTC Racing - BMW ³
³ 21st Mat Jackson -1 Lap ³
³ Motorbase - Honda ³
³ 22nd John George -1 Lap ³
³ BTC Racing - BMW ³
³ 23rd Augusto Farfus Engine ³
³ Honda Racing - Honda ³
³ 24th Nick Foster Puncture ³
³ GR Asia - SEAT ³
³ 25th Arthur Forster Engine ³
³ Sp. Tuning - Honda ³
³ 26th Dave Pinkney Puncture ³
³ Maxtreme - SEAT ³
Norbert Michelisz carved his way through the field at the start to take a commanding win by the end, although many eyes were on Jonathan Adam, who put in a fighting if rather wayward drive to finish a season best second some way ahead of Menu in third in rather more orthodox top 10 than in the previous two races, although Coronel finally managed to keep his Focus running cleanly and was rewarded with Arena's first points in a while, just behind Tom Chilton who at least finished a race without a technical failure for once. After their double-DNQ in Quali-2, Forster at least made the grid but had a miserable third race, with Forster suffering an early engine failure and Turkington spinning on the first lap, rejoining at the back; he only climbed his way up to fourteenth by the end of the race, while AFM ran their most competitive race in a long while, benefitting from attrition but not actually running last for a good deal of the race with their hopelessly underpowered cars. Alain Menu set fastest lap.
Championship Standings After 12 Rounds
Driver's Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 136
2 Alain Menu 130
3 Jordi Gene 83
4 Jonathan Adam 80
5 Jason Plato 71
6 Yvan Muller 65
7 Colin Turkington 54
8 Tom Chilton 43
9 Augusto Farfus 37
10 Gordon Shedden 29
11 James Thompson 28
12 Rob Collard 12
13 Andrew Jordan 10
=13 Jeff Smith 10
15 Tom Coronel 9
16 Nick Foster 8
17 Paul O'Neill 3
=17 Dave Pinkney 3
19 Chris James 2
20 Mat Jackson 1
=20 Stephen Kane 1
=20 Mehdi Bennani 1
Michelisz still holds a six point lead over Menu in the driver's championship, which is effectively a two-horse race even at this early stage, with third placed Jordi Gene nearly fifty points behind already.
Independent Driver's Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 153
2 Jordi Gene 123
3 Yvan Muller 110
4 Colin Turkington 86
5 Gordon Shedden 80
6 Nick Foster 55
7 Dave Pinkney 30
8 James Nash 28
9 Ben Collins 18
10 Stephen Kane 17
11 Mat Jackson 12
12 Paul O'Neill 9
13 Alex MacDowell 8
=13 Gavin Smith 8
15 Tom Ferrier 7
=15 Andy Neate 7
=15 Matt Neal 7
=15 John George 7
19 Chris James 5
=19 Arthur Forster 5
=19 Dan Eaves 5
22 Tom Onslow-Cole 1
If the main championship is a two-horse race, then the Indy title race surely has only one- Michelisz is erring towards the unbeatable with a thirty point lead over Gene, although Yvan Muller is gaining ground in the standings fast.
Team's Championship
1 WSR 173
2 Maxtreme 139
4 CVR 94
3 GR Asia 91
5 Seat 81
6 888 80
7 Special Tuning 54
8 Honda 38
9 RML 38
10 Arena 21
11 Tech-Speed 3
12 Boulevard 2
13 Motorbase 1
=13 BTC Racing 1
WSR and Maxtreme are still holding their postitions in the championship, over sixty points ahead of anyone else. Elsewhere there has been no movement in this championship, besides BTC Racing's appearance in joint thirteenth and last.
Independent Team's Championship
1 CVR 190
2 Maxtreme 183
3 GR Asia 178
4 Special Tuning 91
5 Bamboo 46
6 BTC Racing 24
7 Tech-Speed 16
=7 AmD Tuning 16
9 Boulevard 12
=9 Motorbase 12
=9 AFM 12
12 Eurotech 1
A far closer battle is apparent in the Independent Team's standings, with the top three separated by just 12 points, with Maxtreme having overtaken GR Asia for second. Interestingly, Boulevard, Motorbase and AFM are equal points, despite doing massively differing amounts of rounds- and being well behind BTC, who've only qualified for two weekends!
Constructor's Championship
1 WSR/BMW 198
2 Seat 116
3 888/Vauxhall 108
4 Honda 70
5 RML/Chevrolet 67
6 Arena/Ford 52
WSR are still a long way ahead of Seat and Vauxhall, who are neck-and-neck at the moment, as are Honda and Chevrolet, with Ford still lagging behind after a disappointing Oulton Park.
Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for, the pre-qualifying calculation
Leaving Pre-Qualifying
Tech-Speed (11th in TC, 3pts)
Boulevard (12th in TC, 2pts)
Entering Pre-Qualfying
Motorbase (=13th in TC, 1pt)
Bamboo Engineering (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish 11th)
Staying in Pre-Qualfying
BTC Racing (=13th in TC, 1pt)
AmD Tuning (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish 12th)
AFM Racing (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish 14th)
Eurotech (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish 21st)
Forster Motorsport (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish DNPQ)
This will be recalculated again after Silverstone.
In the meantime before Croft, feel free to make upgrades/sack drivers/despair about falling into pre-qualifying.
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888 will take out Giovanardi for the next event in place of a pay-driver.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Oulton Park Up!
GR Asia will take 2 Race Pace upgrades and 1 Quali Pace upgrade.
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The Croft races will be ran shortly, so here are the RNG Upgrade results prior to this running:
GR Asia Race Pace I
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result: 24
GR Asia Race Pace II
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result: 4
GR Asia Quali Pace
1-50 Succeed, 51-100 Fail
Result: 92
Therefore GR Asia will have much improved race pace, but their qualifying form is unchanged.
Also, as you forgot to name which paydriver you are getting monies from, Dexter249, Giovanardi will be running in the #888 Vectra at Croft.
GR Asia Race Pace I
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result: 24
GR Asia Race Pace II
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result: 4
GR Asia Quali Pace
1-50 Succeed, 51-100 Fail
Result: 92
Therefore GR Asia will have much improved race pace, but their qualifying form is unchanged.
Also, as you forgot to name which paydriver you are getting monies from, Dexter249, Giovanardi will be running in the #888 Vectra at Croft.
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Motorbase will purchase a quali pace update, two engine power upgrades - one with cheese - and a large soda.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Oulton Park Up!
Could I have a list of Available pay drivers please?
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Ataxia wrote:Motorbase will purchase a quali pace update, two engine power upgrades - one with cheese - and a large soda.
As you only missed the arbitrary cut-off time by about five minutes and I haven't booted up GP2 yet, I'll run your upgrade RNG prior to Croft now:
Motorbase Quali Pace
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result: 96, meaning Motorbase yet again fail to improve their abysmal Qualifying performance
Motorbase Engine Power I
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result: 14- Motorbase finally do a thing!
Motorbase Engine Power II
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result:53, ...and also make a second engine upgrade!
[quote=andrew]Could I have a list of Available pay drivers please?[/quote]
Sure! (though I'm unsure why you left this so late, as it is now too late to have someone in the car for Croft)
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Alan Blencowe: PD, brings 5CR
Martin Byford: PD, brings 5CR
Henry Ho: PD, brings 10CR
Tony Hughes: PD, brings 15CR
Liam Griffin; PD, brings 15CR
I have added some more (mostly 2011) drivers due to a lack of pay drivers on the old list.
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Alan Blencowe: PD, brings 5CR
Martin Byford: PD, brings 5CR
Henry Ho: PD, brings 10CR
Tony Hughes: PD, brings 15CR
Liam Griffin; PD, brings 15CR
I have added some more (mostly 2011) drivers due to a lack of pay drivers on the old list.
Are these prices for the rest of the season or race by race. Winning the championship is no use if we go bankrupt in the process
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Oulton Park Up!
Griffin will replace Jordan at the next available opportunity, Seat will also attempt a qualifying and race pace upgrade (after Croft)
Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Oulton Park Up!
This Could Be You wrote:The Croft races will be ran shortly, so here are the RNG Upgrade results prior to this running:
GR Asia Race Pace I
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result: 24
GR Asia Race Pace II
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result: 4
GR Asia Quali Pace
1-50 Succeed, 51-100 Fail
Result: 92
Therefore GR Asia will have much improved race pace, but their qualifying form is unchanged.
Also, as you forgot to name which paydriver you are getting monies from, Dexter249, Giovanardi will be running in the #888 Vectra at Croft.
John George will run the #888
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Oulton Park Up!
John George is already in the second BTC Racing car. Pick again- the only available options are in the list I provided for andrew, and he's already taken Griffin.
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This Could Be You wrote:John George is already in the second BTC Racing car. Pick again- the only available options are in the list I provided for andrew, and he's already taken Griffin.
Tony Hughes then.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Oulton Park Up!
2 Qual pace Upgrades and 1 Race Pace Upgrade
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Oulton Park Up!
Really, really late yet again (exams again) but here are the results from Croft:
Pre-Qualifying:
BTC Racing sailed through into the main session, topping the session by nearly a second from the newly relegated Motorbase, who were to some degree fortunate that the usually faster AmD Tuning couldn't get both cars to run, this problem also scuppering AFM's (minimal) chances. Bamboo and Forster were in no man's land, while Eurotech continue to be notably off the pace compared to their fellow pre-qualifiers.
Quali-1:
It was an all-SEAT front row for Round 13, with Jordi Gene's privateer car ahead of the works car of Plato, with Jonathan Adam again dragging his Vectra to an unlikely third. Of the main championship contenders, Michelisz was fourth, but Menu was only eighth, with both WSR BMWs not suiting Croft. At the tail-end of the grid, Arthur Forster and Mehdi Bennani failed to qualify.
Race 1 (video coming soon)
Even by lap 1 of Round 13, it was clear that Croft was going to be an utter car-breaker this year; Muller and Thompson's engines didn't even last a lap, and were joined shortly after by Tom Chilton with his third broken transmission in four races. And after that the retirements just kept on coming- not that Jordi Gene minded, with the Spaniard driving to perfection to build a titanic 28 second lead and set fastest lap, helped by the frequent pit stops for brake issues that seemed to plague half the field, including Jason Plato, who had been the only other driver to even lead a lap- he finished fifth. Michelisz and Menu completed the rostrum, but the big surprise was in who came in behind them; Stephen Kane recorded BTC Racing's best ever finish with fourth, benefitting from his 320i's faultless reliability, while past (and most likely disillusioned) champions Neal and Giovanardi scored their first points this year.
Quali-2:
Jonathan Adam recorded 888's first pole this year for Race 2, with Michelisz starting where he finished in Race 1 in second, and the race 1 front row forming row 2. Chris James qualified inexplicably well in the powerful NGTC Lacetti, twelve places ahead of his teammate in 12th, while another notable (but for the wrong reasons) performance came from Colin Turkington, who would start 23rd. Gilham and Foster failed to qualify.
Race 2 (video coming soon)
It was another dominant performance (with another fastest lap) from Jordi Gene, although Jonathan Adam put more pressure on him than Plato did, and hence the winning margin was a considerably shorter one. Elsewhere, there were less mechanical retirements than in Round 13, although again all the Honda Civics suffered issues, with only Farfus getting his to the finish in last place. Chris James, after his frankly strange qualifying form threw away what would have been at least a tenth-placed finish by spinning into the barriers on a low-speed corner, then stalling. Instead, in tenth it was Colin Turkington, who had put in an extremely impressive drive gaining thirteen places over the course of the race- and then getting pole for the reverse grid draw!
Race 3: (video coming soon)
Turkington kept his lead into the first corner and for the first fifteen laps or so was maintaining a small but manageable advantage over Alain Menu, who was determined to capitalise fully on a lap 1 engine failure for Norbert Michelisz. This small margin became quite a bit bigger after Menu spun, although his margin to Muller in third was so great that he did not lose position.
At this point you may be wondering why Turkington's name is not at the top of the result sheet; well, in the end he was robbed of a deserved first victory this year on the penultimate lap, having been forced to pit to correct an electrical fault, dropping him to seventh. There were a lot of position changes on the final two laps, in fact; first Yvan Muller span on the final corner of lap 18 into a queue of cars, dropping him right to the back, and promoting both BTC Racing cars into the top 10. This didn't last however, as half a lap later Nick Foster passed John George for 10th, only for his car to fail on the third-to-last corner, which handed the final points-paying position to Tom Chilton, who had also made his way passed George. Turkington set fastest lap, but this was a meagre prize for his efforts.
Championship Standings After 15 Rounds:
Drivers' Championship
1 Alain Menu 159
2 Norbert Michelisz 158
3 Jordi Gene 127
4 Jonathan Adam 103
5 Jason Plato 88
6 Yvan Muller 71
7 Colin Turkington 60
8 Gordon Shedden 46
9 Tom Chilton 44
10 Augusto Farfus 39
11 James Thompson 33
12 Tom Coronel 15
13 Jeff Smith 13
14 Rob Collard 12
15 Stephen Kane 11
16 Andrew Jordan 10
17 Nick Foster 8
18 Matt Neal 7
19 Fabrizio Giovanardi 4
=19 Dave Pinkney 4
21 Paul O'Neill 3
22 Chris James 2
23 Mat Jackson 1
=23 Mehdi Bennani 1
Alain Menu takes the championship lead for the first time this year, albeit only by a single point. Jordi Gene is third, at the rate he is scoring, may well become part of the title fight if things play out his way. Stephen Kane has jumped up the standings with BTC Racing's best ever results, while Giovanardi and Neal appear on the table for the first time this year
Independent Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 177
2 Jordi Gene 168
3 Yvan Muller 118
4 Gordon Shedden 107
5 Colin Turkington 101
6 Nick Foster 55
7 Dave Pinkney 42
8 Stephen Kane 39
9 James Nash 28
10 Ben Collins 18
=10 Paul O'Neill 18
12 Matt Neal 14
13 John George 13
14 Mat Jackson 12
=14 Andy Neate 12
16 Arthur Forster 9
17 Alex MacDowell 8
=17 Gavin Smith 8
=17 Chris James 8
20 Tom Ferrier 7
=20 Matt Neal 7
22 Dan Eaves 5
23 Tom Onslow-Cole 1
Michelisz still holds a ten-point lead over Gene in the Independent standings, despite being outscored by him, with the two CVR drivers behind most likely too far back to challenge them already.
Teams' Championship
1 WSR 203
2 Maxtreme 162
3 GR Asia 135
4 CVR 117
5 888 107
6 Seat 98
7 Special Tuning 60
8 RML 46
9 Honda 40
10 Arena 27
11 BTC Racing 11
12 Tech-Speed 10
13 Boulevard 2
14 Motorbase 1
WSR are still holding an commanding lead in the teams championship, which has remained relatively stable, although Seat have dropped down to sixth, and GR Asia have taken back the third place CVR took from them last time out.
Independent Teams' Championship
1 CVR 225
2 GR Asia 223
3 Maxtreme 219
4 Special Tuning 110
5 BTC Racing 52
6 Bamboo 46
7 Tech-Speed 32
8 Boulevard 20
9 AmD Tuning 16
10 Motorbase 12
=10 AFM 12
12 Eurotech 1
CVR leads, but only by two points from GR Asia, the two Seat-powered teams completely evenly matched. BTC Racing has made a huge jump to fifth place in the standings, while further points finishes for Tech-Speed and Boulevard means only Eurotech (and of course Forster, who haven't qualified at all) have scored in anything less than double figures this year.
Constructors' Championship
1 WSR/BMW 249
2 888/Vauxhall 156
3 Seat 155
4 RML/Chevrolet 93
5 Honda 77
6 Arena/Ford 73
Nearly 100 points still separate BMW from the next closest constructor, but that is now Vauxhall, who have overtaken Seat by a single point. RML are now in a no-man's land, being well behind Seat but having outperformed Honda convincingly over the weekend to open a healthy margin- if anything, Honda is now under threat from an improving Ford.
Again apologies for being a week late, but feel free to comment, upgrade cars and sack drivers (I am aware that some of you have already done this). Also, if you sack a pay driver now (as we're mid-way through the season), you get the full amount of money from both the one you're replacing and the scrub you're bringing in, who will just provide the lump sum up front, whatever the amount of races (so if you employ a -15CR driver for one race, you will gain 15CR)
Pre-Qualifying:
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1 Stephen Kane
1m 11.455s
2 John George
1m 11.521s
3 Mat Jackson
1m 11.617s
4 James Nash
1m 11.803s (DNPQ)
5 Gavin Smith
1m 11.870s (DNPQ)
6 Tom Ferrier
1m 11.983s (DNPQ)
7 Carl Breeze
1m 12.022s (DNPQ)
8 Tom Onslow-Cole
1m 12.031s (DNPQ)
9 James Kaye
1m 12.230s (DNPQ)
10 Tony Gilham
1m 12.287s
11 Ben Collins
1m 12.423s (DNPQ)
12 Martin Depper
1m 12.547s (DNPQ)
13 Dan Eaves
No Time (DNPQ)
14 Alex MacDowell
No Time (DNPQ)
Aggregate
1. BTC Racing 2m 22.976s
2. Motorbase 2m 23.904s
3. Bamboo 2m 24.226s (DNPQ)
4. Forster 2m 24.252s (DNPQ)
5. Eurotech 2m 24.578s (DNPQ)
NC AmD Tuning No Time (DNPQ)
NC AFM Racing No Time (DNPQ)
BTC Racing sailed through into the main session, topping the session by nearly a second from the newly relegated Motorbase, who were to some degree fortunate that the usually faster AmD Tuning couldn't get both cars to run, this problem also scuppering AFM's (minimal) chances. Bamboo and Forster were in no man's land, while Eurotech continue to be notably off the pace compared to their fellow pre-qualifiers.
Quali-1:
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1 Jordi Gene
1m 10.031s
2 Jason Plato
1m 10.110s
3 Jonathan Adam
1m 10.198s
4 Norbert Michelisz
1m 10.319s
5 Yvan Muller
1m 10.611s
6 Gordon Shedden
1m 10.745s
7 Colin Turkington
1m 10.812s
8 Alain Menu
1m 10.903s
9 Augusto Farfus
1m 11.058s
10 James Thompson
1m 11.126s
11 Tom Coronel
1m 11.144s
12 Tom Chilton
1m 11.323s
13 Stephen Kane
1m 11.390s
14 Matt Neal
1m 11.458s
15 Paul O'Neill
1m 11.463s
16 Andrew Jordan
1m 11.548s
17 Fabrizio Giovanardi
1m 11.555s
18 Jeff Smith
1m 11.555s
19 John George
1m 11.596s
20 Nick Foster
1m 11.600s
21 Mat Jackson
1m 11.703s
22 Dave Pinkney
1m 11.765s
23 Andy Neate
1m 11.940s
24 Rob Collard
1m 11.942s
25 Chris James
1m 11.951s
26 Tony Gilham
1m 12.164s
DNQ:
27 Arthur Forster
28 Mehdi Bennani
It was an all-SEAT front row for Round 13, with Jordi Gene's privateer car ahead of the works car of Plato, with Jonathan Adam again dragging his Vectra to an unlikely third. Of the main championship contenders, Michelisz was fourth, but Menu was only eighth, with both WSR BMWs not suiting Croft. At the tail-end of the grid, Arthur Forster and Mehdi Bennani failed to qualify.
Race 1 (video coming soon)
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1st Jordi Gene 24m 32.634s
GR Asia - SEAT
2nd Norbert Michelisz +28.184s
Maxtreme - SEAT
3rd Alain Menu +30.793s
WSR - BMW
4th Stephen Kane +37.018s
BTC Racing - BMW
5th Jason Plato +44.446s
SEAT Sport - SEAT
6th Matt Neal +53.619s
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
7th Fabrizio Giovanardi +55.570s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
8th Jeff Smith +56.058s
RML - Chevrolet
9th Augusto Farfus +58.465s
Honda Racing - Honda
10th Dave Pinkney +1m 01.329s
Maxtreme - SEAT
11th Gordon Shedden +1m 06.082s
Clyde Valley - Seat
12th Tom Coronel -1 Lap
Arena - Ford
13th Jonathan Adam -1 Lap
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
14th Paul O'Neill -1 Lap
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
15th Andy Neate -2 Laps
Boulevard - Chevrolet
16th Colin Turkington Engine
Sp. Tuning - Honda
17th Andrew Jordan Engine
SEAT Sport - SEAT
18th Nick Foster Didn't Finish
GR Asia - SEAT
19th Mat Jackson Engine
Motorbase - Honda
20th Tony Gilham Engine
Motorbase - Honda
21st Rob Collard Transmission
Arena - Ford
22nd John George Engine
BTC Racing - BMW
23rd Chris James Engine
Boulevard - Chevrolet
24th Tom Chilton Transmission
WSR - BMW
25th James Thompson Oil Leak
RML - Chevrolet
26th Yvan Muller Engine
Clyde Valley - Seat
Even by lap 1 of Round 13, it was clear that Croft was going to be an utter car-breaker this year; Muller and Thompson's engines didn't even last a lap, and were joined shortly after by Tom Chilton with his third broken transmission in four races. And after that the retirements just kept on coming- not that Jordi Gene minded, with the Spaniard driving to perfection to build a titanic 28 second lead and set fastest lap, helped by the frequent pit stops for brake issues that seemed to plague half the field, including Jason Plato, who had been the only other driver to even lead a lap- he finished fifth. Michelisz and Menu completed the rostrum, but the big surprise was in who came in behind them; Stephen Kane recorded BTC Racing's best ever finish with fourth, benefitting from his 320i's faultless reliability, while past (and most likely disillusioned) champions Neal and Giovanardi scored their first points this year.
Quali-2:
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1 Jonathan Adam
1m 10.059s
2 Norbert Michelisz
1m 10.066s
3 Jason Plato
1m 10.119s
4 Jordi Gene
1m 10.269s
5 Gordon Shedden
1m 10.555s
6 Augusto Farfus
1m 10.761s
7 Yvan Muller
1m 10.852s
8 Alain Menu
1m 11.038s
9 James Thompson
1m 11.379s
10 Tom Coronel
1m 11.391s
11 Matt Neal
1m 11.414s
12 Chris James
1m 11.430s
13 Stephen Kane
1m 11.463s
14 Dave Pinkney
1m 11.537s
15 John George
1m 11.547s
16 Jeff Smith
1m 11.559s
17 Tom Chilton
1m 11.687s
18 Mat Jackson
1m 11.695s
19 Paul O'Neill
1m 11.698s
20 Andrew Jordan
1m 11.717s
21 Rob Collard
1m 11.755s
22 Fabrizio Giovanardi
1m 11.847s
23 Colin Turkington
1m 11.868s
24 Andy Neate
1m 12.001s
25 Mehdi Bennani
1m 12.089s
26 Arthur Forster
1m 12.099s
27 Tony Gilham
28 Nick Foster
Jonathan Adam recorded 888's first pole this year for Race 2, with Michelisz starting where he finished in Race 1 in second, and the race 1 front row forming row 2. Chris James qualified inexplicably well in the powerful NGTC Lacetti, twelve places ahead of his teammate in 12th, while another notable (but for the wrong reasons) performance came from Colin Turkington, who would start 23rd. Gilham and Foster failed to qualify.
Race 2 (video coming soon)
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1st Jordi Gene 24m 42.588s
GR Asia - SEAT
2nd Jonathan Adam +2.797s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
3rd Norbert Michelisz +4.734s
Maxtreme - SEAT
4th Gordon Shedden +7.952s
Clyde Valley - Seat
5th Jason Plato +14.789s
SEAT Sport - SEAT
6th Yvan Muller +16.153s
Clyde Valley - Seat
7th Alain Menu +16.895s
WSR - BMW
8th Tom Coronel +21.253s
Arena - Ford
9th Matt Neal +22.984s
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
10th Colin Turkington +30.958s
Sp. Tuning - Honda
11th Stephen Kane +34.131s
BTC Racing - BMW
12th Tom Chilton +35.297s
WSR - BMW
13th Andrew Jordan +39.777s
SEAT Sport - SEAT
14th Arthur Forster +50.559s
Sp. Tuning - Honda
15th James Thompson +53.259s
RML - Chevrolet
16th Fabrizio Giovanardi +54.985s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
17th Rob Collard +56.860s
Arena - Ford
18th Dave Pinkney +58.406s
Maxtreme - SEAT
19th Augusto Farfus +58.831s
Honda Racing - Honda
20th Paul O'Neill Engine
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
21st Mat Jackson Oil Leak
Motorbase - Honda
22nd Andy Neate Suspension
Boulevard - Chevrolet
23rd Chris James Didn't Finish
Boulevard - Chevrolet
24th Mehdi Bennani Engine
Honda Racing - Honda
25th Jeff Smith Puncture
RML - Chevrolet
26th John George Engine
BTC Racing - BMW
It was another dominant performance (with another fastest lap) from Jordi Gene, although Jonathan Adam put more pressure on him than Plato did, and hence the winning margin was a considerably shorter one. Elsewhere, there were less mechanical retirements than in Round 13, although again all the Honda Civics suffered issues, with only Farfus getting his to the finish in last place. Chris James, after his frankly strange qualifying form threw away what would have been at least a tenth-placed finish by spinning into the barriers on a low-speed corner, then stalling. Instead, in tenth it was Colin Turkington, who had put in an extremely impressive drive gaining thirteen places over the course of the race- and then getting pole for the reverse grid draw!
Race 3: (video coming soon)
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1st Alain Menu 24m 48.098s
WSR - BMW
2nd Jordi Gene +1.406s
GR Asia - SEAT
3rd Jonathan Adam +7.390s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
4th Gordon Shedden +9.761s
Clyde Valley - Seat
5th James Thompson +13.039s
RML - Chevrolet
6th Jason Plato +13.765s
SEAT Sport - SEAT
7th Colin Turkington +14.686s
Sp. Tuning - Honda
8th Tom Coronel +21.169s
Arena - Ford
9th Stephen Kane +21.982s
BTC Racing - BMW
10th Tom Chilton +30.348s
WSR - BMW
11th John George +32.313s
BTC Racing - BMW
12th Paul O'Neill +32.794s
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
13th Jeff Smith +33.395s
RML - Chevrolet
14th Dave Pinkney +33.803s
Maxtreme - SEAT
15th Chris James +34.788s
Boulevard - Chevrolet
16th Fabrizio Giovanardi +35.283s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
17th Andy Neate +42.969s
Boulevard - Chevrolet
18th Arthur Forster +45.212s
Sp. Tuning - Honda
19th Yvan Muller +47.104s
Clyde Valley - Seat
20th Andrew Jordan +50.725s
SEAT Sport - SEAT
21st Nick Foster -1 Lap
GR Asia - SEAT
22nd Matt Neal Engine
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
23rd Mat Jackson Engine
Motorbase - Honda
24th Rob Collard Suspension
Arena - Ford
25th Augusto Farfus Water Leak
Honda Racing - Honda
26th Norbert Michelisz Engine
Maxtreme - SEAT
Turkington kept his lead into the first corner and for the first fifteen laps or so was maintaining a small but manageable advantage over Alain Menu, who was determined to capitalise fully on a lap 1 engine failure for Norbert Michelisz. This small margin became quite a bit bigger after Menu spun, although his margin to Muller in third was so great that he did not lose position.
At this point you may be wondering why Turkington's name is not at the top of the result sheet; well, in the end he was robbed of a deserved first victory this year on the penultimate lap, having been forced to pit to correct an electrical fault, dropping him to seventh. There were a lot of position changes on the final two laps, in fact; first Yvan Muller span on the final corner of lap 18 into a queue of cars, dropping him right to the back, and promoting both BTC Racing cars into the top 10. This didn't last however, as half a lap later Nick Foster passed John George for 10th, only for his car to fail on the third-to-last corner, which handed the final points-paying position to Tom Chilton, who had also made his way passed George. Turkington set fastest lap, but this was a meagre prize for his efforts.
Championship Standings After 15 Rounds:
Drivers' Championship
1 Alain Menu 159
2 Norbert Michelisz 158
3 Jordi Gene 127
4 Jonathan Adam 103
5 Jason Plato 88
6 Yvan Muller 71
7 Colin Turkington 60
8 Gordon Shedden 46
9 Tom Chilton 44
10 Augusto Farfus 39
11 James Thompson 33
12 Tom Coronel 15
13 Jeff Smith 13
14 Rob Collard 12
15 Stephen Kane 11
16 Andrew Jordan 10
17 Nick Foster 8
18 Matt Neal 7
19 Fabrizio Giovanardi 4
=19 Dave Pinkney 4
21 Paul O'Neill 3
22 Chris James 2
23 Mat Jackson 1
=23 Mehdi Bennani 1
Alain Menu takes the championship lead for the first time this year, albeit only by a single point. Jordi Gene is third, at the rate he is scoring, may well become part of the title fight if things play out his way. Stephen Kane has jumped up the standings with BTC Racing's best ever results, while Giovanardi and Neal appear on the table for the first time this year
Independent Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 177
2 Jordi Gene 168
3 Yvan Muller 118
4 Gordon Shedden 107
5 Colin Turkington 101
6 Nick Foster 55
7 Dave Pinkney 42
8 Stephen Kane 39
9 James Nash 28
10 Ben Collins 18
=10 Paul O'Neill 18
12 Matt Neal 14
13 John George 13
14 Mat Jackson 12
=14 Andy Neate 12
16 Arthur Forster 9
17 Alex MacDowell 8
=17 Gavin Smith 8
=17 Chris James 8
20 Tom Ferrier 7
=20 Matt Neal 7
22 Dan Eaves 5
23 Tom Onslow-Cole 1
Michelisz still holds a ten-point lead over Gene in the Independent standings, despite being outscored by him, with the two CVR drivers behind most likely too far back to challenge them already.
Teams' Championship
1 WSR 203
2 Maxtreme 162
3 GR Asia 135
4 CVR 117
5 888 107
6 Seat 98
7 Special Tuning 60
8 RML 46
9 Honda 40
10 Arena 27
11 BTC Racing 11
12 Tech-Speed 10
13 Boulevard 2
14 Motorbase 1
WSR are still holding an commanding lead in the teams championship, which has remained relatively stable, although Seat have dropped down to sixth, and GR Asia have taken back the third place CVR took from them last time out.
Independent Teams' Championship
1 CVR 225
2 GR Asia 223
3 Maxtreme 219
4 Special Tuning 110
5 BTC Racing 52
6 Bamboo 46
7 Tech-Speed 32
8 Boulevard 20
9 AmD Tuning 16
10 Motorbase 12
=10 AFM 12
12 Eurotech 1
CVR leads, but only by two points from GR Asia, the two Seat-powered teams completely evenly matched. BTC Racing has made a huge jump to fifth place in the standings, while further points finishes for Tech-Speed and Boulevard means only Eurotech (and of course Forster, who haven't qualified at all) have scored in anything less than double figures this year.
Constructors' Championship
1 WSR/BMW 249
2 888/Vauxhall 156
3 Seat 155
4 RML/Chevrolet 93
5 Honda 77
6 Arena/Ford 73
Nearly 100 points still separate BMW from the next closest constructor, but that is now Vauxhall, who have overtaken Seat by a single point. RML are now in a no-man's land, being well behind Seat but having outperformed Honda convincingly over the weekend to open a healthy margin- if anything, Honda is now under threat from an improving Ford.
Again apologies for being a week late, but feel free to comment, upgrade cars and sack drivers (I am aware that some of you have already done this). Also, if you sack a pay driver now (as we're mid-way through the season), you get the full amount of money from both the one you're replacing and the scrub you're bringing in, who will just provide the lump sum up front, whatever the amount of races (so if you employ a -15CR driver for one race, you will gain 15CR)
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Race pace upgrade for Maxtreme.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Croft Up!
2 BHPs upgrades for Boulevard.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Croft Up!
Normal32 wrote:2 BHPs upgrades for Boulevard.
You will be (and in fact already are) in massive debt (-12CR) after completing these upgrades. Are you sure you want to go through with this and if you are, I would recommend you employ another pay driver so that you can reduce the accumulation of debt.
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This Could Be You wrote:Normal32 wrote:2 BHPs upgrades for Boulevard.
You will be (and in fact already are) in massive debt (-12CR) after completing these upgrades. Are you sure you want to go through with this and if you are, I would recommend you employ another pay driver so that you can reduce the accumulation of debt.
Yes.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Croft Up!
Normal32 wrote:This Could Be You wrote:Normal32 wrote:2 BHPs upgrades for Boulevard.
You will be (and in fact already are) in massive debt (-12CR) after completing these upgrades. Are you sure you want to go through with this and if you are, I would recommend you employ another pay driver so that you can reduce the accumulation of debt.
Yes.
So which driver will it be? There's a list of drivers a few posts back.
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This Could Be You wrote:So which driver will it be? There's a list of drivers a few posts back.
I will change drivers in the next race, not now.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Croft Up!
I am aware that I have left the running of the series by the wayside somewhat, and I'm sorry about that- I have a lot of exams right now, and it's been eating into my spare time badly over the past month. However, my schedule frees up a bit more from tomorrow onwards, so here are the upgrade RNGs prior to Snetterton:
Maxtreme Race Pace
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result:23, so Michelisz will have a better car to try and regain his championship lead with
Boulevard Engine Power I
1-40 Succeed, 41-100 Fail
Result: 50, so more money is wasted at Boulevard, as they spiral into debt...
Boulevard Engine Power II
1-40 Succeed, 41-100 Fail
Result: 62, ...and their second attempt at an upgrade also yields no results
AmD Quali Pace I
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result:44- Succeed
AmD Quali Pace II
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result: 88- Fail
AmD Race Pace
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result: 86- Fail
Seat and 888's budgets have also been updated due to one-off outings for Liam Griffin and Tony Hughes in their cars.
Snetterton should hopefully be up by the end of the week.
Maxtreme Race Pace
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result:23, so Michelisz will have a better car to try and regain his championship lead with
Boulevard Engine Power I
1-40 Succeed, 41-100 Fail
Result: 50, so more money is wasted at Boulevard, as they spiral into debt...
Boulevard Engine Power II
1-40 Succeed, 41-100 Fail
Result: 62, ...and their second attempt at an upgrade also yields no results
AmD Quali Pace I
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result:44- Succeed
AmD Quali Pace II
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result: 88- Fail
AmD Race Pace
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result: 86- Fail
Seat and 888's budgets have also been updated due to one-off outings for Liam Griffin and Tony Hughes in their cars.
Snetterton should hopefully be up by the end of the week.
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Where are the upgrades I requested?
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andrew wrote:Where are the upgrades I requested?
Right here
(I knew I missed something 
)Seat Quali Pace
1-70 Succeed, 71-100 Fail
Result: 24- Success!
Seat Race Pace
1-60 Succeed, 61-100 Fail
Result: 86- Fail.
Sorry about the wait.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Snetterton Up!
Here are the results (only five days late! ) from Rounds 16-18 at Snetterton:
Pre-Qualifying:
After making upgrades, it was AmD Tuning who topped pre-qualifying for the first time this year, ahead of regular pace-setters BTC Racing, who were over a second faster than next-fastest team Forster, who finished much higher thanks to technical problems leading to Motorbase, AFM and Bamboo not setting times, this being especially galling for the former, who recorded their first DNPQ of the season.
Quali-1:
Another team reaping the benefits of a Quali upgrade was Seat, with Plato setting a time good enough for pole ahead of Michelisz, one of four Seats in the top five. The AmDTuning Alfas lined up for their first race in months in 16th and 17th position, but the two drivers who wouldn't be lining up on Sunday for Race 1 would be temporary pay-drivers Liam Griffin and Tony Hughes, who were some way off the pace despite being in front-running cars.
Race 1 (video here)
Michelisz dominated from the first corner to win a race that was otherwise more notable for the many, many spins and transmission failures as the drivers pushed hard on the demanding Snetterton circuit. Pole sitter Jason Plato did not fall victim to the circuit however- after losing places to Michelisz and Adam, the latter went wide and onto the grass run off of a corner and in rejoining collected Plato, heavily damaging the front of the Leon and forcing him to retire- and Adam got a very stern talking to from the BTCC veteran after the race, to say the least! Meanwhile, the rest of the field was quite spaced out due to the many retirements, with the main highlights being Shedden and Gene's battle for fifth and, as has so often been the case this year, the battle for the final point, with BTC Racing getting their first double points finish at the expense of Gavin Smith, who had wrestled his wayward 156 up to 11th place. Michelisz (predictably) set fastest lap.
Quali-2:
It was the same top three for Race 2, with only Jonathan Adam again preventing a top five lockout for Seat, who are beginning to worry TOCA officials with their dominance (more on that later). Notable performances were few in a rather uneventful session, but Coronel did a solid job to get the Arena Focus into the top 10, while the Alfa Romeos were not running too strongly in Quali-2 compared to Quali-1, lining up 20th and 23th. Griffin and Hughes failed to qualify again.
Race 2 (video here)
Norbert Michelisz continued his masterful run at Snetterton, dominating the race and setting fastest lap, although Jason Plato's initial challenge was a bit more spirited- right until he spun off! This dropped him right to the back and while he made a valiant effort, the frustrated reigning champion couldn't quite get back into the points, meaning a continued no-score this weekend. Behind the leader, there were two particularly impressive team performances in the top 10- the first was that of Clyde Valley Racing, who achieved their best overall finish with Shedden in second and Muller in third, while the second of these efforts was that of Boulevard, who again defied all expectations (considering their mounting debts and unfancied drivers) and scored another point (at some point, these stop becoming flukes!), and with a bit more attrition, they very well might have gotten a double-points result! (James was 11th in the end). Slightly spoiling the financially beleaguered team's day however was the reverse grid draw, which put Dave Pinkney on pole for Race 3, denying Boulevard a top 10 grid position.
Race 3 (video coming soon)
Nick Foster jumped Dave Pinkney off the line from the dirty side of the grid, and led the first few corners, but ominously it was Michelisz right on his tail, leading to collective sighs from the spectators as they settled in for another MICHELISZWINSLOL. The GR Asia driver was holding him off rather well however, until something even more unexpected happened- the championship leader spun, emulating Plato in Race 2 and throwing away a prime opportunity to match Dan Eaves' still-unequalled achievement of three race wins in a weekend- he eventually drove a quiet race to finish a lowly sixteenth, although he did still salvage a point with fastest lap. Foster, despite further pressure from his teammate, went on to win with a comfortable margin as part of a GR Asia 1-2, and the second Seat 1-2-3 in a row. Meanwhile it was all action in the lower half of the top 10, with Alex MacDowell in seventh (hence scoring AmDTuning's first ever points) holding off a train of cars that included Paul O'Neill's Peugeot and Tom Coronel, who along with Rob Collard (who was hounded by a struggling Yvan Muller) managed Arena's first double-points haul in several rounds.
Standings After 18 Rounds:
Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 194
2 Alain Menu 175
3 Jordi Gene 152
4 Jonathan Adam 127
5 Yvan Muller 91
6 Jason Plato 90
7 Gordon Shedden 74
8 Colin Turkington 65
10 Tom Chilton 49
11 Augusto Farfus 47
12 James Thompson 33
13 Nick Foster 27
14 Tom Coronel 20
15 Jeff Smith 13
=15 Rob Collard 13
=15 Stephen Kane 13
18 Andrew Jordan 10
19 Matt Neal 7
20 Dave Pinkney 6
=20 Paul O'Neill 6
22 Fabrizio Giovanardi 4
=22 Alex MacDowell 4
24 Chris James 2
25 Mat Jackson 1
=26 Mehdi Bennani 1
=26 John George 1
=26 Andy Neate 1
Independent Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 207
2 Jordi Gene 196
3 Yvan Muller 145
4 Gordon Shedden 139
5 Colin Turkington 107
6 Nick Foster 75
7 Dave Pinkney 48
8 Stephen Kane 45
9 James Nash 28
10 Ben Collins 18
=10 Paul O'Neill 24
12 Matt Neal 15
13 John George 18
14 Mat Jackson 12
=14 Andy Neate 18
16 Arthur Forster 9
17 Alex MacDowell 19
=17 Gavin Smith 16
=17 Chris James 14
20 Tom Ferrier 7
22 Dan Eaves 5
23 Tom Onslow-Cole 1
Teams' Championship
1 WSR 224
2 Maxtreme 200
3 GR Asia 179
4 CVR 164
5 888 131
6 Seat 100
7 Special Tuning 65
9 Honda 48
8 RML 46
10 Arena 33
11 BTC Racing 14
12 Tech-Speed 13
13 AmD Tuning 4
14 Boulevard 3
15 Motorbase 1
Independent Teams' Championship
1 CVR 284
2 GR Asia 271
3 Maxtreme 255
4 Special Tuning 116
5 BTC Racing 63
6 Bamboo 46
7 Tech-Speed 39
9 AmD Tuning 33
8 Boulevard 32
10 Motorbase 12
=10 AFM 12
12 Eurotech 1
Constructors' Championship
1 WSR/BMW 298
2 888/Vauxhall 198
3 Seat 165
4 RML/Chevrolet 113
5 Honda 111
6 Arena/Ford 100
Considering the utter dominance of the Seats this season, TOCA will be putting ballast on the Leons and temporarily pausing upgrades for these teams from Silverstone on to improve the show (this isn't unprecedented- this happened to the Audis in '96 and the Vauxhalls in '01 in RL at least), so along with sacking drivers and making upgrades , feel free to moan about that (I'm sure Plato has a very vocal opinion...)
) from Rounds 16-18 at Snetterton:Pre-Qualifying:
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1 Alex MacDowell
1m 09.137s
2 Mat Jackson
1m 09.281s
3 Stephen Kane
1m 09.310s
4 John George
1m 09.351s
5 Gavin Smith
1m 09.361s
6 Tom Ferrier
1m 09.692s
7 Tom Onslow-Cole
1m 09.815s
8 Carl Breeze
1m 09.842s
9 James Kaye
1m 10.100s
10 Ben Collins
1m 10.181s
11 Martin Depper
1m 10.255s
NC Tony Gilham
No Time
NC James Nash
No Time
NC Dan Eaves
No Time
Aggregate:
1 AmD Tuning 3m 08.498s
2 BTC Racing 3m 08.661s
3 Forster 3m 09.942s
4 Eurotech 3m 10.070s
NC Motorbase No Time
NC AFM Racing No Time
NC Bamboo No Time
After making upgrades, it was AmD Tuning who topped pre-qualifying for the first time this year, ahead of regular pace-setters BTC Racing, who were over a second faster than next-fastest team Forster, who finished much higher thanks to technical problems leading to Motorbase, AFM and Bamboo not setting times, this being especially galling for the former, who recorded their first DNPQ of the season.
Quali-1:
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1 Jason Plato
1m 07.875s
2 Norbert Michelisz
1m 07.883s
3 Jordi Gene
1m 07.965s
4 Jonathan Adam
1m 07.985s
5 Yvan Muller
1m 08.628s
6 Alain Menu
1m 08.682s
7 Gordon Shedden
1m 08.798s
8 Augusto Farfus
1m 08.857s
9 Colin Turkington
1m 08.875s
10 James Thompson
1m 09.009s
11 Tom Coronel
1m 09.146s
12 Tom Chilton
1m 09.158s
13 Paul O'Neill
1m 09.192s
14 Matt Neal
1m 09.201s
15 Stephen Kane
1m 09.229s
16 Alex MacDowell
1m 09.281s
17 Gavin Smith
1m 09.292s
18 John George
1m 09.361s
19 Nick Foster
1m 09.379s
20 Jeff Smith
1m 09.399s
21 Dave Pinkney
1m 09.464s
22 Andy Neate
1m 09.552s
23 Chris James
1m 09.559s
24 Rob Collard
1m 09.736s
25 Arthur Forster
1m 09.833s
26 Mehdi Bennani
1m 09.975s
DNQ:
27 Liam Griffin
28 Tony Hughes
Another team reaping the benefits of a Quali upgrade was Seat, with Plato setting a time good enough for pole ahead of Michelisz, one of four Seats in the top five. The AmDTuning Alfas lined up for their first race in months in 16th and 17th position, but the two drivers who wouldn't be lining up on Sunday for Race 1 would be temporary pay-drivers Liam Griffin and Tony Hughes, who were some way off the pace despite being in front-running cars.
Race 1 (video here)
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1st Norbert Michelisz 23m 12.003s
Maxtreme - SEAT
2nd Jonathan Adam +9.910s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
3rd Yvan Muller +15.280s
Clyde Valley - Seat
4th Alain Menu +20.015s
WSR - BMW
5th Gordon Shedden +21.358s
Clyde Valley - Seat
6th Jordi Gene +21.810s
GR Asia - SEAT
7th Augusto Farfus +29.210s
Honda Racing - Honda
8th Tom Coronel +30.866s
Arena - Ford
9th Stephen Kane +33.803s
BTC Racing - BMW
10th John George +37.995s
BTC Racing - BMW
11th Gavin Smith +42.676s
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
12th Mehdi Bennani +44.602s
Honda Racing - Honda
13th Chris James +46.731s
Boulevard - Chevrolet
14th Jeff Smith +48.341s
RML - Chevrolet
15th James Thompson +48.768s
RML - Chevrolet
16th Tom Chilton +55.927s
WSR - BMW
17th Alex MacDowell +58.364s
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
18th Matt Neal +1m 05.250s
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
19th Dave Pinkney +1m 08.081s
Maxtreme - SEAT
20th Rob Collard -1 Lap
Arena - Ford
21st Arthur Forster Transmission
Sp. Tuning - Honda
22nd Colin Turkington Transmission
Sp. Tuning - Honda
23rd Andy Neate Transmission
Boulevard - Chevrolet
24th Paul O'Neill Transmission
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
25th Jason Plato Didn't Finish
SEAT Sport - SEAT
26th Nick Foster Didn't Finish
GR Asia - SEAT
Michelisz dominated from the first corner to win a race that was otherwise more notable for the many, many spins and transmission failures as the drivers pushed hard on the demanding Snetterton circuit. Pole sitter Jason Plato did not fall victim to the circuit however- after losing places to Michelisz and Adam, the latter went wide and onto the grass run off of a corner and in rejoining collected Plato, heavily damaging the front of the Leon and forcing him to retire- and Adam got a very stern talking to from the BTCC veteran after the race, to say the least! Meanwhile, the rest of the field was quite spaced out due to the many retirements, with the main highlights being Shedden and Gene's battle for fifth and, as has so often been the case this year, the battle for the final point, with BTC Racing getting their first double points finish at the expense of Gavin Smith, who had wrestled his wayward 156 up to 11th place. Michelisz (predictably) set fastest lap.
Quali-2:
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1 Jason Plato
1m 08.042s
2 Norbert Michelisz
1m 08.060s
3 Jordi Gene
1m 08.060s
4 Jonathan Adam
1m 08.063s
5 Gordon Shedden
1m 08.370s
6 Yvan Muller
1m 08.467s
7 Augusto Farfus
1m 08.706s
8 Alain Menu
1m 08.851s
9 Colin Turkington
1m 08.853s
10 Tom Coronel
1m 08.943s
11 Matt Neal
1m 09.044s
12 Tom Chilton
1m 09.169s
13 James Thompson
1m 09.215s
14 Paul O'Neill
1m 09.288s
15 Dave Pinkney
1m 09.294s
16 Rob Collard
1m 09.377s
17 Nick Foster
1m 09.386s
18 John George
1m 09.386s
19 Stephen Kane
1m 09.465s
20 Alex MacDowell
1m 09.475s
21 Andy Neate
1m 09.540s
22 Jeff Smith
1m 09.555s
23 Gavin Smith
1m 09.559s
24 Chris James
1m 09.654s
25 Mehdi Bennani
1m 09.892s
26 Arthur Forster
1m 10.095s
DNQ:
27 Liam Griffin
28 Tony Hughes
It was the same top three for Race 2, with only Jonathan Adam again preventing a top five lockout for Seat, who are beginning to worry TOCA officials with their dominance (more on that later). Notable performances were few in a rather uneventful session, but Coronel did a solid job to get the Arena Focus into the top 10, while the Alfa Romeos were not running too strongly in Quali-2 compared to Quali-1, lining up 20th and 23th. Griffin and Hughes failed to qualify again.
Race 2 (video here)
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1st Norbert Michelisz 23m 13.332s
Maxtreme - SEAT
2nd Gordon Shedden +5.636s
Clyde Valley - Seat
3rd Yvan Muller +7.225s
Clyde Valley - Seat
4th Jordi Gene +9.168s
GR Asia - SEAT
5th Jonathan Adam +12.504s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
6th Colin Turkington +15.709s
Sp. Tuning - Honda
7th Augusto Farfus +20.110s
Honda Racing - Honda
8th Nick Foster +20.540s
GR Asia - SEAT
9th Dave Pinkney +38.167s
Maxtreme - SEAT
10th Andy Neate +42.931s
Boulevard - Chevrolet
11th Chris James +49.371s
Boulevard - Chevrolet
12th Jason Plato +49.843s
SEAT Sport - SEAT
13th Alex MacDowell +54.248s
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
14th John George +56.538s
BTC Racing - BMW
15th James Thompson +57.324s
RML - Chevrolet
16th Mehdi Bennani +57.744s
Honda Racing - Honda
17th Tom Chilton +58.359s
WSR - BMW
18th Alain Menu +1m 02.514s
WSR - BMW
19th Gavin Smith +1m 09.143s
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
20th Jeff Smith +1m 09.857s
RML - Chevrolet
21st Rob Collard -1 Lap
Arena - Ford
22nd Arthur Forster -1 Lap
Sp. Tuning - Honda
23rd Matt Neal -1 Lap
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
24th Tom Coronel -1 Lap
Arena - Ford
25th Paul O'Neill Engine
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
26th Stephen Kane Puncture
BTC Racing - BMW
Norbert Michelisz continued his masterful run at Snetterton, dominating the race and setting fastest lap, although Jason Plato's initial challenge was a bit more spirited- right until he spun off! This dropped him right to the back and while he made a valiant effort, the frustrated reigning champion couldn't quite get back into the points, meaning a continued no-score this weekend. Behind the leader, there were two particularly impressive team performances in the top 10- the first was that of Clyde Valley Racing, who achieved their best overall finish with Shedden in second and Muller in third, while the second of these efforts was that of Boulevard, who again defied all expectations (considering their mounting debts and unfancied drivers) and scored another point (at some point, these stop becoming flukes!), and with a bit more attrition, they very well might have gotten a double-points result! (James was 11th in the end). Slightly spoiling the financially beleaguered team's day however was the reverse grid draw, which put Dave Pinkney on pole for Race 3, denying Boulevard a top 10 grid position.
Race 3 (video coming soon)
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1st Nick Foster 23m 16.680s
GR Asia - SEAT
2nd Jordi Gene +2.907s
GR Asia - SEAT
3rd Gordon Shedden +14.477s
Clyde Valley - Seat
4th Alain Menu +15.286s
WSR - BMW
5th Jonathan Adam +16.152s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
6th Tom Chilton +24.526s
WSR - BMW
7th Alex MacDowell +35.096s
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
8th Paul O'Neill +36.672s
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
9th Tom Coronel +37.813s
Arena - Ford
10th Rob Collard +46.310s
Arena - Ford
11th Yvan Muller +47.006s
Clyde Valley - Seat
12th Gavin Smith +48.259s
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
13th Andy Neate +48.670s
Boulevard - Chevrolet
14th Dave Pinkney +49.039s
Maxtreme - SEAT
15th Chris James +49.928s
Boulevard - Chevrolet
16th Norbert Michelisz +50.429s
Maxtreme - SEAT
17th Stephen Kane -2 Laps
BTC Racing - BMW
18th Augusto Farfus Puncture
Honda Racing - Honda
19th Colin Turkington Suspension
Sp. Tuning - Honda
20th James Thompson Transmission
RML - Chevrolet
21st Jason Plato Transmission
SEAT Sport - SEAT
22nd Jeff Smith Transmission
RML - Chevrolet
23rd Matt Neal Brakes
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
24th Arthur Forster Suspension
Sp. Tuning - Honda
25th Mehdi Bennani Puncture
Honda Racing - Honda
26th John George Transmission
BTC Racing - BMW
Nick Foster jumped Dave Pinkney off the line from the dirty side of the grid, and led the first few corners, but ominously it was Michelisz right on his tail, leading to collective sighs from the spectators as they settled in for another MICHELISZWINSLOL. The GR Asia driver was holding him off rather well however, until something even more unexpected happened- the championship leader spun, emulating Plato in Race 2 and throwing away a prime opportunity to match Dan Eaves' still-unequalled achievement of three race wins in a weekend- he eventually drove a quiet race to finish a lowly sixteenth, although he did still salvage a point with fastest lap. Foster, despite further pressure from his teammate, went on to win with a comfortable margin as part of a GR Asia 1-2, and the second Seat 1-2-3 in a row. Meanwhile it was all action in the lower half of the top 10, with Alex MacDowell in seventh (hence scoring AmDTuning's first ever points) holding off a train of cars that included Paul O'Neill's Peugeot and Tom Coronel, who along with Rob Collard (who was hounded by a struggling Yvan Muller) managed Arena's first double-points haul in several rounds.
Standings After 18 Rounds:
Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 194
2 Alain Menu 175
3 Jordi Gene 152
4 Jonathan Adam 127
5 Yvan Muller 91
6 Jason Plato 90
7 Gordon Shedden 74
8 Colin Turkington 65
10 Tom Chilton 49
11 Augusto Farfus 47
12 James Thompson 33
13 Nick Foster 27
14 Tom Coronel 20
15 Jeff Smith 13
=15 Rob Collard 13
=15 Stephen Kane 13
18 Andrew Jordan 10
19 Matt Neal 7
20 Dave Pinkney 6
=20 Paul O'Neill 6
22 Fabrizio Giovanardi 4
=22 Alex MacDowell 4
24 Chris James 2
25 Mat Jackson 1
=26 Mehdi Bennani 1
=26 John George 1
=26 Andy Neate 1
Independent Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 207
2 Jordi Gene 196
3 Yvan Muller 145
4 Gordon Shedden 139
5 Colin Turkington 107
6 Nick Foster 75
7 Dave Pinkney 48
8 Stephen Kane 45
9 James Nash 28
10 Ben Collins 18
=10 Paul O'Neill 24
12 Matt Neal 15
13 John George 18
14 Mat Jackson 12
=14 Andy Neate 18
16 Arthur Forster 9
17 Alex MacDowell 19
=17 Gavin Smith 16
=17 Chris James 14
20 Tom Ferrier 7
22 Dan Eaves 5
23 Tom Onslow-Cole 1
Teams' Championship
1 WSR 224
2 Maxtreme 200
3 GR Asia 179
4 CVR 164
5 888 131
6 Seat 100
7 Special Tuning 65
9 Honda 48
8 RML 46
10 Arena 33
11 BTC Racing 14
12 Tech-Speed 13
13 AmD Tuning 4
14 Boulevard 3
15 Motorbase 1
Independent Teams' Championship
1 CVR 284
2 GR Asia 271
3 Maxtreme 255
4 Special Tuning 116
5 BTC Racing 63
6 Bamboo 46
7 Tech-Speed 39
9 AmD Tuning 33
8 Boulevard 32
10 Motorbase 12
=10 AFM 12
12 Eurotech 1
Constructors' Championship
1 WSR/BMW 298
2 888/Vauxhall 198
3 Seat 165
4 RML/Chevrolet 113
5 Honda 111
6 Arena/Ford 100
Considering the utter dominance of the Seats this season, TOCA will be putting ballast on the Leons and temporarily pausing upgrades for these teams from Silverstone on to improve the show (this isn't unprecedented- this happened to the Audis in '96 and the Vauxhalls in '01 in RL at least), so along with sacking drivers and making upgrades , feel free to moan about that (I'm sure Plato has a very vocal opinion...)
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Snetterton Up!
Seat have a statement from Plato. Unfortunately after cutting out the swearing there is really nothing left.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Snetterton Up!
Seeing as the Leons are about to get laden with ballast, CVR will switch back to its BMW 320s now.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Snetterton Up!
DemocalypseNow wrote:Seeing as the Leons are about to get laden with ballast, CVR will switch back to its BMW 320s now.
Your craftiness in the face of TOCA's regulations never ceases to amaze me...
But I'll let you do this. You're not getting the 1CR used when swapping back to the Leons refunded though.
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Looks like it hasn't been a satisfying day for Bamboo, hopefully next time it'll be better.
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As my computer has a new CPU cooler to prevent the catastrophic overheating that delayed this series' running (plus colder weather), I can resume running this series regularly again, of which Silverstone will be up shortly- after I've swapped the CVR team back to BMWs and ballasted the Seats.
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I had a few teething troubles with the new CPU cooling setup, but everything works now, so here are the results from Rounds 19, 20 and 21 from Silverstone:
Pre-Qualifying:
In the last pre-qualifying session before the entry list is recalculated it was AmDTuning who topped the session ahead of BTC Racing in what is likely to be the two team's final attempts to pre-qualify this year. It was a relatively close session at Silverstone, with Motorbase and AFM quite close to pre-qualifying, which bodes well for Knockhill, while Eurotech continue to fall well off the pace of even Forster Motorsports floundering Toyotas.
Quali-1
Any fears that the Leon-running teams had of being mired at the back of the grid (and conversely, the hopes of their competitors) were quickly rubbished as they filled the first three positions, led by a strangely cheerful Jason Plato. It was however clear that the Seats had still been slowed somewhat- 4th placed Jonathan Adam was less than a tenth of a second off Gene's car ahead, while the teammates of the leading trio were propping up the timesheets, Jordan even failing to qualify. CVR, who had been running its 2009-spec Leons up until this round, having swapped from BMWs at Brands Hatch, had a solid but unspectacular session, with Muller and Shedden qualifying 7th and 8th while re-acclimatising to the RWD 320sis! Along with Jordan, it was Moroccan Mehdi Bennani who failed to qualify, while rumours circulate around him not finishing the season with a financially shaky Honda team.
Race 1 (video coming soon)
Plato led off the line, but was quickly swamped by Michelisz and Menu, dropping to third and then fifth before his engine expired well before the halfway point. Instead it was Norbert Michelisz who built up a lead of nearly 3 seconds in as many laps, as has so often happened this year (and has so often caused headaches for TOCA). However, Colin Turkington's Honda was flying at Silverstone, quickly dispatching Plato, Farfus (who suffered suspension failure not long after) and Menu and by lap 5 he had reduced the Maxtreme driver's lead to less than a second. After losing time during his first attempt to pass the Hungarian, it took until lap 8 for Turkington to attempt a second move for the lead, which stuck and with that he pulled away, taking the first win for a Honda Accord in the BTCC since Simon Graves' Production class and overall win at Snetterton in 2001. Other notable runs included a rare double points finish for RML, and an even rarer points finish (or finish at all, but I digress) for Paul O'Neill's Peugeot in 8th, as the team strives to stave off pre-qualifying. Jonathan Adam set the fastest lap.
Quali-2:
Plato again set the pace in the second qualifying session, and was joined on the front row by Jonathan Adam who was having a very competitive weekend. Augusto Farfus qualified very well in the Honda, ahead of Race 1 winner Turkington, while more disappointing performances came from Menu, who was only 10th, and James Thompson, who showed inexplicably poor form to line up on the back row with Arthur Forster, although still ahead of Nick Foster and Mehdi Bennani, who failed to qualify.
Race 2 (video coming soon)
Plato again started poorly, being jumped by Adam, Turkington, Michelisz and Gene in the first couple of laps alone, while the former two drivers sped away from the rest of the field, and while it looked for a while it looked as Turkington could take two wins in a row, Jonathan Adam eventually triumphed to take his first win of the year (and another fastest lap) with a margin of two seconds over the Special Tuning driver, who was still 8 seconds ahead of the next placed driver. Elsewhere, the championship battle took an interesting yet ultimately inconsequential turn- Alain Menu suffered suspension failure early in the race, handing Michelisz an open goal to extend his already substantial championship lead. This did not occur however- the Hungarian was forced to pit with technical issues not far from the end, dropping to 15th from which he could only recover to 11th, outside the points. Inside the points however was Chris James, who managed an unlikely 8th placed finish to score 3 more points for the financially beleagured Boulevard squad, while ahead of him was the seemingly perennially-unlucky Tom Coronel, who also got the most power for Quali-3.
Race 3 (video coming soon):
Augusto Farfus shot into the lead from the first corner, gapping the field apart from Jonathan Adam, who stayed close on his tail, overtaking him at half distance with yet another fastest lap, by which point a chasing pack of Alain Menu and Jordi Gene (Colin Turkington intiated this move, but suffered engine failure while running a strong third) swept him up, the Honda driver ultimately finishing fourth again. Meanwhile, the lower top 10 had become a race of attrition somewhat- first to go was front-row starter Tom Coronel's transmission, which failed while he ran in a disappointing seventh, while Alex MacDowell, Matt Neal and Dave Pinkney all suffered mechanical issues while gracing tenth place- it was ultimately Fabrizio Giovanardi who scored a single point. Norbert Michelisz had a poor race finishing seventh (before the spree of retirements, it looked as if he would fail to score) five places behind Menu, harming his championship lead.
Championship Standings After 21 Rounds:
Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 211
2 Alain Menu 197
3 Jordi Gene 180
4 Jonathan Adam 162
5 Yvan Muller 105
6 Jason Plato 101
7 Colin Turkington 93
8 Gordon Shedden 80
9 Augusto Farfus 54
10 Tom Chilton 49
11 James Thompson 44
12 Nick Foster 27
13 Tom Coronel 24
14 Jeff Smith 14
=15 Rob Collard 13
=15 Stephen Kane 13
17 Andrew Jordan 10
18 Paul O'Neill 9
19 Matt Neal 7
20 Dave Pinkney 6
21 Fabrizio Giovanardi 5
=21 Chris James 5
23 Alex MacDowell 4
24 John George 2
25 Mat Jackson 1
=25 Mehdi Bennani 1
=25 Andy Neate 1
Michelisz, despite his poor weekend, leads Menu by an expanded 24-point margin, while Jordi Gene is beginning to creep into the title battle at this late stage.
Independent Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 233
2 Jordi Gene 232
3 Yvan Muller 175
4 Gordon Shedden 158
5 Colin Turkington 137
6 Nick Foster 81
7 Dave Pinkney 50
8 Stephen Kane 46
9 Paul O'Neill 33
10 Chris James 31
11 James Nash 28
12 John George 27
13 Andy Neate 23
14 Gavin Smith 22
15 Alex MacDowell 19
16 Ben Collins 18
17 Matt Neal 15
18 Mat Jackson 12
19 Arthur Forster 10
20 Tom Ferrier 7
21 Dan Eaves 5
22 Tom Onslow-Cole 1
Things are a lot closer in the Indepedent's Championship- Michelisz leads, but only by a single point from Gene, with 3rd-placed Muller already too far behind to really challenge for the title.
Teams' Championship
1 WSR 246
2 Maxtreme 217
3 GR Asia 207
4 CVR 185
5 888 167
6 Seat 111
7 Special Tuning 93
8 RML 58
9 Honda 55
10 Arena 37
11 Tech-Speed 16
12 BTC Racing 15
13 Boulevard 6
14 AmD Tuning 4
15 Motorbase 1
WSR are still fairly dominant in the Team's championship, but Chilton's non-scoring has reduced the margin to Maxtreme and GR Asia behind them to under 30 points.
Independent Teams' Championship
1 CVR 333
2 GR Asia 313
3 Maxtreme 283
4 Special Tuning 147
5 BTC Racing 73
6 Boulevard 54
7 Tech-Speed 48
8 Bamboo 46
9 AmD Tuning 41
10 Motorbase 12
=10 AFM 12
12 Eurotech 1
Things are are lot less close in the Independent Team's championship- CVR is twenty points ahead of GR Asia, and fifty ahead of Maxtreme in third, who have scored nearly double the points of fourth-placed Special Tuning (and they have scored double BTC Racing's tally!)
Constructors' Championship
1 WSR/BMW 336
2 888/Vauxhall 243
3 Seat 191
4 RML/Chevrolet 153
5 Honda 133
6 Arena/Ford 121
WSR have a safe lead in the Constructor's championship, and at this rate may seal the title well before Brands Hatch.
Now for the Pre-Qualifying recalculation:
Leaving Pre-Qualifying:
BTC Racing (12th in TC, 15pts)
Entering Pre-Qualifying:
Boulevard (13th in TC, 6pts)
Staying in Pre-Qualifying:
AmDTuning (14th in TC, 4pts)
Motorbase (15th in TC, 1pt)
AFM Racing (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish 14th)
Eurotech (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish 21st)
Forster Motorsport (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish DNPQ)
This list will remain static until the end of the year.
Finally, as the next race is at the Knockhill Circuit in Fife, Scotland, there is an oppurtunity for the smaller, less financially secure outfits on the grid to skip this round to save on travel costs. This manifests itself as a 5CR rebate from TOCA. You will need to specify if you are doing this or not below.
Anyway, feel free to comment or make upgrades (unless you're running a Leon) before the next round, which will be run on time, I promise!
Pre-Qualifying:
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1 Alex MacDowell
1m 37.002s
2 Gavin Smith
1m 37.228s
3 Stephen Kane
1m 37.519s
4 John George
1m 37.526s
5 Mat Jackson
1m 37.561s
6 James Nash
1m 37.958s
7 Tom Ferrier
1m 38.090s
8 Dan Eaves
1m 38.180s
9 Tom Onslow-Cole
1m 38.187s
10 Tony Gilham
1m 38.270s
11 Carl Breeze
1m 38.278s
12 James Kaye
1m 38.474s
13 Ben Collins
1m 38.673s
14 Martin Depper
1m 38.890s
Aggregate
1 AmDTuning 3m 14.230s
2 BTC Racing 3m 15.045s
3 Motorbase 3m 15.831s
4 AFM Racing 3m 16.270s
5 Bamboo 3m 16.631s
6 Forster 3m 16.752s
7 Eurotech 3m 17.077s
In the last pre-qualifying session before the entry list is recalculated it was AmDTuning who topped the session ahead of BTC Racing in what is likely to be the two team's final attempts to pre-qualify this year. It was a relatively close session at Silverstone, with Motorbase and AFM quite close to pre-qualifying, which bodes well for Knockhill, while Eurotech continue to fall well off the pace of even Forster Motorsports floundering Toyotas.
Quali-1
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1 Jason Plato
1m 35.933s
2 Norbert Michelisz
1m 36.171s
3 Jordi Gene
1m 36.317s
4 Jonathan Adam
1m 36.486s
5 Alain Menu
1m 36.571s
6 Colin Turkington
1m 36.584s
7 Yvan Muller
1m 36.750s
8 Gordon Shedden
1m 36.814s
9 Augusto Farfus
1m 36.966s
10 James Thompson
1m 36.969s
11 Tom Coronel
1m 37.204s
12 Alex MacDowell
1m 37.211s
13 Gavin Smith
1m 37.212s
14 Tom Chilton
1m 37.223s
15 Paul O'Neill
1m 37.271s
16 Matt Neal
1m 37.292s
17 Stephen Kane
1m 37.304s
18 Jeff Smith
1m 37.452s
19 John George
1m 37.498s
20 Fabrizio Giovanardi
1m 37.609s
21 Chris James
1m 38.012s
22 Rob Collard
1m 38.024s
23 Dave Pinkney
1m 38.088s
24 Andy Neate
1m 38.105s
25 Nick Foster
1m 38.357s
26 Arthur Forster
1m 38.401s
27 Andrew Jordan
DNQ
28 Mehdi Bennani
DNQ
Any fears that the Leon-running teams had of being mired at the back of the grid (and conversely, the hopes of their competitors) were quickly rubbished as they filled the first three positions, led by a strangely cheerful Jason Plato. It was however clear that the Seats had still been slowed somewhat- 4th placed Jonathan Adam was less than a tenth of a second off Gene's car ahead, while the teammates of the leading trio were propping up the timesheets, Jordan even failing to qualify. CVR, who had been running its 2009-spec Leons up until this round, having swapped from BMWs at Brands Hatch, had a solid but unspectacular session, with Muller and Shedden qualifying 7th and 8th while re-acclimatising to the RWD 320sis! Along with Jordan, it was Moroccan Mehdi Bennani who failed to qualify, while rumours circulate around him not finishing the season with a financially shaky Honda team.
Race 1 (video coming soon)
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1st Colin Turkington 33m 33.685s
Sp. Tuning - Honda
2nd Norbert Michelisz +2.509s
Maxtreme - SEAT
3rd Alain Menu +10.715s
WSR - BMW
4th Jordi Gene +11.684s
GR Asia - SEAT
5th Jonathan Adam +13.637s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
6th James Thompson +21.298s
RML - Chevrolet
7th Yvan Muller +29.500s
Clyde Valley - BMW
8th Paul O'Neill +36.661s
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
9th Gordon Shedden +39.802s
Clyde Valley - BMW
10th Jeff Smith +55.192s
RML - Chevrolet
11th Gavin Smith +57.693s
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
12th Chris James +59.230s
Boulevard - Chevrolet
13th Dave Pinkney +1m 00.957s
Maxtreme - SEAT
14th Fabrizio Giovanardi +1m 01.141s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
15th Nick Foster +1m 02.834s
GR Asia - SEAT
16th Rob Collard +1m 06.963s
Arena - Ford
17th John George +1m 21.023s
BTC Racing - BMW
18th Andy Neate +1m 23.048s
Boulevard - Chevrolet
19th Tom Coronel -1 Lap
Arena - Ford
20th Tom Chilton -1 Lap
WSR - BMW
21st Augusto Farfus Loose Wheel
Honda Racing - Honda
22nd Jason Plato Oil Leak
SEAT Sport - SEAT
23rd Arthur Forster Engine
Sp. Tuning - Honda
24th Alex MacDowell Engine
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
25th Matt Neal Puncture
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
26th Stephen Kane Engine
BTC Racing - BMW
Plato led off the line, but was quickly swamped by Michelisz and Menu, dropping to third and then fifth before his engine expired well before the halfway point. Instead it was Norbert Michelisz who built up a lead of nearly 3 seconds in as many laps, as has so often happened this year (and has so often caused headaches for TOCA). However, Colin Turkington's Honda was flying at Silverstone, quickly dispatching Plato, Farfus (who suffered suspension failure not long after) and Menu and by lap 5 he had reduced the Maxtreme driver's lead to less than a second. After losing time during his first attempt to pass the Hungarian, it took until lap 8 for Turkington to attempt a second move for the lead, which stuck and with that he pulled away, taking the first win for a Honda Accord in the BTCC since Simon Graves' Production class and overall win at Snetterton in 2001. Other notable runs included a rare double points finish for RML, and an even rarer points finish (or finish at all, but I digress) for Paul O'Neill's Peugeot in 8th, as the team strives to stave off pre-qualifying. Jonathan Adam set the fastest lap.
Quali-2:
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1 Jason Plato
1m 35.652s
2 Jonathan Adam
1m 35.810s
3 Norbert Michelisz
1m 36.262s
4 Jordi Gene
1m 36.323s
5 Augusto Farfus
1m 36.578s
6 Colin Turkington
1m 36.764s
7 Gordon Shedden
1m 36.814s
8 Tom Coronel
1m 36.816s
9 Yvan Muller
1m 36.820s
10 Alain Menu
1m 36.968s
11 Matt Neal
1m 37.136s
12 John George
1m 37.388s
13 Alex MacDowell
1m 37.426s
14 Chris James
1m 37.475s
15 Jeff Smith
1m 37.491s
16 Gavin Smith
1m 37.606s
17 Andrew Jordan
1m 37.707s
18 Fabrizio Giovanardi
1m 37.720s
19 Stephen Kane
1m 37.783s
20 Rob Collard
1m 37.812s
21 Mehdi Bennani
1m 37.843s
22 Paul O'Neill
1m 37.877s
23 Andy Neate
1m 37.943s
24 Tom Chilton
1m 37.947s
25 James Thompson
1m 37.950s
26 Arthur Forster
1m 38.298s
DNQ:
27 Nick Foster
28 Mehdi Bennani
Plato again set the pace in the second qualifying session, and was joined on the front row by Jonathan Adam who was having a very competitive weekend. Augusto Farfus qualified very well in the Honda, ahead of Race 1 winner Turkington, while more disappointing performances came from Menu, who was only 10th, and James Thompson, who showed inexplicably poor form to line up on the back row with Arthur Forster, although still ahead of Nick Foster and Mehdi Bennani, who failed to qualify.
Race 2 (video coming soon)
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1st Jonathan Adam 33m 29.368s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
2nd Colin Turkington +2.102s
Sp. Tuning - Honda
3rd Jordi Gene +10.635s
GR Asia - SEAT
4th Augusto Farfus +17.314s
Honda Racing - Honda
5th Jason Plato +24.690s
SEAT Sport - SEAT
6th Yvan Muller +26.234s
Clyde Valley - BMW
7th Tom Coronel +31.446s
Arena - Ford
8th Chris James +33.395s
Boulevard - Chevrolet
9th Gordon Shedden +36.246s
Clyde Valley - BMW
10th John George +39.567s
BTC Racing - BMW
11th James Thompson +47.209s
RML - Chevrolet
12th Norbert Michelisz +47.295s
Maxtreme - SEAT
13th Jeff Smith +51.305s
RML - Chevrolet
14th Mehdi Bennani +53.715s
Honda Racing - Honda
15th Paul O'Neill +57.933s
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
16th Andy Neate +1m 06.909s
Boulevard - Chevrolet
17th Stephen Kane +1m 10.628s
BTC Racing - BMW
18th Alex MacDowell +1m 11.534s
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
19th Tom Chilton +1m 11.858s
WSR - BMW
20th Gavin Smith +1m 12.438s
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
21st Fabrizio Giovanardi +1m 16.228s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
22nd Rob Collard +1m 22.592s
Arena - Ford
23rd Matt Neal -2 Laps
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
24th Arthur Forster Engine
Sp. Tuning - Honda
25th Andrew Jordan Engine
SEAT Sport - SEAT
26th Alain Menu Suspension
WSR - BMW
Plato again started poorly, being jumped by Adam, Turkington, Michelisz and Gene in the first couple of laps alone, while the former two drivers sped away from the rest of the field, and while it looked for a while it looked as Turkington could take two wins in a row, Jonathan Adam eventually triumphed to take his first win of the year (and another fastest lap) with a margin of two seconds over the Special Tuning driver, who was still 8 seconds ahead of the next placed driver. Elsewhere, the championship battle took an interesting yet ultimately inconsequential turn- Alain Menu suffered suspension failure early in the race, handing Michelisz an open goal to extend his already substantial championship lead. This did not occur however- the Hungarian was forced to pit with technical issues not far from the end, dropping to 15th from which he could only recover to 11th, outside the points. Inside the points however was Chris James, who managed an unlikely 8th placed finish to score 3 more points for the financially beleagured Boulevard squad, while ahead of him was the seemingly perennially-unlucky Tom Coronel, who also got the most power for Quali-3.
Race 3 (video coming soon):
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1st Jonathan Adam 33m 31.407s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
2nd Alain Menu +7.203s
WSR - BMW
3rd Jordi Gene +8.689s
GR Asia - SEAT
4th Augusto Farfus +16.239s
Honda Racing - Honda
5th James Thompson +22.667s
RML - Chevrolet
6th Yvan Muller +27.209s
Clyde Valley - BMW
7th Norbert Michelisz +27.885s
Maxtreme - SEAT
8th Jason Plato +33.456s
SEAT Sport - SEAT
9th Gordon Shedden +38.450s
Clyde Valley - BMW
10th Fabrizio Giovanardi +58.537s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
11th Tom Chilton +1m 01.373s
WSR - BMW
12th Chris James +1m 02.894s
Boulevard - Chevrolet
13th Nick Foster +1m 03.785s
GR Asia - SEAT
14th Jeff Smith +1m 08.924s
RML - Chevrolet
15th John George +1m 10.449s
BTC Racing - BMW
16th Andy Neate +1m 12.160s
Boulevard - Chevrolet
17th Rob Collard +1m 23.821s
Arena - Ford
18th Gavin Smith -1 Lap
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
19th Arthur Forster -2 Laps
Sp. Tuning - Honda
20th Matt Neal Transmission
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
21st Alex MacDowell Loose Wheel
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
22nd Stephen Kane Engine
BTC Racing - BMW
23rd Paul O'Neill Engine
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
24th Dave Pinkney Loose Wheel
Maxtreme - SEAT
25th Tom Coronel Transmission
Arena - Ford
26th Colin Turkington Engine
Sp. Tuning - Honda
Augusto Farfus shot into the lead from the first corner, gapping the field apart from Jonathan Adam, who stayed close on his tail, overtaking him at half distance with yet another fastest lap, by which point a chasing pack of Alain Menu and Jordi Gene (Colin Turkington intiated this move, but suffered engine failure while running a strong third) swept him up, the Honda driver ultimately finishing fourth again. Meanwhile, the lower top 10 had become a race of attrition somewhat- first to go was front-row starter Tom Coronel's transmission, which failed while he ran in a disappointing seventh, while Alex MacDowell, Matt Neal and Dave Pinkney all suffered mechanical issues while gracing tenth place- it was ultimately Fabrizio Giovanardi who scored a single point. Norbert Michelisz had a poor race finishing seventh (before the spree of retirements, it looked as if he would fail to score) five places behind Menu, harming his championship lead.
Championship Standings After 21 Rounds:
Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 211
2 Alain Menu 197
3 Jordi Gene 180
4 Jonathan Adam 162
5 Yvan Muller 105
6 Jason Plato 101
7 Colin Turkington 93
8 Gordon Shedden 80
9 Augusto Farfus 54
10 Tom Chilton 49
11 James Thompson 44
12 Nick Foster 27
13 Tom Coronel 24
14 Jeff Smith 14
=15 Rob Collard 13
=15 Stephen Kane 13
17 Andrew Jordan 10
18 Paul O'Neill 9
19 Matt Neal 7
20 Dave Pinkney 6
21 Fabrizio Giovanardi 5
=21 Chris James 5
23 Alex MacDowell 4
24 John George 2
25 Mat Jackson 1
=25 Mehdi Bennani 1
=25 Andy Neate 1
Michelisz, despite his poor weekend, leads Menu by an expanded 24-point margin, while Jordi Gene is beginning to creep into the title battle at this late stage.
Independent Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 233
2 Jordi Gene 232
3 Yvan Muller 175
4 Gordon Shedden 158
5 Colin Turkington 137
6 Nick Foster 81
7 Dave Pinkney 50
8 Stephen Kane 46
9 Paul O'Neill 33
10 Chris James 31
11 James Nash 28
12 John George 27
13 Andy Neate 23
14 Gavin Smith 22
15 Alex MacDowell 19
16 Ben Collins 18
17 Matt Neal 15
18 Mat Jackson 12
19 Arthur Forster 10
20 Tom Ferrier 7
21 Dan Eaves 5
22 Tom Onslow-Cole 1
Things are a lot closer in the Indepedent's Championship- Michelisz leads, but only by a single point from Gene, with 3rd-placed Muller already too far behind to really challenge for the title.
Teams' Championship
1 WSR 246
2 Maxtreme 217
3 GR Asia 207
4 CVR 185
5 888 167
6 Seat 111
7 Special Tuning 93
8 RML 58
9 Honda 55
10 Arena 37
11 Tech-Speed 16
12 BTC Racing 15
13 Boulevard 6
14 AmD Tuning 4
15 Motorbase 1
WSR are still fairly dominant in the Team's championship, but Chilton's non-scoring has reduced the margin to Maxtreme and GR Asia behind them to under 30 points.
Independent Teams' Championship
1 CVR 333
2 GR Asia 313
3 Maxtreme 283
4 Special Tuning 147
5 BTC Racing 73
6 Boulevard 54
7 Tech-Speed 48
8 Bamboo 46
9 AmD Tuning 41
10 Motorbase 12
=10 AFM 12
12 Eurotech 1
Things are are lot less close in the Independent Team's championship- CVR is twenty points ahead of GR Asia, and fifty ahead of Maxtreme in third, who have scored nearly double the points of fourth-placed Special Tuning (and they have scored double BTC Racing's tally!)
Constructors' Championship
1 WSR/BMW 336
2 888/Vauxhall 243
3 Seat 191
4 RML/Chevrolet 153
5 Honda 133
6 Arena/Ford 121
WSR have a safe lead in the Constructor's championship, and at this rate may seal the title well before Brands Hatch.
Now for the Pre-Qualifying recalculation:
Leaving Pre-Qualifying:
BTC Racing (12th in TC, 15pts)
Entering Pre-Qualifying:
Boulevard (13th in TC, 6pts)
Staying in Pre-Qualifying:
AmDTuning (14th in TC, 4pts)
Motorbase (15th in TC, 1pt)
AFM Racing (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish 14th)
Eurotech (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish 21st)
Forster Motorsport (NC in TC, 0pts, best finish DNPQ)
This list will remain static until the end of the year.
Finally, as the next race is at the Knockhill Circuit in Fife, Scotland, there is an oppurtunity for the smaller, less financially secure outfits on the grid to skip this round to save on travel costs. This manifests itself as a 5CR rebate from TOCA. You will need to specify if you are doing this or not below.
Anyway, feel free to comment or make upgrades (unless you're running a Leon) before the next round, which will be run on time, I promise!
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Silverstone Up!
Bamboo will be going for Quali Pace
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Silverstone Up!
The rounds from Knockhill (I know, I've even fallen behind TOCA in running these things now...) will be up shortly, so I'll do the RNG for the only upgrades prior to the event:
Bamboo Quali Pace:
1-60 Success, 61-100 Fail
Result: 18- Success.
Well, that's done, so things should be up within a couple of days or so.
Bamboo Quali Pace:
1-60 Success, 61-100 Fail
Result: 18- Success.
Well, that's done, so things should be up within a couple of days or so.
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Re: 2010 Virtual BTCC- Knockhill Up!
Here are the results from the BTCC's annual excursion to Scotland at the Knockhill Circuit: (apologies for the awful writing, it's a bit rushed as I need to conclude Asian F4 before I go on holiday)
Pre-Qualifying:
The first pre-qualifying session with a new lineup since Oulton Park produced an interesting result; there was little surprise when AmDTuning (who nearly escaped pre-qualifying after Silverstone) pre-qualified easily, but behind them it was very close. A very good time from James Nash plus upgrades to the Lacetti saw Bamboo get into the main qualifying for the first time since falling into the session at Oulton Park, while Forster racing were unlucky not to make the grid for the first time, being just a couple of tenths further behind, and ahead of a tight pack of AFM, Motorbase and Boulevard, although Eurotech were miles off the pace.
Quali-1:
Jonathan Adam set the fastest time in the first qualifying session of the weekend, breaking fellow front row starter Jason Plato's run of pole positions from Silverstone, and being the only non-Seat or BMW in the top six. In a rather predictable session, suprises included James Nash in fifteenth for Bamboo, just behind Alex MacDowell's Alfa, while Andrew Jordan (who has really struggled with the ballasted Leon) and Arthur Forster failed to make the grid.
Race 1:
Off the line, Jonathan Adam made one of the worst starts of the year and had dropped to eighth by the first corner, leaving Plato to pull away from the chasing cars of Menu, Michelisz and Farfus, among others. Past the first lap, however, most of the action was the result of a great number of bizarre incidents at both the Arnold Clark chicane and Clark corner itself- virtually everyone who graced the top 10 in the early laps, including both Norbert Michelisz and Alain Menu span off there, losing up to two whole laps digging themselves out of the gravel. Any hopes Jordi Gene (who was then running fourth) had of clawing back points on the championship frontrunners were dashed however as his transmission failed not much later on, and to make matters worse, by the end of the race Menu had clawed his way back up to tenth. Amid this chaos, no-one had really noticed the emerging battle up front- Adam, helped by the pirouetting of those in front of him, (this is not to say he lacked pace- in fact, he set fastest lap) had managed to climb back up to second place, and was hounding Plato down in the closing laps, making it past on the final lap to the delight of the Scottish fans and the despair of the BTCC veteran, who had let yet another prospective win slip through his fingers. Behind them was a very strange top 10; Farfus managed a strong third for Honda, but more surprising was MacDowell in fourth after a measured drive, Jeff Smith in sixth and Bamboo not only picking up its first points this year, but a double score, with Nash and Collins in seventh and ninth respectively.
Quali-2:
It was a largely similar grid for Race 2, with Adam and Plato again on the front row, with Gene and Michelisz (albeit with swapped positions) behind them, and the CVR cars behind them. The only real surprises were Arthur Forster and Andrew Jordan qualifying, with Nick Foster and Dave Pinkney's privateer Seats not making the grid.
Race 2:
Race 2 proved to be a less eventful race than its predecessor, with the Fife-based duo of Jonathan Adam and Gordon Shedden using their local knowledge to pull away from the field, finishing first and second respectively, with Adam's fastest lap meaning that the Triple Eight driver had managed a maximum score so far this weekend. Behind them, random spins at Clark corner continued to afflict much of the field, an occurrence that was still puzzling TOCA and the circuit managers alike- there were no such incidents in 2009, on an unchanged track with much of the same cars and drivers, leaving no obvious area to blame. This proved particularly frustrating for the AmDTuning team, who saw both their drivers spin out of the points, while further concern appeared around the fuel usage of the cars, with drivers such as Menu forced to stop for fuel, losing track time. Amidst this controversy, it was Colin Turkington who was drawn into pole position for Race 3, having finished sixth in this race after not lasting two laps of the first.
Race 3:
Predictably, considering the mixture of strange accidents, race 3 over-aggression and the tight Knockhill circuit, race 3 was insane. By the first corner, Jonathan Adam's hopes of finishing a so-far perfect weekend ended in the gravel with a collision with Augusto Farfus' Honda, putting the latter driver out of the race and Adam a lap down. More victims of the first lap included Paul O'Neill's transmission and Matt Neal and James Thompson's engines, while just fourteen cars finished on the lead lap, with even those encountering problems. One driver who did not have issues for once was Jason Plato, who drove a faultless race to win despite constant pressure from Norbert Michelisz and Jordi Gene, who was forced to pit three times in the last four laps (presumably due to some kind of fuel starvation issue). Yvan Muller meanwhile was lucky to finish fourth after a number of late race spins, similar to those that had claimed his teammate Shedden, who had run just behind him in what was then sixth. These late race troubles for the frontrunners had the effect of promoting both AmDTuning cars into the top 10, somewhat ironically considering that similar issues dropped them out of it in race 2. Finally, it was polesitter Colin Turkington who set fastest lap, running in clean air after spinning out of sixth place at (you guessed it) Clark corner.
Championship Standings After 24 Rounds:
Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 233
2 Alain Menu 201
3 Jonathan Adam 198
4 Jordi Gene 188
5 Jason Plato 135
6 Yvan Muller 119
7 Colin Turkington 99
8 Gordon Shedden 92
9 Augusto Farfus 64
10 Tom Chilton 54
11 James Thompson 44
12 Tom Coronel 32
13 Nick Foster 27
14 Jeff Smith 22
15 Stephen Kane 20
16 Rob Collard 16
17 Alex MacDowell 15
18 Andrew Jordan 10
19 Paul O'Neill 9
20 John George 8
21 Matt Neal 7
=21 Fabrizio Giovanardi 7
23 Dave Pinkney 6
24 Chris James 5
25 James Nash 4
=25 Gavin Smith 4
27 Ben Collins 2
28 Mat Jackson 1
=28 Mehdi Bennani 1
=28 Andy Neate 1
Besides the Race 1 spin, Norbert Michelisz had the best luck of the championship contenders at Knockhill and now holds a lead of over thirty points, while Jonathan Adam's perfect first two races lift him ahead of Jordi Gene, who may feel that reliability cost him a chance to close the gap ahead badly. Gavin Smith, James Nash and Ben Collins also scored their first points this year.
Independent Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 261
2 Jordi Gene 242
3 Yvan Muller 197
4 Gordon Shedden 176
5 Colin Turkington 146
6 Nick Foster 87
7 Stephen Kane 65
8 Dave Pinkney 60
9 James Nash 44
10 John George 40
11 Alex MacDowell 40
12 Paul O'Neill 33
13 Gavin Smith 32
14 Chris James 31
15 Ben Collins 27
16 Andy Neate 23
17 Arthur Forster 17
18 Matt Neal 15
19 Mat Jackson 12
20 Tom Ferrier 7
21 Dan Eaves 5
22 Tom Onslow-Cole 1
Gene's bad luck has also resulted in Michelisz's Independent lead extending to nearly twenty points, with Muller, Shedden and Turkington each in their own private No Man's Land, too far away from those ahead but well ahead of those behind.
Teams' Championship
1 WSR 255
2 Maxtreme 239
3 GR Asia 215
4 CVR 211
5 888 205
6 Seat 145
7 Special Tuning 99
8 RML 66
9 Honda 65
10 Arena 48
11 BTC Racing 28
12 AmD Tuning 19
13 Tech-Speed 16
14 Boulevard 6
=14 Bamboo 6
16 Motorbase 1
WSR still hold onto a safe yet shrinking lead in the Team's Championship over Maxtreme, but the battle for third place is hotting up- third placed GR Asia and fifth-placed Triple Eight are only separated by ten points. Further down the leaderboard RML and Honda only have one point between them in eighth and ninth, while Boulevard and Bamboo are tied in the pentultimate position with six points.
Independent Teams' Championship
1 CVR 373
2 GR Asia 329
3 Maxtreme 321
4 Special Tuning 163
5 BTC Racing 105
6 AmD Tuning 72
7 Bamboo 71
8 Boulevard 54
9 Tech-Speed 48
10 Motorbase 12
=10 AFM 12
12 Eurotech 1
Clyde Valley Racing are running away with the Independent Team's Championship, now holding a lead of almost fifty points over GR Asia, who have been caught by Maxtreme in third. Boulevard's failure to qualify and Tech-Speed's failure to finish the races has cost both teams badly, as they have been leapfrogged by Bamboo and AmDTuning in the space of a single weekend.
Constructors' Championship
1 WSR/BMW 372
2 888/Vauxhall 287
3 Seat 230
4 RML/Chevrolet 179
5 Arena/Ford 151
6 Honda 149
WSR have almost sealed the Constructors title for a second year in a row, while 888 look safe in second and Seat and RML marooned in third and fourth. There is still one battle left however, and that is for the wooden spoon- Arena have clawed their way past Honda due to better reliability this weekend, dropping Honda back to last, something that they will aim to rectify next time out at Donington, which should suit their powerful engine.
The next race may not be up for a while, so feel free to comment, complain or even upgrade your cars (unless you have a Seat)
Also, a reminder to RedEyes504 and Wizzie; you may want to employ a pay driver or two in the time period to run a few races as you are very badly in debt (I'm assuming Normal32's money pit is in fact some scheme to kill off Boulevard or something by now)
Pre-Qualifying:
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1 Alex MacDowell
45.396s
2 James Nash
45.564s
3 Gavin Smith
45.590s
4 Mat Jackson
45.761s (DNPQ)
5 Tom Onslow-Cole
45.902s (DNPQ)
6 Tom Ferrier
45.917s (DNPQ)
7 Carl Breeze
45.928s (DNPQ)
8 James Kaye
45.936s (DNPQ)
9 Chris James
45.975s (DNPQ)
10 Dan Eaves
45.982s (DNPQ)
11 Ben Collins
45.984s
12 Andy Neate
46.012s (DNPQ)
13 Tony Gilham
46.112s (DNPQ)
14 Martin Depper
46.323s (DNPQ)
Aggregate:
1 AmDTuning 3m 00.986s
2 Bamboo 3m 01.548s
3 Forster 3m 01.864s (DNPQ)
4 AFM Racing 3m 01.899s (DNPQ)
5 Motorbase 3m 01.873s (DNPQ)
6 Boulevard 3m 01.987s (DNPQ)
7 Eurotech 3m 02.225s (DNPQ)
The first pre-qualifying session with a new lineup since Oulton Park produced an interesting result; there was little surprise when AmDTuning (who nearly escaped pre-qualifying after Silverstone) pre-qualified easily, but behind them it was very close. A very good time from James Nash plus upgrades to the Lacetti saw Bamboo get into the main qualifying for the first time since falling into the session at Oulton Park, while Forster racing were unlucky not to make the grid for the first time, being just a couple of tenths further behind, and ahead of a tight pack of AFM, Motorbase and Boulevard, although Eurotech were miles off the pace.
Quali-1:
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1 Jonathan Adam
44.579s
2 Jason Plato
44.815s
3 Norbert Michelisz
45.004s
4 Jordi Gene
45.073s
5 Yvan Muller
45.196s
6 Alain Menu
45.200s
7 Gordon Shedden
45.290s
8 Colin Turkington
45.325s
9 Augusto Farfus
45.329s
10 James Thompson
45.345s
11 Tom Coronel
45.414s
12 Matt Neal
45.471s
13 Tom Chilton
45.496s
14 Alex MacDowell
45.506s
15 James Nash
45.508s
16 John George
45.517s
17 Stephen Kane
45.530s
18 Gavin Smith
45.546s
19 Paul O'Neill
45.598s
20 Jeff Smith
45.663s
21 Fabrizio Giovanardi
45.764s
22 Ben Collins
45.844s
23 Dave Pinkney
45.871s
24 Rob Collard
45.900s
25 Nick Foster
45.913s
26 Mehdi Bennani
46.079s
DNQ:
27 Andrew Jordan
28 Arthur Forster
Jonathan Adam set the fastest time in the first qualifying session of the weekend, breaking fellow front row starter Jason Plato's run of pole positions from Silverstone, and being the only non-Seat or BMW in the top six. In a rather predictable session, suprises included James Nash in fifteenth for Bamboo, just behind Alex MacDowell's Alfa, while Andrew Jordan (who has really struggled with the ballasted Leon) and Arthur Forster failed to make the grid.
Race 1:
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1st Jonathan Adam 20m 25.374s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
2nd Jason Plato +1.301s
SEAT Sport - SEAT
3rd Augusto Farfus +3.085s
Honda Racing - Honda
4th Alex MacDowell +15.441s
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
5th Stephen Kane +16.118s
BTC Racing - BMW
6th Jeff Smith +16.982s
RML - Chevrolet
7th James Nash +19.769s
Bamboo - Chevrolet
8th Rob Collard +36.981s
Arena - Ford
9th Ben Collins +46.046s
Bamboo - Chevrolet
10th Alain Menu +46.217s
WSR - BMW
11th James Thompson +47.095s
RML - Chevrolet
12th Fabrizio Giovanardi +48.555s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
13th Nick Foster +1m 17.047s
GR Asia - SEAT
14th Dave Pinkney -1 Lap
Maxtreme - SEAT
15th Yvan Muller -1 Lap
Clyde Valley - BMW
16th Gordon Shedden -1 Lap
Clyde Valley - BMW
17th Gavin Smith -2 Laps
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
18th Norbert Michelisz -2 Laps
Maxtreme - SEAT
19th John George Engine
BTC Racing - BMW
20th Paul O'Neill Engine
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
21st Mehdi Bennani Engine
Honda Racing - Honda
22nd Jordi Gene Transmission
GR Asia - SEAT
23rd Tom Chilton Didn't Finish
WSR - BMW
24th Tom Coronel Suspension
Arena - Ford
25th Colin Turkington Electrical
Sp. Tuning - Honda
26th Matt Neal Puncture
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
Off the line, Jonathan Adam made one of the worst starts of the year and had dropped to eighth by the first corner, leaving Plato to pull away from the chasing cars of Menu, Michelisz and Farfus, among others. Past the first lap, however, most of the action was the result of a great number of bizarre incidents at both the Arnold Clark chicane and Clark corner itself- virtually everyone who graced the top 10 in the early laps, including both Norbert Michelisz and Alain Menu span off there, losing up to two whole laps digging themselves out of the gravel. Any hopes Jordi Gene (who was then running fourth) had of clawing back points on the championship frontrunners were dashed however as his transmission failed not much later on, and to make matters worse, by the end of the race Menu had clawed his way back up to tenth. Amid this chaos, no-one had really noticed the emerging battle up front- Adam, helped by the pirouetting of those in front of him, (this is not to say he lacked pace- in fact, he set fastest lap) had managed to climb back up to second place, and was hounding Plato down in the closing laps, making it past on the final lap to the delight of the Scottish fans and the despair of the BTCC veteran, who had let yet another prospective win slip through his fingers. Behind them was a very strange top 10; Farfus managed a strong third for Honda, but more surprising was MacDowell in fourth after a measured drive, Jeff Smith in sixth and Bamboo not only picking up its first points this year, but a double score, with Nash and Collins in seventh and ninth respectively.
Quali-2:
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1 Jonathan Adam
44.574s
2 Jason Plato
44.771s
3 Jordi Gene
44.916s
4 Norbert Michelisz
45.004s
5 Gordon Shedden
45.107s
6 Yvan Muller
45.162s
7 Augusto Farfus
45.209s
8 Colin Turkington
45.251s
9 Alain Menu
45.335s
10 Tom Coronel
45.350s
11 Alex MacDowell
45.459s
12 Gavin Smith
45.519s
13 James Thompson
45.519s
14 Jeff Smith
45.521s
15 Matt Neal
45.564s
16 James Nash
45.599s
17 Fabrizio Giovanardi
45.625s
18 John George
45.646s
19 Tom Chilton
45.692s
20 Stephen Kane
45.738s
21 Rob Collard
45.738s
22 Paul O'Neill
45.762s
23 Ben Collins
45.766s
24 Mehdi Bennani
45.891s
25 Arthur Forster
45.909s
26 Andrew Jordan
45.967s
DNQ:
27 Nick Foster
28 Dave Pinkney
It was a largely similar grid for Race 2, with Adam and Plato again on the front row, with Gene and Michelisz (albeit with swapped positions) behind them, and the CVR cars behind them. The only real surprises were Arthur Forster and Andrew Jordan qualifying, with Nick Foster and Dave Pinkney's privateer Seats not making the grid.
Race 2:
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1st Jonathan Adam 20m 11.557s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
2nd Gordon Shedden +6.631s
Clyde Valley - BMW
3rd Norbert Michelisz +8.130s
Maxtreme - SEAT
4th Jordi Gene +9.636s
GR Asia - SEAT
5th Jason Plato +14.570s
SEAT Sport - SEAT
6th Colin Turkington +15.119s
Sp. Tuning - Honda
7th Yvan Muller +18.556s
Clyde Valley - BMW
8th Alain Menu +26.215s
WSR - BMW
9th Jeff Smith +30.992s
RML - Chevrolet
10th Stephen Kane +33.575s
BTC Racing - BMW
11th Arthur Forster +36.139s
Sp. Tuning - Honda
12th John George +37.457s
BTC Racing - BMW
13th James Nash +38.833s
Bamboo - Chevrolet
14th Tom Chilton +40.311s
WSR - BMW
15th Ben Collins -1 Lap
Bamboo - Chevrolet
16th Tom Coronel -1 Lap
Arena - Ford
17th Paul O'Neill -1 Lap
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
18th Mehdi Bennani -1 Lap
Honda Racing - Honda
19th Matt Neal -2 Laps
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
20th Rob Collard -2 Laps
Arena - Ford
21st Augusto Farfus -3 Laps
Honda Racing - Honda
22nd Andrew Jordan Oil Leak
SEAT Sport - SEAT
23rd Alex MacDowell Didn't Finish
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
24th Gavin Smith Engine
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
25th Fabrizio Giovanardi Puncture
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
26th James Thompson Transmission
RML - Chevrolet
Race 2 proved to be a less eventful race than its predecessor, with the Fife-based duo of Jonathan Adam and Gordon Shedden using their local knowledge to pull away from the field, finishing first and second respectively, with Adam's fastest lap meaning that the Triple Eight driver had managed a maximum score so far this weekend. Behind them, random spins at Clark corner continued to afflict much of the field, an occurrence that was still puzzling TOCA and the circuit managers alike- there were no such incidents in 2009, on an unchanged track with much of the same cars and drivers, leaving no obvious area to blame. This proved particularly frustrating for the AmDTuning team, who saw both their drivers spin out of the points, while further concern appeared around the fuel usage of the cars, with drivers such as Menu forced to stop for fuel, losing track time. Amidst this controversy, it was Colin Turkington who was drawn into pole position for Race 3, having finished sixth in this race after not lasting two laps of the first.
Race 3:
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1st Jason Plato 20m 22.431s
SEAT Sport - SEAT
2nd Norbert Michelisz +0.430s
Maxtreme - SEAT
3rd Yvan Muller +4.311s
Clyde Valley - BMW
4th Tom Coronel +15.078s
Arena - Ford
5th John George +20.709s
BTC Racing - BMW
6th Tom Chilton +22.610s
WSR - BMW
7th Gavin Smith +23.907s
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
8th Alex MacDowell +27.257s
AmD Tuning - Alfa Romeo
9th Fabrizio Giovanardi +34.402s
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
10th Jeff Smith +36.226s
RML - Chevrolet
11th Dave Pinkney +38.243s
Maxtreme - SEAT
12th Alain Menu +38.577s
WSR - BMW
13th Rob Collard +41.310s
Arena - Ford
14th James Nash +45.491s
Bamboo - Chevrolet
15th Arthur Forster -1 Lap
Sp. Tuning - Honda
16th Stephen Kane -1 Lap
BTC Racing - BMW
17th Colin Turkington -1 Lap
Sp. Tuning - Honda
18th Jonathan Adam -1 Lap
Triple Eight - Vauxhall
19th Jordi Gene -1 Lap
GR Asia - SEAT
20th Gordon Shedden -2 Laps
Clyde Valley - BMW
21st Ben Collins -2 Laps
Bamboo - Chevrolet
22nd Nick Foster Didn't Finish
GR Asia - SEAT
23rd Matt Neal Engine
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
24th Augusto Farfus Transmission
Honda Racing - Honda
25th James Thompson Engine
RML - Chevrolet
26th Paul O'Neill Transmission
Tech-Speed - Peugeot
Predictably, considering the mixture of strange accidents, race 3 over-aggression and the tight Knockhill circuit, race 3 was insane. By the first corner, Jonathan Adam's hopes of finishing a so-far perfect weekend ended in the gravel with a collision with Augusto Farfus' Honda, putting the latter driver out of the race and Adam a lap down. More victims of the first lap included Paul O'Neill's transmission and Matt Neal and James Thompson's engines, while just fourteen cars finished on the lead lap, with even those encountering problems. One driver who did not have issues for once was Jason Plato, who drove a faultless race to win despite constant pressure from Norbert Michelisz and Jordi Gene, who was forced to pit three times in the last four laps (presumably due to some kind of fuel starvation issue). Yvan Muller meanwhile was lucky to finish fourth after a number of late race spins, similar to those that had claimed his teammate Shedden, who had run just behind him in what was then sixth. These late race troubles for the frontrunners had the effect of promoting both AmDTuning cars into the top 10, somewhat ironically considering that similar issues dropped them out of it in race 2. Finally, it was polesitter Colin Turkington who set fastest lap, running in clean air after spinning out of sixth place at (you guessed it) Clark corner.
Championship Standings After 24 Rounds:
Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 233
2 Alain Menu 201
3 Jonathan Adam 198
4 Jordi Gene 188
5 Jason Plato 135
6 Yvan Muller 119
7 Colin Turkington 99
8 Gordon Shedden 92
9 Augusto Farfus 64
10 Tom Chilton 54
11 James Thompson 44
12 Tom Coronel 32
13 Nick Foster 27
14 Jeff Smith 22
15 Stephen Kane 20
16 Rob Collard 16
17 Alex MacDowell 15
18 Andrew Jordan 10
19 Paul O'Neill 9
20 John George 8
21 Matt Neal 7
=21 Fabrizio Giovanardi 7
23 Dave Pinkney 6
24 Chris James 5
25 James Nash 4
=25 Gavin Smith 4
27 Ben Collins 2
28 Mat Jackson 1
=28 Mehdi Bennani 1
=28 Andy Neate 1
Besides the Race 1 spin, Norbert Michelisz had the best luck of the championship contenders at Knockhill and now holds a lead of over thirty points, while Jonathan Adam's perfect first two races lift him ahead of Jordi Gene, who may feel that reliability cost him a chance to close the gap ahead badly. Gavin Smith, James Nash and Ben Collins also scored their first points this year.
Independent Drivers' Championship
1 Norbert Michelisz 261
2 Jordi Gene 242
3 Yvan Muller 197
4 Gordon Shedden 176
5 Colin Turkington 146
6 Nick Foster 87
7 Stephen Kane 65
8 Dave Pinkney 60
9 James Nash 44
10 John George 40
11 Alex MacDowell 40
12 Paul O'Neill 33
13 Gavin Smith 32
14 Chris James 31
15 Ben Collins 27
16 Andy Neate 23
17 Arthur Forster 17
18 Matt Neal 15
19 Mat Jackson 12
20 Tom Ferrier 7
21 Dan Eaves 5
22 Tom Onslow-Cole 1
Gene's bad luck has also resulted in Michelisz's Independent lead extending to nearly twenty points, with Muller, Shedden and Turkington each in their own private No Man's Land, too far away from those ahead but well ahead of those behind.
Teams' Championship
1 WSR 255
2 Maxtreme 239
3 GR Asia 215
4 CVR 211
5 888 205
6 Seat 145
7 Special Tuning 99
8 RML 66
9 Honda 65
10 Arena 48
11 BTC Racing 28
12 AmD Tuning 19
13 Tech-Speed 16
14 Boulevard 6
=14 Bamboo 6
16 Motorbase 1
WSR still hold onto a safe yet shrinking lead in the Team's Championship over Maxtreme, but the battle for third place is hotting up- third placed GR Asia and fifth-placed Triple Eight are only separated by ten points. Further down the leaderboard RML and Honda only have one point between them in eighth and ninth, while Boulevard and Bamboo are tied in the pentultimate position with six points.
Independent Teams' Championship
1 CVR 373
2 GR Asia 329
3 Maxtreme 321
4 Special Tuning 163
5 BTC Racing 105
6 AmD Tuning 72
7 Bamboo 71
8 Boulevard 54
9 Tech-Speed 48
10 Motorbase 12
=10 AFM 12
12 Eurotech 1
Clyde Valley Racing are running away with the Independent Team's Championship, now holding a lead of almost fifty points over GR Asia, who have been caught by Maxtreme in third. Boulevard's failure to qualify and Tech-Speed's failure to finish the races has cost both teams badly, as they have been leapfrogged by Bamboo and AmDTuning in the space of a single weekend.
Constructors' Championship
1 WSR/BMW 372
2 888/Vauxhall 287
3 Seat 230
4 RML/Chevrolet 179
5 Arena/Ford 151
6 Honda 149
WSR have almost sealed the Constructors title for a second year in a row, while 888 look safe in second and Seat and RML marooned in third and fourth. There is still one battle left however, and that is for the wooden spoon- Arena have clawed their way past Honda due to better reliability this weekend, dropping Honda back to last, something that they will aim to rectify next time out at Donington, which should suit their powerful engine.
The next race may not be up for a while, so feel free to comment, complain or even upgrade your cars (unless you have a Seat)
Also, a reminder to RedEyes504 and Wizzie; you may want to employ a pay driver or two in the time period to run a few races as you are very badly in debt (I'm assuming Normal32's money pit is in fact some scheme to kill off Boulevard or something by now)
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Named after HRT, now on HRT
Named after HRT, now on HRT