Quote from boothy :

you venture onto the internet at your own peril if you don't want things spoilt...

QFT. If I missed F1 or such, the last thing I do is, go on social media sites or anything that could have news or information that I don't want to know right away.

It's not very hard.

Andrew Jordan on pole for tomorrow's event at Thruxton. It should have been Shedden really, looked like he was absolutely dominating in all the practices but his lap times were disallowed due to being over the boost limit.

Plato apparently had a big off in qualifying as well after putting in a lap good enough for 2nd on the grid, if anyone can find any pics / vid of the crash then please post.

Quote from Minimaxman :

Plato apparently had a big off in qualifying as well after putting in a lap good enough for 2nd on the grid, if anyone can find any pics / vid of the crash then please post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... aPFPk&feature=g-all-u

That's as close as I can get to proper footage.

Some epic stuff in the Porsches, everyone on slicks and it starts to rain on/off, unfortunately Rory Butcher lost the lead by spinning at the chicane BTCC race 3 on next.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... ;index=8&feature=plcp

onboard potato

Do the NGTC cars have wider tires than the s2000 ones? I simply can't remember after listening to the commentators this weekend

Quote from RiseAgainstMe! :

Do the NGTC cars have wider tires than the s2000 ones? I simply can't remember after listening to the commentators this weekend

Seems that this is going to be the main moaning point this season instead of turbo boost levels.

Quote from Bean0 :

Seems that this is going to be the main moaning point this season instead of turbo boost levels.

Nope. Turbo boost levels are still the main moaning point. Each engines are running different turbo boost levels to keep them balanced. Honda has one of the better engines so they have to run lower boosts. Therefore the 4 NGTC Hondas usually end up at the bottom of the speed charts. Same problem that plagued Plato's season last year basically.

Wider tyres is obviously a big advantages on the wet for the NGTCs, but it gets more even on the dry. AFAIK the S2000s are lighter and they are allowed more turbo boost, so they manage to stay competitive that way. Having two different sort of cars running in the same class will always be an endless can of worm, whatever the championship. But the fact is that in BTCC, NGTC is the future, and S2000 is the past. The 2 classes won't be balanced anymore in 2013, so NGTC will have a much bigger advantage. The works team are already on NGTC. The few strong independant teams(Redstone, WSR) are basically on a transition year, before they either leave, switch to NGTC, or stay with an old package that will become uncompetitive. Those factors mean that the S2000 teams aren't really in position of playing hardball off the track. They have few reasons to complain anyway, Jackson, Newsham and Collard have all proved it is possible to put a challenge for the win in the old S2000 cars.


But anyway, great racing this week-end, by far the best event so far this season.

Andrew Jordan's pole lap from Saturday, it's a flyer! Looks like he's driving a XFR, so loose at the back, love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCVYt8x5f_k

That what onboards should be like.

Instant karma, Jackson

Rd.8 Rockingham - Full races 2012 (Tricky weather conditions)

1.Race (dry) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a32ysmStVAA&feature=plcp
2.Race (wet) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCkXQb14AIY
3.Race (very wet) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv8YtiiQMHQ

I take my hat off to Matt Neal, he drove with a broken hand!

Will be at the penultimate meeting of the year at Silverstone this weekend - anyone else going? I know Tommy Østgaard will be there doing Formula Renault BARC (32 car grid!), and quite a packed timetable so should be good.

I am here/there already I know Momo (Morgan Trollé) is coming on Sunday :-)

Quote from TuRBuLEnZ :

I take my hat off to Matt Neal, he drove with a broken hand!

... for the second time in 2 years, too.


Good luck to Tommy anyway. Cool to see a single seater series with a decent car count in the TOCA package again, even if it's just a one-off.

Quote from Tomhah :

I am here/there already I know Momo (Morgan Trollé) is coming on Sunday :-)

Might come on Saturday aswell, probably afternoon. Still got lot of stuff to do so that's pretty unsure. Anyway I will be there on Sunday.

Quali is over. Tommy will be starting 15th(race 1) and 22th(race 2), out of 32.

Race 1 is this afternoon, at 16:30 local time(17:30 Central European Time). Race 2 is tomorrow at 15:10 local time, and it should be broadcasted live on ITV4.

Live timing(shared page with BTCC and all its support series): http://www.tsl-timing.com/toca/LiveTimingTOCA.html

Links to the timing sheets: http://www.tsl-timing.com/?loc ... d_TOCA&eventid=124003

Had a race with a couple of the BTCC guys Friday night. There was me thinking they'd cause carnage and it was me getting a black flag when I smashed into the leader going for P1 (as you do. It was wet and we were on slicks)

Anyone check the size of the BARC Renault grid? 32-34 in today's cash strapped scene. That's amazing.

Matt Neal doing a Kovalainen.

Woah, Matt Neal's on fire! :o

Tommy Ostgaard on next in Formula Renault! Race start at 1410 UTC.

ITV4 stream link: http://www.itv.com/itv4/ - might work for foreign people, let me know.

Tommy is out on first lap

:sadbanana

Got crashed out in race two. Passed someone around the outside in Luffield, but he then ran wide and hit my rear-end, sending me into the tires... At least he got a penalty :-)

shame though, I was really on it. We made some good adjustments to the car, and the conditions were more similar to the test-sessions earlier this summer where I matched Seb Morris.

Sponsors are happy though, so I'll be back next year! The field was so close it was insane! Such a close qualy!! Really fun! Being 0.5 off pole in my first ever qualy in such a car isnt bad.

Was sad for you Tommy ! Really great to hear you'll continue in that way

BTCC races was really nice to see Awesome climb from Jackson in race 2 and Plato into last race.

Such a bad week end for Shedden and Neal