Re: BTCC 2014

by nickyf1 Tue 18 Mar 2014 - 23:09

http://www.touringcartimes.com/2014/03/18/andrew-jordan-fastest-in-rain-affected-media-day-test/

Reigning champion Andrew Jordan was fastest in the media day test at Donington Park, in a four-hour session where the great British weather set the tone for the times.

After a mixed first hour, the heavens opened just after 2pm, leading to an enforced period of quiet before the cars took to the track on wet weather tyres.

As a result, the teams will not be reading too much into the times after such limited dry running, with Jordan’s best lap around 0.7s slower than he managed in the bitterly cold conditions of media day last year.

Before the rain came, Jordan topped in the times in the Eurotech Racing Honda Civic, a mere 0.001 seconds ahead of Gordon Shedden in the new Honda Civic Tourer, with Alain Menu’s Team BMR Volkswagen CC just 0.139 seconds behind on his BTCC return.

Adam Morgan was fourth in the new Mercedes A-Class, ahead of Sam Tordoff’s Triple Eight MG, with Matt Neal, Aron Smith, Colin Turkington, Rob Collard and rookie Tom Ingram completing the top 10.

Triple Eight’s Marc Hynes racked up 64 laps of the day, the most of any driver, followed by West Surrey Racing’s Nick Foster, with 60 laps, and both Tordoff and Ingram, on 59 laps.

There were three red flags during the session. The first came after Chris Stockton stopped at the end of the pitlane in his BTC Racing Chevrolet Cruze, then the second after Shedden had an off at McLeans.

Stockton was also the architect of the third red flag, when he went off at McLeans with one hour left in the session.

The Welch Motorsport pair of Dan Welch and Ollie Jackson; Rotek Racing’s Robb Holland, Team BMR’s Jack Goff and JWT Performance’s Lea Wood didn’t run in the session.

Welch Motorsport are concentrating on finishing their cars, while Wood’s Toyota Avensis hasn’t been fitted with its engine yet.

by Slider S15 Wed 19 Mar 2014 - 12:13

Here's some pictures from Media day from the guys at BTCCCrazy.co.uk

by CQR Myles Wed 19 Mar 2014 - 15:09

by MAB170294 Wed 19 Mar 2014 - 19:40

Just a heads up to all BTCC supportors out there, I will be running my BTCC championship Season 9 shortly with the assistance and cooperation with JVanessen.

I'm hoping to have it approved as a TCR event shortly, anyone interested, already have 10 drivers ready to sign up.

Thanks

PS Can't wait for the actual season to get going now, went media day yesterday and now im getting very impatient haha, the cars seem faster and closer than last year and good to see the new champs getting up to speed quickly to.

by JOSHSIGGY Wed 19 Mar 2014 - 21:24

Interested in this MAB !

by CQR Myles Wed 19 Mar 2014 - 21:28

The MG Official team name is 'MG KX Clubcard Fuel Save', worst name ever with a crappy Tesco paint job

by **Richy59** Wed 19 Mar 2014 - 21:55

New A Class NGTC car looks great, although going by the pictures it looks quite small compared to the BMW 1 Series and the new S3 Saloon. S3 looks like a nicely put together car, but the paint job is pretty lazy.

Civic Tourers are pretty big, although its good to see them doing something different.

by nickyf1 Wed 19 Mar 2014 - 21:57

Moffat's Cruze looks great. Best effort from a smaller team in years.

by CredibleWizard Wed 19 Mar 2014 - 22:11

The MG is not a nice paint! And the more a see the civic tourers the more I think I like them.

But I'm a WSR man myself, so I like the BMW the most

by JVanEssen Wed 19 Mar 2014 - 23:33

I am over the moon about Menu in a VW. It was great to hear he was on the pace as well.

And some Forza Media!!

BTCC 2014 - Page 9 Austin2014_zps747eca3a

BTCC 2014 - Page 9 Newsham2014_zpsd9102e90

by MAB170294 Thu 20 Mar 2014 - 13:29

Great designs JVan

THO Shooter wrote:Interested in this MAB !

Great, thank you. I've put you down on the interested list Smile

Hopefully won't be long before i can open a thread for it

by CQR Myles Sun 30 Mar 2014 - 20:26

After today's events they should really consider widening the Cooper Straight or improve the run off areas/barriers around that area

by F4H Button Wed 16 Apr 2014 - 16:18

I'll be there this weekend Very Happy

by Guest Wed 16 Apr 2014 - 16:31

Few of CQR there aswell, managed to win VIP with Honda Yuasa for me and Phil Smile

by F4H Button Wed 16 Apr 2014 - 16:54

nice one

I'll probably be in field around Starkeys Bridge

by CQR Myles Wed 16 Apr 2014 - 18:00

I'll be there as well

by F4H Button Wed 16 Apr 2014 - 18:29

by F4H Button Thu 24 Apr 2014 - 2:03

This one below is funny, My missus thought that Plato(on the parade lap) was the Safety car. we're were stood with CQR Smokey and CQR Hungover.

by Ax4x Kane Thu 24 Apr 2014 - 2:10

So you went too? Great value for money, considering a Leeds Utd ticket is the exact same price and that only lasts 90 minutes & ends in disappointment.

I actually got on the telly Razz

No one else seemed to be wearing a white jacket...

by F4H Button Thu 24 Apr 2014 - 14:08

haha nice one. I jumped infront of a camera myself behind the pits, no idea if it was on but he was filming. Really great value, £55 ish for me and the missus and kids got in free. I'll put a few pics up later

by F4H Button Thu 24 Apr 2014 - 20:47

There's loads more on my flickr account

by TheAngryPudding Thu 24 Apr 2014 - 22:36

I know Shooter has blagged tix for Oulton from team HARD, hoping myself and jgroves can do the same for Snett. Working on Tony to get us some tv time to promote TORA and our team

by Turbo Power 77 Thu 24 Apr 2014 - 22:44

CQR CHRiS wrote:Few of CQR there aswell, managed to win VIP with Honda Yuasa for me and Phil

Hold on. You got VIP for BTCC and British GT on the same weekend?

by nickyf1 Sun 4 May 2014 - 21:22

I haven't seen Foster's Race 2 accident, but god, Simon Belcher's one lucky gentleman.

Been seeing cars go off at Church for years now, it was only a matter of time before someone went into the trees! That's definitely a ''man's corner for men'' as Guy Martin would say.

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