BTCC Finale @ Brands Hatch

This deserves a thread of its own! This could potentialy go down as one of the greats of the BTCC, I can foresee some Silverstone '92 tactics happening here. So, a look at the standings..

Colin Turkington - WSR Team RAC BMW 320i - 249 pts
Fabrizio Giovanardi - 888 VX Racing Vauxhall Vectra - 236 pts
Jason Plato - RML Silverline Racing Chevrolet Lacetti - 221 pts

Three drivers, three manufacturers, three teams, each driver has a team mate that can run up front and perhaps do a bit of jiggery pokery.

Fabrizio Giovanardi has been Penalized for his move on Jackson at Rockingham, so he drops back, bringing Jason Plato more into contention. Colin Turkington has always been up there, but has never won a title in the BTCC, Giovanardi is the Italian superstar, a dominant driver in Europe in the ETCC and WTCC who came to britain and scored 2 titles. Jason Plato has not won a title since 2001, and has missed out on several occasions since returning to the series with SEAT in 2004.

It could all go bananas at Brands, looks like we will have to wait and find out

nicky wrote:Three drivers, three manufacturers, three teams, each driver has a team mate that can run up front and perhaps do a bit of jiggery pokery.

Think you mean jiggly pokery :L

I think Turks has this one, barring any slip ups on his part or getting involved in someone else's accident.

If he qualifys like he did at rockingham hes gonna have his work cut out. Gio NEEDS the other Vauxhalls up there to help him rather than Neal in a gravel trap and Jordan fannying about near the back with Chilton and Pinkney.

RAC are getting the Team Mate situation right (with Jelly anyways) and Vauxhall need to sort theirs otherwise their last memories of BTCC are going to be loosing the Championship to a Privateer.

http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=4050 Chilton on pole which is really well deserved after a tough season

oh and the top 5 cars were quicker than the pole time set by Alain Menu in the WTCC

Didn't realise they were running on the Grand Prix track, can't wait

And thats a very nice statistic there Nick Shows that the BTCC is still the best championship in Europe for touring cars.

WOOOO go Tom Chilton!!!

This looks like its going to be an epic finale! And for once theres no F1 interfering with it (if you watch the F1 live anyways)

Where are they By the way? (what track i mean)

Formula 1 is at Suzuka and BTCC is on Brands Hatch Full

NOOOO I JUST RETUNED MY FREEVEIW BOX.

I NOW HAVE NO ITV4!

WHAT? I'm pissed!

justin.tv

Just realised i actualy do have it.

Channel 24 now

4 points between Turkington and Giovanardi

4 points between Giovanardi and Plato

8 Points between 1st and 3rd!

Race three is gonna be great!

CONGRATULATION COLIN TURKINGTON !!!!!!!!!!

WHAT A FINALE! An excellent race great action. best for years! what a drive from plato aswell.

That is the best race i have seen for ages!!!

WELL DONE TURKINGTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT a race!!! well done turckington unlucky plato and surves you right gio

Yep, Vauxhall just seem really shady after that, like the baddies in a film

But, CONGRATULATIONS TURK! He had to learn to drive all over again, his car was going down the straights at an angle!

I seem to have missed something deemed evil by everyone else... Was it Neal? Coz thats not evil at all.

Slider S15 wrote:I seem to have missed something deemed evil by everyone else... Was it Neal? Coz thats not evil at all.

Im sorry, but did u see the same race. it may have not be 'evil' but it was at best un-sporting. Besides it just goes to show that when the racing was at its cleanest we had the best racing. take the second half for instance, three a breast and lots of quality overtaking.

in realation to everything else, they came out looking like the bad guys, thats what im saying.

i agree!

i dont see it as any worse then Seat shipping an extra car from the continent or jellys pass, (pronounced driveing through) on Giovanardi at Silverstone.

Team orders is one of the things that makes BTCC so exciting

(and as i recall it was saint turkington who took neal off the track in the final race )

whoa. st turkington even did it in a gentle saint like way so do bring thatt up

racelegend MB1 wrote:whoa. st turkington even did it in a gentle saint like way so do bring thatt up

Woah oxymoron alert. (english term not insult) how do you gently and saintly take sombody off of the track to take their place away?

(if i did that in a Tora event i would be anihalated by the stewards!!)

ah but it was touring cars and you could say matt backed off soo much he left turk no space.
lol