24hr Silverstone 2018
Discussion
I was going to go, and would have bought an advance ticket if Silverstone didn't charge such a large booking fee.
Once I saw the weather on Saturday morning I decided to just watch on tv.
The timing of the race wasn't spectator friendly as the 10am finish meant there was no point attending on the Sunday.
As for the time of year, I'm sure we can all remember how an unseasonably warm weekend killed off the Britcar 24hrs as all the locals were in the their gardens to hear the noise and complained.
Once I saw the weather on Saturday morning I decided to just watch on tv.
The timing of the race wasn't spectator friendly as the 10am finish meant there was no point attending on the Sunday.
As for the time of year, I'm sure we can all remember how an unseasonably warm weekend killed off the Britcar 24hrs as all the locals were in the their gardens to hear the noise and complained.
Red Firecracker said:
Some of the former are beginning to wonder about that...
As a former series organiser (karting not cars though) I think it's impossible to keep more than 50% of the grid happy at any one time. Whatever you do someone is always throwing their toys out of the pram. I'd never do it again, it's a thankless task.I think they are in a predicament with regards the 'lower classes' such as A3 and A2.
The drivers that used to populate these classes are now looking towards TCR drives, and maybe GT4. There are fewer new drivers coming in, possibly down to the success of the C1 Championship in the UK. Therefore A2 and A3 (which used to have strong grids) are very sparse. It's a shame, because these two classes used to give fantastic racing, especially the Clio's!
The drivers that used to populate these classes are now looking towards TCR drives, and maybe GT4. There are fewer new drivers coming in, possibly down to the success of the C1 Championship in the UK. Therefore A2 and A3 (which used to have strong grids) are very sparse. It's a shame, because these two classes used to give fantastic racing, especially the Clio's!
Kraken said:
As a former series organiser (karting not cars though) I think it's impossible to keep more than 50% of the grid happy at any one time. Whatever you do someone is always throwing their toys out of the pram. I'd never do it again, it's a thankless task.
Absolutely, but there have been some very strange decisions in the last 18 months with 24H races which has resulted in a very reduced grid. It's a shame, I love working 24H events, they can be really really fun, but they do need to reflect on why certain things are happening.I was a little disappointed with the smaller grids too, although I did hear a couple of mentions of the short turn-around time between Dubai in January (which had a huge grid) and this race caused a lot of teams to not be able to commit. Apparently one of the GT3 teams got their car back from Dubai 5 days before Silverstone!
Despite the weather, it was a good 2 1/2 days racing.
What hurt the entries was that a lot of the teams didn't get their cars back after Dubai until last week, for many that was too short time to work on and fix then transport cars to Silverstone. That being the case, the 12 and the 24 were merged for 7 hours on Saturday, which made for a fantastic sight, however after sunset and the withdrawal of the Proto/GT cars, the remaining looked rather sparse on the GP circuit.
The redflag from 2 - 630 was a welcome gap
Have to say that if Creventic run this again, I would go, but not in March, and they need to run at least the GT and TCRs together
What hurt the entries was that a lot of the teams didn't get their cars back after Dubai until last week, for many that was too short time to work on and fix then transport cars to Silverstone. That being the case, the 12 and the 24 were merged for 7 hours on Saturday, which made for a fantastic sight, however after sunset and the withdrawal of the Proto/GT cars, the remaining looked rather sparse on the GP circuit.
The redflag from 2 - 630 was a welcome gap
Have to say that if Creventic run this again, I would go, but not in March, and they need to run at least the GT and TCRs together
Gassing Station | General Motorsport | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff