Knockhill BTCC - 14th & 15th September

[emicen]

Doesn’t appear to be a thread chatting about the racing yet.

FP1 & 2 looking quite tasty, top 20 cars in FP2 covered by 0.9 seconds, should be a very tight qualifying session!

[Allyc85]

Awful to hear the news about Sam Tordoff's baby passing away. Hopefully his stand in Bushell can get a decent result for them.

[AlexRS2782]

Qualification results (courtesy of BTCC.net) - Butcher must be happy with that result on his home circuit.

1 Rory BUTCHER (GBR) Cobra Sport AmD AutoAid/RCIB Insurance 50.451s (90.40mph)
2 Dan CAMMISH (GBR) Halfords Yuasa Racing +0.243s
3 Andrew JORDAN (GBR) BMW Pirtek Racing +0.303s
4 Tom CHILTON (GBR) Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Gallagher +0.349s
5 Senna PROCTOR (GBR) Adrian Flux Subaru Racing +0.399s
6 Colin TURKINGTON (GBR) Team BMW +0.403s
7 Tom OLIPHANT (GBR) Team BMW +0.408s
8 Adam MORGAN (GBR) Mac Tools with Ciceley Motorsport +0.412s
9 Chris SMILEY (GBR) BTC Racing +0.414s
10 Matt NEAL (GBR) Halfords Yuasa Racing +0.418s
11 Tom INGRAM (GBR) Team Toyota GB with Ginsters +0.440s
12 Aiden MOFFAT (GBR) Laser Tools Racing +0.503s
13 Stephen JELLEY (GBR) Team Parker Racing +0.521s
14 Ashley SUTTON (GBR) Adrian Flux Subaru Racing +0.559s
15 Jason PLATO (GBR) Sterling Insurance with Power Maxed Racing +0.566s
16 Mike BUSHELL (GBR) Cobra Sport AmD AutoAid/RCIB Insurance +0.595s
17 Jake HILL (GBR) TradePriceCars.com +0.603s
18 Ollie JACKSON (GBR) Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Gallagher +0.725s
19 Daniel ROWBOTTOM (GBR) Cataclean Racing with Ciceley Motorsport +0.759s
20 Josh COOK (GBR) BTC Racing +0.764s
21 Matt SIMPSON (GBR) Simpson Racing +0.822s
22 Rob COLLARD (GBR) Sterling Insurance with Power Maxed Racing +0.971s
23 Bobby THOMPSON (GBR) GKR Scaffolding with Autobrite Direct +1.006s
24 Carl BOARDLEY (GBR) RCIB Insurance with Fox Transport +1.153s
25 Jack GOFF (GBR) RCIB Insurance with Fox Transport +1.169s
26 Michael CREES (GBR) GKR Scaffolding with Autobrite Direct +1.190s
27 Nicolas HAMILTON (GBR) ROKiT Racing with Motorbase +1.428s
28 Rob SMITH (GBR) Excelr8 Motorsport +1.558s
29 Sam OSBORNE (GBR) Excelr8 Motorsport +1.786s
30 Mark BLUNDELL (GBR) TradePriceCars.com +2.486s

[Adrian W]

Has Tim Harvey ever said anything negative about anyone, it’s pretty obvious who pays his salary

[Adrian W]

Is it possible to overtake here without hitting the car in front? Or does it happen in every other class of racing here.

[EDLT]

Chilton managed it near the start of the race. It's not really a track where clean racing happens, at least not in touring cars.

[MondeoMan1981]

Not how Nic Hamilton wanted to end race 1...

[Kraken]

If you think there's a lot of contact here you should watch the WTCR rounds from China today. Makes the BTCC look like the cleanest series on the planet.

[emicen]

Rory did very well under sustained pressure there, well deserved win.

Sutton on Neal, that’ll be an interesting couple of interviews.

Adrian W said:

Is it possible to overtake here without hitting the car in front? Or does it happen in every other class of racing here.

Perfectly easy to pass cleanly around KH.

[ols]

Is Tim Harvey a member of the Colin Turkington fan club perchance?

The move by butcher was robust, but no worse than others at the same corner!

[MondeoMan1981]

Butcher's move happened at a 45 degree angle to us. He was partly alongside before AJ turned in for the corner. Pretty standard BTCC coming together!

[Kraken]

ols said:

Is Tim Harvey a member of the Colin Turkington fan club perchance?

The move by butcher was robust, but no worse than others at the same corner!

It was a bad move. He was nowhere near close enough to be claiming that line. I'll be surprised if he doesn't get a reprimand at least for that and he could easily get a 20 second penalty.

[ols]

Kraken said:

ols said:

Is Tim Harvey a member of the Colin Turkington fan club perchance?

The move by butcher was robust, but no worse than others at the same corner!

It was a bad move. He was nowhere near close enough to be claiming that line. I'll be surprised if he doesn't get a reprimand at least for that and he could easily get a 20 second penalty.

As I said, it was robust, but no worse than the move Sutton pulled on Neal in race one. I don’t hear TH lambasting Sutton for his move.

[Kraken]

Harvey did say that overtakes at that corner seldom work (exactly what he said about Butcher as well though it was a different corner) which is hardly praising Sutton and to be fair Sutton was massively further alongside than Butcher ever was before contact was made.

Worst thing he said from what I can recall about Butcher was that the move wasn't on. Hardly lambasting him, just stating facts.

[Kraken]

Five place grid penalty for Butcher so he starts the final race in 13th.

[Adrian W]

Glad Jake Hill got a win, it has been a long time coming

[DanielSan]

Hamilton out for that 2 races

His reason...


And the real reason.... notice the yellow splat on the side, that's where the Duo logo was before they binned him off before Knockhill

[emicen]

Got to say, I respect his decision here.

There’s no point limping on without the budget to do things properly and a mid season panic drive isn’t going to give him time or the right mindset to perform at his best.

That he doesn’t try tapping up his brother any time there’s a funding shortfall is also very admirable.

I hope we see him back for a full season in 2020.

[DanielSan]

That depends of you believe it's his decision or if the sponsor money hasn't been paid for the last part of the year and Dave Bartrum refuses to run a driver out of his own pocket, especially one running around at the back. There seemed to be a lot more TV focus on Hamilton at Knockhill, almost like it was known in the paddock already he wasnt going to be doing the last 2 rounds.

[Kraken]

The focus on him at Knockhill was because Duo pulled out of sponsoring him before that event and it looked like he would be out then and there until the chairman of Rokit used his beer brand ABK to make up the shortfall.

Shows all those cynics were wrong when they said his brother paid for it all.

It wasn't his decision to quit for any other reason than the sponsorship and he hasn't tried to hide that fact at all from what I've read.

Edited by Kraken on Tuesday 24th September 20:14