05-05-2008, 11:28 AM
Right Gang
Not something we have really covered much on maxxd before now is The British Touring Car Championship or BTCC
Im sure you all know what it is and have heard of racers past and present such as John Cleland, Jason Plato, Steve Sopher, Andy Rouse and Matt Neal.
I know i used to be religous in watching it but TV coverage became poor
Now however the full raceday, every race day is on ITV 4 at yesterday at Donnington was no exception!
Now instead of Watching it on the TV Myself, Widdo, Sue and Matty headed down to Donnington to take in the action first hand
Ill keep it quite brief but the Touring cars were Brilliant, we saw some great battles, some interesting offs and some deserving winners.
Plato Tooke the first race in his Diesel Leon, Giovanardi picked up the second in the Vectra and Darren turner managed the third again in the diesel leon
Price to get in was a little Steep @ £29 but i think we did get our moneys worth
Running alongside the tourning cars were some of the support races these included
Ginetta Jnr
Formula Renault
Porcshe Carrera cup
Renault Clio Cup
Seat cupra cup
It kept the day goin but the highlight were the Clios
Brilliant racing, very close lots of offs and bumps and really great fun to watch
the one thing that made it even better was a chap called Stephen Tyldsley driving clio no 20
We were chatting to him in the pits such a nice fella really down to earth and enjoying it and had lots of time to talk to us about the car and the racing and even told us he was gonna paint his number on the bottom so we knew it was him when he roll'd it!!!
Ive made contact with him and hopefully gonna try and get him to come on here and tell us about his season and update us wit hhis info from a drivers perspective - hey we might even manage some maxxd stickers on his car!
Here are the pics
http://gallery.maxxd.com/v/other-car-events/BTCC/
But just to wet your appitite (Sorry for the poor action ones!)
Matty - as per usual abusing "People in Subaru Coats who probably dont own one"
Some of the Leons
Team Dynamics Girls
Touring Car Action (Well more fence but you get the gist)
Not something we have really covered much on maxxd before now is The British Touring Car Championship or BTCC
Im sure you all know what it is and have heard of racers past and present such as John Cleland, Jason Plato, Steve Sopher, Andy Rouse and Matt Neal.
I know i used to be religous in watching it but TV coverage became poor
Now however the full raceday, every race day is on ITV 4 at yesterday at Donnington was no exception!
Now instead of Watching it on the TV Myself, Widdo, Sue and Matty headed down to Donnington to take in the action first hand
Ill keep it quite brief but the Touring cars were Brilliant, we saw some great battles, some interesting offs and some deserving winners.
Plato Tooke the first race in his Diesel Leon, Giovanardi picked up the second in the Vectra and Darren turner managed the third again in the diesel leon
Price to get in was a little Steep @ £29 but i think we did get our moneys worth
Running alongside the tourning cars were some of the support races these included
Ginetta Jnr
Formula Renault
Porcshe Carrera cup
Renault Clio Cup
Seat cupra cup
It kept the day goin but the highlight were the Clios
Brilliant racing, very close lots of offs and bumps and really great fun to watch
the one thing that made it even better was a chap called Stephen Tyldsley driving clio no 20
We were chatting to him in the pits such a nice fella really down to earth and enjoying it and had lots of time to talk to us about the car and the racing and even told us he was gonna paint his number on the bottom so we knew it was him when he roll'd it!!!
Ive made contact with him and hopefully gonna try and get him to come on here and tell us about his season and update us wit hhis info from a drivers perspective - hey we might even manage some maxxd stickers on his car!
Here are the pics
http://gallery.maxxd.com/v/other-car-events/BTCC/
But just to wet your appitite (Sorry for the poor action ones!)
Matty - as per usual abusing "People in Subaru Coats who probably dont own one"
Some of the Leons
Team Dynamics Girls
Touring Car Action (Well more fence but you get the gist)
so had to rely on my cmarea phone. I'll try and post a couple of vids up