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4 Jun 2012, 22:52 (Ref:3085361) | #226 | ||
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Yeah, that was just me waxing lyrically, anyway.
Who would want to watch a motor race at midnight... 7-10pm on a Saturday night might be workable, though. |
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Well if the sky is clear it wont become compleartly dark, between midnight and 2 a.m is the darkest hours, and you can still walk in the woods without a flashlight wouthout a problem. Given its not cloudy, that is. An evening race between 8 and 12 or something like that would be cool. Seeing the sun settling slowly.
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After having watched two TTA races so far, I'm not too impressed with the series. The cars look decent, the sound is as well, but the racing has been sub-par in my opinion. It is close, but there aren't too many overtaking maneauvers in a race. In short, when I watch a TTA race, I just let it run in the background when I browse through the web. But maybe the Swedish race track don't really suit the TTA cars. I'd like to see them run at some DTM tracks, to make a comparision between the two. DTM has been better this year at tracks such as Hockenheim or Spielberg, both very wide tracks with long straights.
But on the other hand, I can't really say that STCC has scored so far... |
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For future seasons I hope they plan to run on for example Rudskogen in Norway, Mantorp Park and maybe Gotland Ring. Karlskoga obviously doesn't really fit these cars and they shouldn't run two races there. Also they really need to improve the tv production! |
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18 Jun 2012, 10:08 (Ref:3094027) | #231 | ||
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Highlights from an eventful race: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=aUr9I1TS8U4
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Quite eventful indeed, good to see. What idiot put those tirestacks there though? Even a child could see that resulting in unnecessary damage, which of course it did.
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6 Jul 2012, 12:14 (Ref:3102835) | #234 | |
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Another new driver for TTA:
http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7843 At the beginning of the season I placed a bet that there will be 10 or more different drivers in total at Brovallen this season. Let's see if someone owns me a beer after 2012 I can't help but wondering if Brovallen would be accepted as a TTA team today, given the criterias the TTA teams seems to have? They're not really the most financially strongest teams in Sweden. It's interesting that TTA fans thought it was bad that many new rookies with old cars joined a top-level championship as STCC. I think it looks even worse that a team has to find new drivers for each event. OK, new drivers are always fun but where's the consistency? In a top championship as TTA where you get very limited time for testing you really need a good work between drivers and the engineers and it takes a few races to build up that kind of teamwork. It can't be good with new drivers working with new engineers every event and every driver wants the car their way. Can't see Brovallen getting higher up in the standings under these conitions (except Alx, and thank God they have him). |
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Brovallen might be the Greece of TTA .
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hmmm, not funny
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11 Jul 2012, 11:38 (Ref:3105044) | #238 | ||
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On another note, the highlight video from Falkenberg is out. Brovallen is still very far behind, Brunstedt also caused some problems while beeing lapped.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QI51bgZqsA Hopefully there's teams interested in joining the series next year, a few more cars would be good for the racing. |
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BMW still doesn't allow the to use the grill?
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Because it has no BMW engine?
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There are plenty of other BMW silhoettes that have the BMW logo and gril (e.g. Turner Motorsport in GrandAm). I assume the problem is the car has no BMW engine.
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BMW is 100% right in not allowing this sham to use BMW symbols.
I find it amusing that TTA even has manufacturer support, and that the manufacturer that supports it the most (Volvo) doesn't even make the cars nor the engines! Last edited by Pole2Win; 12 Jul 2012 at 03:04. |
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Is there information on whether the TTA series next year more cars and new car manufacturers?
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Fredrik Ekblom and Thed Björk secured a double victory for Volvo Polestar Racing in the fifth TTA – Racing Elite League race of 2012 at Karlskoga, a race which proved to be extremely eventful.
Ekblom heads the championship on 100 points with three races left of the season. Ohlsson remains in second 30 points behind and Björk third a further five points behind. TTA continues in two weeks time at Anderstorp. Quote:
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Well, considering how agressive Danielsson was against Linus Ohlsson on the first lap I cant blame Linus for giving him one back in the same way.
And also the comment "they seemed desperate" couldnt be more accurate. Theres a lot of drivers that should have had way better results then they have had so far this year, Rudholm, Göransson, Dahlgren just to name a few, I dont think they are only desperate, I think they are VERY desperate for results! Video from the race: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd2r1fiViBs |
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Eh, I guess not being able to blame the car or BoP anymore puts a bit of extra pressure on the drivers.
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