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Old 26 May 2014, 17:20 (Ref:3410956)   #151
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Old 26 May 2014, 18:21 (Ref:3410980)   #152
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Nothing against Rob Barff but watching him from the stands I'm scepticle about anyone "missing" the red light. Everyone else managed (even a couple on the same red light as him) and he just powered out ahead of the train. Thus leaving him the chance to build a big enough lead that if they did get a drive through it wouldn't leave them second.

Nothing against playing the rules like that, it's very clever, just feel that as at least a dozen other drivers spotted the red light and waited I'm not convinced Rob could have missed it so easily.
Have you seen the TV? he was 2 from the light when I went red at 60KPH. Highway cod says you need 30m to stop from that speed!. Also, I understand the safety car was not even on the pit straight let alone at the finish line as the RAC book requires before the red light goes on. Why is the safetycar in BGT always a mess?
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Old 26 May 2014, 18:33 (Ref:3410983)   #153
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Am I the only one who's 'surprised' about the "nationality" of Beechdean AMR on the official website : http://www.britishgt.com/pointsn.php
Some might say, it's in keeping with the general feel of the site.
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Old 27 May 2014, 15:31 (Ref:3411369)   #154
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Have you seen the TV? he was 2 from the light when I went red at 60KPH. Highway cod says you need 30m to stop from that speed!. Also, I understand the safety car was not even on the pit straight let alone at the finish line as the RAC book requires before the red light goes on. Why is the safetycar in BGT always a mess?
No, but I was sat across from the pits when it happened watching him, IIRC Michael Caine managed to slam his brakes on fast enough when the red light stopped him at very short notice, but maybe the 458 doesn't have the brakes
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Old 28 May 2014, 06:56 (Ref:3411638)   #155
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No, but I was sat across from the pits when it happened watching him, IIRC Michael Caine managed to slam his brakes on fast enough when the red light stopped him at very short notice, but maybe the 458 doesn't have the brakes
2 metres warning ?! also according to the Motorbase press release the light REMAINED on as Caine drove down to it....

Nothing like twisting the facts to have a good moan...... I think you would struggle to find anybody in the pit road that would think Barff would pull a stunt like that.
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Old 29 May 2014, 18:18 (Ref:3412431)   #156
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So, will we have any controversies at Silverstone?

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Old 29 May 2014, 20:17 (Ref:3412501)   #157
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Have you seen the TV? he was 2 from the light when I went red at 60KPH. Highway cod says you need 30m to stop from that speed!. Also, I understand the safety car was not even on the pit straight let alone at the finish line as the RAC book requires before the red light goes on. Why is the safetycar in BGT always a mess?
The safety car was exiting the chicane onto the oval, so the red light was on correctly, although having said that it was a marginal whether he could stop or not. At the end of the day he won the race so it doesn't matter. You saying the safety car should be at the finish line before the red light is absolute rubbish.
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Old 31 May 2014, 11:51 (Ref:3413119)   #158
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Apparently 38 for this weekend- No extra Nissans as Autosport rumoured a week or two back, but the regular entries are joined by the Geddie family United Autosport McLaren, an extra Aston from MB Racing (Michael Brown/Jamie Wall), and a third AF Corse Ferrari (Jacques Duyver/Charlie Hollings)...

GT4 sees the addition of another Aston, and the May/Osbourne Porsche, plus we should finally be seeing the debut of the much delayed GPRM Toyota, albeit as an invitation class, rather than GT4 entry

http://www.britishgt.com/newsitem.php?key=2045

M-Sport's Bentley fastest in FP1:
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Old 31 May 2014, 12:39 (Ref:3413133)   #159
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plus we should finally be seeing the debut of the much delayed GPRM Toyota
Or perhaps not - just spotted DSC's Facebook post detailing FP2 events, and the Toyota blew its engine.
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Yep, looks like not- no time recorded in qualifying, so presumably they didn't have a spare engine. Generation's Bentley in trouble as well- fire in FP2.

Beechdean on pole- and 6 Astons in the top 10...

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Just got back, good day's racing. Shame about the incident between the Bentley and Sims but good to see it has been reversed.

Only minor annoyance was the lack of programme sellers, the timetable on the site didn't show a time for the pitroad walkabout when I brought it up. We heard a mention of it on the tannoy and by the time we got there they were asking people to leave.
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Not long till Bentley are hit with some BOP adjustments.
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Old 2 Jun 2014, 06:11 (Ref:3414034)   #163
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The safety car was exiting the chicane onto the oval, so the red light was on correctly, although having said that it was a marginal whether he could stop or not. At the end of the day he won the race so it doesn't matter. You saying the safety car should be at the finish line before the red light is absolute rubbish.
Really? Have a read of the Blue book and more importantly the International Sporting code safety car regulations......
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Really? Have a read of the Blue book and more importantly the International Sporting code safety car regulations......
The blue book says start finish straight if I recall correctly.


At the end of the day, it was caused by a lack of communication between race control and the pit marshals as to what regs were being applied which was improved for Silverstone.

So lets move on from it and celebrate this weekend's round which was a good race from the bits I saw.

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Am I the only one who's 'surprised' about the "nationality" of Beechdean AMR on the official website : http://www.britishgt.com/pointsn.php
Paul O'Neill as well. Hahahaha that could be why he struggles to read and talk at the same time on air!
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Old 5 Jun 2014, 19:37 (Ref:3415894)   #167
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Interesting to see in Autosport today that there are a lot of complaints after multi-class incidents at Silverstone that there should be single-class racing, meaning a separate race for the GT4 cars.

Nathan Freke's view is probably the most rational...
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Nathan Freke is probably right, perhaps this is an issue of one or two individual drivers rather than the class structure. That said I have always thought that a GT4 stand alone series could really take of as an "affordable" way in to GT racing, if properly promoted, and the chances of an overall victory could be an incentive the category needs.
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What's the prize for winning the GT4 class?
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Nathan Freke is probably right, perhaps this is an issue of one or two individual drivers rather than the class structure. That said I have always thought that a GT4 stand alone series could really take of as an "affordable" way in to GT racing, if properly promoted, and the chances of an overall victory could be an incentive the category needs.
Blending it with the Aston Martin GT4 series that now supports British GT wouldn't be a bad idea. Plenty of track time in those races, and a combined grid of the two would be bordering on 20 cars.
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Surprised that nobody has commented on Snetterton's events. Keen/Minshaw took the win in race 1, whilst Adam/Howard claimed race 2, which was red flagged early on (and restarted) because of a big 3-car incident at Riches - does anyone know about this? Adam Carroll was in the FF Corse Ferrari that claimed 2nd in race 2, and was impressive.

Howard/Adam top the standings by a big margin - 11.5 points over Marco Attard, who is 19 points ahead of his part-time teammate Alex Sims. Not so close this season...
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Not yet, bit it wasn't like that through last year, just turned piy that way at the end. Well deserved though, Mr Howard's driving has improved immeasurably over the last few years.
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Blending it with the Aston Martin GT4 series that now supports British GT wouldn't be a bad idea. Plenty of track time in those races, and a combined grid of the two would be bordering on 20 cars.
Maybe they are listening:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114640

As for main stream sportscar racing being multi class, then that's obviously true at the moment. But, if the rules/ costs were all, say, GT3 then I expect even international sportscar racing could be single class.
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Barwell running a second BMW at Spa- the 'Team Russia' car from ELMS for Timur Sardarov & Jonny Cocker.

http://www.britishgt.com/newsitem.php?key=2108

DSC are also suggesting there should be no less than 5 AF Corse Ferraris....

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Wow that's pretty crazy
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