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22 Jan 2003, 12:34
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Street race
Anyone rember last year a suggestion of a street race for BTCC does anyone know of anymore information of if this is going to happen where etc.I have a good suggestion Shrewsbury i have a good track and pit facilities planned out already.
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22 Jan 2003, 14:48
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street races especially in a touring car set up is fantastic-trans -am in the states does it a bunch as weel as out SpeedTouring cars, great fun and you can get so close- if i wasn't a baldy my hair would be burned off by the flames out of the exhausts at the carousel in LONG BEACH...
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22 Jan 2003, 17:32
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I suspect it wasn't a serious suggestion, just a throwaway comment hyped up by the media and forum members on an otherwise slow news week. There are huge logistical, financial, political, health and safety, and environmental issue to deal with. If existing circuits are having problems getting planning permission what chance is there of closing a major city for the weekend to run a race meeting?
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22 Jan 2003, 17:39
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Bring back the Birmingham Super Prix!
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22 Jan 2003, 18:53
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Hear Hear!
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22 Jan 2003, 21:10
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Talking of planning permission etc, anyone know if their is a picture of the new pits at oulton on the web?
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22 Jan 2003, 23:00
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I'm also trying to find details of Oulton's new buildings - but it isn't easy. Motorsport News had another article today but it doesn't tell us any more than the last one the printed, so presumably they are having as much trouble getting any information out of the circuit management.
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23 Jan 2003, 03:49
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I think street races are the perfect backdrop for touring cars!!! Street looking cars racing around the streets. OTOH, some people think this is what encourages young people to do ILLEGAL street races???
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23 Jan 2003, 12:30
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sceptic, I believe the MN article also mentions that Octagon are holding a press conference to announce details of all the circuit changes/upgrades in a few weeks.
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23 Jan 2003, 12:57
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Most of it will be finished in "a few weeks" though and we'll be able to see for ourselves.
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23 Jan 2003, 13:21
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Well if they do sell Oulton they won't get much use 
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23 Jan 2003, 14:55
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I'll be at Oulton on Feb 8th. If nothing has been announced by then, I'll post a progress report.
Interesting to see that the new circuit layout will be ready for the 'first meeting of the season', the BARC meeeting on April 26th. The first meeting of the season is, in fact, Bemsee on the 19th, but that's bikes, so we can't expect MN to know anything about that, can we? 
Anybody see my letter in MN last week? 
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23 Jan 2003, 15:21
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birmigham might be good except the drivers woll be shot at,
liverpool wouldn't work, the car would stop in the pits and the weels would be stolen.
should be somewhere where there isn't a touring car meeting already near.
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23 Jan 2003, 21:28
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Hey! I live near Birmingham, while it isn't the Canary Islands, it certainly isn't as bad as everyone makes out, ive been going to Bham town centre for some 8 years on my own and never had any problems.
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23 Jan 2003, 22:27
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Quote:
Originally posted by Smokey 6 litre
birmigham might be good except the drivers woll be shot at,
liverpool wouldn't work, the car would stop in the pits and the weels would be stolen.
should be somewhere where there isn't a touring car meeting already near.
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Weston Super Mare then? Oh no, because the country bumpkins would enter with their combine harvesters... 
Give it up with the stereotypes already man.
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