Grand Prix Rejects

Samster

Huge accident in qualifying for the BTCC at croft 8 or 9 cars involved. Luke Davenport and Jeff Smith had to be cut from their cars and airlifted to hospital while Aron Taylor Smith was knocked unconscious. That's crazy! How did that happen? EDIT: Just found footage. Just when I thought this season...

Samster

And the new driver of the Maximum Ford is.... Dennis Strandberg.

Yeah I don't know either.

Samster

Well Plato has been crippled by a bent chassis since his Brands Hatch crash which explains why he is off the pace of Sutton. Price is inexperienced and Cole is well... Cole. To me it seems Sutton's form is representative of where the Subaru is and that there isn't that much wrong with them as we in...

Samster

That decision by Cook is immensely baffling. You have to feel sorry for Dan Lloyd - great performances in the Honda last year but then the money sadly ran out, and he's been stuck with that awful car this year and mostly been unlucky with accidents often involving other people's mistakes affecting ...

Samster

What the hell is Cook thinking?

And this means we'll probably be stuck with Lines for Croft at least. Maybe he'll put one of his VW Cup drivers in later?

As for Lloyd apparently he lost some of his sponsors due to the awful performances this season meaning he no longer had the funding to continue.

Samster

#PrayForYates

Samster

I know we are stuck with budgetmobiles at the moment but yesh Hmiel! Last place and four tenths off your teammates on a track where the driver shouldn't make a difference. Not a great start for his rookie season. BTW how are you running qualifying with more than 42 AI cars? Did you run each car sepa...

Samster

Yay, our chassis isn't terrible! In fact our budget mobile is a point better than Evernham's Tier 1. Our aero is a little weak but I'm pretty sure aero has the least effect in NR2003. And the Roush-Yates engine I believe is meant to be the most powerful during the mid-2000s. We should be midfield or...

Samster

The 2018 schedule has been released. The good news is that there is finally a road course in the playoffs. The bad news is that instead of a proper road course, its a crappy 'roval' track at Charlotte, replacing the fall race on the oval. Also Las Vegas gets a fall race as the playoffs opener with I...

Samster

Chassis Tier Design: 4 (Hoping for the best with RNGs) Number of Chassis Built: 5 (One for Kirk Shelmerdine) Car number: #28 Engine builder: Roush-Yates Pit crew tier: 9 Car number: #38 Engine builder: Roush-Yates Pit crew tier: 7 Car number: #88 Engine builder: Roush-Yates Pit crew tier: 7 Car numb...

Samster

As we can go into debt. Yates have revised their chassis design plans bumping our design up to Tier 4.

Thus customer chassis are now $400,000 each. We will still supply Kirk with a car for a bargain 250k if they are prepared to up their offer.

Samster

So Robert Yates budget-mobiles are available to independents from $150k each. Kirk Shelmerdine Racing get priority if they pay that 250k offer. That is a salty price for a scrub chassis but since there aren't many Fords available and Roush prices are probably out of touch, Kirk doesn't have a choic...

Samster

Junior is calling it a career at the end of this season. You could probably have seen this coming after that concussion wrecked his 2016 season. Still, another big name retiring straight after Gordon, Smoke and Edwards is not ideal for NASCAR. Alex Bowman in the #88 full time next year though? Yes ...

Samster

I hope we can go into debt a bit. Otherwise I don't see how I can supply the whole team, even with budget-mobiles. Chassis Tier Design: 4 (Hoping for the best with RNGs) Number of Chassis Built: 5 (One for Kirk Shelmerdine) Car number: #28 Engine builder: Roush-Yates Pit crew tier: 9 Car number: #38...

Samster

Yates #98 schedule 2. Rockingham - Michael Vergers 6. Bristol - Darren Turner 8. Martinsville - Darren Turner 13. Dover - Michael Vergers 16. Sonoma - Darren Turner 19. Louden - Michael Vergers 22. Watkins Glen - Michael Vergers 24. Bristol - Michael Vergers 26. Richmond - Darren Turner 28. Dover - ...

Samster

Horrendous accident in the British F4 race just now. Billy Monger was unsighted and plowed into the back of a broken down car at pretty much top speed. The fact ITV have gone over to highlights of earlier races is not a good sign at all. Really hope both drivers are OK. I'm at the track now, was ju...

Samster

Salamander wrote:
Samster wrote:$25,000 per race for Turner.

And how many races is Turner doing?

Probably five.

Samster

Yates would like to bid to add Darren Turner to the #98 roster as long as he is approved. This will be for at least one of the road courses plus a few short ovals. Turner dominated ASCAR in just about every race he did back in 2002 and would certainly have been champion had he done the full season ...

Samster

Yates would like to bid to add Darren Turner to the #98 roster as long as he is approved. This will be for at least one of the road courses plus a few short ovals. Turner dominated ASCAR in just about every race he did back in 2002 and would certainly have been champion had he done the full season s...

Samster

Finally caught up on last weekend. My god Neal and Plato's crashes were dumb. Still cannot wait for both to finally retire. No doubt ITV will mourn their careers to death when that time comes though. Onto the positives, how about Michael Epps? Top 10 in all three races! Matt Simpson surprisingly bac...

Samster

Pretty much. Jumping from Late Models, such as what is driven in ASCAR, straight to a Cup car is a huge leap in performance and general ability, being outperformed by even the regional K&N Pro Series East and West cars. Realistically, unless you fund someone for a few years at the Busch or Truc...

Samster

Pretty much. Jumping from Late Models, such as what is driven in ASCAR, straight to a Cup car is a huge leap in performance and general ability, being outperformed by even the regional K&N Pro Series East and West cars. Realistically, unless you fund someone for a few years at the Busch or Truc...

Samster

Driver name: Anthony Swan Driver name: Oli Playle NASCAR is not sufficiently impressed with the records of Anthony Swan or Oli Playle to allow them entries in the Cup series. Any, ASCAR drivers that do have sufficient records or am I going to get nowhere with this British route? I noticed even Coli...

Samster

Robert Yates Driver Bids Well first of all we believe Dale Jarrett still has a couple of good seasons left in him so will be our first choice to remain in the #88. If for some reason he goes elsewhere we shall announce a plan B then. Car: #88 Driver name: Dale Jarrett Driver bid ($ million): $6 mil...

Samster

Season opener this weekend and Jeff freaking Smith is on pole.

And Matt Simpson somehow made the top 10. Plato is down in 18th.

In fact all the Subarus did horribly.

Samster

I'm a bit surprised there a no pay drivers available, as with my current budget it is impossible to employ one driver and pay for a pit crew and engines without going pretty much bankrupt immediately ($500k + $250k + $100k + $100k= $950k, and we'd be dead last with that setup). If we had the abilit...

Samster

You running this on NR2003? Hope your laptop doesn't kill this off like mine did for my attempt. Still sore about that one.

I will go with Robert Yates and naturally will bid for the 2nd Ford works contract. We will also bring back the #28 as a third car.

Samster

Media Day and the 4th BMR Subaru goes to....

Josh Price, who had only recently been announced as a BMR academy driver in the Clio Cup. Sounds good to me, at least its not wasted on a random pay driver. He and Senna Proctor will be the youngest drivers in the series at 18 years old.

http://www.btcccrazy.co.uk/btcc/team-bm ... rg-driver/

Samster

And Nabil Jeffri gets a Trident drive and Boschung gets into a Campos. Each of those teams still has a place free..and no sign of any Hilmer return. And the Status and Carlin cars remain unused as well. ..Times seem to be tough, even though you might have thought economically things have been impro...

Samster

Its official, GP2 becomes Formula 2 starting from this season. m Seeing as they want a clear ladder from F4 to F1, I wonder how long they will keep GP3 around. Will they merge it with F3 and have that on the support schedule? Also Cecotto will continue to make GP2/F2 a career as he joins Rapax. This...

Samster

Its official, GP2 becomes Formula 2 starting from this season. m Seeing as they want a clear ladder from F4 to F1, I wonder how long they will keep GP3 around. Will they merge it with F3 and have that on the support schedule? Also Cecotto will continue to make GP2/F2 a career as he joins Rapax. Thi...

Samster

Its official, GP2 becomes Formula 2 starting from this season. m Seeing as they want a clear ladder from F4 to F1, I wonder how long they will keep GP3 around. Will they merge it with F3 and have that on the support schedule? Also Cecotto will continue to make GP2/F2 a career as he joins Rapax. This...

Samster

It's official, Warren Scott has finally given up the 4th BMR seat as he has decided that since he spends more time off road anyway he may as well switch to Rallycross.

http://www.btcccrazy.co.uk/btcc/warren- ... btcc-seat/

I just hope his replacement isn't Mark Howard.

Samster

Scotty Mac got a penalty for warming his tyres up behind the safety car. Erm, what? Meanwhile, ALFA ROMEO ARE CONSIDERING ENTERING SUPERCARS WHAT IS THIS . Yeah when did that become an infraction? Bit of a processional opening race sadly, especially once Gis got out in front. And Rullo didn't even ...

Samster

Clipsal 500 this weekend. I've decided to make a point of watching this season, 1. To see how Simona gets on and 2. Lucas Dumbrell's team have descended to almost Andrea Moda levels of incompetence. Looking at qualifying, the top 20 or so are within 1 second as is usual with the series, Simona is 24...

Samster

There is a god. I just hope that five year old Focus of their's is still capable of running near the front. On the down side this means there are no more top drivers left for the 4th Subaru so they will definately have someone mediocre. Also this means that the worst drivers we have on the grid this...

Samster

Collard has now been confirmed at WSR , so the only seat left in the BTCC for 2017 is the one at BMR, which unfortunately will probably go to Warren Scott anyway. Ive heard a few rumours that the fourth BMR seat coud be Mark Howard Jesus effing christ hope not. He makes Warren Scott look like Turki...

Samster

Probably WSR for Turks as they are now the only team with open seats left. I would assume him and Collard for them, I've not heard anyone else rumoured with them, I wouldn't begrudge them taking on Cook instead of either though. I'm happy to say that Turks has signed to return to WSR (according to ...

Samster

https://youtu.be/Sw6-O-d7Utk I agree with Matt Neal to an extent in this video as Plato is being overly aggressive, however surely the worst piece of dirty driving is the swipe Howell takes at the other Seat at 0:27 God 2005 is easily the worst BTCC season in the modern era. Low car counts and awfu...

Samster

The Le Mans entry list has been released. As announced last year the grid is now 60 cars. m Toyota have finally decided to enter a third car, José María López is listed in their lineup. LMP2 have a massive 25 cars, however all but 4 of them are either Orecas or Ligiers. Only three Dallaras and one R...

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