BTCC BTCC 2012 Season

[Brogan]

Crash! Bang! Wallop!

It's almost time again for the UK's most action-packed tin-top racing series.

The calendar this year is as follows:

1. Brands Hatch 01/Apr/2012
2. Donington Park 15/Apr/2012
3. Thruxton 29/Apr/2012
4. Oulton Park 10/Jun/2012
5. Croft 24/Jun/2012
6. Snetterton 12/Aug/2012
7. Knockhill 26/Aug/2012
8. Rockingham 23/Sep/2012
9. Silverstone 07/Oct/2012
10. Brands Hatch GP 21/Oct/2012

http://www.btcc.net/html/racedates.php

As usual the full Sunday meeting will be broadcast on ITV4 (HD), including the support races.

Each circuit page has a full timetable, but they're not available at the moment.
With a week or so to go, you should be able to click on the PDF icon and download them.

Here's the first race at Brands: http://www.btcc.net/html/circuit_detail.php?id=1

Will Neal (spits) take the title once more?
Or will his arch-Nemesis Plato take it instead?

Or perhaps Gordon Shedden will do the business?

 

[mjo]

Looking forward to it... I wonder who will commentate?

 

[Galahad]

Happily, my favourite driver is now with my favourite team, so I'm all set to get very partisan and take it all far too seriously!

 

[Westy]

I used to love watching touring car when I lived in England. I hadn't been able to see any more of it until this past autumn when I found it on Speed TV. Last season was a lot of fun to watch.

What Changes have occurred for the new season? Driver changes? Regulation changes?

 

[Brogan]

Here's a bit of news on some team and driver changes: http://cliptheapex.com/threads/another-classic-name-returns.4484/

Other than that you can catch up on the BTCC site: http://www.btcc.net/html/generalnews.php

 

[McZiderRed]

I'm really looking forward to watching BTCC this year, more than I have for a number of years... Nothing like being able to watch races live on a Sunday.

 

[mjo]

According to Ben Edwards on Twitter, Toby Moody will be doing the BTCC main commentary this year.

 

[Brogan]

More details on this year's entrants: http://www.btcc.net/html/generalnews_detail.php?id=2875

A total of 25, which is more than last year.

Here's the full line up: http://www.btcc.net/html/drivers.php

 

[Galahad]

Everybody will have a turbo then. Thank goodness for that.

 

[mjo]

Thae constant bickering about the turbo really annoyed me last year.

 

[Brogan]

The first race of the season is this weekend.

Full timetable is here: http://www.btcc.net/pdf/ci_1.pdf

Race times are: 11:47, 14:17, 17:05

 

[gethinceri]

It's on in HD on ITV4.
The only downside is that I can't just record parts of the 6 or so hours show.

 

[Brogan]

You can if you do manually timed recordings.

 

[gethinceri]

I'd need to be watching it then, and that would defeat the object.

 

[Brogan]

No, set up a manually timed recording; choose the channel, date, start time and duration.

 

[gethinceri]

I will investigate said method and report back O Wise One.

 

[Brogan]

Qualifying is live on the ITV site this afternoon at 15:15

http://www.itv.com/btcc/live/

 

[Speshal]

Thae constant bickering about the turbo really annoyed me last year.

Damn right, almost put me off watching, couldn't understand how you could have a turbo vs a NA car in the same series. Looking forward to this season tho

 

[mjo]

It seems that 2011 was a 'transition' year and hopefully 2012 will come out all-guns blazing.

 

[Speshal]

Bloody handy having the timings underneath the video feed