I actually managed to catch this weekends BTCC race repeated in the wee small hours on ITV1 last night.
Three fantastic races on a tight track with plenty of overtaking and plenty of action all round.
As for the title of this thread, the racing brought to mind the scene from Days of Thunder when Tom Cruise is told by his race engineer to go out and hit the pace car and when he enquires as to why, he is told that he has hit every other car on the track and he should go out and try for a perfect score.
Plato has never been shy when it comes to overtakes and putting his car about the track but he hit almost every car he tried to pass.
Great stuff though.
On the flip side, If any of you saw race one, I can't remember the drivers name but he was in the Vectra and sitting in third place, he was weaving all over the track in a bid to not be passed. Apparently the change of line more than once rule exists in BTCC but it wasn't being enforced here. Just reminded me of when you used to see it in F1 as well. It really does look dangerous if you haven't seen a car do it for a while.
Again, great racing though.
Three fantastic races on a tight track with plenty of overtaking and plenty of action all round.
As for the title of this thread, the racing brought to mind the scene from Days of Thunder when Tom Cruise is told by his race engineer to go out and hit the pace car and when he enquires as to why, he is told that he has hit every other car on the track and he should go out and try for a perfect score.
Plato has never been shy when it comes to overtakes and putting his car about the track but he hit almost every car he tried to pass.
Great stuff though.
On the flip side, If any of you saw race one, I can't remember the drivers name but he was in the Vectra and sitting in third place, he was weaving all over the track in a bid to not be passed. Apparently the change of line more than once rule exists in BTCC but it wasn't being enforced here. Just reminded me of when you used to see it in F1 as well. It really does look dangerous if you haven't seen a car do it for a while.
Again, great racing though.
