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BTCC: Brands Hatch report #2
David Clark
The Division Bell
One VERY wet day here at Brands with red flags for almost every race of
the day. In the Touring car 15 minute warm up first thing in the morning,
3 cars (the KAYE brothers and Hamish IRVINE) followed each other into the
Druids gravel trap so the session had to be stopped to clear up. The Honda's
performed very poorly this weekend in the rain for both races.
CLELAND set the fasted lap in the pre-race warm up session with 1:37.304.
Race 1 (round 11) was red flagged after several laps after Tim SUGDEN
rolled the car at clearways ending upside down on the roof. Fortunately
he escaped unhurt but this was the end of the weekend for him. THOMPSON
and a Volvo hit down the Cooper Straight and went off after contact between
Druids and Graham hill. James made it back to the pits and returned for
several laps but retired shortly after. Fastest lap went to CLELAND with
1:42.12 on lap 10.
Race 2 was the best/worst (delete as applicable) - 2 reds but loads of
action in the third part! This was to Radisich's advantage as he was at
the back of the grid with a 10 sec. penalty for failing to leave the pit
lane in time. With the restart he was back to 6th position on the grid.
The first stoppage was after someone tried to redesign the tire wall at
Sterlings. Rikard RYDELL was the cause of the second one by rolling and
ending up on his roof near Westfield and damaging about 30 ft. of tire
wall in the process. The 3rd (and sucessful) part of this round was the
best I ever remember watching. CLELAND took the lead from the beginning
followed by THOMPSON followed very closely by MENU. There was never more
than a few seconds separating them at any one time although CLELAND was
slowly pulling away from the others. On the very last lap when THOMPSON
was going round Druids HARVEY in the Volvo came and hit him hard up the
back which looked very deliberate from my vantage point. This put the
Cavalier sideways round the slippery hairpin but he caught it and managed
to keep his second place that was strongly challenged at Graham Hill by
the Renault. Fastest lap went to Alain MENU with 1:44.45 on lap 2.
David Clark - marshal
PROVISIONAL RESULTS - ROUND 11
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DRIZZLE/WET (s) (mph)
POS. NO. DRIVER CAR BEHIND SPEED
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1 2 A. MENU RENAULT LAGUNA 89.83
2 4 J. CLELAND VAUXHALL CAVALIER 1.35 89.74
3 9 T. HARVEY VOLVO 850 5.46 89.47
4 22 W. HOY RENAULT LAGUNA 13.72 88.93
5 8 P. WATTS PEUGEOT 405 25.22 88.19
6 11 J. BAILEY TOYOTA CARINA 27.13 88.07
7 15 R. RYDELL VOLVO 850 28.53 87.98
8 55 D. WARWICK ALFA ROMEO 155 29.37 87.92
9 5 G. SIMONI ALFA ROMEO 155 33.13 87.68
10 16 J. CECOTTO BMW 318 44.36 86.98
11 18 S. HARRISON PEUGEOT 405 60.50 85.99
12 20 D. LESLIE HONDA ACCORD 60.62 85.98
13 21 J. KAYE HONDA ACCORD 67.30 85.58
14 26 H. IRVINE PEUGEOT 405 89.53 84.26
15 23 R. KAYE FORD MONDEO 100.41 83.63
16 25 N. SMITH VAUXHALL CAVALIER 2 LAPS 69.58
NOT CLASSIFIED
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12 T. SUGDEN 8
14 J. THOMPSON 2
33 K. BURT 1
3 P. RADISICH 0
17 D. BRABHAM 0
77 M. NEAL 0
PROVISIONAL RESULTS - ROUND 12
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RAINING/WET (s) (mph)
POS. NO. DRIVER CAR BEHIND SPEED
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1 4 J. CLELAND VAUXHALL CAVALIER 88.39
2 14 J. THOMPSON VAUXHALL CAVALIER 0.62 88.33
3 2 A. MENU RENAULT LAGUNA 0.97 88.30
4 22 W. HOY RENAULT LAGUNA 1.70 88.24
5 9 T. HARVEY VOLVO 850 2.22 88.20
6 11 J. BAILEY TOYOTA CARINA 4.60 88.00
7 3 P. RADISICH FORD MONDEO 5.35 87.94
8 8 P. WATTS PEUGEOT 405 10.04 87.55
9 16 J. CECOTTO BMW 318 13.36 87.28
10 17 D. BRABHAM BMW 318 16.53 87.03
11 55 D. WARWICK ALFA ROMEO 155 17.04 86.99
12 5 G. SIMONI ALFA ROMEO 155 18.12 86.90
13 18 S. HARRISON PEUGEOT 405 20.10 86.74
14 33 K. BURT FORD MONDEO 20.66 86.69
15 23 R. KAYE FORD MONDEO 42.46 84.98
16 26 H. IRVINE PEUGEOT 405 42.48 84.98
17 25 N. SMITH VAUXHALL CAVALIER 63.41 83.39
18 20 D. LESLIE HONDA ACCORD 66.25 83.18
19 21 J. KAYE HONDA ACCORD 67.16 83.11
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