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2 Jan 2021, 16:28 (Ref:4026452) | #1251 | ||
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2 Jan 2021, 16:34 (Ref:4026453) | #1252 | ||
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Yea I’m sure you are right, the world and mass gatherings is going to be different for a while! Having said that I note the NYE celebrations in Auckland looked pretty “normal” to me, some places have it right! 🙏🏻 |
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2 Jan 2021, 16:59 (Ref:4026457) | #1253 | ||
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Sadly the vaccines looked like a window out of the mayhem until Boris yet again has decided to cut corners and do it on the cheap. Deferring the second injection beyond 21 days without proper research looks reckless at best and if true to form will probably end in a cock up that means the whole programme will be back to square one with months lost. Let’s hope not. But he has form now.../
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2 Jan 2021, 17:17 (Ref:4026460) | #1254 | |
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Proper research was done, certainly on the Oxford AZ one. It actually makes it better.
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2 Jan 2021, 17:19 (Ref:4026462) | #1255 | ||
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Well that would be great news - who knows every “expert” seems to have a different view. Fingers crossed. Meanwhile we are back in full lockdown in Ireland. How about a Tasman series?!
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2 Jan 2021, 17:23 (Ref:4026463) | #1256 | |
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The Oxford AZ vaccine is far from new, and was developed for other coronaviruses and similar originally, it’s just been tweaked for 2020.
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in all seriousness, cheers for actually turning up here and talking sense. it’s good to get the current picture, particularly from someone with a variety of sponsorship deals in hand. as nice as it is to not have traffic issues on sunday evenings, we need people back in the circuits as soon as it’s even marginally safe to do so. it just felt like a clubby with too much money last year and that’s doing the entire setup a disservice. Quote:
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2 Jan 2021, 18:57 (Ref:4026476) | #1258 | ||
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Autosport say Carl Boardley has two TBL’s? Really?
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2 Jan 2021, 20:34 (Ref:4026488) | #1259 | |
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2 Jan 2021, 20:56 (Ref:4026489) | #1260 | |
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2 Jan 2021, 22:11 (Ref:4026496) | #1261 | ||
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I think not. The resource that has gone into this is like nothing before. It doesn’t take a year to tweak an existing product.
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3 Jan 2021, 12:17 (Ref:4026561) | #1263 | ||
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In the US, the Moderna vaccine was designed in 48 hours last January (maybe February) once the genome of the SARS-Cov2 virus was sequenced fully. It then took the rest of the year to go through testing, manufacturing scale up, and regulatory approval. The same applies with slightly different timelines to the Oxford/AZ vaccine, and the Pfizer version. The principal difference to the normal route to manufacture is that this time, cost and resource were no object. Even the annual flu vaccines, which are essentially a tweak of the previous year's, take months to produce and there's vast repetition in that process because it's the same every year. We'll return you to your regular programming after these words from our sponsors... |
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3 Jan 2021, 12:25 (Ref:4026564) | #1265 | |
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Boardley TBLs - I didn't think the one he raced with last year was actually his? I know he owns the car, but the TBL was previously HARD's.
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3 Jan 2021, 12:37 (Ref:4026566) | #1266 | ||
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I believe so. So likely Carl bought a pair of TBLs off of someone. My vague memory is that the Moffats didn't own both they ran last year - was one previously a Warren Scott/ BMR one? I'm asking not stating. Maybe Carls financial backing/ deal making ability is a significant part of the Laser three car entry and/ or HARD alliance?
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3 Jan 2021, 13:41 (Ref:4026569) | #1267 | |
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From this article - https://www.autosport.com/btcc/news/...020-entry-list - the Infinitis were running on one BMR TBL and one Aiden Moffat one.
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3 Jan 2021, 14:11 (Ref:4026572) | #1268 | |
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Makes sense, considering BMR Engineering now help run the Infinitis
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4 Jan 2021, 10:45 (Ref:4026684) | #1269 | ||
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https://www.autosportinternational.com/
Autosport show is virtual this year, 10th-11th March. Might be obvious given life now but hadn't seen it mentioned in the thread yet as we get plenty of touring car content at that event in normal times. |
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4 Jan 2021, 18:02 (Ref:4026771) | #1270 | ||
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I kind of guessed that would happen but thanks for confirming it. Australian F1 has been postponed now. NASCAR canned it's race in California (late February). Call me a doom monger but I don't imagine the BTCC dates will stay the same. I see a slide back like 2020 to allow a couple of warmer months so Mr Average is less susceptible to the virus and the infected people number drops down again. I somehow suspect Donington, Oulton, Headingley and other favourite haunts of mine will be going unvisited for another year.
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4 Jan 2021, 18:58 (Ref:4026785) | #1271 | ||
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Details on the in-person edition of Autosport International, initially scheduled for 14-17 January 2021 at NEC Birmingham, will be communicated in the coming weeks. |
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4 Jan 2021, 19:17 (Ref:4026789) | #1272 | |
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It doesn't take a crystal ball to state that there won't be an Autosport event in Birmingham this year.
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4 Jan 2021, 19:26 (Ref:4026792) | #1273 | ||
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4 Jan 2021, 20:14 (Ref:4026803) | #1274 | ||
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May start for 2021 BTCC?.....
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