Boardman excluded from 2nd race

[Craig]

I've just heard that, following a collision with the BMW of Edenbridge's Michael Bentwood, Tom Boardman has been excluded from the results of the 2nd race today, promoting Paul Wallace to third and Jim Edwards to 4th.

[the_tsar]

that's a shame, I suppose it's the right decision, it was a fair old impact with the wall.

[rdjones]

Not really suprised didn't see the incdent was looking elsewhere, but it sound like on hell of an impact againest the wall.

[Craig]

The impact with the wall didn't actually appear to be too severe but the damage was certainly nasty. Whilst I know this wasn't a deliberate move by Tom it could be seen as a little clumsy and I think he's man enough to accept the disqualification with good grace.

[TimD]

Yes, when you see the footage, it was one of those inevitable "one of those things", but it was a fair old whack that the BMW got. Exclusion was probably on the cards to be honest.

Pity, it ended a cracking little duel, from what the television showed.

[redshoes]

Was around the other side of the track at the time so didn't the accident. Did however get a chance to have a quick look at the car in the pits afterwards and it wasn't a pretty sight. The whole of the front end was pretty much distroyed. It looked as if the engine had been pushed back so possible transmission tunnel / balkhead damage. Looks like Peter's boys are in for a busy few weeks.

Lukily Bentwood was walking around and seemed to have escaped unhurt.

[Craig]

Yes, Michael was a lucky lad. Initially he was complaining of severe neck pain, hence the care taken whilst extracting him from the car, but after a quick checkup at the med centre he was back at the Edenbridge garage to inspect the damage. A very unfortunate incident all round.

[Sim_Da_BTCC_Man]

It was easily avoidable. Boardman was right on his bumper, but he knew he could of easily of gone past him at that point. Maybe it was an accident but from what I saw, Boardman deserved the exclusion.

Will Edenbridge repare that car, or just stick Bentwood in the second car. It would be much cheaper for them, although the loss of a car would cost them money. Maybe leave it unrepared untill its needed.

[Craig]

That's something that I cannot answer - maybe Mr Briggs will come on here and answer your query?

[Les]

or will it be needed at all?

clumsy by Tom but surely not malicious

[RiZLa]

Didnt see the incident start, and will reserve judgement till i do next weekend, but i dont like the attitude of bentwood went into the wall hard so he should be excluded, if at teh end of the day it was bentwoods mistake/a racing incident the punishment should fit the crime, not the aftermath of the crime.

Must say i was very suprised at the time it took the marshall's to get to his car, how did they know he was ok?, radio/hand signals????

[Carrie]

Surely with the location the car was in, they couldn't get to it any quicker. They had to wait until the track was safe for them to get near the car.
As for the incident, I only saw the end of it as I was looking the other way when it happened, so I'll also reserve judgement until I've seen the TV coverage.

[RiZLa]

Originally posted by Carrie
Surely with the location the car was in, they couldn't get to it any quicker. They had to wait until the track was safe for them to get near the car.

Saw a similar incident in nascar, red flag(sort of thing, wasnt race over red flag, was a stop where you are flag and then when problem has been sorted all form up behind saftey car and then go to green, in fact taken from nascar website, "RED: The track is unsafe and there is a situation that requires immediate attention. Cars must go to a designated location and stop. This flag is usually waved in cases of heavy precipitation, an accident which requires immediate medical assistance or if the track is blocked. In addition, NASCAR reserves the right to throw a red flag in the closing laps of a race to make sure the event ends under green conditions", wonder if a similar 'flag' would ) out straight away, saftey crew were with him within 20 secs or so.

Seeing Dale Earnhardt die in the closeing laps in the daytona 500 in 01 in a seemingly 'normal' nascar crash just made me wonder about Bentwood's health at the time thats all.

[touringlegend]

Michael radioed into to his team to say he was OK but had a sore neck - of course, as soon as you say that, the medics take the utmost precautions - the possible consequences of that don't bear thinking about.

It's another reason Touring Cars should never race on the oval itself. Far too dangerous when the norm in Touring Cars is to have some bumping and scraping.

[lauz]

thats a shame for tom, but rules are rules. glad that bentwood is ok.

[Speedworx]

Does not surprise me, he clearly punted Michael off. The incident happened right in front of me (well he hit the wall in front of where I was sitting)

[tator2001uk]

its ajoke tom could get past everylap he was blocked and he tried to get under the apron to overtake didnt he the bmw over revved didnt it! no warning for tom, stupidity on behalf of bmw driver! hey motors tv is ace for coverage!

[The Bear]

You need to get your television fixed tator, or were you watching something else?

[BSTR]

The BMW hit the rev limitter every time at the same point. But that was not Bentwoods fault if information about too short final drive gearing motors.tv commentators were telling was true.

[Chris Y]

Read Peter Briggs comment in this thread: http://tentenths.com/forum/showthrea...5&pagenumber=2

Bentwood's car wasn't on the limiter. Tim Harvey jumped to the wrong conclusion on the commentary.

[rdjones]

Having just seen the incident on TV, as I missed it trackside I have to say IMO it was a "racing incident", it looked to me as if it was a classic oval track accident.

[lauz]

at last some one who thinks that it was a racing incident!