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Round Six, Knockhill 30-31 Jul, Races 16,17&18
Next up on the BTCC calendar for 2022 is the two-day tyre test at Snetterton on 12th and 13th July.
After that, the paddock heads north of the border to Knockhill for the only (current) meeting outside of England. This is another circuit that is traditionally seen as a RWD-favouring track, so the FWD runners will again be hoping to disprove this theory as they did last time out at Croft. Ingram will go into the meeting as championship leader, whilst Cook will be hoping to see his recent performance issues resolved. Turkington will be hoping that he can get his title challenge back on track, while Sutton will be looking to bounce back from his first DNF of the season. Both Parfitt and Butel are set to return to the grid after missing the last meeting, with the grid back up to 29 cars. Cook is now on 21 straight points-scoring races, with local hero Butcher on a run of 14 consecutive races in the points. What chance an all-Scottish podium during the weekend? The crowd will be hoping to hear Flower of Scotland played at the circuit – and we are fairly certain to hear Ting-A-Ling-A-Loo at some point! The first BTCC meeting at Knockhill was held in 1992, making this a fairly recent addition to the calendar as the series branched out of England to include races in Scotland and Wales. The 1992 meeting was a memorable one, with heavy rain dominating proceedings. A future WRC champion by the name of Colin McRae made a guest appearance that day for BMW – although his performance was not without incident. After finishing a credible eighth in the first race, he was disqualified from race two for a dangerous manoeuvre overtaking Matt Neal. Alain Menu also had a weekend to forget – he broke his leg in an accident involving a paddock quad bike after qualifying and took no further part in the rest of the season. John Cleland also found himself disqualified from a race that day, for ignoring a black flag in race one. The podium for race one saw Jeff Allam take the top step, ahead of Tim Harvey and Andy Rouse. Race two saw Tim Harvey take the win ahead of Allam and Cleland. A relatively short circuit, many drivers describe the track as being like no other on the calendar. High kerbs make for a common photo opportunity of seeing a car up high on two wheels, and the undulations make cars very unstable. A current driver has previously claimed that you do not drive Knockhill in the traditional way. Instead of slow in, fast out – they said you try and carry as much speed as possible through the corner and hold on tight!! NGTC machinery may not seem ideally suited to this circuit, with the 2012 race wins going to S2000 machinery – Collard taking a pair of wins. Turkington repeated this feat in 2013, indicating that the circuit seems to favour RWD. In 2020, RWD machinery again took the first two race wins, Sutton claiming both before home favourite Rory Butcher took the race three win. 2021 continued the trend of RWD success, with Turkington taking R1 and Sutton in R2. BTC Racing’s Honda also looked good though, with a podium double in race one. Race two saw a RWD 1-2, with Hill getting the third podium place behind Turkington. Race three saw one of the moves of the season by Ingram to get ahead of Jelley out of the hairpin and take the win. Proctor finished second ahead of Jelley – making the podium score for the weekend 5-4 in favour of FWD. Qualifying will be on the ITV Hub at www.itv.com/btcc, with the Sunday coverage on ITV4. A weather forecast this far ahead for Scotland is likely to change, but currently it shows that Saturday and Sunday are both predicted to be 17deg temperatures with a 75% chance of rain. |
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you could just skip race 1 as nothing really happen in those
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Maths-based predictions for most points scored in Knockhill, using the same model as the Thruxton ones:
1. Tom Ingram 2. Jake Hill 3. Colin Turkington 4. Gordon Shedden 5. Stephen Jelley 6. Josh Cook 7. Dan Cammish 8. Aiden Moffat 9. Ash Sutton 10. Tom Chilton 11. Rory Butcher 12. Jason Plato 13. Dan Lloyd 14. Dan Rowbottom 15. Ricky Collard 16. Adam Morgan 17. Bobby Thompson 18. Aron Taylor-Smith 19. George Gamble 20. Dexter Patterson 21. Ash Hand 22. Jack Butel 23. Michael Crees 24. Jade Edwards 25. Ollie Jackson 26. Sam Osborne 27. Rick Parfitt 28. Will Powell 29. Nic Hamilton |
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Some great (and expected) responses from the knowledgeable BTCC 'fans' - https://www.facebook.com/16567075014...x7Qa5bhV8hbdl/
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Yay, another afternoon of hearing the commentators explain what a car is to the ITV1-viewing plebeians.
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Half Time Thoughts....
Just before we start the second half of the season, we've had great discussion with some fellow BTCC fans/mates - gotta love a good old debate!
Based on performances in qualifying, race craft, overall pace, race results etc...we broke down the regular grid (excluding changes for Butel, Parfitt etc) and split the grid into three groups; Elite - Quality - The Rest (couldn't think of any better titles!) So the following list comes after much debate - and to be clear is just opinion of three old blokes who love BTCC, so here you go: Each list is alphabetical by the way; Elite 10 Drivers; Butcher Cammish Cook Hill Ingram Lloyd Morgan Sutton Shedden Turkington Quality 10 drivers; Chilton Collard Gamble Jelley Hand Moffat Patterson Plato Rowbottom Thompson The Rest - 9 Drivers Butel Crees Edwards Jackson Hamilton Osborne Parfitt Powell Taylor-Smith Lots of debate around the Elite group re Morgan, Rowbottom, Jelley, Plato, Moffat, Gamble...any of those could be in for sure.... Likewise Jackson, Edwards, Taylor-Smith moving into the 'Quality; group - everyone has their favourites and of course has an opinion ...this is ours, be interested to see everyone's thoughts and see their lists Interesting final fact; At the end of 2021 the top 7 Drivers were Sutton, Turkington, Cook, Ingram, Hill, Shedden and Butcher At the half way point in 2022 the top 7 are....Ingram, Cook, Turkington, Sutton, Shedden, Butcher Cream will rise I guess...! |
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I'm interested in the placement of Patterson! I would personally move Lloyd down but otherwise agree.
A shame that Taylor-Smith (and maybe Jackson after his double-winning season) are now struggling so much. |
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TV Coverage details for Sunday:
2:00pm-3:00pm - ITV (races 16 and 17) 2:55pm-6:00pm - ITV4 (race 18) |
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Jackson and ATS are both good enough, it's just it's not working out for them atm. Put them in better cars and they can still do the job
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Totally disagree. Jackson had his a*%$ handed to him by Jake last year and now by both Sutton and Cammish. Still have no idea how he got the results he did in 2020...and AT-S was good back in the day (as was Chilton once) but since coming back has been out driven by Goff and Thompson....standard is very high at the front and these guys are just OK pay drivers and nothing more. Also Jackson is now in Hill's 2021 car so no excuses there either.
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It seems to me the Ford is a tricky car to drive, so needs a top class driver to do the job. Ollie did a good enough job in 2020 and did do ok on occasion last year. He's had plenty of good results before that too. ATS seems to have lost a bit since he came back though
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Current timetable for this weekend.
BTCC Quali - 15:30-16:00 BTCC Races - 12:08, 14:15, 17:10 https://www.barc.net/wp-content/uplo...ill_V6_ITV.pdf |
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To me, this year's grid seems like the strongest we've had for a while. We've still got some less-than-amazing drivers, but they seem better behaved (on the whole), with stronger pace, and there are fewer of them. |
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If I were to go for two groups, I think this would be my selection. 'Top' group (14): Butcher Cammish Cook Hill Ingram Jelley Lloyd Moffat Morgan Plato Rowbottom Sutton Shedden Turkington 'Bottom' group (15): Butel Chilton Collard Crees Edwards Gamble Hand Hamilton Jackson Osborne Parfitt Patterson Powell Taylor-Smith Thompson I think the sheer amount of thinking/deliberating required to draw up these lists is testament to the series really. |
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Looking forward to this weekend, great to have the BTCC back. And part of it will be shown live on ITV1 again!
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