SEAT Win Championship this weekend?

[ZBOYD]

Huffy is leading in Brno

 

[WeeJase]

all them cards had 6 written on them

 

[cordobabrendy]

lol plato standing on the grid with his nikes on, gonna run round.

 

[WeeJase]

so getting moved back down the grid.you have to keep the success ballast in?

 

[ZBOYD]

Nice one Huffy, wins his first WTCC race, top result

 

[ZBOYD]

Turner DQ'd again

Darren Turner has been stripped of second place in a British Touring Car Championship race for the second time in two races.

The SEAT Leon driver had finished second to Fabrizio Giovanardi in a dramatic race, only to be disqualified for a running underweight. Turner had earlier been relegated from second to 10th in race one for backing up the field after a safety car restart.

Colin Turkington has also been awarded ninth place in the second race after Jason Plato was classified as a DNF following a clash with Matt Neal on the final lap.

Turner's exclusion means that Fast-Tec Honda Civic Type-R driver Mark Proctor will start from pole position alongside championship leader Matt Neal.

 

[WeeJase]

Nice one Huffy, wins his first WTCC race, top result

well done huffy

 

[DANNY H]

It's a real shame shame Turner was disqualified in the second race, he drove so well. Not the greatest of weekend for Seat but the second race was one of the best i've seen in ages.

 

[IainW]

JP was right yesterday morning in the hospitality tent. He said they just didn't have the breaks this year. His car gets mashed up yet again and Matt Neal's armour-plated Honda gets a big hit and still keeps going! Plus MN's got his two lapdogs to push other cars out of the way on his behalf, whereas James and Darren are well above that standard of driving.

Very impressed by Darren Turner yesterday. For someone in only his third FWD race meeting, he defended superbly and was unlucky to fall foul of the rules. He also came across as a very modest bloke, keen to make a career for himself in touring cars.

 

[JasonP06]

What do people think of how well or badly the Leon has done with lots of ballast?

 

[m0rk]

it seems to still show it's head on hills & the slowest corners, like the drag out of old hair pin at donnington, it was like they had an elastic band tied to the bumper.

I think it's had less of an effect on the Leon as the outgoing Toledo though.

 

[JasonP06]

Plus MN's got his two lapdogs to push other cars out of the way on his behalf, whereas James and Darren are well above that standard of driving.

Very impressed by Darren Turner yesterday. For someone in only his third FWD race meeting, he defended superbly and was unlucky to fall foul of the rules. He also came across as a very modest bloke, keen to make a career for himself in touring cars.

Spot on!

Spot on about Gareth Howell and Gordon Shedden. It is my opinion they seem to use almost bully boy tactics but they do it, it seems to me well in the rules.

Regarding Thommo and DT they have been one of, certainly, the best behaved drivers in the BTCC this season. I have just seen the results so far for both of them and their results are great. They have it seems rarely if ever felt the need to bump and barge their way through.

And on DT, despite only running 4 he has been able to achieve a great reslt nearly every time. DT for SEAT 2007 I say!

 

[DANNY H]

Turner looks like a real professional, some of the rest of the "top" drivers look nothing more than jumped up stock car drivers.

 

[JasonP06]

Couldn't agree more. On the whole, although nobody likes to see their team get punished, do you think then that the exclusion from his second place in Race 2, only served to give him the chance to prove how could he can be, because it in a way gave him the chance to fight his way though the field?