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Thread: BTCC Rounds 10-12 - Oulton Park
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4th July 2014, 16:24 #21
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They should use the "Fosters" version again. Cut out the whole Island / Shell Oils completely.
The shortest version gave great battles, and meant Knickerbrook didn't need the chicane and was flat-out again (albeit from a slower start than pre-1991!). Cascades was a different beast too , having to straighten up on a bumpy dip to brake into a tight right hander, always provoked mistakes.
Also, it would mean more laps - and therefore more action for spectators.
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4th July 2014, 23:49 #22You're so beige, you probably think this signature is about someone else.
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30th July 2014, 11:19 #23
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Conversely, I was never keen on the Fosters layout — it seemed just too short. There is no 'perfect' layout for the BTCC at Oulton. The full circuit used to be fine, but that was in the days before live coverage of every race, so maybe judicious editing helped make the races on it look better than they were.
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1st August 2014, 14:00 #24
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2nd August 2014, 09:55 #25
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I'd rather see fewer laps of a proper circuit, though, than more laps on a short Mickey Mouse track (Silverstone National, anyone?). It's the old quality v quantity debate. Alan Gow often bangs on about more chances to see the cars, at which point I want to ask him why they don't just run on the many quarter-mile ovals that are up and down the country...
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2nd August 2014, 15:02 #26
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21st August 2014, 17:11 #27
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I know what you mean. It is such a shame that spectators don't get to see the cars at Oulton struggling round the two best corners. Druids, which is an awesome corner, has no spectator viewing. Knickerbrook is now a dull chicane. In my eyes, unless they bring in the Fosters circuit again, they need to rejig the track. Move the chicane further away from Knickerbook and allow that corner to be taken at reasonable speed again. It doesn't need to be pre-1991 danger level, but faster would be better. At the moment it is a shadow of the track it once was. Safety has come on leaps and bounds since 1991 so I see no need for the chicane to be so close to the corner thesedays.
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