British Touring Car Championship – All the emotions, none of the frills!
Posted on March 29, 2010, under Sports Cars Articles.
F1 season with all its glitz and glamor may have begun in earnest recently, with the dismantling of the Australian Grand Prix, but for many fans of motor sport for the thrill of auto racing much closer to home is not are British Touring Car Championship (BTCC o), because starting at the end of March.
E 'known that a millionaire F1-Sport – the car is the result of millions of pounds of technical research and the drivers are paidransom of a king, and teams and drivers are subject to a multi-million pound sponsorship of global corporations. The money speaks in F1 and purists argue that sport is not competitive, so the contest is won or lost on pit road rather than rail, while the big teams like McLaren and Ferrari to take this kind of money for top teams small, like Super Aguri could only dream of.
Recent years have seen British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) flowersthe form of both teams and spectator numbers. Sport you work in a fraction of the budget that the world of F1, but what it lacks in glamor, it makes more emotion! The BTCC season consists of ten rounds – at the start and end at Brands Hatch – that takes place between March and September, and visits to nine different circuits. Each round consists of three races, making half a turn past the competition.
The teams competing in the BTCC is a mixture ofmanufacturer's works teams (currently, SEAT, and Toyota is the only manufacturer teams) and the independent teams as Team Halfords and Team RAC. The independent teams, usually consisting of ex-car purchased by a production team when working on looms in the car. While this seems to give an edge of "new" car that works team can offer expert advice motorsport [http:/ / www.motoraddicts.com / experts / blog / list] on the newdevelopment of their voices are very strict limits on any change to a competitive engine can be made to keep costs low and attract an element of fairness in sport. For example, all competing cars will use the bridge itself – a gang of "Control" – which is currently supplied by Dunlop. Karre can also be adapted to use different fuels, with the current car seen driving the liquid gas, bio – ethanol fuel, diesel and evenwho made his first appearance in a BTCC race in 2007.
BTCC races on the calendar is usually done over a weekend. Saturday consisted of two practice sessions, followed by a half hours of qualifying determines the first race scheduled for Sunday. As the F1 grid is sorted by the time the fastest man in the position within the pole. Depending on the length of the track, every race, usually consisting of between 16 and 25 laps of the race and the results will determinegrid for the next race with drivers lining after their finishing position in race two.
For race three, are starting points determined by a "character" who sees a part of the network vice versa. This means that depending on the trigger, drivers who finished in smaller operations could not start on pole position. For example, if the preferred position 6, was the driver, which resulted in 6 space would be in pole position, with the 5th place in the second position and so on. Leaders who are readyof 'signs', the result would occupy the position in which they ended race two.
Moreover, the end of the first and second race, the cars that finished in the loan is hampered by the large extra weight – known as ballast – he added to them for the next race meeting. Drivers championship after the third race of each meeting, also determines the amount of supplementary feed in the first game of the next meeting.
There are some aspects of what BTCCshared with F1, such as the safety of the car and the road speed limit in pit. However, unlike F1, saving car not used and teams can only use a maximum of 4 engines per year per driver. If additional engines are used, teams are subject to point deduction.
All this contributes to a high voltage circuit, like the rules, then ran much more competitive and open, with the technological advantages of the vehicle are rejected by the extra weight or the luck of the draw. Collisionscommon in the BTCC, as the drivers push their cars – and themselves – with the restriction around the world in every race, it is not uncommon to assist high-speed collisions involving multiple vehicles, while efforts equated cars means overtaking maneuvers that may arise at any time throughout the race – although the closest curves!
Thus, while the F1 world to buy his enthusiasm, motor-sports fans can relax with confidence, knowing that the enthusiasm is free with BTCCpackage.