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DONINGTON PARK GP BTCC PREVIEW 2025
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About this episode
The Donington Park GP preview dives into the tight championship race with three weekends left. Ingram has gained a lead over Sutton, but anything can happen in touring cars. The hosts debate the merits of the GP loop versus the shorter layout, share insights on team dynamics, and discuss the absence of one motorsport from the grid due to health concerns. Predictions for race outcomes, driver performances, and potential surprises abound, making this a compelling lead-up to the weekend's events.
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WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE DONINGTON PARK GP WEEKEND, WHO IS GOING TO TAKE THE ADVANTAGE INTO THE FINAL ROUNDS AND WHO IS GOING TO COME UNSTUCK?
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As we head up to Derbyshire, who will be king of the castle, Donnington, and who will be
the dirty rascal?
This is the Donnington Park GP preview.
Lots to get right there.
You've spat that out, eventually.
Lots to get right.
Hello, and welcome back.
We are British Touring Club, Holocaust, and we are going to bring you up to date with all
the news that's been happening in the run-up to Donnington Park.
Three weekends left to go in the championship, and it's getting close, isn't it?
It's certainly a top two have pulled away, and Ingram made the most of the knock-ill
weekend to put out a little bit of a lead over Ash Sutton.
Yeah, Ingram has sort of gone over the brow of the hill, it almost feels, the way
they've sort of matched each other all season.
It does feel like it's going to be difficult for Sutton to close the gap from here, but
strange things have happened in the touring cars, and obviously this weekend we're off
to the full Donnington Park circuit, which has got the GP loop with the tight hairpin,
so that always brings up a few bits and bobs.
Which one do you prefer out of two?
I prefer the non-GP one, only because I'm yet to...
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't think I'm yet to see any real action.
I remember there's one year that Robot must cause absolute carnage by having bits falling
off his car left, right and centre.
I would say that I think that the longer route gives a little bit more drama, but
I think the shorter route gives better racing overall.
I think that there's a difference between drama and good racing, and I think that
arguably, yes, the longer route is more exciting because it's the drama.
But in terms of great racing, I think it's probably a little bit better round the
short loop.
I'm presuming you're getting the idea of a big loop here.
Yeah, I quite prefer the big loop.
You've got, obviously, chicane goes the other way, and then you've got a big
overtaking zone into that hairpin, and then you've got another hairpin coming
back onto the pit straight, which I just think promotes more overtaking.
Can I be really controversial?
I prefer that we started at this one and went...
I'll tell you for why, because we've had it the last couple of years there.
One of the title contenders has had a big biff.
Last year it was England, got biffed off of that part.
It's such a...
I know you might say, oh, it's just both part of racing.
But it's such a clinch and crunch zone that I do think that because of that,
it'd be better to have it at the start of the season.
There's plenty of time to make it up, rather than it coming in the middle
of a championship battle, because it does feel that the further we go
through the calendar, the more soft the tracks get.
So Silverstone hasn't really got any excitement at all.
Brandshouse GP, you can't have a take on half the circuit because
it's too tight and out in the trees and stuff.
It does kind of feel that, and then you've got this in the middle
of it of, oh, I'm supposed to not kill, which is the law to itself.
But yeah, I don't know.
I kind of feel it might be slightly better just to rotate the two.
Let us know your thoughts down in the comments of which layout
at Donington is your favourite.
One team that won't be contesting a favourite this weekend.
Well, I don't know, mate.
After seven years, I've got this down to a T.
Yeah, one motor sport have today announced kindly before our podcast,
which is nice, that they're not contesting the rest of the season
for a multitude of reasons, including the ongoing health concerns
of team owner Steve Doddman.
So obviously we wish him best and hope he gets well soon.
And they are focusing on getting back for the 2026 season.
This, of course, means that Cook will not be back on the grid
in a one motor sport car.
Who knows what might happen between now and the end of the season.
There's quite a few rooms going around on that score.
And it also presumed it means it won't see jelly back in any form
given that the team he had gone to have given his car back to
have given his car to PMR.
Obviously, it's really difficult to comment on because it does
the center of it as a person's health as part of it.
It does feel strange that that is such a big reason in some ways.
But it's hard to you can't criticise it because of the circumstances.
But it does feel a little bit strange that that is such a big factor
in not coming back onto the grid.
But yeah, to me, it certainly feels like there's much more going on
behind the scenes as to why they aren't able to get the whole race
team together for the weekend.
And we've seen lots of other championships and motor sports
be able to continue when a crucial figure is not there for a weekend.
We've seen race weekends without Toto there for Mercedes.
And they've been able to carry on. Exactly.
So it does feel like there's something more underlying there.
Obviously, we send that absolute best wishes to him.
And we really do hope that they're going to be back on the grid
for 2026 because the grid feels like it's contracting and getting much smaller.
It does. It feels that the the independent end of the grid is falling out
because really, you've got the Hyundai Ford Megatron at the front
and BMW got four cars as well, let's not forget.
And the only real strong independent this team this year has been restart
across both drivers and then a factory fed by a three team.
And obviously, PMR have been fighting their own for a long time
with one arm ties behind their back for multiple reasons.
Obviously, that's got a lot harder and then unlimited there and doing the best.
But they're not on the pace of the top runners.
And I'll say you're right.
It does feel like the championship is shrinking a little bit
and we're losing a bit of competitive edge.
So hopefully a bit of a reset, a bit of a sort of get things back in order
for next season and we can hopefully see one motor sport return
and be a little bit more competitive because it's also true to say
they've not been the greatest season themselves.
No, they've certainly been off the pace.
And I don't know whether that has been a contributing factor,
thinking that they're not quite there
and they need maybe some more development time over this off period.
There's also question marks over whether they will continue to run
the civic going forward into next season.
Obviously, there is going to be regulation changes going forward as well.
And it'll be the oldest car in the grid now, obviously,
with the demise of the PMR Astros as previously discussed.
I think that's pretty much it on the news point of view.
I mean, obviously, there's been quite a few
rumors about what cars won't be used next season.
We've got a long off season to debate that.
So we won't go into that too much here.
Instead, we'll go into the weekend itself.
So I say Donnington Park GP, David in 1986.
This loop went away from the counter for a long time,
but it has been on on the counter in the past 2.49 miles.
So again, with the longer circuits that we go to,
not surprising with the additional part of the circuit and 12 corners.
And as usual, listeners will know here we play.
Sam has not done his prep and for new time listeners,
they may well be some.
This is where Sam, who always has lots and lots and lots of prep
coming into these preview recordings,
is going to tell me straight away who has the qualifying that record.
Ash Sutton. Yes.
Would you like to know or would you like to tell me what year?
I just got me from like the dominating year.
Twenty twenty three. Yes, correct.
Would you like to have a stab at the guests for the time?
No, because I got this radically wrong last year,
thinking it was the shorter lay out time.
So no, I'm not even going to guess that.
If I told you it was in the one minute thirties,
would you then hazard a guess if I was to give you an actual?
Thirty two thirty three two.
So you're not a million miles off and then race that record.
Sutton again. No.
I'll go for ingram things.
Yes.
They're the two drivers that are up and beyond everyone else.
Yeah, which I guess what year and what time?
Same year.
Twenty three twenty four. OK.
And race times are normally a little bit slower.
So in the thirty three still, but low thirty high thirty three.
Yeah, this is a much smaller gap than I was at thirty three nine.
So it's only seven tenths, which I know sounds a lot.
But actually, when you compare from the other previews we do,
that's quite a short distance between the two.
I think that would have probably been his race three last year,
where he came from the back of the grid to second.
It was just thrashed through the through the field.
I think in a brand new engine fitted as well,
because he had a rock go through.
Yes, you remember rightly.
They're very through the radiator.
Absolutely.
I think he won your award last year for driver of the season.
Yeah, if I'm back in the grid to second.
Yeah, I'm arguing about it.
Yeah, that's fun.
Last year, Josh Cook took pole,
which he won't obviously won't be doing this weekend.
Although interestingly, it was in a Toyota last year.
So yeah, the Toyota was a completely different place.
I think it's fair to say it last year, though.
But maybe maybe there's a circuit
that might suit the Toyota a little bit more this weekend.
I mean, I don't think it is, but you've got to give a little bit of.
Yeah, you've got to give some.
Optimism, yeah, yeah.
And then race one was one by Colin Turkton from Sutton from Hill.
Race two was one by Sutton from Turkton from Hill.
And race three was one by Camish from Ingram
from Aaron Taylor Smith.
So it's certainly a track where I think you expect the far
so I've done this, the fastest drivers to come through.
IE is going to be a Sutton Ingram,
you know, that level of driver that you expect to be near the front.
In terms of there is roughly a top four.
I'll go through the tables in a minute.
We'll keep top four for the sake of interest.
Ingram had a fifth, a retirement and a second.
Sutton had a second, a first and a non contested or non classified.
Camish had an eighth and 11th and a first.
And Robotham had a 14th, a sixth and a 13th.
So a little bit of a mix from Robotham that weekend.
Poor run out from him.
Yeah, I came into this weekend thinking
this could be a Hyundai circuit and a Hyundai stronghold,
especially with how they went at the start of the season here as well.
And those big long straights obviously will play right into the hands
of that Hyundai engine, which we know is super powerful
and seems to outdrag anything else.
And that combined with the boost system that they've got in place,
I think we could see quite a few overtakes from them coming on the straights.
Yeah, absolutely.
So we'll quickly run through the tables
and then we'll talk about what we might expect to see this weekend.
So it is Ingram at the top of the driver standings on three to three
Sutton on 306, so 13 points back.
No, not 13 points back.
Maths, help me.
17, 17 points back.
Thank you.
Camish on 228 and I would argue out of the contention.
Robotham on 214, Hill 197, Morgan 170, Chilton 169,
Rainford 134, Proctor 116 and Smiley on 116.
In the Jack Sears, we have De Leon leading that by a single point
over Charles Rainford and Osborne back on 277.
And then an independent standing, Smiley leads that on 290.
Dobble, Dobble, sorry, on 277.
Lloyd on 265.
Then Patterson on 235.
And after that, we've only got two drivers left on the grid.
So I don't think they'll be contesting it particularly hard from there.
So obviously, the weekend, as you say, you expected Huyen Day to go well.
I think it's getting really difficult to do this previous
because every week it is, I think the Ford will go well.
I think the Hyundai will go well and they very do.
And that's the end of that, really, isn't it?
Yeah, obviously, last time out, we saw how well the BMW win.
But we know that the knock hill is a very BMW specific track
and they go well out of the traction zones there.
There are a couple more traction zones here than we used to,
especially from the earlier on in the season, where their performance was dismal,
like really dismal.
Yeah, so for better, for my predictions.
Yeah, I do think they've improved throughout the season as a team.
And we obviously saw how much they improved going to brand earlier in the season.
So I think they'll be on a slight high
coming from knock hill, but I still don't see them
really challenging for wins this weekend.
No, I don't think for wins.
But I think with the slight boost
alteration they've had and the data that they've obviously found
and in the setup of the car and stuff.
The reason they've been so good here normally is you're right,
it's a traction zone.
Also, it's a power circuit.
There's lots of straights, et cetera.
And traditionally, BMW had a very strong engine in this year.
I think it's gone that way, has it?
I think the big struggle that they had at the start of the season
and Jake Hill referenced this was the weight distribution of the car.
And with the elevation changes that you've got at Donnington,
you have to have a car that you've got 100 percent confidence in.
And we've seen how Sutton can chuck the car in an old hairpin.
And yes, it will be four wheel sliding, but he'll know where the grip is
and he'll be able to hold on to it.
Whereas I don't think Hill and the other BMW drivers at the start of the season
had that confidence in the car.
They may well show better this time around
because they've had the majority of the season to get on top of it,
understand it a little bit more and understand what the car is going to do.
Yeah, that's quite possible. That is quite possible.
It's difficult to say it is really difficult to preview these now
because it is Sutton and it is Ingram.
And if it's not them, it's Camish and it's Chilton
and it's Robotman to a lesser degree, maybe Proctor.
I don't know.
I was really surprised.
Well, the Toyota is going to do this weekend, mate.
Obviously, they took a poll here last season.
Again, we don't think they're probably going to reach that height this year.
But could we see Shed and Taylor Smith finishing inside the top 10?
Obviously, two more less cars at this point of the season.
We've got PMR, who are probably going to be a little less competitive
because they're still learning that cupra from last week,
last time out at Nock Hill and what flags mean.
So could we see Toyota get some comfortable top 10 results?
I mean, we should.
But we should be saying that regardless of the extraordinary factors
you've just given them, you know, Shed and Aaron Taylor Smith, in particular,
should be getting top 10 results on a fairly regular basis.
You know, it's already at least challenging for
on being right on the cusp of when you take into fact
you've got four fours, four BMWs and four Hyundai's
and then six Hyundai's effectively.
But yeah, and that's been the problem.
They've just not been on there.
I mean, when you put that, when you spell out the grid like that,
you can go, oh, that's what they're not going to get in the results.
But actually, they've been nowhere near getting the results, I
but that's that's been the problem.
And every time they've had any sort of good running in the in the race,
there's been a problem of that be reliability or a puncture or how many times
we've seen, oh, there's Aaron Taylor Smith and he's falling through the field.
I mean, how many times has that happened this season?
Yeah, reliability has been a massive problem for them.
We know that Aaron Taylor Smith goes well at Donnington traditionally.
He certainly did really well when he was in the Astra that year.
Got a podium last year.
Yeah. Yeah.
So it would be interesting to see if they can pick up anything
in a race through a reverse grid and then hold on to something.
But it's not really how we should be talking about Toyota as a team.
No, look, people will say, well, I've got to win this year.
And yeah, that's true.
But you've got to put in the conditions of the of that race.
And that's not to take anything away from what she did.
He drove a very good race conditions of that race.
Yeah, exactly. That's what I meant.
Yeah, you know, it was a wet race where these sort of results are checked up.
You know, you see it in other motorsports, particularly F1, wet
Monza and suddenly you've got a really random race stroll on the podium.
Danny Ricciardo, who'd forgotten how to drive was able to take a win.
You know, it's yeah, these things happen in the rain.
I think the best Toyota can hope for this weekend is maybe a top six in the reverse grid.
I just don't see where and they have got better.
There's no doubt about it.
But they're just the problem is once you start a season behind,
everyone else is improving as the season goes on.
So you're always playing catch up.
I personally think that restart are going to do a lot better this time out.
I know they were your surprise bad for last time out at Nock Hill.
I think Smiley really likes Donnington as well here traditionally.
And we know that high end power unit is going to be strong.
So I think we could actually see a really good positive weekend
like we saw at the start of the year for restart.
Well, for half a restart, for half a restart.
Never know, Dan Lloyd might gain some luck sometime soon.
But yeah, I could quite easily see them
maybe challenging for top six this weekend
if they get set up and the tyre calls right this weekend.
Yeah, and Lloyd very nearly had a win here in the Cooper broken toe link
in the penultimate lap, I think it was, which is obviously a heartbreaker.
Maybe we can see restart, get up the front of a reverse grid.
Maybe the chance for them is there this weekend with the reduced
grid if they can get passing into the top 12 for race two,
which isn't beyond the realms of possibility and unlimited.
Unlimited, sorry.
Yeah, you're right.
Sorry, it's not beyond the realms of possibility to see maybe get the
Cooper at the front or maybe even doble could highlight that as a possibility
for race three, get in the top 12 and pray for the big number.
Back to restart.
I mean, the Dan Lloyd troubles and tribulations just continue.
Don't know.
I've seen he's now looking to raise funds to, as I understand it,
basically fix the engine that blew up.
Crowdfunding to pay for his engine.
Yeah, which it's just it's it's a sorry place to be in.
It's really unfortunate for him.
And obviously, drivers at the start of the season, especially like him
and an independent team have this wedge of budget to go, right?
That's my my full back.
That's my damage.
That's what I've got to pay for.
You don't necessarily expect to cook an engine or two in a season
and then have that massive outlay.
So that I can understand why he's had to go down that route.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
A driver of his quality that he's not just able to go.
OK, sponsors have managed to stump this up and I can pay for it.
Outright sort of thing.
And most of you if you look across the garage and smile is not really
any problems this year, he's not really been caught up in a massive instance.
Also, I think of Dan Lloyds being or putting himself off or play
or cook putting, multiplying what perspective you have of him at
Alton Park, which obviously was a big rebuild on the car.
You're probably damaged components of the engine.
If not, if not the engine fully, it would have had an effect
on the engine being rammed into a wall at that speed.
And then you look across the garage and smile.
He's had a fairly clean season or he's not really been involved.
I think the worst he had as a puncture here or there, which is
half the course and, you know, it's no one is catastrophic.
So I think you might be right with Smiley.
I think you should get some of the good results here.
I can see a win not this weekend, though.
I think Smiley gets a win for the end of the season,
but I think it might be a race three at Brands Hatch
when everything's decided or a race three, Silverstone, where
where nothing else will happen.
So whether this weekend to possibly play a part,
it looks like we're going to have a wet qualifying on Saturday
at time of recording on Tuesday, because we always do this.
We go, so we wet this weekend, take your brolleys and then it's 40 degrees
and everyone's taking their brolleys but using the shade.
So yeah, he's looking like we're going to get a little bit of rain.
We might even get some rain on Sunday.
At the moment, there is none necessarily forecast,
but there is a percentage chance that it could happen.
It does look like it's going to be overcast and cloudy.
But as we always say, take all your equipment.
You never know what's going to happen.
Donnington is an airfield and the wind at Donnington in particular.
It's the wind is secondary to SNES and I think and how aggressive it is
and how you can quite easily get yourself a little bit red in the face
from windburn, etc.
Haven't been to Thruxton yet, mate.
We haven't been to Thruxton yet.
No, we haven't been to Thruxton yet.
Of the tracks we've been to.
Yep.
SNES is winning the wind, but then Donnington is a close second.
It is. It is.
In terms of timings for the weekend, the stuff that you need to be aware of
is that during car race one, obviously, these are all subject to change
depending on if there's any dramas in the support races, which I'll get to in a moment.
Race one is at 1130.
Race two is at quarter past two and race three, which is the final race of the day
for all the package is like five to five.
We have got some support this weekend.
It's the usual three.
It's F4s. It's Mini.
It's Portugal. Great Britain.
It's the better of the options, but we're still missing that massive.
Junior or just or just another discipline and motorsport hold.
But everything's fine.
I don't have to say any of these sort of things.
It's all good.
So we'll move on to our predictions then.
Yeah, go on then because they're the crucial part.
They are because it's got close.
The championship is close in in every aspect on the track and off the track here.
The one that everyone cares about more, I think, is it something to get his fifth?
No, they want to know Sam going to retain his trade for last year.
So yeah, it's currently leading.
Yeah, only very slightly is 20 points to 19.
18 to 18. Sorry.
18. Yeah, I'll take that extra point.
It might be crucial at the end of the season.
So, yeah, we've got all predictions for this weekend.
Paul, race winners, Jack Sears winners and then general predictions as well.
So you're posted to make I have gone for.
Santa Proctor.
Now, this kid is fast.
He is in the top 10 of the championship, having raced not all rounds.
I missed the first three.
He's going to have obviously reduced boost.
Sorry, increased boost compared.
Yeah, he's going to have less boost reduction than people around him.
That's yeah, that's why I'm putting it.
And I think that the the call from his teammates or his team is going to be
you get as fast as possible and fire up the grid as possible
and then cause issues from there.
So I'm going for Proctor.
I'm going for Dan Kamish.
Now, there is a risk with this because Dan Kamish at Donnington,
it either goes one of two ways.
He either has a brilliant weekend or he's on fire.
I'm going for the first option
and hopefully he's going to take a poll.
And then I've also got him for a race win.
He is close in the Wingfoot Award of Ingram.
So yeah, I can't send you logic.
You've gone for Kamish for a race win.
OK, I've got Ingram.
I've been quite conservative with my race winners, to be honest with you,
because I need I can't afford to lose at this stage of the season.
I can't afford a gap to open.
So I've got to make sure that I'm playing the percentages to a degree.
So I've gone for Ingram for a race win.
What a shock.
As have I.
Yeah, I just think he's the absolute form driver at the moment
and the combination of him, that car and this track.
I just think, yeah.
Yeah, I think so and also gets a race win
because I can see him going for Buster, one of the races.
He'll ever get a race win or end up looking up the wrong way
up the crane of curves.
I think I think it's getting to that point of the season.
Now, a certain is going to have to crank it up slightly
because he's simple facts.
The matter is there are nine races to go
and he's got to finish in front of Ingram.
In at least I would say six of those.
Yeah, to close the gap then keep the gap.
So yeah, unless we have one non finish
and that completely change everything and both ways as well.
But I think there comes a point in this championship
where certain is going to have to up the anti-slightly
in a way Ingram doesn't have to at the moment.
My final race winner and this made surprise you.
It has surprised me.
It has.
I've gone for Chris Smiley.
I think he likes this circuit.
And as I've already mentioned, I go as well here.
So I think he might just need a race three win.
I think he wins a race a season.
I just don't think it's here.
So I'm going for center proctor for a win as well.
I think it might be Ingram wins.
Wins race one proctor jobs to fourth,
maybe wins race two on the tire offset.
Maybe we'll see the only thing I would be careful about.
And that's why I'm slightly careful about
Camish and Proctor and having wins.
Is if they've got a teammate behind them,
they're going to have to yield at this stage of the season.
Yeah, they will have to.
But I don't in a race three.
You'd imagine Ingram will be a bit further back.
Would he get he could easily get through to second?
I don't disagree.
But I also think that even if he is in second,
I know what you're saying,
but it'd be absolutely the insert.
Expletive here.
Horrible for proctors to have to give a race win.
Yeah, I'm not sure he necessarily would.
He wants to drive next season.
I'm not sure he necessarily would give a win.
Given a podium is one thing.
Give up a win is another.
There's certainly many beers owed at the moment.
Absolutely and virtue.
I agree with you there.
Jack Sears winner with agreed on the thing is that
every time we back somebody else,
the other person wins back to the on three weeks running.
And every time he's been brilliant until race three
and it's all four and a part.
So they are going to win it this weekend.
It's going bucks in this way.
And yeah, we've both gone for Charles Rainford this weekend.
We'll see how that one pans out.
Yep. And then we've got our general predictions.
We're getting more intricate with these, I would say.
We've got it. We can't use the same one twice.
That's the rules.
We ideally try not to use each other some earlier in the season as well.
And there's there is only so many.
There's 90 predictions we have to do throughout the season.
Like there's a lot to try to do with the teams
gradually dwindling the number of cars down.
It does get tougher.
So I've gone for that every Hyundai, which is all six of them,
scores points twice or more.
So over the three over the three rounds,
all six will finish in the top 15 twice.
OK, OK.
I have gone for the top three scoring virtue cars.
Virtue high and nice.
This is the top gear meme, isn't it?
So out school, the top three scoring nappers.
So in practice or theory, it will be Ingram, Chilton and Proctor.
Versus Camish, Sutton and Roy Bottom.
Yeah. But of course, Morgan or Osborne could be subbed in
if they were to support outscored the other ones.
Yes, I would suggest. Yeah, OK.
We'll have to work that one out with fastest laps and holes.
And all sorts and lead laps at the end of the weekend.
And we are going to have to get the abacus later out.
Yes. Sorry, I was more modern.
I can't do modern maths.
I've gone for at least one BMW podium.
I think they will be OK this weekend to score a podium
somewhere along the line.
Banking on Hill.
Oh, Rainford.
Rainford's had good pay sources.
And De Leon has gone well at speed,
just if he can not be a bit silly that hopefully the grass
hasn't been cut so freshly for him this weekend.
I've also gone for a BMW prediction.
I've gone for Aiden Moffitt to outscore either
Daryl De Leon or Charles Rainford this weekend.
Traditionally throughout the season, he's been the lowest scoring BMW
of the weekend.
I'm hoping coming off the high of not kill.
And he did well.
Yes, he didn't really.
I don't think he outscored the other two,
but he did do well in a very solid weekend.
And yeah, he'll ride on that wave.
And in fairness, he was barged up the way at one point as well.
Yeah, I've also gone for my final prediction.
Two of the top four missed the fast six.
So lots of numbers to contend of their four answers.
But effectively one of in sorry, two of Ingram,
Sutton, Robottom or Cowish will miss or more could be three
or could be all four before you start to get pedantic.
At least two of those will miss the fast six qualifying session.
OK, we'll see because they've been pretty consistent
for getting in there.
They have.
Although the boost situation is as it is,
I think it will be quite a powerful at Bonnington.
And of course, the rain, if it is raining on Saturday,
is the great leveler.
And it just takes a mistake.
Just takes a little wheel dipped a bit too much on the wet track
limits, maybe a little bit of kissing the painted curb.
And suddenly your laps in trouble.
And we saw Sutton at knock, he'll make a rare mistake,
but a mistake that cost him in qualifying.
My final one is going to be the two cars at restart.
Both Hyundai's there will outscore all four Toyota's
this weekend combined, which I know seems a bit optimistic,
but I've also seen how poor Toyota have been doing this season.
You are placing a lot of trust in Lloyd's engine,
perhaps more trust that he's placing in his engine.
Yes, you are.
And then for our general prediction,
we're going for running wide at the old hairpin.
This means that they must drop at least one wheel in the gravel.
Yep.
I've got the job Monday of tossing those up.
So depending where we sit for the year,
we might be able to pick a few as well.
Yeah, yeah, I've gone for 11 and I've gone for nine.
I think that I don't think of it as many as you think.
Yeah, and it's got to be in the three races, qualifying
and practices do not count in that regard.
Cool. I think that is pretty much it,
apart from saying that we are going this weekend.
So as ever, if you see us, where are we?
Most likely.
But if you do see it as ever, if you want to come and say hi
and have a chat by all means, pop it over and and do so.
Yeah, we'll say long says get the car part.
That's my biggest fear of the weekend.
We'll be fine.
I've got a new we've worked out a system for Donnington.
I have got a new pack of cards as well.
I will bring them in case they might be able to record the podcast in that time.
We might be able to.
And I've also been following somebody on Instagram
who does games you can play with a notebook and pen.
So again, just because I've that two hours has left you lead a thrilling life.
I do that two hours has absolutely scarred me
from that time to get to know your thoughts and feelings
on what may happen this weekend,
who is going to possibly take home the title at the end of the season
and what mystery may be thrown up?
Yes, I was just thinking that I'm also going to be able to miss
Arsenal tearing Canata apart, which is quite nice to me as well, to be fair.
So yes, no, absolutely.
If you're going this weekend, be safe, be sensible
and we'll see you on the review.
Yeah, see you soon. Cheerio.
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